Fox’s situation comedy Do Not Disturb is the first new network TV series to be canceled this season.

There was good reason for the cancellation of the show after only three episodes.

One, the ratings were spectacularly bad, with the show averaging a 1.6 rating and 4 share (percent of all TVs being watched at the time). A total of only 4 million people watched the three episodes.

They were treated to a truly awful experience. The series, dealing with the staff of a New York hotel, seemed intent on masquerading as something cheeky and original while actually constituting a compendium of contemporary sitcom cliches.

One, the entire premiere episode was about nothing but sex. I cannot for the life of me figure out why nearly all TV situation comedies must now be about nothing but Topic A, but that’s the way it is. Two, the limited subject matter made the episode utterly predictable and boring. Three, the treatment of the subject matter was nearly exclusively immature and asinine. Four, the inclusion of a homosexual character whom the narrative defines entirely by his sexuality and who talks in lurid detail about his impulses and the activities related to them is guaranteed to strike 99+ percent of the public as unenjoyable in the extreme.

The one redeeming feature of the program was that ultimately the premiere episode did suggest that sexual promiscuity was probably not the most satisfying and emotionally fulfilling way to live.

 Unfortunately, that message was delivered in a context of such dreary self-indulgence that nearly all of the audience must have been long gone by then. And now it is gone forever. Will these people never learn?