CBS's Secret Talents Not So Talented

4/11/2008 Meaghan Mitchell Secret Talents of the Stars makes the list of shows cancelled after just one showing. The first episode featured Star’s Trek’s Lt. Sulu singing Country Music ballads, as some sort of Amateur Hour.  Country Music stars Clint Black and Jo Dee Messina were also to compete during the sseries. In the history of television, 10 shows have been cancelled after just one showing:

• You’re in the Picture (CBS, 1961)
• Turn-On (ABC, 1969)
• Co-Ed Fever (ABC, 1979)
• South of Sunset (CBS, 1993)
• Public Morals (CBS, 1996)
• Lawless (Fox, 1997)
• Dot Comedy (ABC, 2000)
• The Will (CBS, 2005)
• Emily’s Reasons Why Not (ABC, 2006)

Although the reason for the cancellation is unstated, Secret Talents of the Stars is CBS’s 6th show to cancel so soon