While watching the second season of Men of a Certain Age in January, many viewers were dismayed to hear that TNT was calling the sixth episode the “season finale.” Had the show been cancelled?
Actually, TNT decided to cut the season into two parts. At some point, the cable channel increased the season order from 10 to 12 installments. The first six finished airing in January and now the second half dozen episodes are set to begin airing on Wednesday, June 1st at 10pm.
The first half of season two attracted a 0.5 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and an average of 2.16 million viewers each week. That’s a significant drop from season one which registered a 1.0 in the demo and an average of 3.19 million.
Will Men of a Certain Age be renewed for season three? That will likely have a lot to do with how well the remaining episodes perform in June. Unless the ratings pick up, it doesn’t look likely that we’ll see Ray Romano, Scott Bakula, and Andre Braugher on screen together after that.
What do you think? Are you glad to hear Men of a Certain Age is returning? Do you think it’ll get renewed for season three?
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Just LOVE this show; the characters are wonderful and the chemistry is great. Keep it going for many seasons.
NO dont cancel I love this show! Give it a chance. Remember Monk, cancelled then pick up for 8 seasons by another network. My daughter and I love this show and have been trying to buy the seasons. This show will be come as much loved as Friends, Monk and Mash if they just give it a chance and good advertisement.
My husband & I love the show & would be very disappointed if it’s not brought back. At least now I can stop looking in the newspaper to see if it’s on this week. Now I know to wait until June.
I really love this show! Unfortunatly a lot of people (myself included) had to cancel our cable due to economy & raise in cost of many basic things. If I could afford cable I would for sure watch this show every week. Please keep it going so I can at least enjoy when it gets to dvd
I’m glad to hear its returning. I am usually on top of all my shows, but when they stopped airing it right after it came back I just figured it was canceled. It really is a great show and deserves some recognition, maybe an Emmy nod.
Love the show and wish that TNT would give more consideration & weight to quality shows as “Men of a Certain Age”. There are way too many reality shows that give back “zero” quality TV yet stations keep pushing them.
I will always be confused by this idea of shortened, split seasons or long hiatuses. Either keep the show on or get rid of it! Otherwise it’s just insulting.
It’s the best show on TV! If the fan base is small it is only because we very loyal fans can’t find the show. I wish they would run reruns in between the regular season. Tv watchers are too fickle and there is too much time between seasons so viewers go elsewhere. So if it has low ratings it is not the fault of the writers or the actors. Best show ever.
One of my favorite shows to watch. I hope more people discover the show over the summer and tune in to watch it. I hope the show continues for a few more seasons.
I’m on the fence. If it stays GREAT, if it’s canceled, no problem.
I hope the show comes back! It was up against Monday Night Football and college football championship game! This summer, people will be reminded what a quality show this is and they’ll have more episodes on the air soon!
Like this show! lst half of season 2 was better than season 1 IMO.
This is a great show. I think maybe it needs to be on one of the 3 main networks so it will catch on. I only stumbled upon it by accident and then told my husband. We absolutely think this is a keeper. Such a realistic view of men of different backgrounds…as they really are.
This article is incorrect in that I read an interview with the creator in Alan Sepinwall’s blog in which he said the plan was always to run some in the winter and the rest in the summer.
Very upset about this news! I fit the target demo (26 y/o male) and absolutely love this show. One of the few things worth watching on television.
I love Men of a Certain Age! I think those 3 have great chemistry. Come on people. That colonoscopy episode was hilarious! That is really too bad that they are doing so poorly. Just another good show that will get cancelled cause the Nielsen ratings are rating the wrong homes!