This past week featured big news from Disney’s ABC. The network needed to figure out what to do with its new sitcoms and the network waited until the new month to do so.

Back on Friday, ABC cancelled the funny Back in the Game. When I first watched it, I was surprised that James Caan would actually decide to join a show that had next to zero potential. It was funny, but Maggie Lawson, who played his daughter, was really not the perfect lead. And there’s only so much bad baseball people could take when it aired during the MLB postseason. Who wants to see little kids play baseball in a sitcom when you could watch the real thing?

However, as Zap2It notes, the show was averaging 7.2 million viewers, which was more than Trophy Wife and The Goldbergs. Those two shows probably should be cancelled, but instead received full season orders. It’s likely that ABC saw that they did pretty well without a new Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD last Tuesday and figured that they have nothing else to lose.

Super Fun Night, which stars Rebel Wilson, got a half-hearted order of four new episodes. The show is doing well after Modern Family, averaging 7.4 million viewers, so ABC will be paying close attention to its progress.

This column usually doesn’t jump to cable, but it’s hard to ignore the incredible success of The Walking Dead, which is now in its fourth season. As Deadline noted Monday, the most recent episode even beat NBC’s Sunday Night Football in the key 18-49 demographic. It drew 8.7 million in the demo, compared to SNF’s 8.1 million.

The Walking Dead has already been renewed for a fifth season, with AMC claiming that the season four premiere has been viewed by 20 million since it aired.

Finally, one of the top projects for the future from last week came from NBC, which has found another way to get Tina Fey working at the network. It has greenlighted an untitled comedy from the 30 Rock Emmy winner, which will star Ellie Kemper from The Office and Bridesmaids.

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