Super-producers Jerry Bruckheimer and Dick Wolf have probably had enough success in their careers that they know not to let one bad week get them down. On Tuesday (Nov. 4), FOX pulled the plug on Bruckheimer's underperforming "Skin," canceling the family drama after on three airings. On Thursday, ABC removed Wolf's "Dragnet" update for the rest of November sweeps and into December, a decision that may mark the end of the case for the revamped detective drama.

All we know are the facts, ma'am: "Dragnet" premiere last February with an audience of 13.3 million viewers. By the end of the season, the police procedural had seen its average viewership slip to under 10 million and it was on the bubble for renewal. Only Wolf's promise that he had a vision to overhaul the entire show earned "Dragnet" a second season.

When "L.A. Dragnet" returned this fall, it had shifted from a two-person drama focusing on Ed O'Neill's Joe Friday and Ethan Embry's Frank Smith, to an ensemble piece with Friday overseeing a group of young, attractive Los Angeles detectives. The show was also moved from Sunday night to Saturday at 10 p.m. ET, where it was given an incompatible lead-in in the form of "The Wonderful World of Disney."

The results have been disappointing for ABC, which was relying on "L.A. Dragnet" to be a "self-starter." This season, the show is averaging just less than 4.77 million viewers per week, making it ABC's least watched program by a margin of more than two million viewers.

Sources at ABC report that production on "L.A. Dragnet" will continue until the current episodes are completed, but no new episodes will be ordered. The network may eventually air the remainder of these completed episodes, though they aren't likely to screen any time in the near future.

This Saturday (Nov. 8), ABC will replace "L.A. Dragnet" with an encore of Tuesday night's highly rated return of "8 Simple Rules." For the following two weeks, "America's Funniest Home Videos" will appear in that slot. The show will be preempted by college football for Nov. 29 and Dec. 6 and on Dec. 13, the Jonathan Taylor Thomas holiday epic "I'll be Home for Christmas" will air in its place.