Armed & Famous: CBS Pulls Celebrity Cop Series
As expected, FOX’s juggernaut American Idol is back with a vengeance. The reality singing series has been garnering incredible ratings and as a result, the other networks are feeling the pinch. Interestingly enough, another reality show is the first casualty.
Armed & Famous debuted on Wednesday, January 10th at 8pm on CBS. The series followed five celebrities through police academy training, graduation and then on patrol as reserve police officers in Muncie, Indiana. The celebrity officers were CHiPs’ Erik Estrada, singer La Toya Jackson, The Osbournes’ Jack Osbourne, Jackass’ Jason “Wee Man” Acuna, and wrestler Trish Stratus.
On the day of the series premiere, the Armed & Famous cast presented Muncie’s police department with three fully equipped 2007 Hummer SUVs. At the ceremony, Muncie Police Chief Joe Winkle offered Osbourne a full-time position on his force. Osbourne respectfully declined but asked the Chief for a letter of recommendation to a Los Angeles police academy. It’s too bad this dedication didn’t translate into bigger viewer numbers.
The first and second episodes attracted only 5.5 million households each. The latest episode, up against Idol, experienced a huge drop in viewers. Only 3.5 million households tuned in. That’s apparently enough for CBS. The network has cancelled Armed & Famous effective immediately.
CSI: NY will take the Wedesday slot on January 31st and Criminal Minds will fill in on February 7th. CBS’ Jericho series returns for its midseason debut with a recap episode on February 14th. The remaining unaired episodes of Armed & Famous may air during the Summer months though, personally, I wouldn’t bet on it. 
June 10th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
This show was so entertaining
I miss the show at least you could run it in the summer instead of borning us to tears with a bunch of other shows.
My daughter and I both liked watching this show
2 thumbs down to CBS
June 1st, 2007 at 8:58 am
i like that show. cbs are ******* for taking off f**k amercan idol it’s just the save music anyway
March 8th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
CBC - haven’t you ever heard or recording an episode while watching another. I miss the show - it was alot of fun watching Latoya and the others being cops. Bring it back!!!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:28 pm
My wife and I thought that this was going to be the stupidest show on tv when we heard about it. I don’t know why we watched the first episode but we LOVED it. We tuned in every week to see what was going to happen next. I had a feeling it was yanked but just confirmed it by reading this board. It’s a shame. We really wanted to see how it finished. If someone knows if/when they will air the remaining episodes, please post it. Thanks.
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I really enjoyed this show. I was getting my whole family into watching it and it goes off the air. I feel it was a good product that didn’t get enough air time. Most of the other stuff on TV is so low brow. Give us a break and bring it back. There are too few tv shows the whole family can watch together. Maybe I should just stick with watching shows on the disney channel with my kids…