2007 Cancelled Shows: Several NBC Cancellations
After NBC’s worst season, it’s no surprise that the peacock network is shaking up their 2007-08 schedule. There’s also little surprise about which shows didn’t survive. Here’s what won’t be returning next season:
Andy Barker, P.I. - The Andy Richter comedy series ran for six episodes to poor ratings. NBC put the last two on Saturday night and it seemed like the sitcom was doomed before it began.
The Black Donnellys - The Paul Haggis series was pulled after six episodes and the remaining episodes have been made available on NBC’s site and iTunes.
Crossing Jordan - After six seasons on the air, Jordan has solved her last case. The series finale airs on Wednesday, May 16, 2007.
Grease: You’re The One That I Want - The ratings were a disappointment and seriously, how could they do another season anyway — fire the first years’ winners to make room for the second’s?
Identity - The Penn Jillette-hosted game show about contestants identifying strangers’ hobbies or occupations is finished after 12 episodes.
Raines - The quirky Jeff Goldblum detective show ran all seven episodes to poor ratings. It won’t be back.
The Real Wedding Crashers - The reality series that replaced Donnellys was pulled from the schedule after three episodes. NBC may air the remaining episodes during the summer.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - The much-hyped Aaron Sorkin series didn’t live up to expectations. It will return on May 24th and hopefully NBC will air all six of the remaining episodes. A DVD release is likely.
Thank God You’re Here - The improv sketch show’s ratings were nothing to smile about so it’s been cancelled after seven episodes.
Twenty Good Years - This sitcom starred series veterans John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor, was pulled from the network schedule after just four episodes. It’s doubtful that the remaining episodes will air.
Returning in the fall are: 30 Rock, The Biggest Loser, Dateline, Deal or No Deal, ER, Friday Night Lights (moved to Fridays at 10pm), Heroes, Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, My Name is Earl, The Office, and Scrubs. Law & Order and Medium (moved to Sunday nights) will return mid-season (January 2008) or earlier.
The Apprentice was left off the Fall schedule but NBC and creator Mark Burnett are still in talks of bringing back the series in some form. Mark Burnett previously pledged to find another home for the reality show if NBC drops it.
The Friday night 8pm timeslot has been designated as “game night” and will consist of rotating reality or games shows. The Bob Saget-hosted series 1 vs. 100 will air for eight weeks initially. 
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July 3rd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Great, now I’ll never see the Raines/Goren quirky cop crossover I was holding out for
Raines was the only new show to come out in the last 4 years that I actually watched more than once. That tells you something. The only stuff I’ll see now are programs I’ve been watching since the 90’s, because every time I get attached to a new show, it gets cancelled or “shaken up!” and changed all to hell. ><
They gave up on Criminal Intent when SVU took off in the ratings…fine. It’s a L&O, it’ll be ok. They gave up on Studio 60 when it didn’t rocket up to West Wing numbers in 2 weeks flat. Fantastic. Great plan, Tartikoff would be proud.
Viewers brought back Jericho with a write-in campaign…who’s with me, let’s do the same for Raines!
It can be done - just google for Jericho, you’ll see the whole story. VIEWERS HAVE MORE POWER THAN EXECUTIVES! LET’S USE IT!
*sigh* Or I’ll just go back to watching it on PVR. All 7 episodes. That I religiously PVR’d, since it was on while I’m at work. Hear that, NBC? Media has changed. You better get changing with it, or keep being left behind
July 3rd, 2007 at 11:59 am
NBC is totaly non sense….
Studio 60 is the best show of this year… im so glad when i see de commercial on tv about the new serie… so i thing… next year i have one more good show to wait for new episodes…
NBC dont care about us… its a shame… HBO is much better.
I WANT STUDIO 60 BACK!!!! NBC have to do hair cut and not decided what is a good serie.
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:41 am
Real Wedding Crashers was a 6 episode series. Just air the final 3. What’s the big deal?
