On Tuesday, ABC pre-empted Detroit 1-8-7 with a special edition of 20/20 in which Diane Sawyer interviewed Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s husband about the Tucson shooting. Based on the preliminary ratings for the program, ABC made a good choice. It attracted a 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 6.18 million total viewers. While those aren’t great numbers, they’re a 30% improvement over last week’s episode of Detroit 1-8-7 (1.0 in the demo with 5.05 million).
Next week, the cop drama will be replaced by the annual State of the Union address. Right now, Detroit 1-8-7 is scheduled to return on February 1st but one has to wonder if that will actually happen. ABC has a track record of pre-empting low-rated shows with the intention of bringing them back but it just never happens.
The network has ordered 18 installments of Detroit 1-8-7 and 12 of those have aired so far. It would seem like a waste not to air the remaining six but the same could be said for the leftover seven episodes of The Whole Truth. If ABC can keep coming up with specials that will perform better, we may likely have seen the last of low-rated Detroit 1-8-7.
What do you think? Will Detroit 1-8-7 return to the regular schedule or lost in hiatus and cancelled?
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Detroit 1-8-7 is one of the best shows on TV. I love it it is an awesome series, awesome actors. Yes, it reminds me of my favorite show NYPD. Please don’t cancel it, change its timeslot or whatever. It is against “The Good Wife”
Please keep it, i love it, i love Detroit
Detroit 1-8-7 KILLS!!!!! Greatest show on ABC since NYPD Blue. I agree with DAVE!!! …and Christopher is one hell-of-an ACTOR even after being bumped off by Tony Soprano. Please keep 1-8-7 alive. It’s all Detroit has to offer, after all they cancelled the Lions and the Tigers.
Once again network television (it does’nt matter if it’s ABC, NBC or CBS) considers or actually does cancel an emerging quality television show — i.e., Detroit 1-8-7; while leaving unscathed all of the reality GARBAGE currently infecting network television.
I love this show because of the great actors. I hope it stays on the air. At least show the already recorded 6 episodes that have not yet aired.
can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m getting really tired of investing my time in watching new shows, then finding they are being canceled before they’ve really given the show a chance. Network television is falling off my radar due to this. I’ll go where the shows a least get a good season or two before the station makes a decision to cancel.
Please leave this on, stop getting rid of the good shows!!!
Yes, I want to see it on!
Detroit 187 is the best new show of the 2010-2011 season. Maybe if ABC promoted it better, they would get more viewers. Please do not cancel this show! Or at the very least, air all of the episodes remaining, instead of leaving us hanging.
I Like it!! What should be done is the executives who make the decisions to cancel good shows is to REPLACE them with someone who has good judgment.
This show is GREAT. ABC please don’t be another CBS and get rid of all the great shows.
@ Romona I couldn’t have said it better!!! They’d rather keep stupid non-reality shows on and other CRAP that no one really likes besides some teenagers! Detroit 187 is a very, very good show! The cast is AWESOME, every single one of them and I can’t believe it’s already on the bubble for being canceled! Every show I’ve liked for the past 5+ years has been canceled or is on the brink of being canceled and I’m so sick of it! This kind of B.S. is why I watch CABLE TV more than network television because at least cable has… Read more »
Bite Me, ABC! You do this and I swear every time I will never watch another ABC show and I break my vow. Not any more! You delivered quality shows like Men in Trees and The Unusuals, even Eastwick, which bring low ratings but wonderful quality characters and storylines. We were drawn in and then… gone. You really bite, ABC. So, next time you offer quality I will not be taken in only to have my heart broken again. I am switching to the longer-lasting cable shows where their producers let a storyline run its course.
Thats the bad thing about TV in this day and age. I can remember when shows started off slow, but they kept the shows on so that it could gain more recognition an develop a following. This is an excellent show which is not given a chance because it doesn’t have Snookie and the situation in it. I’m so sick of mindless TV, but my opinion doesn’t matter. I guess another show that I really like will be canceled because I’m not 18. Whats so baffling is that I’m in the age-group demographic who is supposed to be catered to,… Read more »
**** you ABC!!! It is a new and awesome show that just needs a season and a bit to gain an audience. You are giving up on the next NYPD Blue here!!
Of COURSE it’s a good show, no teenagers watch it, so ABC will cancel it. What ELSE is new?