NBC has decided to cancel its long-running midseason staple, Medium, after five seasons on the air. Do you think Allison DuBois saw it coming?
Medium revolves a wife, mother, and psychic (Patricia Arquette) who uses her abilities to help the local police force. The show also features Miguel Sandoval, Maria Lark, Jake Weber, Sofia Vassilieva, David Cubitt, Miranda Carabello, Tina DiJoseph, John Prosky and Kendahl King.
The drama has been longtime midseason player for the peacock network, starting off in January 2005. Season one averaged almost 14 million viewers. Later seasons have attracted fewer people but the show has remained a good utility player for NBC. This season, the series built on the rapidly declining lead-in audience of Heroes.
But ultimately, the renewal decision came down to dollars and cents. NBC wanted financial cutbacks and a limited episode order. As a result, talks with the show’s studio, CBS TV Studios, stalled last week and NBC has passed on season six.
There is a strong possibility that Medium could move to CBS next season. The show’s already in syndication and the studio would reap big benefits by producing new episodes.
One possible scenario has Medium being placed on CBS’ Friday night schedule, sandwiched between compatible Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs. What do you think of that schedule?
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Well it seems NBC is once again thinking about money more than anything. Medium is a good quality show that I have recently gotten into, and now they’re canceling it? Looks like I got into the show a bit too late… Replacing all 10pm shows with Jay Leno looks like a bad move, but I guess since nowadays everyone wants to save money, NBC is trying to cut production costs and stuff, so it may be good for NBC, but they are certainly canceling the wrong show. If it does move to CBS, that would be totally awesome. It would… Read more »
MEDIUM
MEDIUM
MEDIUM!!!!!!!
I HATE NBC FOR CANCELLING MY FAV. SHOW
CBS SHOULD PICK THE SHOW UP. I WISH I WISH
plus i think NBC new schedule will fail.
heroes on MONDAY 8pm, goodluck, used to be a good show, not anymore
chuck on MONDAY 8pm (midseason) lets be honest, chuck is a good show, but in terms of ratings chuck will fail in that timeslot
I LOVE Medium! NBC you suck! Who in there right mind would rather watch Jay Leno over Medium?!?!?!?
Medium on Friday Night on CBS would be even better! Awesome show; I have watched it from the beginning. I hope it goes to CBS
My two favorite shows are Lost and Medium. No show has the outstanding plot twists and excellent writing (and characters!) that Medium has. I really hope CBS picks it up!
I’d rather watch Medium than Jay Leno! Bad form NBC! You suck!!!!
I agree, Jay Leno, you are on your own, I won’t watch you as the tv reality and the live show. I want my Medium back.
Nikki Fink is reporting that CBS scooped up Medium already to bookend it with Ghost Whisperer for Friday nights.
Medium will be missed if it is not back on…hopefully CBS will pick it up!
@robycop3: Actually, NBC doesn’t own the show so the network doesn’t receive profits from syndication or DVD sales. The network essentially rents the new episodes for limited amount of time.
Seems NBC is taking lessons from the CW in cancelling a show that has decent ratings & a good following from the desired age 18-49 demo. (The CW, in one of their more-brilliant moves, dropped their most-viewed show, “Smackdown”. That move ranks up there with Boston’s trade of Babe Ruth !) I think some other net might pick it up if possible.
Speaking of $$$s, I reckon NBC isn’t interested in the big sybdication/DVD money this show should bring.
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Medium was the ONLY NBC primetime show I watched and I never missed an episode – even the reruns. They must be out of their minds to cancel it. Please CBS grab this jewel! Medium between Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs would be an awesome Friday night!
Is NBC out of their mind!?
They get rid of Medium but keep the ever awful Heroes!
Medium is the most consistent show on NBC.
I don’t think that there’s ever been a bad, boring or less than stellar episode of this show.
I hope CBS picks it up because my channel will be changing over to watch.
PS: NO ONE IS GOING TO WATCH JAY LENO AT 10PM!
WE DON’T CARE!
After canceling KR and now medium and soon Heroes? There will be no point in even watching NBC. Nice move NBC