In its pursuit to find shows with better ratings, CBS has cancelled Friends with Better Lives, the new Monday night sitcom.
Friends with Better Lives follows the lives of six young people who are at various stages of their lives — married, divorced, newly engaged, and single — with each wondering if the others have it better. The cast includes Majandra Delfino, Kevin Connolly, Brooklyn Decker, Rick Donald, Zoe Lister-Jones, and James Van Der Beek.
This new sitcom debuted at the end of March, following the series finale of How I Met Your Mother. Not surprisingly, it drew solid ratings.
Unfortunately, when Friends with Better Lives returned in its regular timeslot a couple weeks later, viewership dropped more than 25%.
The ratings dropped lower after that and the most recent installment hit a series low with a 1.6 rating in the 18-49 demograpjic with 4.92 million viewers. For CBS, that just won’t cut it.
The network ordered 13 episodes of the sitcom and five have aired so far. Two more are still on the schedule so it’s unclear right now if the network will end up releasing the rest.
What do you think? Do you think that CBS should have cancelled Friends with Better Lives or renewed it for a second season instead? Will you keep watching?
Bring it back!!!!!!!!Sooooo funny ,great characters
I loved this show. I do not understand why a really funny show like this gets canned, and other shows like that suck get to stay on the air. Please bring it back!!!
I think it’s funny how we can have 12 competion shows and 50 reality tv shows and 10 crime solving shows but those stay on air but when funny tv shows air they get cancelled no problem. Yeah it might be kinda like friends or Himym but at least give the show a full season. Plus the way Himym ended did piss a lot of people off so to expect high ratings right away was silly.
if you’re going to rip off a sitcom do a better job!! good call to can this poser!!
if you’re going to rip off a sitcom do a better job!! good call to ca this poser!!
Please bringit back!!! Love this show.
We loved the show. I can’t believe they took it off the air. But they can show crap that I couldn’t even begin to watch like under the dome. At least fwbl was about real people and not some syfy crap not everyone likes shows like that.
This show is the best show on CBS. I miss How I Met Your Mother & this actually started to fill that gap. I can’t believe some of the garbage that is on this station now. Very disappointed.
I cannot believe how fast the networks cancel shows these days. Look at Star Trek. It became a phenomenon, as have so many others that the networks thought were losers. The network back in the day chose Lost In Space over Star Trek…oh please! Why not do polls or widen Nielsen ratings to more homes to get the peoples opinions before you abruptly cancel a show? And it is true, less tv is watched during nice weather than cold, that should be taken into consideration. Bring it back when the weather turns cold and see how well it does then.… Read more »
I loved this show!!!! I’ll be CBS kept another boring Vampire or Alien show, because we all know, we sure don’t have enough of them!
OMG, that was the funniest show EVER! How do you rate these shows to determine to cancel them. Everyone I have talked to just laughs so hard about the show. Take off Two Broke Girls or something like that. Those girls can’t act. PLEASE bring Friends with better lives back. We need laughter in our lives. If it has poor ratings why don’t you try running it in the winter like the other shows when people are home. You said it started off really good in March then dropped off, well its was spring and people has alot going on… Read more »
You’re right.the 2 broke girls don’t appear to be good actresses BUT you have to admit the jokes are funny as He!#. I’d keep 2 broke.they cancelled the crazy ones..that was a good call.
I REALLY LIKE THIS SHOW MISSED THE BEGAINING BUT WATCH IT ON DEMAND WAS LOOKING FOR IT SINCE MAY 26 AND JUST NOW SEE WHY I CANT FIND IT… PLEASE BRING IT BACK REALLY LIKE IT
Just another reason for me not to watch CBS. Stupid, stupid, stupid decision!
It was one of my favorite shows. I hope they bring it back.
Please bring it back!!!! It’s so funny! The only show that I’ve been looking forward to seeing in years!!