Cane: Does the Cast Know the Show’s Cancelled?
One of the surest signs that a TV series won’t be renewed for another season is when the castmembers start taking other jobs. Not jobs at McDonalds or Office Depot, other acting gigs. Last year, long before The Nine was officially cancelled, principal actors from the show like Scott Wolf and Tim Daly signed on for other shows.
This season, this seems to be the case with Cane. Though many people love the show, all but the network agrees that its goose is cooked — seemingly even the cast.
Hector Elizondo, who plays patriarch Pancho Duque, has taken a job on USA Network’s Monk series. He’ll play Tony Shaloub’s new therapist, replacing the recently deceased Stanley Kamel. There’s no details on how change in therapist will be handled but Elizondo will make his first appearance on July 18th, the season seven premiere.
Theoretically, Elizondo might be able to do both series but its doubtful that CBS would agree to let one of its stars moonlight. Last fall, when CBS Entertainment president Nina Tassler was asked if Nestor Carbonell (Cane’s Frank Duque) would be allowed to continue to put in occasional appearances on ABC’s Lost, she was clearly against him doing it.
Her point of view seems to have softened. Since Cane went on hiatus, Carbonell has filmed at least one episode of Lost, which will air next Thursday. Is this yet another indication that Cane is over? What do you think? 
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October 6th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Please bring back Cane….this is the best tv series I’ve ever seen and now you’ve left us hanging. At the very least…give us a final episode for closure.
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Wow… wtf was CBS thinking. Cane was an excellent series!
September 9th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Sorry this is rather late in the day to make a comment, just found this site….Cane was a great show…had all the ingredients…for a great show and it was….so disappointed this has been dropped…the cast were absolutley first class…led by Hector Elizondo….you really have made a mistake here CBS….this show really had something going for it.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I doubt we can hope for a season 2… but the least CBS could do is put out a nice Complete Series Boxed Set on DVD for those of us that loved the show. I have all the episodes stored in HD on my DVR and they’re taking up a lot of space.
In a related thought… I was sad to see Aaron Sorkin’s masterfully written Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip get cancelled… but I must say thank you to NBC for not taking too long in putting out the DVD.
Now, if they would only put the four seasons of Ed out on DVD. It was a great show…little drama…little funny…shouldn’t have been cancelled.
Well…that’s my two cents…
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Save Cane please… It’s a really good show..
Hope a second season will be made, but I think that’s asking too much.
All we can do is hope..
Best regards from Norway
July 27th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
It’s a shame when an mature exciting adult show isn’t recognized by the networks! We can only hope Cable would give it a chance!!!