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ABC Cancels 'Defying Gravity' After Only 8 Episodes
Written by Defying Gravity Online
Monday, 14 September 2009 15:38
For the small (and we mean very small) group of fans who loved this show, it is a sad day, as it seems that ABC has canceled Defying Gravity without airing all of it's planned (and filmed) thirteen episodes. While no official announcement has come from ABC yet, the decision was made clear during the September 13 broadcast where ABC announced it as being the Season Finale and didn't show any previews for the next episode at the end.
As spaceship commander Ted Shaw on ABC's Sunday science-fiction series "Defying Gravity," Malik Yoba is on a tour of the solar system. But for the 41-year-old actor, doing the series was more like time travel than space travel. "I think every little boy thought about going into space," Yoba says. "As a kid, definitely, I was trying to be Captain Kirk.