NBC recently debuted a new sitcom on Thursday nights called 100 Questions. Will this new TV show last past the summer season and become a staple of the network’s Thursday line-up?
100 Questions revolves around Charlotte Payne (Sophie Winkleman), a young woman looking for love. She’s come to a dating service and is answering 100 questions posed by a consultant named Andrew (Michael Benjamin Washington). While trying to figure out what she’s looking for in a mate, she recounts relationship stories and these memories include friends Leslie (Smith Cho), Jill (Collette Wolfe), Mike (Christopher Moynihan), and Wayne (David Walton).
The sitcom debuted on May 27th to a terrible 0.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.48 million viewers. That’s one of the worst premieres in NBC’s history. In week two, the demo bumped up a little (a 0.9 rating) but total viewership dropped (2.22 million). Truly horrible numbers for original programming.
The ratings for 100 Questions can’t come as much of a surprise to NBC execs as they seem to have lost faith in the series months ago. NBC originally ordered 13 episodes but they shut down production after only six were completed. The sitcom was planned to be a mid-season replacement series but was pushed into summer, a time when networks typically air repeats and burn off extra programming.
Based on the ratings, there’s no way that 100 Questions will be back for a second season. It’s also highly likely that NBC will pull the show before all six installments have aired. After all, the network is getting better ratings from repeats of its other comedies.
But, what do you think? Do you like 100 Questions? Cancel or keep it?
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Easily the worst show of 2010, nothing smart or fresh about it. NBC needs to continue with the smart comedies they have and let CBS have this mindless crap.
I will be watching the third episode on Hulu and I have been LOLing so hard since the Pilot. I say keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppppp it!!!!!!!!!!
the laugh track is unnecessary but characters are well defined and situations
clever, it should be given time to build an audience
Haters all…..the show is witty and fun. Very “Friends” like. The lead actress is gorgeous, affable and a breath of fresh air. It’s well written and well directed. Granted the laugh track can be annoying, but after a while you forget its there. Other than that the acting is fine and the overall the concept is clever. You wanna see bad – go to TBS and watch Tyler Perry’s crap. Now THAT’s awful.
i love this show! it does have that ‘friends’ feeling to it. i stumbled onto the show when there was nothing else to watch and i wish it was advertised more!! i really want to see how it unfolds as the episodes continue to air but since its cut short to 6 episodes i guess i’ll never know…i wish nbc would keep it!!!
Worst show I have ever seen, period. The acting was atrocious, the characters annoying and the laugh track cringe inducing.
How did this crapfest ever get greenlit?
Crapola
cancel it, it is horrid, did they forget that laugh tracks went out in the 90’s? I would rather watch repeats of MASH before another episode of this. The ratings are bad for a reason, because the show sucks. The other shows that are on before and after (office and community) have better ratings and they are re-runs! The sooner it is pulled the better.
The script’s got some really good moments BUT 1. the acting is terrible and forced (i felt like i was watching a skit performed by amateur high school actors) and 2. too much laugh track.
Are the people who say keep it hired by NBC? That was wretched. It feels so trite and contrived it’s painful to watch. Please get rid of this immediately.
Keep it, love the show!!!
It was never advertised until the first night. The cast is great, the writing is witty and fresh, and it pleasantly entertaining. Seinfeld is gone, Friends is gone, Sex and the City is gone… Am I forced to watch another stupid reality show due to lack of insight? Keep this one!
Witty and fresh? What episode could that have possibly been?
The pilot was a bit rough, but overall I’m enjoying this series. I hate how they’ll base the ratings on the summer audience. Of course people aren’t watching, it premiered near a holiday and, well, it’s the summer. Everyone is out enjoying the weather. In any event, I think CBS should have picked this one up instead, might have had a better chance.
I thought this was a great new sitcom…similar to “Friends”, but with only five main characters. I was thoroughly entertained the whole time and thought ,” Yeah! A great new show to watch!” When will network executives realize that it takes TIME to build up a fan base for a new show, for viewers to start to care about the characters, and start to make it a routine of their week to watch a given show? And I don’t recall this show being advertised at all ! I think I just happened to stumble on it while channel surfing and… Read more »
Cancel. I can’t get past the laugh track. Who decided the show should air with a laugh track? I can see if a show is filmed before a studio audience to hear the laughs, but does any show use a canned laugh track anymore?