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10 Pro-LGBT TV Programs That Were Ratings Disasters

By Michael Gryboski, Editor Twitter

10. The New Normal

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NBC's advertisement for "The New Normal," a show about a Los Angeles gay couple who hires a surrogate mother to have their child. | Courtesy of NBC Universal

The plot of "The New Normal" centered on a woman who agreed to be the surrogate mother for a same-sex couple looking to have a child.

Debuting in 2012, the comedy-romance television series lasted one season, with the Hollywood Reporter attributing its failure to the absence of other strong programming for the evening.

"The series, like the rest of its Tuesday block, suffered without The Voice, notching a string of lows before the singing competition returned to revitalize the lineup," stated the Hollywood Reporter in May 2013.

"While its April season finale was penned to serve as a potential series finale, producers said that a second season would have featured the newly married couple raising their newborn son."

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