Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip: NBC Changes Its Plans
Did I speak too soon? I don’t think so but, NBC has just announced that they will be pulling Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip one week earlier than previously planned. The Black Donnellys will begin on February 26th at 10pm instead of March 5th.
The schedule change comes as the result of Monday night’s poor showing in the ratings. The “Friday Night Slaughter” episode of Studio 60 attracted its lowest audience to date. Insiders say that the peacock network hasn’t made a final decision on Studio 60’s future and that the schedule change was made to give The Black Donnellys a strong launch in sweeps (which is getting a lot of promotion and will likely garner big numbers). No return date for Studio 60 has been set.
Personally, I still think that Studio 60 will still return to primetime. They have a lot of time and money vested into it. However, if NBC finds other programming that attracts significantly more viewers, there’s only so long they can stick with the Aaron Sorkin series. They might air the rest of this season but a second year would be highly unlikely. Stay tuned! 
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December 22nd, 2007 at 7:49 am
wow!!! what a mistake Nbc made- ANd is the Black whatever even still playing???? Stupid.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
This is a fantastic show, they won’t find anything better to air. Bring it back for a second season!
October 19th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Please don’t cancel this show! It is my favorite.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:14 am
This is one of the few thinking persons SitCom’s to come out of the US. It is amazing. It is worthy of the chance other shows in its position were given in the past and proved to be smash hits enjoying long running success.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:50 am
studio 60 is one of the best shows ever.i like it very much.please,give it another chance!!!!!!!!
July 15th, 2007 at 12:49 am
Hope NBC will take time and think before ending studio 60. Putting extra time into making it better is worth the network time. The show has what it take to capture viewers and is worth the time to keep them, and capture more.
NBC don’t lose another for junk.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
I really was so sad to see another excellant show taken away.When will we get another chance at such a well written witty show!
I got together with a large group of friends last nite and cried as we watched the finale of Studio 60.
Hopefully someone will take the time to look at this show again and reconsider this show for next year instead of putting more mindless crap like the black donnellys on the air!
June 29th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Wasnt “Friday night slaughter” the first show they started airing on Thursday nights? I had no idea the day had even moved, and i am an avid watcher! There was hardly any publicity about it changing days so of COURSE it was its lowest numbers. I love this show i’m so sad that they arent picking it up.
June 29th, 2007 at 10:10 am
please bring back studio 60! im hooked on it and cant wait to see more! for once there was an interesting intelligent drama that was also hilarious- just because some people are too stupid to understand it its being cut-and some boring brain killing reality show will probably be put in its place satisfying the dumber of the population!
im from ireland and it was a grat hit over here-maybe americans arent as smart as they think they are if they dont realise what a shame it is to cancell something so great!
June 28th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
What the f-word? This is a bunch of s-word! Why the h-word would you cancel such a great f-word-ing show. F-word you you sons-of-b-words. This was quality t.v. and now the f-word-ing idiots who plan their f-word-ing lives around f-word-ing reality shows will have another piece of s-word to watch. Again, I say f-word this. Bring it back. Chant with me. Bring it back. Bring it back. Bring it back. Keep chanting b-word (plural)!
May 21st, 2007 at 7:36 am
PLEASE! DON’T pull Studio 60!!!! It is intelligent, witty and well written!!! Not everyone that watches television has a low IQ! Why does your network continue to pull good shows while replacing them with crap!!!
April 27th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Oh, come on. What are you thinking? If you would just give it some time….. I never understood why Jan Leno made so many jokes about NBC programming when there was such quality as Studio 60 on the air. Now I’m beginning to get the picture. Guess it’s back to the Discovery Channel.
April 15th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
NBC, what are you doing? Studio 60 is intellegently written with great characters and snappy dialogue. I tried watching the first episode of Black Donnelly’s but changed the channel when one of the guys was referred to as Jimmy Icecream or something f**king moronic like that. I get that advertisers won’t pay a lot for a show that is being TIVOed, PVRed or DVRed as viewers can zap the commercials, but how about a schedule change where the viewrs want to watch it live and have to sit through the commercials to do that? What about Sunday nights? Friday nights? I’m sure you can brainstorm and figure it out. Also, another observation - “Heroes” is geared for a predominantly 20 something viewer. How did you not expect that there would be a sharp dropoff of viewship by pairirng the two back to back? The 20 somethings are not going to keep on watching NBC and watch a show that is geared for an older viewership. They change the channel after Heroes and watch BAM TV or something on Spike or MTV. Why don’t you f**king wizards who are supposed to be knowledable about TV, know something that any average TV viewer anywhere in the coutry knows?? Having insulted you, I would ask that you please reconsider your programming and bring back Studio 60.
April 12th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Hey all,
Its too bad some adult series are being put to bed in favour of other series. I guess intelligent well written funny shows have no place in television.
Bryce
April 3rd, 2007 at 9:52 am
Im sad to see Studio 60 go off the air. The writing and cast were brilliant.It was refreshing to watch a primetime program that catered to an intelligent and educated audiance. What does that tell you about American viewers? I bet if this show was sold to HBO or Showtime it would do well. I hope that happens soon.
March 25th, 2007 at 4:29 pm
You overeducated and overpaid network executives are obviously a group of retarded chimps. How dare you question whether the show should be on the air or not. How on earth do mathematical ratings come to assess the quality of any art. I wonder what kind of ratings Monet or Renoir or William Butler Yeats get. Maybe we should make their sh*t unavailable to the general public. I’m sure you greedy advertising ******* could find someone to advertise high price watches, Mercedes or Bmws during studio 60. Would someone do their f**king job right? Just when this show gave me a breath of fresh air from reality TV which is the equivalent of watching a hamster run on a hamster wheel you guys have to kill the show. I am usually very polite but do you all have Down Syndrome? By the way I make over 150000 dollars a year I think that is a worthwhile demographic. I drink orange juice and coca cola. I like beer as well, light beer. So don’t advertise the any high calorie beer because i might change the channel and I wouldn’t want you to soil yourself! By the way I went to college with people like you and I thought that when I graduated you would no longer be a pain in my ass. I guess I was wrong. Maybe I am wrong now too. But I hope that I have offended at least some of you in retaliation for how you have offended me by taking my favorite show off the air.