New male-centric comedy premieres to 6.4 million viewers, underperforms

Oct 10, 2013 12:53 GMT  ·  By

A new comedy series that showed lots of promise failed to perform up to the standards and has been canceled: Deadline confirms that CBS pulled the plug on “We Are Men” after just 2 episodes.

You can see a trailer for the series above.

It starred Chris Smith, Jerry O’Connell, Kal Penn, and Tony Shalhoub as four guys who, after a string of heartbreaks and bad experiences in married life, decide they’re better off single, as a pack.

Their newest member has just been dumped at the altar and he needs to know there are other fish in the ocean for him. They will naturally help him discover that on his own, by hooking him up with gorgeous randoms.

Sadly, audiences didn’t appreciate the series.

“[It] debuted to 6.4 million viewers and a 2.0, down 0.4 from last year's premiere of the short-lived Partners and shedding more than a point from lead-in How I Met Your Mother. In its second week, it fell to 5.4 million viewers and a 1.8,” Deadline writes.

Not even the e-zine’s readers found it funny, so it’s probably no big surprise that CBS pulled the plug on it after only 2 episodes.