Apparently, not enough.  A list of 2014/15 TV shows now officially cancelled:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/12/showbiz/gallery/canceled-tv-shows/index.html

Maybe its the long hours I work but of all the shows mentioned, I haven’t seen a full episode of any of them.

I caught maybe five minutes of Gracepoint (what little I saw didn’t really grab me) and maybe fifteen minutes of one episode of Selfie.

I found Selfie to be pretty good and, apparently, the critical reaction to it was kind but the numbers didn’t merit the series continuing.  That’s the way it goes sometimes.  You create something good but no one cares.  Sometimes studios just roll something out, expecting it to tank, and are surprised by how well it does.

Yesterday while driving around in my car I was listening to a 2013 interview Howard Stern had with comedian Jerry Sienfeld.  During the course of the interview Mr. Stern got into the success of the Sienfeld TV show and asked Mr. Sienfeld why it took so long for the studios to give him the opportunity to have a show.

Mr. Sienfeld was diplomatic, stating that many who work away from what we see on screen have no idea what will hit and what will miss, which makes their job a very tough one.

He noted that after Johnny Carson went off the air, he had dinner with him and Mr. Carson talked about the time when the Lawrence Welch Show was about to air and how everyone was pounding the tables in laughter about what a colossal failure that show would be.

The guy can’t even speak English!  They said.

Yet the show airs and, against all “insider” expectations, proves a tremendous success.  So successful it was, Howard Stern notes, that it effectively killed Sid Ceasar’s second go at TV, a show that also featured the writing of Mel Brooks!

Perhaps the most famous line regarding Hollywood and their creations was penned by screenwriter extraordinaire William Goldman:

Nobody knows anything.

How very true.