Can’t say we didn’t see this one coming.

According to Deadline, “The McCarthys” has disappeared from CBS’s schedule. And if past television pattersn are any indication, it has no hopes of coming back. The comedy sitcom followed a sports-loving South Boston family and their gay, sports-apathetic son, starred former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre, and premiered this past October on Thursday nights.

“The McCarthys” not only failed to bring in enough of its own viewers, but it was also setting up CBS’s Thursday night hour-long drama, “Elementary,” with poor lead-in ratings. A similar situation happened with the CBS comedy “The Millers,” which was dooming the drama “Scorpion.” And what did CBS do in both instances? Pull the new series, and patch up the time slot with reruns of “The Big Bang Theory.”

Instant ratings boosts all around, because for reasons I’ll never understand, people love that show.

“The McCarthys” fate looked dismal when CBS only ordered two new episodes for 2015, bringing the show’s first season episode count to 15. Now that the show has been removed from the lineup, four of those episodes won’t air. It looks like “The McCarthys” is facing the same future as Mark Wahlberg’s locally based series “Breaking Boston,” which disappeared from A&E’s schedule in 2014, never to return.

Maybe, someday, someone will make a good modern Boston-based TV show. (“Wahlburgers” doesn’t count.)

Screengrab via CBS