While today’s NBC infront presentation brought good news for fans of struggling shows like Heroes and Parks and Recreation. Those who enjoy Life weren’t so lucky.
Life revolves around detective Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis), a man who served a dozen years for murders that he didn’t commit. He lost all that was dear to him but survives thanks to his studies of Zen philosophy. He eventually rejoins the LAPD but is a very different man. Others in the cast include Sarah Shahi, Adam Arkin, Brent Sexton, Donal Logue, Brooke Langton, Robin Weigert, Jennifer Siebel, Victor Rivers, and Jessy Schram.
The NBC drama debuted in September 2007 to 10.15 million viewers and a 4.1/11 rating/share of the 18-49 demographic. Later episodes sank to a low of 5.72 million and a 2/6. If not for the writers strike, NBC would have cancelled Life after one year. The execs instead decided to give it another try and renewed the series for a second season.
Unfortunately, the next round of episodes didn’t perform any better than the first. NBC needs fewer shows next season because of their Jay Leno experiment but, even if they didn’t, Life wouldn’t be coming back with such poor ratings.
NBC’s co-chair, Ben Silverman, made it official today and confirmed that Life won’t be coming back next season. Thankfully, the last episode of the series gave viewers some closure and answers to ongoing questions. These days, that’s a luxury that few other shows are given.
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Show was great please bring it back.
Please bring it back very good show
Just watched both season’s and not sure what happened but it was great with an awesome story line but didn’t think I would like the guy you choose from the pic on here but Cruz was cool!!!
Good show. Pls bring it back.
I was finishing my MBA when Life was on. Wish I had time to watch it back then. Great show. Please bring it back! Thanks to Netflix I was able to view it.
Too bad, recently seeing on Netflix very good series…the ratings game surely KO,s good programs
Just binge watched both seasons. Shocked that it was cancelled. It was better than anything else currently on tv except perhaps for Ray Donovan.
This just proves great shows are often lost due to viewer rating techniques and a population who watch the “boob(ridiculous non-thinking individual) tube” to be lulled into la la land !!!
29 pages of comments of how well liked this show was. We just found it on Hulu and we’re both sad and astonished it was cancelled and had so little viewership. Bring it back.
What a shame, it was a great series. I would love to see more, the chemistry between Charlie and Dani was great, the season stopped just when we thought Resse was going to show most affection for her partner.
Omg! I loved this series!! Please, please bring this back first detective show that was not full of vulgar expressions, and swear words. So good!! Of course good guys finish last. Got to ha vulgarity to make it these days. Crews and Reese were great. All was great!!!
This was a really good show and I was really surprised it did not get picked up. I think the things that hurt it the most was having a poor time slot and the relationship between Reese and the “Captain” , we were all looking for the relationship of Reese and Crews to go somewhere.
The TV series “Life” is a really good show. The writing was excellent and the stores in the show are suspenseful. . . Really good. Now that ALL the actors are doing well on other shows and movies. Would the writer and actors all return to do season 3 and 4. . Bring it back. Love all the characters.
So ticked; yet again another show that is beyond COOL!!!! Found it on Netflix like everyone else. Do the “high-ups” not understand it’s us lil ppl who help w/these shows….we actually LIKE & ENJOY them.
I like the show and it was very entertaining to me. It reminds me of the famous Sherlock Holmes detective show except this show has the modern touch to it. His side kick is not the famous Doctor Watson but an inmate buddy from prison who’s good in finance. With a flare of solving cases as well, an his female partner has have the wits of what Doctor Watson was like towards Sherlock. Overall, I liked the show and it would be nice if the writers could create more plots which could be extremely strong and exciting. Blow our minds… Read more »