November 13th, 2008 12:40 pm

Mad News: Thursday 13th November

High Five For Privileged

The CW has ordered an additional five episodes of under-rated show Privileged. This is a vote of confidence for the struggling show which only managed 1.87M viewers with 0.9/2 (A18-49) 1.4/4 (A18-34) last night. Further, during the first two weeks of December, The CW is planning to give it a run in One Tree Hill’s timeslot (Mondays 9/8c) during its hiatus.

Besides Cameron, Medallic Mike and myself, are there any other Privileged fans out there?

David Salzman Is Mad

MadTV, the late-night sketch comedy which currently airs on FOX on Saturday nights has been axed due to financial problems.

Sources have confirmed the veteran sketch show will not be returning for its 15th season but David Salzman, the show’s co-creator, has hopes of a cable channel pick up.

“There’s a long list of parties that have called us, including a few very recently, and we’re going to start conversations with them very shortly,” Salzman says.

The final FOX episode, episode number 326, is scheduled to air in May.

“We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished, we’re appreciative of what FOX has done and we don’t think it should be over yet,” Salzman says.