Pitch: Prestige-TV single-camera sitcom, dark comedy, vehicle for John Goodman, where his unnamed character's unnamed wife suddenly dies, and he has to move on while quietly coming to terms with the fact that she was a massively-awful person. Co-starring, let's say, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert...
I've been seeing speculation that's the real reason ABC dumped it -- the rest of the cast were all about to bail anyhow, so they pulled the plug to avoid looking like they were doing nothing.