Comedy Central has opted not to pick up a second season of the quirky but underwatched series “I’m With Busey.”
The half-hour series, which premiered in June, featured Gary Busey simply going through life as a mentor to “The Man Show” scribe Adam De La Pena. Busey gave his young protege the wisdom of his years in the entertainment industry, advising him with pearls of wisdom which came to be known as “Busey-isms.”
Viewers, though, weren’t that interested. The show’s first episode drew fewer than a million viewers, and ratings continued to plummet as the show failed to find even a cult audience. For the season, “I’m With Busey” averaged 654,000 viewers per week, with an equally underwhelming average of 428,000 in the demographic of adults age 18 to 49.
Busey once said, “You only get to do things for the first time once.”
As reality entries such as “The Real Roseanne Show” and “Chuck Woolery: Naturally Stoned” have discovered, cancellation is just one of many things that you can only do for the first time once.
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Edited by Cara DiPasquale (cdispasquale@tribune.com) and Kris Karnopp (kkarnopp@tribune.com)
