2 Months 2 Million Canceled

The highly anticipated poker reality show that debuted on the G4 network has decided to cancel the show for a second season. The show debuted on August 16, 2009 and ran for ten episodes. The concept was intriguing and had the poker community talking about the four young poker stars.

Jay “Krantz” Rosenkrantz, Dani Stern, Emil Patel, and Brian Roberts were the four young online players who were chosen for the series. The concept was simple. They had two months to make $2 million collectively. Each week the one who made the least amount of money would have to do some embarrassing task.

Anticipation for the series was high among the poker community, but ratings fizzled. The first two weeks of the challenge was positive as the group made $200,000 towards their goal. However, week 3 marked the inevitable downswing that ultimately kept the group from reaching their $2 million dollar mark. In the end they only ended up making $676,000.

Aside from the fact that the group missed their mark by a mile, the group failed to be dynamic enough to keep viewers intrigued. Interest came from watching how young online poker players cope with winning and losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. However, it was difficult for the audience to connect with any members of the group and some of the non-poker sequences felt forced and cheesy.

Rosenkrantz said about his experience, “I learned a lot doing 2 Months, $2 Million…not the least of which was what people really liked about it and what didn’t work. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to let that experience work for us.”

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