"Love Monkey" - One (Month) and Done

In his hit song "That's Life," Frank Sinatra sang about riding high one month, then being shot down the next month. Tom Cavanagh, the star of CBS's "Love Monkey," must know the feeling. The former "Ed" actor's new show premiered last month to great fanfare, but the ratings for the three episodes aired in the past four weeks (it was pre-empted by the State of the Union address one week) have been so abysmal, it's only a matter of when, not whether, CBS will cancel it. Pity. The show was beginning to grow on me. Anyway, it's been put on hiatus, with five remaining unaired episodes in the pipeline. Of course, I should have known it had no chance from the start. Cavanagh played an idealistic record company agent who looked for new acts to sign; the show's first three episodes showed him grooming a white male folk singer-songwriter for stardom. Given that the record-buying majority these days hate folk music, loathe singer-songwriters, and don't want to bother with white male artists unless they are cute or Eminem, how could anyone be expected to suspend their disbelief with this show?