No Renewal for ABC Trio

LOS ANGELES, November 21: Pushing Daisies,
Dirty Sexy
Money and Eli
Stone have not been given a full-season order by ABC, but the network has
picked up four additional episodes of Life on Mars.

Though ABC has not
officially cancelled the three shows, they will finish their current production
order next week. For the season to date, Eli Stone has averaged 7.9 million
viewers, Dirty
Sexy Money 6.6 million and Pushing Daisies 6.4 million viewers.

Starting December 11, Life on Mars will be on hiatus until January
28, and ABC will move Private Practice into its Thursday 10 p.m. time period, giving the
medical drama a Grey's
Anatomy lead-in. The move, which places the show after Lost, gives Mars more time to stockpile episodes.

—By Kristin Brzoznowski