The FOX network has decided not to order additional episodes of Lie to Me. Production will be halted next month, leaving the season total at 13 installments. Is the show essentially cancelled?
While a move like this is never a positive sign, it doesn’t necessarily mean that Lie to Me is finished. FOX has been using the series as a utility player and could potentially order more episodes at a later date for a summer run.
However, Lie to Me’s ratings haven’t exactly been stellar. The seven episodes that have aired thus far this season have averaged just a 1.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 5.42 million viewers. It’s consistently ranked either third or fourth in its Monday night timeslot, losing a significant amount of the lead-in audience from House. In the demo, it’s the ninth most-watched program on the network, ranking just below struggling Fringe.
It probably doesn’t help that executive producer Shawn Ryan left to run his own show, The Chicago Code, which is set to debut on FOX in January.
Original episodes of Lie to Me return next month and are set to finish airing by January 31st. The decision to either renew or cancel the series will likely come down to how confident the FOX execs are in what they have in the pipeline.
What do you think? Will Lie to Me be cancelled or will the network order more episodes? What would you do?
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PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL THE SHOW!!
It’s my favorite show on TV and I watch it every week… It’s great AND I actually learn while I watch. Much better than other shows. Maybe just change the timeslot or day??
Best show on TV.
I agree was better season 1. But season 2 is still the best show on tv.
The show is too smart,
so it has to go right ?
go snookie : /
please don’t cancel this show! it’s worth keeping!!! PLEASE DON’T 😉
can we get a re-run of all episodes as i was just starting to watch this then its taken off air just my luck
I don’t care if other people don’t like this show. I LOVE this show!!!! 🙂 And I don’t want it to stop playing! Lie to Me is seriouslly like my favorite TV show, I don’t watch any other show besides for lie to Me.
I no longer care whether it stays or goes. I loved the first season and thought it was one of the most captivating series ever aired. I could hardly wait for the next episode! But now that it’s gotton away from it’s original focus and can’t decide what kind of show it wants to be, I’ve lost interest. ‘Lie To Me’ began with a unique premise and definitive style. The basic premise is still there but it’s been buried very deeply under the new fluff and the individual style is gone completely. Car chases, fires, explosions, shootouts, etc., it’s become… Read more »
I don’t even watch tv…..except for “Lie to Me’. Seriously. It’s THE only show to watch. I will be devastated if it is cancelled.
One of the best shows on TV. Of course they will cancel it. If a show is smart and well written these days (Rubicon, Life, Pushing Daisies, even Lonestar… which I thought was the best new show).
I remember Pushing Daisies!
Good show…
i don’t understand why some good shows like”lie to me” are just canceled out of nowhere when some of these crappy competion shows remain.. I looked forward to every monday because this has been my favorite show since the first episode.. Each week i am excited to see where lightman and foster’s relationship goes… Because there is something brewing… I really hope someone considers our comments to keep a quality series on air.. Thank you.
I will really be bummed if they cancel this show … My wife and I like and watch it all the time … lots of interesting science can be learned from this show. This show brings back memories of the time my boss was jumping on a client at the place [Sober Living house for CDC inmates on parole] I use to work at … he told him … with me in the room … “I can tell when someone is lying”. After watching LTM … I understand what my boss was doing … just like the episode when Lightman… Read more »
I love This show!
I think the direction of the show tanked this season. I have been a faithful fan and still felt that what I thought I knew about the characters was sacrificed to create more incredible storylines. The FBI agent gone; Zoe gone; women throwing themselves at Lightman; the disjointed storylines, and finally, Lightman becoming less intelligent and more instinctive, has wrung the goodness from the story. The acting was never in question. I simply don’t believe the show was able to endear this new Lightman to the fans. Anyway, network TV has lost a house of viewers. We have had it… Read more »
please do not cancel this show fox!!!!! it is facinating!!!!!! tim roth is amazing!!!!!!!
I agree! I love this show!!!
Its a brilliant programme. I agree with Lightman becoming a lot more dislikable but Tim Roth is amazing…if they incorporated a few more of the charactors such as Foster and Loker into there own..plus put it in a good time slot it would be brilliant… here in england 10 at night on sky one isnt brilliant…. 9 is better or 8 when the entire country is watching 🙂 i really hope they dont cancel it because other than being a bit of fun its quite inteligable and a good advertisement for a different type of science and language..i cant wait… Read more »
PLEASE Fox DO NOT cancel this show!! Change days, or time slots
anything to give this AMAZING show a chance to survive. I am so sick
of the same old doctor shows and cop shows thats been on for years. This
one is educational, entertaining, and the best cast on TV at this time!!!