'Kings,' 'Pushing Daisies' will burn off on Saturdays

Kings" is dead. Long live … oh, nevermind.

NBC has yanked "Kings" off its Sunday-night schedule, effective immediately. Which is no surprise, because the ratings have been terrible.

Of course, these days the ratings for just about everything on NBC are terrible. And scheduling this show on Sundays at 7 p.m. was pretty much a death sentence from the start.

The network has announced that it will burn off the remaining eight episodes of "Kings" — which is sort of a modern-day retelling of the David-and-Goliath story — on Saturdays at 7 p.m. beginning April 18.

SPEAKING OF SHOWS getting burned off on Saturday nights, ABC has finally found time in its busy schedule to show us the remaining episodes of the late, lamented "Pushing Daisies."

The network will air the final three episodes on Saturdays at 9 p.m. beginning May 30.

And, no, there's no chance that the show will produce any more episodes. The sets have been torn down, the cast and crew have dispersed — many moving on to other projects — and it's just not going to happen.

Saturdays at 9 p.m. will be ABC's burning-off-canceled-show theater. After the final episode of "Pushing Daisies" airs on June 13, the remaining episodes of "Eli Stone" will air June 20, June 27 and July 4.

And then the final episodes of "Dirty Sexy Money" will air July 18, July 25, Aug. 1 and Aug. 8.

ABC HAS PLANS for the summer — plans that will change the network's scheduled on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesday and Saturday.

 "The Bachelorette" returns with a two-hour episode on Monday, May 25, at 8 p.m. Hourlong episodes begin airing the following Monday at 7 p.m.

 A second season of the romantic/reality/competition show "Here Come the Newlyweds" begins Monday, May 25, at 9 p.m.

 "Opportunity Knocks," the reality/game show that flopped last fall, will burn off its remaining episodes on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. beginning May 26.

 "Wipeout," the goofy imitation of a Japanese game show, begins its second season on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. starting May 27.

Also on May 27,  "The Goode Family" — an animated show from the creator of "Beavis & Butthead" and "King of the Hill" — will air back-to-back episodes Wednesdays at 8 and 8:30 p.m.