Hear the sounds of a TV show crying out in anguished pain? Let’s just finish it off already!

Cashmere Mafia, ABC’s frosh drama that tried – and failed – to bank on the Desperate Housewives formula has been doing so horribly that rumors of the shows impending cancellation have been flying since week two.

The show even had Lucy Liu as Mia Mason. That’s a name that should bring ratings from those ex-Allie McBealers! But…it didn’t.

Now, Liu is gearing up to take a place beside Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald, Blair Underwood, Seth Gabel, Zoe McLellan and Jill Clayburgh. We are, of course, talking about ABC’s Dirty Sexy Money, which hasn’t been doing that bad for the network so down-and-out it picked up the Scrubs scraps from the Peacock.

Liu has been offered the part of an attorney, which doesn’t matter as much as the fact that this attorney would be a series regular.

Even if Cashmere managed to pull a second season out of its ass, Liu’s character would be relegated to cameo status.

We hope someone at ABC bothered to tell the Mafia show-runners who were last seen trying to crawl out the under-sized basement window of ABC’s offices.