CANCELLATION ALERT: Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris

NBC announced today that it has cancelled the variety show Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris. NBC won a competitive bidding war for the showman's talents, but this show languished in development for quite a long time. When it finally premiered in September for an eight week run, it was critically panned and only did so-so ratings. I thought it might have a shot to come back in another limited capacity, but that was not the case. It's another blow at the attempt to revive the variety show. Best Time Ever joins ABC's Wicked City as the only shows with official cancellations though many others that had episode orders cut (Minority Report, Truth Be Told, Blood & Oil. The Player) are all unofficially cancelled.