Lipstick Jungle: NBC Cancels Brooke Shields TV Show, No Season Three
The peacock network has gotten tired of picking up the tab for “three of New York’s most powerful women.” They’re cancelling the Lipstick Jungle TV show after two seasons and 20 episodes.
Lipstick Jungle is based on the best-selling book by Sex and the City’s Candace Bushnell and follows the lives of three high-powered friends; former studio president Wendy Healy (Brooke Shields), magazine editor Nico Reilly (Kim Raver), and fashion designer Victory Fords (Lindsay Price). Others castmembers include performers like Paul Blackthorne, Andrew McCarthy, Robert Buckley, Sarah Hyland, David Norona, Dylan Clark Marshall, Seth Kirschner, Matt Lauria, David Alan Basche, and Marcia DeBonis.
The series debuted as a midseason replacement series on February 7, 2008. Despite being part of NBC’s Thursday night line-up, Jungle only attracted 7.54 million viewers and a 2.9/8 rating/share of the 18-49 demographic. The rest of the season averaged fewer than six million viewers each week.
Because of the writers strike, only seven episodes were produced. Ratings-challenged NBC decided to take a chance and renewed the show for a second year of 13 episodes, hoping that the numbers would improve.
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When Jungle returned for its second season, the ratings were even lower than they were in season one. On Wednesday nights, the show averaged a paltry five million viewers and a 2/5 rating/share. After five weeks, NBC essentially gave up on the series and moved it to Friday nights at 10pm. Much of the Jungle audience didn’t follow and those two episodes have averaged just 3.26 million.
To no surprise, NBC has pulled the plug on the show’s future. The series’ writers actually cleaned out their offices last week. On the positive side, all 13 episodes of this season are being completed and will continue to be shown on Friday nights for the immediate future. Seven have aired, leaving six episodes to go. Because production is so close to wrapping, it’s unlikely that the final episode will conclude the series’ storylines.
It’s expected that Friday Night Lights will take Jungle’s place in January. Stay tuned! 
December 13th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I love this show, please don’t take off. I watch every week. All three girls make the show. I don’t care what time or day its on, I will watch it…
November 25th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Started watching with high hopes for this show but NBC was right to pull plug on it, as it became painful to watch some decent actors wrestle with poor scripts and lacklustle storylines.
November 16th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
NBC needs to be buried in letters from viewers wanting to save this show!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who was the moron in programming who decided to change this show to Friday nights anyway? Women who would watch this fine show are the type who would never be home on Friday nights to watch! They should have left it on Wednesdays and allowed the audience to find it. Jerks at NBC need to reconsider…
November 14th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
This is a great show with a great story. Danielle (previous poster) is a dumb ***** and should go back to the kitchen.
November 14th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
PLEASE DONT END LIPSTICK JUNGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I SO LOVE THE SHOW!!!!!!!!! IT ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 14th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Great, this show was a cheap imitation of what strong women’s lives are like… good riddance!