It’s been a rocky road for NBC’s 100 Questions and now the journey is over. The sitcom has been cancelled after one season and six episodes.
100 Questions follows Charlotte Payne (Sophie Winkleman), a young woman who’s looking for love. She goes to a dating service and answers 100 questions as posed by a frustrated consultant named Andrew (Michael Benjamin Washington). While trying to figure out what she’s looking for in a mate, she recounts relationship stories that include friends Leslie (Smith Cho), Jill (Collette Wolfe), Mike (Christopher Moynihan), and Wayne (David Walton).
Originally titled 100 Questions for Charlotte Payne, the pilot was directed by Emmy Award-winning director James Burrows. NBC ordered it to series but then recast several characters and director Alex Hardcastle took over. After six installments were produced, the network cut the episode order and shut down production. Then, the show’s premiere was delayed until May 27th. Clearly, the network’s enthusiasm had waned a bit.
When 100 Questions finally did debut, most viewers didn’t notice. The show’s premiere episode attracted horrible numbers — just a 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.48 million viewers. The numbers got even worse as the weeks progressed. The network kept the show on the schedule and let all six episodes air. There won’t be any more though.
To no surprise, 100 Questions has been cancelled and won’t be back for a second season, as reported by both Futon Critic and MediaWeek.
Though NBC declined to comment, Moynihan, the show’s creator and a co-star, has already moved on. He recently signed a deal to write and executive produce two new projects for ABC Studios. He’s also expected to have a part in front of the camera as well.
What do you think? Are you sorry that 100 Questions won’t be back? How would you have wrapped up Charlotte’s quest? Why do you think the series didn’t succeed?
Image courtesy NBC.
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I really enjoyed this show. Looked forward to it every week. Very disappointed. I refuse to watch any more “staged” reality shows.
I’m so mad! I LOVED this show so much! I always watched it on OnDemand & I looked forward to it every week! Now That I know it’s cancled I’m really angry. Ugh! Why?? Bring it back please! Give it another chance.
I actually googled today to see if it had been cancelled. I think it was on a bad night but I was hooked since the 1st episode I watched it ondemand and even again on Hulu a few times.
This show to me seemed like it was How I Met Your Mother from a womans point of view and we didnt have a SET deadline. I mean obviously after the 100 questions that would of been 100 shows…in theory right? We could always have two parters and what not.
I liked the show and found it funny. The cast was very odd and seemed to be trying to hard but it had its moments. The cast to me seemed like it was trying really hard to be diverse and still have the charcters have a natural background history with each other. But it just wasnt working for me.
I hate the way these new shows are shot though. I will take the standard sitcom look over this new camera drama look that sitcoms like Modern Family have…it loses the comedy factor to me.
Awwww….I really liked this new show and am sad to see it’s been cancelled after only six episodes
I too googled today to see if it had been cancelled and am disappointed to learn it has been. Guess it should have been named “6 Questions”…too bad :S
I’m sooooooooooooooooooo upset!!!!!!!! That was my favorite show.
I was pretty upset about the show being canceled. I didn’t get to watch the last episode because I’ve been busy and now I can’t find it anywhere. This was becoming one of my favorite shows. I’ve actually never followed a show every week, but this one I did. Big disappointment…
CastTV or Hulu has all the episodes if you want to watch them.
I’m super mad that this show got cancelled, it was really good.
I hate how networks don’t even give shows a chance anymore. Most people don’t even check out new shows anymore because of how many times networks have cancelled ones they’ve like too early.
I think that NBC pushing back the start date of 100 Questions, replacing most of the cast early and then cutting the episode order from 13 to 6 before it even premiered is probably why it didn’t have good ratings in the first place–since if the network’s not expressing support, and is showing signs that they’re gonna cancel it before it blossoms, why would anyone bother getting into it?
In my opinion, I think it was a mistake for them to cancel this one; we don’t even have very many good comedies on TV anymore, and I thought this one was hilarious and that the cast was great.
Just like NBC to cancel a show that good for a few laughs. Don’t forget peoples of good old USA, when your ilustrious networks cancel good viewing such as 100 Questions, they not only upset you, but us in other countries who are starved of decent programs.
Typical though. Will probably make room for more “reality” drivel.
I really liked this show and then it was gone!
How many episodes were made?
I think I saw four.
There were six
Reading these comments has left me with the same question I had when I watched this show – is this for real?! I was dumbfounded when I first saw this show, convinced it was a parody and that no one could make a conscious decision to put this show on the air. The characters vacillated between bland and annoying, while the jokes (or really the attempts at jokes) were overly telegraphed, extremely hackneyed, and devoid of humor, a problem that was only exacerbated by the ridiculously awkward and always ill-timed laugh track.
I agree with some of the other comments – I didn’t know it existed until I ran across it on On Demand. I also loved the writing and thought it could have done better if more publicized. Sick of the stupid ‘reality’ shows.
I really liked this show and have been wondering why it hadn’t been on the last few weeks. tonight i finally did a search on it only to find out that it had been cancelled. very disappointed, thanks for getting rid of a good show when there are plenty of shit shows out there that you could get rid of instead.
I kept waiting for my Hulu notification to tell me more shows were coming and when they did not, I, too, searched for if it was canceled.
I really enjoyed the show and looked forward to it each week. Sorry to see it go so early.
It’s a shame this show is gone. I enjoyed every episode, and I downloaded them to my Apple TV from the iTunes store so I could watch them again. The show got no publicity ( I found it by accident ) and that’s too bad. If NBC had handled it properly, “100 Questions” could have blossomed into a hit that would have been on for years and then gone into syndication. The networks just don’t promote good comedies and give them a chance to find an audience any more.
WHY!!! BRING IT BACK!!! i start to get into shows and you idiots cancel them,
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