After NBC’s worst season, it’s no surprise that the peacock network is shaking up their 2007-08 schedule. There’s also little surprise about which shows didn’t survive. Here’s what won’t be returning next season:
Andy Barker, P.I. – The Andy Richter comedy series ran for six episodes to poor ratings. NBC put the last two on Saturday night and it seemed like the sitcom was doomed before it began.
The Black Donnellys – The Paul Haggis series was pulled after six episodes and the remaining episodes have been made available on NBC’s site and iTunes.
Crossing Jordan – After six seasons on the air, Jordan has solved her last case. The series finale airs on Wednesday, May 16, 2007.
Grease: You’re The One That I Want – The ratings were a disappointment and seriously, how could they do another season anyway — fire the first years’ winners to make room for the second’s?
Identity – The Penn Jillette-hosted game show about contestants identifying strangers’ hobbies or occupations is finished after 12 episodes.
Raines – The quirky Jeff Goldblum detective show ran all seven episodes to poor ratings. It won’t be back.
The Real Wedding Crashers – The reality series that replaced Donnellys was pulled from the schedule after three episodes. NBC may air the remaining episodes during the summer.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip – The much-hyped Aaron Sorkin series didn’t live up to expectations. It will return on May 24th and hopefully NBC will air all six of the remaining episodes. A DVD release is likely.
Thank God You’re Here – The improv sketch show’s ratings were nothing to smile about so it’s been cancelled after seven episodes.
Twenty Good Years – This sitcom starred series veterans John Lithgow and Jeffrey Tambor, was pulled from the network schedule after just four episodes. It’s doubtful that the remaining episodes will air.
Returning in the fall are: 30 Rock, The Biggest Loser, Dateline, Deal or No Deal, ER, Friday Night Lights (moved to Fridays at 10pm), Heroes, Las Vegas, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, My Name is Earl, The Office, and Scrubs. Law & Order and Medium (moved to Sunday nights) will return mid-season (January 2008) or earlier.
The Apprentice was left off the Fall schedule but NBC and creator Mark Burnett are still in talks of bringing back the series in some form. Mark Burnett previously pledged to find another home for the reality show if NBC drops it.
The Friday night 8pm timeslot has been designated as “game night” and will consist of rotating reality or games shows. The Bob Saget-hosted series 1 vs. 100 will air for eight weeks initially. 
Great, now I’ll never see the Raines/Goren quirky cop crossover I was holding out for 🙂 Raines was the only new show to come out in the last 4 years that I actually watched more than once. That tells you something. The only stuff I’ll see now are programs I’ve been watching since the 90’s, because every time I get attached to a new show, it gets cancelled or “shaken up!” and changed all to hell. >< They gave up on Criminal Intent when SVU took off in the ratings…fine. It’s a L&O, it’ll be ok. They gave up on… Read more »
NBC is totaly non sense….
Studio 60 is the best show of this year… im so glad when i see de commercial on tv about the new serie… so i thing… next year i have one more good show to wait for new episodes…
NBC dont care about us… its a shame… HBO is much better.
I WANT STUDIO 60 BACK!!!! NBC have to do hair cut and not decided what is a good serie.
Real Wedding Crashers was a 6 episode series. Just air the final 3. What’s the big deal?
Wish you’d reconsider about cancelling Raines. It was the only “crime drama” we could have on with kids, since it didn’t dwell on the gore, evil, or general sensationalism.
Just one more reason not to watch NBC. We loved Raines. Finally a show you had to pay attention to and be engrossed in. Working from home the TV is on all day and night. Hours on NBC per week will now be 3, just enough to watch Heroes, Earl, Scrubs and Las Vegas.
I think NBC should just become the 24 hour “Deal or No Deal” channel.
What I want to know is…WHY IS ER STILL ON? Let it die already. It ran it’s course by the time Mark Green died, please people.
BRING BACK STUDIO 60!!!!!!!! At least it was different…no cops, no sadistic killers, no bad lawyers…can network executives not approve any show that is not either filled with violence or reality tv morons?
I am so shocked at the total disregard NBC has for it’s viewers! If they would visit the message boards on their “own” Crossing Jordan website, they would see the impact this cancellation is having. Boycotts, protests, petitions, phone calls, letters, people contacting advertisers and news reporting media to name a few of the actions being taken by us; the very angry CJ viewers. Here is what just “one” journalist had to say: (This is not a word for word quote. I left out the personal content between she and the person who posted this on the CJ message board.)… Read more »
I am sorry to see a unique show like Raines being cancelled when the mindless dribble called entertainment continues.
I thoroughly enjoyed the premier of Raines. Jeff G. has a dry wit and excellent acting skill. Crossing Jordan crossed the line sometimes, but she was dependable. Studio 60 almost seemed to sense their sinking and have become episodes of whining and immobility.
I’m sorely disappointed with
NBC.
Why would an intelligent network wish to compete in a child market when these children are fast becoming the minority?
Raines was a pleasure. Enough with the L&O, and the CSI copies, too. How do they expect to sell DVD’s of the cancelled shows if there weren’t enough people watching to keep ratings high enough to renew the show? Or do they think there’s more money in the DVD sales? Get serious. Why would I spend $30 or so for a show that was cancelled? They never gave me a chance to Love Raines, only to like him a lot. Silly them. HBO had the sense to keep The Wire on in spite of poor ratings. Now there’s a great… Read more »
NBC is unfortunetly lost in a pool of stupidity. We the viewer are sick of reality shows. The only reality shows i want to watch are WWE and TNA wrestling. I don’t want no crap about games.
You take off quality for shows that are high for a year or two then die by the wayside. WAKE UP NBC. Crossing Jordan, Raines, Studio 60. Donnelly’s, Kidnapped and even Thank God You’re here were good shows. But you would rather play reality bingo.
I can believe they cancelled The Black Donnellys.THAT WAS MY FAVORITE SHOW!!!! For once i had some thing to look forward to on Mondays.NBC is making a big mistakes. I couldn’t wait to see what trouble Jimmy got into, and how Tommy got out of it.It was the best show on NBC!!!!PUT IT BACK ON!!!!!And dont cancelled Medium eather!!!
Why the hell are they taking off good shows like Crossing Jordan, Studio 60 and Raines and keeping a bunch of Law and Order crap. I can see CSI stuff staying on CBS, these are good shows. But, taking off good shows to keep mediocre L&O crap just to be like CSI is insane. Be different than CBS and keep the the good shows instead. So what if they don’t have the same name. If NBC needs to be like CBS then get rid of Law and Order and make “Crossing Jordan”, “Crossing Raines” and “crossing Studio 60”.
Studio 60 and Raines were good It’s too bad you A-holes at NBC seem to have no idea what’s good and what’s bad. Ratings are the wrong thing to base cancellations on. Once you figure that out maybe you’ll get your network back on track. We the viewers are sick of investing our time in these shows you put on only to have them taken away from us. Take a lesson from HBO . Quality sells. You just need a little patience and some balls to stick it out. Personally I won’t be watching your network anymore. You’ve screwed me… Read more »
I would like to say I really enjoyed RAINES I hate that it got cancelled. I hope you guys rethink that decision…
PLEASE BRING BACK RAINES!!!!