At today’s Television Critics Association presentation in Beverly Hills, FX’s president surprised many by announcing that the popular Nip/Tuck series had been cancelled. On the positive side, there are still quite a few new episodes on the way.
Nip/Tuck premiered back on July 22, 2003 and tells the story of two plastic surgeons, Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon). The series mixes drama with satire and irreverent humor as the doctors take on often strange cases. Nip/Tuck was initially set in Miami, Florida but the characters moved to Los Angeles at the start of the current season, the show’s fifth. The series was recently praised by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for its ongoing use of homosexual characters.
Today, FX president/GM John Landgraf told reporters that the network had ordered 19 episodes for the drama’s sixth, and final, season. That order’s a few less than a traditional TV season but it will bring the series’ installment total to 100 episodes. Series creator Ryan Murphy will stay on board until the end as the showrunner.
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When asked about the cancellation, Landgraf noted that he felt it was time and doubted that any FX show would surpass 100 episodes. He said, “If you tried to do 150 episodes of The Sopranos, you would begin to diminish the quality of those shows. The David Chases (The Sopranos) and Shawn Ryans (The Shield), they’re taking on social commentary and grand sweeping questions. If we want to go after that brass ring, we have to accept they have limited shelf life.”
Though the move may be a disappointment to devoted fans of the plastic surgeon series, casual fans won’t realize the show has been axed for some time. There are actually 27 new episodes yet to come. Only 14 episodes of the fifth season have aired thus far with the remaining eight scheduled to begin airing in January. The sixth season is expected to begin running in 2010 and not finish airing until early 2011. Stay tuned! 
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Ihave watched this show since it first went on the air …….I have never missed an episode or season of this show ……I am very dissapointed at the thought of it being cancelled…it is a show that I shared with my older brother when he became terminally ill and his only means of entertainment was television….I do hope it is reconsidered…..
Cancelling because of age discrimination? They don’t want to have a show with two aging characters? Many episodes have shown this as it is focused on, Sean getting botox-Christian examining his body as it has changed with age: Isn’t it more likely that Surgeons may have enough confidence in themselves that this wouldn’t be an issue.
Unlike the writers/producers or whoever believes that the audience does not want to view older main characters. Do they realize that much more Mature audiences savor this show and watch it in greater numbers; and to this Mature generation, it will become our ‘Matock’ ‘Murder She Wrote” Cult Classic. Let Sean and Christian age. In reality, most plastic surgeons offering services don’t look great themselves. Sean and Christian can get wrinkles, grey hair, throw their glasses on: The audience won’t mind. Think of the classic shows ” Marcus Welby, MD “”Quincy”"Murder She Wrote” “Golden Girls” “Diagnosis Murder”.The older generation grew up watching main characters being older and heroic-Our Superman of the older era was a grown up- not a teenager. Our X-men were men- not teen titans: other example are parents in many show “Leave it to Beaver”; “The Partdridge Family”- mother. It can be done- good writing can make the show attractive and possible and the source of materials should be endless as Sean and Christian are characters older with money- they have the money to travel, jet ski, and pursue many things.
I’m so sad to see this show off the air, I looked forward to every twisted, sick, wrong, exciting episode. I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!! I wish it could go on and on, I’ll miss Sean and Christian!!
I just watched what was announced as the “series finale.” Is it over? Will it come back? I have grown to love this show!
IM GONNA KILL MYSELF NOW THAT NIPTUCK ENDED. I HATE MY LIFE. I WAS OBSESSED WITH NIPTUCK. I HAVE NIPTUCK TSHIRTS A NIPTUCK LICENSE PLATE AND I MADE A NIPTUCK BROCH. IM FRICKEN PEEEVED.
im not really gonnna kill myself, but im sooo disapointed.
I hated the fact that the show was ending. This past season, they wrote it as if they no longer cared what happened…so much left on the table: Like how did Shawn meet his ‘black widow’ wife?? THAT could have been a whole season…2) Why did they just have LIZ and Christian Divorce over the summer break (when he found out he did not have cancer anymore)? They could have let the changes of their relationship develop over the season before the divorce!!!
3) Matt marrying that girl and was going to go away ‘forever’, but then they have AVA come back and he just LEAVES the girl at the alter? They could have had a season of him turning back to his old ways and having this girl dump him at the end!!
4) AVA showing up at the end?? what??
Is age discrimination why they canceled it? Interesting, the finale had all their brood. All probable will be represented as hip new plastic surgeons, riding up on Harleys, in a future series; where they put too much makeup, fluffy hairstyles to make very young actors look older, like in many other series , smooth faces and flat stomachs all around and one will have to try to remember the story line for each because there aren’t many differences in the characters visually.
Wow, this show really brought me quite a way, I remember the first time I saw this show, My Ex-Gf and I used to watch this show all the time and now that I have seen the end of Niptuck. Never missed an episode, show existed all throughout college and work and most of my other life experiences. Heck, I even cancelled time to hang out with friends just so I can stay and watch the expected show premier, lol. But… Gonna miss you Niptuck, wish it could go on and on, but all things to come to an end I suppose
I hated the series finale. I am 23 years old and would have kept on watching, I don’t care that the main characters are aging. Everyone ages! They could have done so much more, like have Matt marry Ramona and maybe Kimber still be alive. They could have at least made it a happier ending. FX and Ryan Murphy made a mistake. Is it possible they read all the comments and make a comeback? I would watch and am certain they would have a lot of viewers.
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