
"Did you hear we might get canceled?" "Oh, God, this is terrible." "Don't worry, you'll get more work!" "No, I'm just imagining all of the mafia puns we're going to have to endure."Photo: Courtesy ABC
Unlike the
Greatest Show of Our Time, it looks like
Cashmere Mafia isn't going to make it to a sophomore season. When we
read last week on Fashionista.com (that venerable expert in network reporting) that the show was on the chopping block, we didn't pay it much heed. Sure, the show had dropped from something like 10 million viewers at its debut for 5.7 million now, but at least it's a good scripted series with a following. But then on Thursday
Bloomberg reported that
Cashmere writers still weren't sure what was going on, a few weeks after the strike ended. And now today Ben Widdicombe's "Gatecrasher," which
is a reliable source for TV gossip (particularly the type that involves divas and failure),
says it's probably true: The show is on its way out. This is too bad; we kind of like the show, which wasn't particularly smart or realistic, but at least involved main characters who
smiled every once in a while, unlike the ones on rival series
Lipstick Jungle. Who knew the only enduring show about happy, well-sexed fortysomethings in funny clothes this year would be
Rock of Love?
'Cashmere Mafia' Might Be Taken For a Ride [NYDN]