production of the series was put on hold in mid-october and was expected to resume within four to six weeks. two weeks later, mrc decided to cancel both "easy money" and "valentine". on november 20, 2008, the cw announced that it was ending its sunday night agreement with mrc, removing the current shows and programming the night itself. on july 6, 2009, the cw announced that beginning july 26, the series would begin burning off the remaining episodes sundays at 7 p.m.