We seem to say this every year, but 2013 was a banner year for really bad TV shows — some of which were so horrendous they were quickly yanked (and you probably won’t even remember them).
So, as a public service to our readers, here is our list, in no particular order, of the Top 13 Worst TV Shows of 2013.
Lucky Seven (ABC)
This one lasted two episodes before it was mercifully euthanized by ABC. If you must know, it was about a group of gas station employees in Queens who win the lottery. Turns it it wasn’t what they bargained for. We feel the same way.
Ironside (NBC)
There was no point in remaking the Raymond Burr crime series, which aired in NBC for nine seasons (1967-75). But they did, this time with Blair Underwood as the wheelchair-bound cop. And no one watched.
We Are Men (CBS)
Call it “Entourage” for suburbanites. Tony Shalhoub, go back to the theater!
1600 Penn (NBC)
What did we do as a society to deserve this singularly unfunny show about another misshapen man-child (Josh Gadd), this time living in The White House?
Smash (NBC)
How a show with such promise (original music, Broadway-level talent) devolved into the kind of mediocre soap Joan Van Ark wouldn’t even touch is a story for the TV annals of failure.
Animal Practice (NBC)
Blame it on the chimp.
Go On (NBC)
Onetime “Friends” superstar Matthew Perry officially cemented his status as a showkiller with this mess about a sports writer who goes to group therapy. Perry’s other recent TV victims include “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” and “Mr. Sunshine.” And his next small-screen project will be a remake of “The Odd Couple.” Oy vey. Art Carney, Walter Matthau, Tony Randall and Jack Klugman are spinning in their graves.
Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (ABC)
We didn’t. Star Krysten Ritter was much more appealing as Jesse’s (Aaron Paul) drug-addled, doomed girlfriend in “Breaking Bad.”
Family Tools (ABC)
This dreadful sitcom, starring Kyle Bornheimer as a three-time loser who takes over his dad’s business, was canned after two low-rated months. We barely remember it, either.
Do No Harm (NBC)
This one, a drama starring Steven Pasquale as a neurosurgeon with a double personality, lasted only two episodes before being axed. ‘Nuf said.
Zero Hour (ABC)
Former “ER” star Anthony Edwards, who’s carved out a very successful career as a TV producer, returned to series TV as a magazine publisher hunting for holy relics. No one cared.
Save Me (NBC)
We couldn’t. NBC yanked this sitcom starring Anne Heche as woman with a direct pipeline to God after only seven episodes. No divine intervention here.
Guys with Kids (NBC)
Never funny. For one minute. This was a comedy about parenting with a sports-bar mentality. Men, even aging jocks, have to grow up sometime.