It turns out that while imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, it doesn’t always equate to success. After just three weeks on the air, NBC has decided to cancel the Marco Pierre White “Top Chef-ish” incarnation, Chopping Block. The show has come in last place against all the major networks in the past two weeks and this week only averaged 2.6 million viewers. The network will instead run Law & Order reruns in the time slot until a replacement is found. Sidebar, does anyone else realize that Law & Order has been on for 19 years? Not that I feel old or anything. Ok, maybe a little.

Eat Me Daily (bonus points for the clever name) notes:

"It was and still is a great concept — one that's worked successfully in Australia and the UK — but it fell apart in the hands of Granada America, the production company...It's an inauspicious start to Marco Pierre White's US debut...It truly shows that a good idea in the wrong hands can turn out to be a dud."

So much for the whimsical letter I sent the network about an entire episode dedicated to explaining Haggis…