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?
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100 questions was funny & as usual as soon as you start getting into a show, they cancel it. The end of the it wasn’t even an ending.
It’s beginning to make you not want to watch anything anymore because you can’t trust whether or not the show is going to last more than 6 episodes and be cancelled.
I was waiting for a new episode to be posted on Hulu yesterday and now I just read that it has been canceled!
Wow.
I totally love this show and it such a shame that NBC canned it. What a shame!
I didn’t know it was on until it was over… Seriously lacked promotion…. But I enjoyed the 6 episodes while they lasted. It kind of grew on me.
u should give the show a chance to be proven worthy good show it is bad publicity and a crappy network that ruined the show move it to cw or something and it will improve drastically
I saw the show on-line. It wasn’t great, but it had potential — if it was given a chance. Develop the characters and put them in funnier situations, we could have had the next “Friends” and “How I Met Your Mother.” The cast was pretty attractive. For some reason, I have the theme song in my head — wait for it — theme song on a show?
i saw this show one time and it was the worst thing i have ever seen in my life. good riddance to bad rubbish.
Oh man…really fun show to watch!!! They hardly gave it a chance to be seen though, before pulling the plug 🙁 Hopefully some other network will be wise enough to pick it up…we can only hope.
Good riddance! That show was the absolute worst – embarassingly un-funny, poorly written, and painful to watch.
As usual the major networks pull shows before they even get started. I really liked this show, very funny and believable. As other posters said, who knew it was even on? I found it by accident.
I’m going to miss this show. The time slot was horrible, I watched this show mostly online and I didn’t know it existed until it was already half over. The characters were starting to really develop past the first episode, the 6th episode was really well done. This show had a lot of potential but it was dead in the water before people had a chance to find out about just how good it was.
Promotion (rather, lack thereof) and that abysmal laugh-track (it wasn’t even a good LT, as far as LT’s go either!!) killed the show.
What did the last episode of 100 Questions atrract?
@Pikachu: 0.7 in the demo and 1.89 million viewers.
I won’t miss it. Most comedies & all reality shows are a waste of air time.
If they had kept the director as well as promoted it a bit, they’d probably be okay. I never once saw a commercial for it; but, Nbc probably can’t afford it.
I love that show! I like it’s so funny! Why do the networks keep doing this to us?