And finally, as predicted, Ten Days in the Valley has reached its inevitable yet slow-coming death. On October 26th, ABC made the executive decision to do two things to it’s lowest rating show: first, Ten Days in the Valley is being taken off scheduling until December, which is a definite precursor to cancelation. Second, ABC is airing only two episodes in December, although initially, they anticipated airing all ten, in addition to shooting a second season.
As a replacement to the worst rated new series on the Big 4 broadcast networks this fall, bringing in a 0.4 rating among the money demographic, ABC will air back-to-back new episodes of one of their highest rated shows, Shark Tank. Additionally, The American Music Awards is airing on November 19th, so ABC will only have one week of filling in Ten Days in the Valley’s original time slot before it’s return in December.
It will be interesting to watch how Shark Tank’s second episode of the night does in replacement of Ten Days in the Valley. Will the second episode attracted equally as many eyes as the first episode did, or will viewers tune out after one hour?