The Cricket's Daily 3: First casualty of fall TV

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Here's what's being talked about in pop culture:

• ABC's "Manhattan Love Story" is the first new show of the fall season to get canceled — and the fact that you've never heard of it is the reason it's being canceled. [Entertainment Weekly]

• The teen horror-thriller "Ouija" topped the pre-Halloween box office, taking in $20 million. [Box Office Mojo]

• Marcia Strassman has died at the age of 66. Strassman was most recognizable playing patient wives: As Julie Kotter, listening to husband Gabe Kotter's jokes on the '70s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," and as Diane Szalinski, cleaning up after husband Wayne's inventions in "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" and its sequels. [AP, via ABC News]