Killer Women Gets Killed

[silverscreenselect]

ABC has reduced the episode order on Killer Women, the Sofia Vergara-produced action series starring Tricia Helfer as a Texas Ranger. Originally scheduled for eight episodes, the order has now been cut to six (only two have aired). There's no word if or when the remaining episodes will air. The series will be replaced effective February 25 by Mind Games, which is a crime drama about two brothers, one a con artist and the other a psychologist, who use their skills to help their clients.

Last week, ABC cancelled The Assets, another new series that, like Killer Women, had only been planned for an eight-week run but lasted two episodes. Unlike Killer Women, The Assets, which portrayed the hunt for real-life CIA agent-traitor Aldrich Ames, had always been planned as a self-contained series.

Killer Women actually had potential, in my mind, as a campy Walker Texas Ranger clone, but, instead of having Helfer take on drug dealers, gang bangers, and assorted low life as Walker did year after year, the show insisted on having Helfer tangle with female murderers and the stories had a victimized women subtext (Helfer's own character was abused by a husband, a powerful state senator, who refused to grant her a divorce). The attempt to blend macho toughness with a serious look at domestic abuse didn't work.

http://www.thewrap.com/abc-killer-women-canceled-tca

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Helfer is a terrible actor

[CarShark]

So after this and Machete Kills, can we say that the phrase "From Executive Producer Sofia Vergara" is not the draw some thought it would be?

[Gov Goodhair]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[macrae1234]

When the NBC series 'Chase' starring Kelli Giddish which was much more in line with the 'Walker Texas Ranger' theme couldn't survive I knew this one had no chance even with fellow Canadian Tricia Helfer