Photo: ABC/Pamela Littky
Say what you like about ABC as a network: When it reaches for the axe, it does so with pure and unquestionable killing intent. Over the years, we’ve gotten a sense for when the bloodlust is about to fall over the Disney-owned network usually around the second week of May, when it gets ready to show off its new slate of shows to advertisers at its annual upfronts presentation, realizes there’s a bunch of dead weight still hanging out on its schedule, and, whoops, there goes the axe.
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If Bloodbath Day 2021 really is upon us, though, it’s looking to be a fairly light one. Coming down immediately in the wake of it handing out four series orders to new shows (including the Don Cheadle-fronted