NBC has decided to cancel its long-running midseason staple, Medium, after five seasons on the air. Do you think Allison DuBois saw it coming?
Medium revolves a wife, mother, and psychic (Patricia Arquette) who uses her abilities to help the local police force. The show also features Miguel Sandoval, Maria Lark, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva, David Cubitt, Miranda Carabello, Tina DiJoseph, John Prosky and Kendahl King.
The drama has been longtime midseason player for the peacock network, starting off in January 2005. Season one averaged almost 14 million viewers. Later seasons have attracted fewer people but the show has remained a good utility player for NBC. This season, the series built on the rapidly declining lead-in audience of Heroes.
But ultimately, the renewal decision came down to dollars and cents. NBC wanted financial cutbacks and a limited episode order. As a result, talks with the show’s studio, CBS TV Studios, stalled last week and NBC has passed on season six.
There is a strong possibility that Medium could move to CBS next season. The show’s already in syndication and the studio would reap big benefits by producing new episodes.
One possible scenario has Medium being placed on CBS’ Friday night schedule, sandwiched between compatible Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs. What do you think of that schedule?
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COME ON PLEAE PICK UP THE SHOW. TO OUR FAMILY THIS SHOW WAS LIKE GAME NIGHT. EVERYBODY GOT POPCORN AND SAT DOWN AND WATCHED IT. THE FAMILY TOGETHER, A FAMILY SHOW, WE WILL TRULY MISS IT.
BAD BAD decision! …perhaps they should get viewer opinion before making unwise decisions.
I love Medium it is the best show ever with the best actors and great episodes. I am so glad CBS had the wisdom to buy it. I hope this show continues to run for at least another 5 years. I use to like Ghost Whisper the first two years were good. But too many cast changes and jumps in time and Ultra Secret books with Melinda’s name and it always in super crisis mode. It has become more like a scify soap opera my advice to Jennifer Love Hewitt is get better writers yours make the shows like a scify fantasy, next thing I know you will have real flying witches in your antique store. Come down to real metaphysics and not soap opera scify (Narania) Ghost Whisper, Medium is 10 times better than GH because a lot of it is based on facts and experiences or things that can happen. Patricia Arquette and all the other actors on Medium are NO.1!!!!
Did the new episode pick up from the finale.Wasn’t Allison in the hospital in the finale.What happened?
@Snoopy: The season opener picked up awhile after the finale. Allison had already awoken from her coma with some after effects from the stroke that occurred during her surgery.
NBC had to consult the public first. I never watched that channel, except for the times I watched Medium. I got hooked from the very first episode. I hope CBS is smart enough to keep doing the show and give it the place it deserves.
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