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Date Posted: 05/ 5/04 6:24pm
Author: Cookie
Subject: Zap2It article about final DCS season with mention of WL's future

For those who might have missed this...

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ABC Prepares to Burn Off 'Drew Carey'


The end is coming for "The Drew Carey Show."
Some casual viewers may not have been aware that the long running comedy still existed at all. The show, a regular ratings winner for ABC in the later years of the last millennium, has been on the shelf since ABC burnt off a pile of episodes last summer to an ever-dwindling audience. The final demise of "Drew Carey" will begin this summer.

Starting on Wednesday, June 2, ABC will air two episodes a week of "The Drew Carey Show" starting at 9 p.m. ET. The season premiere is titled "Drew Hunts Silver Fox."

Even if nobody's watching, the show will burn through its 9th season at some point this summer, approaching the series finale, which was taped several weeks back.

Drawing 17 million viewers per week at its peak, ABC signed an expensive and long-term deal with the show's producers, Warner Bros. Television, back in 2001. The show's ratings had already begun to slide by that point, but they would get lower.

Last year, "Drew Carey" averaged fewer than 6 million viewers a week, hardly the kind of return a network wants for a show costing a reported $3 million per episode.

Carey's improv comedy series "Whose Line is it Anyway?" also still has episodes in the can, but those may never be seen. Meanwhile, the comedian is at work on "Green Screen," an innovative pilot for The WB, combining improvisational comedy and post-production animation.

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