July 2nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Wish you’d reconsider about cancelling Raines. It was the only “crime drama” we could have on with kids, since it didn’t dwell on the gore, evil, or general sensationalism.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Just one more reason not to watch NBC. We loved Raines. Finally a show you had to pay attention to and be engrossed in. Working from home the TV is on all day and night. Hours on NBC per week will now be 3, just enough to watch Heroes, Earl, Scrubs and Las Vegas.
I think NBC should just become the 24 hour “Deal or No Deal” channel.
June 29th, 2007 at 6:11 am
What I want to know is…WHY IS ER STILL ON? Let it die already. It ran it’s course by the time Mark Green died, please people.
BRING BACK STUDIO 60!!!!!!!! At least it was different…no cops, no sadistic killers, no bad lawyers…can network executives not approve any show that is not either filled with violence or reality tv morons?
June 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I am so shocked at the total disregard NBC has for it’s viewers! If they would visit the message boards on their “own” Crossing Jordan website, they would see the impact this cancellation is having. Boycotts, protests, petitions, phone calls, letters, people contacting advertisers and news reporting media to name a few of the actions being taken by us; the very angry CJ viewers.
Here is what just “one” journalist had to say:
(This is not a word for word quote. I left out the personal content between she and the person who posted this on the CJ message board.)
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Molly Willow of the Columbus Dispatch wrote about finales, ranking CJ AS THE “WORST SEASON FINALE”.
The worst season fianle: Crossing Jordan (NBC). The series ended with a plane crash, with the fates of the characters unclear.
CJ had thousands of “loyal fans” and they deserved better.
While I usually don’t agree with a network “having it in” for a series, in this case, I somewhat agree.
NBC treated it poorly from the start and clearly were not committed to making it work. Even more frustrating is they must have known early on that is was on the cancellation block, so why not allow the writers to wrap up the story? I am heartened to see today, that as a result of a HUGE FAN OUTRAGE, CBS is considering tying up the series with a 7 episode mini-season. That’s practically unheard of.
Could it be that a network is finally understanding the price they pay for ticking off their fans?
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To the suits at NBC: (I won’t address the “DOPES” responisble for programming decisions, etc.) While reality shows are cheap to produce: At day’s end; is it really going to be worth the gamble? Your Fall line-up is embarrassing, though it does make it easier for your “former” viewers to hold true with the boycotting of your network. Also, a “heads-up”: One of the many websites that have come to be, is one that actually has been set up with several capabilities: the tracking on how many of your “??new shows??” tank, as well as how quickly, how quickly your viewer base drops-as a result, we are going to keep up with your struggle keeping sponsors and advertisers. I would immagine, no viewers, no ratings, ooops…once loyal advertisers; dropping you like a set of keys. We have gotten great responses from quite a few concerned companies. DON’T WORRY, WE WILL ALL KEEP YUU AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WILL LISTEN, UPDATED!!!!!
P.S. It’s not all about “cancellation” of CJ, but the way it was done..Kidnapped, ring a bell? There is one word for NBC, “Karma”!!
June 22nd, 2007 at 9:04 am
I am sorry to see a unique show like Raines being cancelled when the mindless dribble called entertainment continues.
June 21st, 2007 at 8:00 pm
I thoroughly enjoyed the premier of Raines. Jeff G. has a dry wit and excellent acting skill. Crossing Jordan crossed the line sometimes, but she was dependable. Studio 60 almost seemed to sense their sinking and have become episodes of whining and immobility.
I’m sorely disappointed with
NBC.
Why would an intelligent network wish to compete in a child market when these children are fast becoming the minority?
June 20th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Raines was a pleasure. Enough with the L&O, and the CSI copies, too. How do they expect to sell DVD’s of the cancelled shows if there weren’t enough people watching to keep ratings high enough to renew the show? Or do they think there’s more money in the DVD sales? Get serious. Why would I spend $30 or so for a show that was cancelled? They never gave me a chance to Love Raines, only to like him a lot. Silly them.
