Book of Daniel Floating at the Top of the Fish Bowl

The entertainment industry tucks its tail while patting itself on the back for being "creative".

NBC's "The Book of Daniel" may have launched to great controversy and hoopla.

But, today, the show ended with a whimper – pulled unceremoniously from NBC's Friday night schedule, effective immediately, with no more of an announcement than an entry on an NBC blog by creator Jack Kenny.

"Unfortunately, due to many reasons, 'The Book of Daniel' will no longer be aired on NBC on Friday nights," he wrote to fans. "I just wanted to say 'thank you' to all of you who supported the show. There were many wonderful, talented people who contributed to its success – and I do mean success. Whatever the outcome, I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people, who loved each other no matter what ... and there was always a lot of 'what'! I remain proud of our product, proud of my association with Sony, NBC Universal, and NBC, who all took a chance on a project that spoke to them, and proud to have made an impact on so many of your lives."

One of the many reasons is too few people were looking at it. With that came too few sponsors. So where was the "success" that he mentions? It is in the thumbing of the nose at religion and traditional morality. This series resembled the Osbourns more than any solid family drama. The characters are not flawed, they're twisted. While the viewing public has a capacity for junk programing (see any reality show} there is a limit to the offensiveness they'll support. As desperate as they are to publicly celebrate deviancy there is also a limit to how often the networks can produce shows like this, its called economics.