TV heaven may be getting two more angels.

On Tuesday, the news broke that ABC has pulled the acclaimed comedy Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 from its Tuesday night lineup. And then on Wednesday, Deadline reported that FOX’s Ben and Kate is seeing a similar fate.

Why are these hysterical series failing?

Ratings. It’s all about the ratings.

Ben and Kate has been getting the lowest ratings during FOX’s new two-hour Tuesday comedy block. And, the second season of Apt. 23 hasn’t been getting promising numbers either, averaging only 2.85 million viewers, as Adweek reported — compared to its average audience of 6.37 million viewers for the first season.

These shows may have loyal fans, but sadly not enough of them. Ben and Kate and Apt. 23 join an illustrious list of other well-done shows that were taken too soon.

For example, Freaks and Geeks only ran on NBC for one season starting in 1999, starring actors who have since moved onto the A-List: James Franco, Seth Rogen, and Jason Segel. And who can forget FOX’s Arrested Development starring yet another famous star, Jason Bateman, that took a hiatus in 2006 before making a comeback on streaming video site, Netflix.

Launch the gallery above to see the other shows that got pulled too soon.

Watch the video below to see what James Van Der Beek previously told Celebuzz about Season 2 of Don’t Trust the B—-.

When ABC’s Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23 returns for its second season on Tuesday, it’s going to be a 90s-palooza – but that seemed to be the series’ Plan B. Dawson’s Creek fans would’ve been thrilled to see James Van Der Beek reunite with his Dawson’s Creek co-stars, but the timing just wasn’t right.

“First of all, I’d say never say never to that sort of thing,” executive producer David Hemingson tells Celebuzz at the show’s recent Paley Center event in Los Angeles.

“Obviously, there were other castmembers from the show who were busy and we would liked to have had,” he continues. “It was a surprising summer for everybody if you think of the Katie [Holmes] situation.”

“It’s a timing issue,” executive producer Jeff Morton interjects. “So, we made the best of it.”

Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz, Saved by the Bell (and currently TNT’s Franklin & Bash) actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Dawson’s Creek (now TBS’ Cougar Town star) Busy Philippsmake cameos on the Season 2 premiere episode after James’ plan to reunite his costars hits a snafu.

Watch more from our interview with the EPs  above. They talk about what’s new for June (Dreama Walker) and why Chloe’s (Krysten Ritter) upcoming romantic interest, guest star Ben Lawson, couldn’t get between her and bestie James.

Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23 returns for Season 2 on Tuesday at 9 30 PM on ABC.

Watch more of our interviews at the show’s premiere event at Paley below.

It isn’t everyday that a former teen heartthrob has enough of a sense of humor to play a larger than life version of himself– weekly– on a new outrageous network comedy, but that is exactly what James Van Der Beek took on with ABC’s Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23.

Though there is a lot of comedy gold in Van Der Beek’s own past pin-up status (and the show has not shied away from mining that gold, whether it was making him re-perform classic Dawson lines accompanied by the single tear or creating a fake ad campaign for his celebrity fashion line), the second season of the show will be expanding past Van Der Beek’s own ’90s icon status.

When Van Der Beek’s character attempts to stage a Dawson’s Creek reunion in the Season 2 premiere, his plans go awry and the series ends up bringing in a couple other big name stars from that era to create its own monumental moment in pop culture.

What was the highlight of Don’t Trust The B in Apartment 23′s second season premiere for Van Der Beek?

“Mark-Paul [Gosselaar] was our big get,” Van Der Beek told Celebuzz when we caught up with him at the Paley Center premiere for his show in Beverly Hills, Calif.

“He’s a friend of mine, and he and I had talked about it, and I kind of talked him into it before the season started. So when we had the idea, we went to him, and he was game.”

In addition to being rivals in many young girls’ (and some young boys’) hearts, Van Der Beek and Gosselaar recently played rivals-turned-buddies of sorts on Gosselaar’s TNT legal series, Franklin and Bash.

“It was tit for tat. ‘Hey, I did your show, you have to come do mine!’ But he watched the show; he liked it; he was into it,” Van Der Beek explained.

“It’s fun to just play with this demented reality really. What better way for Mark-Paul to come on the show then to stage a former teen idol intervention for [James]?” Van Der Beek smiled.

After Van Der Beek takes some post-heyday lessons from Gosselaar to heart, he may only be looking forward in his life and career, rather than living in his glorious past, but that doesn’t mean he will have a change of heart and suddenly start to think of others first.

In the second episode of the season, Van Der Beek shared, “James throws an annual positivity party on Halloween, but it has nothing to do with wanting to spread light or love in the world. It just has to do with that he doesn’t like scary stuff, and he doesn’t like being scared, and he screams like a little girl if he is scared.”

So maybe fans will have a chance to see a slightly different side to James. As Van Der Beek laughed: “He’s definitely got a wimpy side!”

Be sure to check out Celebuzz’s full video interview with Van Der Beek.

Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23 airs on Tuesdays at 9:30 PM on ABC.

What other famous pals of Van Der Beek’s would you want to see spoof themselves on Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23? Let us know your pitches in the comments below!

