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‘Lucky 13’s Unusual Greenlight Model Proves Hostage To Fortune As ABC Nixes Game Show


'Lucky 13' will not return for a Season 2 on ABC after an unusual greenlight model went sour on the Shaquille O’Neal and Gina Rodriguez game show.

This was despite the show becoming ABC’s most-watched summer series premiere when it launched on the Disney-owned network in July with 2.7M viewers, beating CBS’s Big Brother.Lucky 13’s season finale was also ranked number one in its time period. “Rather than it being a direct commission, the unique commercial model on which the debut series was launched in the U.S. was underpinned by advertising revenues which given well-publicised market conditions regrettably, but unavoidably, fell acutely short of forecasts.” Kevin Bacon was an executive producer alongside Mark Wells, Glenn Coomber, Aaron Stone, Alastair Burlingham, Gary Raskin, David Schiff, Scott Henry, and GW Wright.

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