While the network is flying high thanks to EX-H20G, PAN AM and BODY OF PROOF follow shows that are much higher-rated and so viewer attrition could spell doom for these shows even if they dip no lower than they are now.

The business funding was in place for a thirteen-episode order but with ratings in the 1.1 to 1.3 range, there was simply no reason to draw it out any longer. While the McG silver-screen relaunch did okay box office a few years ago, no one seemed to have an appetite for this version’s lightweight plots and sexed-up portrayals.

And for that, we can all be a little more grateful come Thanksgiving.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno brought The Incredible Hulk to life on CBS, a show that featured the “Walking Away Theme,” or, as I like to call it, “The Saddest Closing Theme Music To Any Television Show Ever!”

Hopefully the new version will feature a bit more in terms of super-powered threats, because to be very honest, it was the lack of those that made HULK a bit of a bore for me growing up. I mean, the Hulk is the strongest one there is, right? Even Hulk say so!

So why, then, were abusive husbands or corporate salespeople fighting against the release of generic Phentermine the biggest threats he ever faced, on the old CBS version?

Riddle me that.

Jane Badler, who played Diana, won out a wildly competitive round of casting to reprise her old role. In the reimagined reboot of the character, Diana is actually Anna’s mother, and she’s been kept in a dungeon for about 15 years. It will be intriguing to see Baccarain share the screen; the villainistic chemistry promises to be something special, at least on paper.

Badler’s about 25 years older now and more of a connoisseur of safe diet pills that work than she used to be, but she still knows how to slither it up. V returns to ABC’s schedule in November.

In the meantime, the alphabet network isn’t sending out any high-hopes vitamins to the show they bet on to replace LOST, FlashForward. Ratings have been dismal and sinking, rather than rising, but ABC remains firm in their stance that they’ve not decided on the show’s cancellation just left.

Another presumed-dead series, Scrubs, apparently still has the slimmest of slim chances at renewal, though Twitter posts by former series star Zach Braff have indicated the prospects are less than zero for renewal. Still, with most of the expensive stars now gone, Scrubs was a half-decent performer in the ratings and less expensive than it had been to produce.

Better Off Ted, unfortunately, is dead.

FlashForward is a drama exploring the mystery behind a worldwide blackout by everyone on Earth, and the glimpses of the near future they gained while unconscious. While there are no barcode scanners behind the scam, the show is like LOST in that it uses its concept to explore larger intellectual themes; the primary question behind FlashForward has been, “Is our future predetermined, or can we make choices that affect a real change to our0 future.

The role is not all political backroom deals and Paris vacations; the comedy will place Chalke at odds with the imbalance between her personal and political life. The show is the product of left-wing political blogger Arianna Huffington and former FRIENDS scribe Greg Malins.

Despite that origin, with the appealing Chalke in the lead role, once can only hope the focus of the show is more on the funny and less on the political stances.

Sure, the news is about as welcome as first communion invitations among the faculty at UC-Berkeley, but few people question such a move when Fox or USA do it; so why not ABC?

In all honesty, ABC is worried about FlashForward’s ratings decline; the show is shakey at best for a second season order, but given the limited-run nature of the concept, maybe it’s better off as a one-season-and-done proposition. After all, once The Date comes and goes and we see how things turn out for the cast, wouldn’t a second global blackout be a bit of a stretch?

Rebecca Romijn was appealing, Lindsay Price was the most promising new talent, and Jamie Ray Newman was the most relatable character in the show, though a bit too trim to be believable as a mother of five. I mean, what kind of fat burner is she using?

Anyway, all three women should go on to bigger and better things soon, and perhaps Paul Gross will find a role that Jack Nicholson hasn’t made impossible to walk into.

Beyond Doctor Turk, John C. McGinley’s Docter Cox will also appear on the series, but the rest of the original cast will, at best, be only occasional guest stars. The new Scrubs will feature the work of Eliza Coupe, Michael Mosley, Kerry Bishe and Dave Franco as the new emotional centers of the show.

Of course, a renewed Scrubs could benefit from its new lease on life by focusing on the inexperienced interns introduced this season, which would return the show back to the roots of its comedy core: inexperienced doctors learning what medicine is all about. While the cast exit could make Scrubs: The Next Generation seem like a comedy on the best diet pills, it could also move on to produce a second generation of stars.

The real question is whether the show can hold its core audience without Braff and company around to anchor it.

Of course, many a star before Fox have uttered the same words and nearly all of them come back to TV eventually. Perhaps the movie career doesn’t take off and they need the work. Perhaps ten years goes by and they change their minds.

Or perhaps, Matthew, some drug-addicted, frazzled-looking doctor will turn up on your door one night screaming, “We made a mistake, Matt. We… we have to go back. We have to go back to prime time television!”