What happened to the TV show American Dreams?
On May 16, 2005, NBC announced their fall schedule for the 2005-06 season. Confirming months of speculation (and an unofficial confirmation article on May 1 by Reuters), American Dreams was formally canceled, a victim of low ratings. Never a strong performer in its Sunday 8:00 p.m. time-slot, the show’s third-season ratings dropped 33% from its first season and 13% from its second season. In the third season, the show was regularly beaten in the Sunday night ratings by ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and CBS’s Cold Case. On February 2, 2005, NBC reduced the number of third season episodes of American Dreams from 19 to 17. The network also moved the program away from its original Sunday night time-slot to Wednesday nights, airing before The West Wing. This put the show up against CBS’s Survivor: Palau and ABC’s Lost, and American Dreams could not compete against these popular programs. As the third season wound down, actors on the show apparently saw the writing on the wall and fil
