An NBC source confirmed executive producer Bill Lawrence's hunch that the network won't go forward with the live "Nobody's Watching" special he announced at press tour last month.

In a phone interview Monday, Lawrence said the actor's contracts expire at the end of February. He's not making Internet videos for the show's Web site anymore because, "If I kept doing it and nothing happens, I'd have to kill myself."

The last post to the site was made Jan. 12.

Lawrence attended a "Scrubs" press conference last month during NBC's portion of the Television Critics Association winter press tour and announced that the network would make a live "Nobody's Watching" show, something he had expected NBC to already have announced.

"I was told they were announcing a date and when they didn't announce a date" it seemed like it was dead, Lawrence said. "I'm thinking it was an 11th hour decision to pull the plug, but I'm hoping it's not."

A spokesman for NBC later confirmed that "the project is not going forward."

"Nobody's Watching" was a failed pilot made for The WB in 2005. Last summer after the pilot was leaked on YouTube.com, it became something of a media sensation and NBC began looking into resurrecting the series, initially commissioning additional scripts and then opting for the now-scuttled live special.