CBS has expectedly cancelled buddy comedy The Odd Couple after three short seasons. While The Odd Couple‘s ratings this season weren’t anything to write home about, the show was moreso crowded out by the network’s successful comedy crop, which produced renewals for Kevin Can Wait, Man with a Plan, and Superior Donuts. Most crushingly, The Odd Couple‘s main reason for being, the possibility of becoming a rare CBS-produced comedy to hit syndication, was negated by short episode orders and CBS productions Man and Donuts generating better ratings.
Based on the 1965 Neil Simon play, which has most notably been adapted into the acclaimed 1970s sitcom, and developed for television by Matthew Perry (Friends), Danny Jacobson (Mad About You), and Joe Keenan (Frasier), The Odd Couple told the story of former college roommates Oscar (Perry) and Felix (Thomas Lennon), who reunite 20 years later when they both get divorced. Though the two are quite the opposites, with Oscar a slovenly womanizer and Felix a neurotic clean freak, their years of friendship have produced an intense loyalty to one another, a loyalty that helps the other get back on their feet.
In addition to Perry and Lennon, The Odd Couple starred Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Lindsay Sloane (Grosse Pointe), and Wendell Pierce (Treme).
The series finale of The Odd Couple aired Monday, January 30th on CBS. The network will officially reveal its fall 2017 schedule on Wednesday, May 17th.
