The O.C., the erstwhile Fox teen-drama hit that briefly made us all want to live in Southern California and celebrate Chrismukkah a few years ago, has been canceled by the network, as Broadcasting & Cable, the TV-industry trade pub, reported at the very end of the day yesterday. The final episode will air Thursday, February 22. We'd like to be able to make a pithy dying-like-Marissa joke here, but we didn't watch the show enough to be qualified. So instead we'll simply say: Ahem.

Fox Yanks 'The O.C.' [B&C]
Why Did Viewers OD on 'The O.C.' [NYM]