The New Adventures of Old Christine: CBS Sitcom May Find New Home
The New Adventures of Old Christine is the first show to break the so-called “Seinfeld curse.” The Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom debuted on March 13, 2006 and found a home on CBS following extremely popular Two and a Half Men, matching or exceeding Men’s ratings. It averaged 12.5 million viewers for the season.
Christine was renewed for a second year and performed very well earlier this season in the same timeslot. Christine went on hiatus in January to make room for the debut of Rules of Engagement which performed even better in the post-Men slot. Christine returned on March 12th at 8:30pm, once The Class finished its freshman season.
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Without the benefit of the Men lead-in, Christine’s ratings have been far more modest. Its return was down 35% from its last post-Men airing in January and viewership has subsequently sunk even lower. Its March numbers have been more in line with those of How I Met Your Mother and The Class, two shows whose future is in jeopardy. All of a sudden, The New Adventures of Old Christine’s future on CBS doesn’t seem quite so secure. Well, how about another network?
In speaking about Christine’s uncertain fate, TV Guide’s Michael Ausiello indicated that ratings challenged NBC is interested in picking up the series should CBS drop it. A show switching networks isn’t a common occurrence but this one would certainly make sense for the peacock network.
This possibility could actually force CBS to renew it, if for no other reason than to keep it out of the hands of the competition. We’ll likely have to wait to find out what happens. It’s likely CBS won’t announce their decision until the network upfronts in mid-May. Stay tuned! 
June 11th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Please cancel this show!!! Christine cant find a way to suck more, so she began imitating Fran Drescher, please cancel her show before it really drags everybody to Drescher’s hell.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Please bring back Christine! I just bought the entire 1st season on dvd because I miss the show! As a single mom, trying to make it in this world, Christine is like “my girl”. She makes it “ok” to go through all the stuff we go through in life and even laugh about it. It was really great therapy for me and I’m sure all my single mom’s out there will agree!!
April 30th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
What the heck are you doing? You have got to be kidding me! Christine was the only reason to look forward to Monday. You can put it on any night of the week and that week would be my favorite! I need the laughter. No one makes me laugh like these characters. The writers are incredibly funny and the actors all carry it out so well. You can’t be stupid enough to let this go! Can you?
March 11th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
soy chilena …that means i’m chilean and i cannot believe that christine is being cancelled, i watched the show in Chile and it is great, besides i need to know what will happen with her and the hot teacher!!! please bring back christine!!!!!
January 3rd, 2008 at 10:41 am
This was a great show. I can’t stand Big Bang or 2/12 men.
November 26th, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Guess the fact that I am searching for a schedule for this show is proof enough of my interest in it…cannot believe CBS has even “considered” yanking such a great comedy. I do think Big Bang is intelligently funny, but loved Christine!
November 26th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Please bring the show back. Christine is one the funniest shows I have seen in a long time. I dont care what channel it is on, I just want it back on.
Thank You
November 20th, 2007 at 8:55 am
The only good thing about Rules of Engagement is Patrick Warburton. He is the only one worth watching on this show but again, this is yet another immoral show that is bashing marriage and nothing but sex and vulgarity. Bring back Christine! This was a good show!! If CBS doesn’t want it let another station pick it up. If these stations would quit moving shows around where people can’t find them or know it’s changed maybe their ratings wouldn’t drop. Ever think about the fact that people miss it because they don’t know it changed? The ones who just tune in to a couple shows a week don’t watch TV enough to see the warnings that it’s moving and sometimes there aren’t any warnings, it just changes, therefore, resulting in people not watching it because they DON’T KNOW! Not because they stopped watching.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Please bring Christine back. I look forward to Monday nights when all of the sitcoms are on. They are all great and I really wish they would drop some of the reality T.V and keep these shows on. Another disappointment for me was The Class being cancelled(that show was hilarous) Put these shows back on and stay away from the reality shows.
November 16th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Sure, just when Christine and Blair Underwood’s character were finally going to be able to get together - you leave us hanging. Very good show - I also never cared much for Julia, but have come to enjoy her very much due to this show. Also enjoy the other characters. Especially Blair - he’s just so yummy
November 13th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
We keep watching on Mondays for the return of Old Christine. We change channels after 2-1/2 men now that she is no longer on. Please bring her back!
November 13th, 2007 at 11:00 am
I can’t believe they would actually think of cancelling this show! It is by far one of the funniest shows on the air, just as funny if not funnier than The Office (which I also love!) KEEP IT ON THE AIR!
November 12th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
The show is brilliant — keep it on somewhere!!!!!!!
November 11th, 2007 at 12:09 am
I love this show. It always made me laugh out loud. It’s awesome! Please keep it!
November 8th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
please bring christine back. it was a great show. she won the emmy, doesn’t that matter?
monday nights arent the same. 2 1/2 men is funny, but the language should be cleaned up a bit.
November 7th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Please put Christine back on, CBS! What were you thinking–it’s the best comedy on the air! Monday night TV isn’t the same now that I’m only interested in watching Men and nothing afterwards–I don’t think Engagement and Big Bang are entertaining at all. I actually didn’t even turn my TV on this past Monday– what’s the point w/o Christine?