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Q: What ever happened to "Betrayal"?

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Author: 
Adam Thomlison / TV Media

It didn't make the cut. The series, which starred Hannah Ware and Stuart Townsend, aired a full 13-episode season on ABC before the network decided to pull the plug.

It went out pretty quietly, which makes some sense. The first-season finale aired in January, months before networks start announcing their schedules for the next season. That's also when cancelation news usually starts to come out -- it's less a matter of networks deciding to end a show than it is them deciding to make room for new ones instead.

It also makes sense that there was no splash because the show was never the sort of hit that gets people talking. Its ratings sank pretty steadily from its premiere, which earned a little over five million viewers, to its finale, which had 3.3 million.

The show's lack of success didn't reflect too badly on its principals, it seems. David Zabel, the show's American creator (who adapted it from a Dutch series), signed a deal to create a new pilot for next season, also for ABC, called "The Adversaries."

Ware has a lead role in the big-budget film "Hitman: Agent 47," a video game adaptation due out at the end of the summer. Townsend has signed on as a recurring cast member on WGN America's series "Salem," which premiered its second season last month.

 

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