– Danielle Turchiano

There are still a few season premieres to come down the pike. And at least for ABC, perhaps they are saving the best for last.

Happy Endings and Don’t Trust The B in Apartment 23 are two outrageous comedies promising to deliver even more laughs on their third and second seasons, respectively. How do we know? Celebuzz got a sneak peek at the in-person chemistry between the casts at the Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles.

Read on to see what’s coming up on each show and what Celebuzz thought was the best series scoop revealed.

Happy Endings is starting its third season with two of its key characters back in a relationship. Though the series started because Alex (Elisha Cuthbert) left Dave (Zachary Knighton) at the alter, Season 3 starts with them telling their friends — and family — they are back together.

“The first season, second season you see us not together, and it’s kind of a nice place to be [now],” Cuthbert pointed out. “You really get to see why they were a couple in the first place — because they’re crazy!”

To get a deeper look at just where that crazy may come from, we will also get to meet the elder Kerkoviches this season. Christopher McDonald and Julie Hagerty will guest star as Alex and Jane’s (Eliza Coupe) parents.

Not only will we get to see the similarities within the family — Alex gets her “love of meat and big, Serbian appetite” from her mother, apparently– but we’ll get to see them go head-to-head with each other in sure-to-be hilarious ways.

“Jane desperately wants to make dad laugh at a family function which has never happened,” series executive producer Jonathan Groff explained. “There is a face-off with Jane and Shooter McGavin!”

On the holiday episode, there is also a Kerkovich sister hip-hop dance-off, which Coupe praised Cuthbert for “basically taking the floor.”

And Brad (Damon Wayans Jr.) is out of work, so he is dabbling in puppetry (Sinbrad will be featured online in extra webisode specials that Groff revealed received quite a few Standards & Practices notes already for being “horribly offensive… to the brand”). He is also palling around with Max (Adam Pally) more, as Max is out to teach him how to live frugally. The two men join forces to become “bar mitzvah hype men” and end up getting into a bit of a “hype off” themselves.

“I have a deep well of knowledge to motivate,” Pally said. “It’s a skill. People are there to celebrate a boy becoming a man, and they’re kind of sad about it because their [baby] boy is going away.”

And then there’s Thanksgiving. Like Friends before it, Happy Endings is setting out to make iconic holiday episodes where this new kind of family all comes together to eat and celebrate from where they’ve come. In the case of Happy Endings, the gang came from… The Real World: Sacramento.

“I really love the flashback episode,” Casey Wilson shared. “We reveal we were all a part of the cast of The Real World: Sacramento, and it was an unaired season. It never aired, because I think someone burned down the house.”

Of course, Wilson also loves that Penny finally gets a boyfriend. ”Elisha and I– when we cast [Nick Zano as Penny's boyfriend] were running around the trailers yelling ‘A man is coming! A man is coming!’”

And he’ll be staying for awhile: “Penny gets into a relationship for 10 days, and she’s trying to give everyone else relationship advice.”

When it comes to Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23, though, the two episodes right out of the gate for the season were painted as some of the biggest and funniest, per the cast and producers. The season premiere sees June (Dreama Walker) championing for a Dawson’s Creek reunion, but what she ends up getting is so much better, as it’s a compilation of a bunch of 90s stars, including additional teen heartthrob Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

“We use the Dawson’s stuff because it’s there but we also just go way left and make s–t up after awhile, and that’s actually where we have the most fun: our making up fake projects that I’ve never really done like Love Monster,” James Van Der Beek chuckled.

It’s a big moment for June as she not only gets to sit within touching distance of two of her childhood crushes, but it’s one in which she starts to realize some limits of her life.

“It’s important for people to know that June’s a badass,” Walker said. “It’s inside… She’s the kind of person who will be pushed and pushed and pushed and then be the person who brings the gun to the knife fight and that happens, not exactly, but a form of that this season.”

Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23 is set up to push June but also James in the second episode, in which they deal with Halloween.

“I dress up as a lady Hobbit with hairy feet. But they were fake, so it was okay,” Walker laughed.

For the character of James, though, things are much darker. He hates being scared, and therefore hates the character because “his dad showed him Halloween on Christmas.” So, every year he uses the day to throw a “Positivity Party” and alternates between three “safe” costumes, including an angel, a bunch of grapes, and a candy corn.

“The evite for my annual Positivity Party that I throw every year is one of my favorite things,” Van Der Beek shared. “There’s Hello Kitty, a rainbow, and an ice cream sundae, and they all interact.”

One thing both shows could agree on, though? One of the Holmes ladies should make a guest appearance!

Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 has a whole storyline planned for Katie in which she plays a “demented version of herself” (per Van Der Beek) who hates James and hears he had some kind of accident or might be dead and “shows up in a red dress to celebrate his downfall.”

And Happy Endings may have nothing specific planned for Suri, but Pally was adamant they should at least try to get her!

“Or we’ll settle for Shiloh,” he laughed, proving those pop culture references the show drops are often ad-libs of his own.

Happy Endings premieres next Tuesday at 9 PM. Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 premieres right after at 9:30 PM — on ABC.

What has you most excited about the new seasons of Happy Endings and Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23? Sound off in the comments below.

– Danielle Turchiano