HBO had the sense to keep The Wire on in spite of poor ratings. Now there’s a great show. And one whose DVD’s are worth buying.
June 20th, 2007 at 9:04 am
NBC is unfortunetly lost in a pool of stupidity. We the viewer are sick of reality shows. The only reality shows i want to watch are WWE and TNA wrestling. I don’t want no crap about games.
You take off quality for shows that are high for a year or two then die by the wayside. WAKE UP NBC. Crossing Jordan, Raines, Studio 60. Donnelly’s, Kidnapped and even Thank God You’re here were good shows. But you would rather play reality bingo.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:09 am
I can believe they cancelled The Black Donnellys.THAT WAS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!! For once i had some thing to look forward to on Mondays.NBC is making a big mistakes. I couldn’t wait to see what trouble Jimmy got into, and how Tommy got out of it.It was the best show on NBC!!!!PUT IT BACK ON!!!!!And dont cancelled Medium eather!!!
June 17th, 2007 at 1:29 am
Why the hell are they taking off good shows like Crossing Jordan, Studio 60 and Raines and keeping a bunch of Law and Order crap. I can see CSI stuff staying on CBS, these are good shows. But, taking off good shows to keep mediocre L&O crap just to be like CSI is insane. Be different than CBS and keep the the good shows instead. So what if they don’t have the same name. If NBC needs to be like CBS then get rid of Law and Order and make “Crossing Jordan”, “Crossing Raines” and “crossing Studio 60″.
June 14th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Studio 60 and Raines were good
It’s too bad you A-holes at NBC seem to have no idea what’s good and what’s bad.
Ratings are the wrong thing to base cancellations on. Once you figure that out maybe you’ll get your network back on track. We the viewers are sick of investing our time in these shows you put on only to have them taken away from us. Take a lesson from HBO . Quality sells. You just need a little patience and some balls to stick it out. Personally I won’t be watching your network anymore. You’ve screwed me around too many times.
June 14th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
I would like to say I really enjoyed RAINES I hate that it got cancelled. I hope you guys rethink that decision…
PLEASE BRING BACK RAINES!!!!
June 12th, 2007 at 10:11 am
I agree with some of the comments, HBO should get Black Donnellys and Studio 60. I think the performances are simply amazing. Studio 60 needed more drams but has improved it the last couple of shows, it’s witty and the actors are wonderful, what a waste! Donnellys, being canceled,I think is a terrible decision. HBO, help please!!!
June 10th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
NBC-NOTHING BUT CRAP! That is what I Think of NBC”s programming since they CANCELLED CROSSING JORDAN. I can’t believe they would cancel such a well cast and well written show for some new crap. NBC KEEP THE CRAP,LOSE THE VIEWERS! This seems to be standard operating procedure for your execs. I am definitely one more viewer you have decided to allienate. I will now have one more hour of NO TV time each week because there is no other show I like to watch as much as Crossing Jordan. The TIVO will be getting time off too because I tried to never miss an episode! I would love to see another studio pick it up. But probably not because Jerry O’Connel already has another show scheduled.
June 10th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I have been a faithful viewer of Crossing Jordan and am really going to miss it. Other than the Law and Order Series, NBC has not had much to capture my viewing. I do hope you will reconsider and bring Jordan back.
June 10th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
I have been a faithful viewer of Crossing Jordan and am really going to miss it. Other than the Law and Order Series, NBC has not had much to capture my viewing. I do hope you will reconsider and bring Jordan back.
June 9th, 2007 at 3:07 am
What in the world were you thinking, NBC execs?
Yanking Crossing Jordan from our screens with absolutely no notice… after six seasons of finely-crafted, great episodes, surely this great show deserved a LOT better.
Proof positive that it’s all about the Benjamins, baby - mindless pap reality TV being far easier and cheaper to produce than QUALITY.
Please, please… bring back CJ - one of the best shows in years.