It's harder to predict than one might guess, but we have a few ideas.
Every TV season has one.
The show so creatively hobbled, so hopeless, so uninteresting and so unlucky that it becomes the first tossed in history's dustbin by an overanxious network. These days, it doesn't take long. NBC's The Mike O'Malley Show was canceled in 1999 after two airings. Fox waited four weeks in 1998 to cancel Costello, a shameless sitcom about a foul-mouthed bartender gal in South Boston. Picking this dog isn't as easy as it seems.