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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I don’t get why any decent shows get canceled and replaced with reality crap and garbage like Prison Break. What a weird country we live in. Medium, Arrested Development, My Name is Earl…. all good shows. What’s the problem? Cool that CBS is going to pick Medium up but the Friday night slot is definitely going to hurt the show. Who sits in and watches TV religiously on a Friday night? Even the old folks occasionally hit the town. Bad slot for a great show. It’s amazing that the Brits get away with stuff like The Mighty Boosh. American audiences… Read more »
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, please don’t cancel Medium – I will alter my
Friday nights to watch it! Never miss this show as it keeps you on edge while at the same time, the family is portrayed as quite normal. I love this show! Even got hubby hooked!
It’s a phenomenal show, far too good to be taken off the air. The storylines are continually fresh, the acting is amazing, the cast are incredible. I would welcome a sixth season.
I have to agree with everyone that NBC is making a terrible mistake to cancel this show, its one of the few shows i watch on NBC, it really kills me to see these stations taking off good shows to put on lame non realistic reality television shows can we say boring?? *YAWN* i think they should be the ones getting the kicks, i really don’t know how people can watch that stuff i get enough reality in life..lol seriously NBC needs to keep medium or CBS should pick it up cause its a great show… i will miss it… Read more »
R E A L L Y bad move on NBC’s part to not continue with Medium. It is my favorite show and before I retired, I would even stay up later than my norm to watch it because it was so great. BRING IT BACK ON PLEASE!!!!
CBS needs to pick up Medium. NBC’s move to more reality shows and Jay Leno at 9:00 pm is crazy. They’re about to loose a lot of viewers!
CBS once again will become the network of choice. NBC is making some terrible programming moves.
@Linda: The fifth season finale was the second part of of a two-parter. It also ended in a cliffhanger. You can find it on hulu.com.
I’m with everyone else on NBC canceling Medium – a really stupid move. Other than the law & order shows, medium & extreme makeover home edition (ty pennington is sooo hot) – that’s the extent of my nbc shows I watch. I will gladly watch ghost whisperer, medium & humbers on cbs friday nights!
Was the season finale of Medium cancelled or did I somehow miss it?
Please don’t cancel Medium – a really excellent show never miss it
I can’t believe that this fantastic series has been canceled. I look forward to this every week. I love the characters and have watched since the very the beginning. When I found out that there was a real Allison Dubois it made the program even more intriguing. I agree with others this is a show that has great family values and wonderful story lines. Darn it anyway…….DON’T LET THIS SERIES GO.
I just love this show, as well as the actors in it. I just pray that someone will pick up the show for it to continue on for a while. I know that every show has its end time, but i think medium has a few years left!
This is an excellent show. I never miss an episode. Numbers is another of my favorites and it would make a great Friday night line up. I hope CBS has more brains than NBC. I still can’t believe they cancelled Studio 60.
I can’t believe MEDIUM is cancelled?????? There are nights that I don’t even turn on the TV any more. I pray CBS will pick it up. I do watch Ghost Whisperer and then turn it off when it’s over. Medium would certainly keep me watching.
PLEASEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
YOU HAVE TO KEEP MEDIUM ON THE AIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!