Jane Pratt's chat gets axed
"We were serving an audience that's being underserved," said exec producer Jim Ackerman.
"There was an idea to make 'Jane' the cornerstone of a drive to broaden Lifetime's audience to include younger women. I wish we'd been given more time to prove ourselves."
"Jane" did put a new spin on the daytime chat-show genre. In its 12-week run, the show looked at topics ranging from the hallucinogenic drug Ecstasy to date rape from a youthful perspective.
According to Lifetime insiders, "Jane's" days were numbered when Doug McCormick replaced Tom Burchill as president and CEO of the cable web.
But McCormick denies the net wasn't behind "Jane.""It was a business decision. It wasn't holding the teenage audience that was being delivered by its lead-in," he said.
Appearing Thursday on Comedy Central's "Short Attention Span Theater," Pratt was asked about her show and responded simply, "Lifetime sucks."
