At the recent upfronts, it was announced that CBS was cancelling The New Adventures of Old Christine after five years on the air.
Starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the sitcom has been in danger of being cancelled each year and, on a few occasions, ABC expressed interest in taking it over. Though it’s looking doubtful that the alphabet network will indeed save it, discussions are still ongoing.
Kari Lizer, Old Chrisine’s creator, says that the cancellation didn’t surprise her, especially considering the fact that the show was taken out of the Monday night block of sitcoms and has been put on hiatus many times during its run.
She recently told TV Guide, “As far as what happened at CBS, we’ve suffered from a serious lack of support from them since the beginning… I hate to say it, but I’m afraid they don’t care much for the female-of-a-certain-age point of view over there. How else do you explain them squandering the talents of Julia [Louis-Dreyfus] and Wanda [Sykes]?”
The cancellation news came at a particularly bad time for Sykes. Her Saturday night talk series, The Wanda Sykes Show, was also cancelled by FOX. Lizer expects Sykes to bounce back though, noting, “She’s never funnier than when she’s pissed off.”
What do you think? Is CBS’ treatment of Old Christine some kind of sexism or just due to poor ratings?
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I LOVE Old Christine. I watch it several times a day on different networks. I’m going to go out and buy the episodes on DVD. This was a great show…hillarious. Should have been advertised more…too bad. There’s not a lot of good stuff out there and this was one of the best.
I love this show.
Please bring it back.
It’s smart and has every day humour. Like Sienfeld was.
It’s laugh out loud funny.
And we all need a good laugh.
Ha… I have been wondering when Old Christine would start again… well, here we go again… another great show bites the dust when so many other boring unclever shows should never have even started. Who makes these decisions? Did they even watch this show? The writing is hysterical and blend of the comical talants of the actors have me laughing even as I watch the reruns that I DVR. Like Seinfeld, every time you watch the show, you laugh at something you missed before. Anyway… how about somebody picking up the show… I promise I will buy everything that is… Read more »
I cannot believe it was canceled. It was truly hilarious and I was hoping all this fall that it was coming back this January. This is a huge disappointment! The entire cast worked perfectly together. One actor was funnier than the next. Makes no sense at all that they would cancel it.
very funny show-miss new episodes please come back
miss the show
I just discovered this show on lifetime…I am shocked at how funny it is. I am sorry that they are canceling and even more disappointed at how little it was advertised. If it wasn’t for lifetime I would have never know about. Hope another network picks it up. I will watch it from the beginning, but I know it would do well. At least I’ll be a sure fan!
Why not Lifetime pick up the show! They already have the reruns, why not take a risk an pick up the show! It would be a sucess because everyone loves it!
I LOVE THIS SHOW I will not miss a single episode on Lifetime. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! The show is awesome! IF there is a petition I will sign it! This show is too funny! The cast was great! I even love the mean moms on there! PLEASE BRING BACK THE SHOW!!!!
We have never missed an episode. Bring the show back, it was hilarious! Everyone did a great job on there. Im very disappointed
I agree!!! This is one of the Best Shows! The casting, the writing is pure perfection. Bring it back!!!
That was one of the best shows since Seinfeld! She was soooo funny!!!! It sad that they cancelled such a talented cast of characters….
I can’t not believe that they cancelled Christine. I
thought after Seinfeld that none of the fab 4 would ever be able to
branch out. But, Christine is way funnier than Elaine. I never
missed it. I guess I will have to settle for reruns. I DVR all of
them on several networks. I still am on shock that the ratings
weren’t good enough to keep it on the air. Julia and Wanda’s
chemistry was second to none. Please bring it back!!
I think CBS is pure sexism. The only shows other than monday is cop shows. How is it that Two and a half men can have prostitutes and a young boy running around the same house?
I hope Lifetime or NBC will pick the show up it is so funny. What happened to Medium? That is the best show on TV. CBS ruined daytime tv when they cancelled GL and ATWT’s.
They replaced it with another disgusting talk show and two of the same game shows twice a day. I watch animal planet, Lifetime and A and E channels now.
I agree with Janice. I only found out about the show recently and have been watching the episodes playing on Lifetime. I LOVE this show and the combination of Julia and Wanda is great! I don’t think they advertised this show well at all. How do they expect people to watch if we don’t know its there?
I just learned Christine was cancelled. I can’t believe it, I saw the show for the first time a few months ago and love it. Why wasn’t it ever advertised? It would have been the most popular show on tv if people knew about it. BRING BACK CHRISTINE!!!!
I often work nights and missed the show while it was on CBS. I caught it a month ago on Lifetime and fell in love with the show. It is genuinely laugh-out-loud funny. It is a real shame that it was canceled.