ABC Prepares to Burn Off 'Drew Carey'

The end is coming for "The Drew Carey Show."

Wednesday, May 5, 2004

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Last year, "Drew Carey" averaged fewer than 6 million viewers a week, hardly the kind of return a network wants for a show costing a reported $3 million per episode.

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Some casual viewers may not have been aware that the long running comedy still existed at all. The show, a regular ratings winner for ABC in the later years of the last millennium, has been on the shelf since ABC burnt off a pile of episodes last summer to an ever-dwindling audience. The final demise of "Drew Carey" will begin this summer.

Starting on Wednesday, June 2, ABC will air two episodes a week of "The Drew Carey Show" starting at 9 p.m. ET. The season premiere is titled "Drew Hunts Silver Fox."

Even if nobody's watching, the show will burn through its 9th season at some point this summer, approaching the series finale, which was taped several weeks back.

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