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The Secret To TV Success: Shows With “Man” In Their Titles Fail, While “Girls” Succeed

2:38 pm, December 9th | by Hillary Reinsberg

There’s some bad news for crude male TV comedies this season: they’re all getting canceled. Goodbye, Man Up! and How To Be A Gentleman are goners.

ABC’s Man Up!, which AdWeek calls “a 22-minute compendium of fart jokes and protracted adolescence,” won’t be completing its run, that publication reports. CBS’ How To Be A Gentleman, a show cut from a similar thread, isn’t returning to the tube either.

Six other shows have been canceled this season — including female-objectifying The Playboy Club. At the same time, Prime Suspect and Charlie’s Angels, which feature tough women (although, the latter one is debatable), have also been canned.

What to make of that? We’re not sure. But there’s this: both 2 Broke Girls and New Girl, which highlight funny young women, are leading the season with very high ratings. The apparent key to TV success? Put the word “girl” in your title. “Man” or “gentleman” don’t fare so well.

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