In 2009, both Southland and Medium were cancelled by NBC but were then saved by other networks. Three long-running shows were recently cancelled last month and it looked like each had a good shot of being saved as well.
A couple weeks later, Law & Order and Ghost Whisperer have been denied a second chance and now, The New Adventures of Old Christine has as well.
The New Adventures of Old Christine follows a neurotic single mom (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who has a hard time juggling a relationship with responsibilities at home and work. Others in the cast include Hamish Linklater, Wanda Sykes, Trevor Gagnon, Clark Gregg, Emily Rutherfurd, Tricia O’Kelley, and Alex Kapp Horner.
The sitcom has been a moderate performer for CBS from the beginning and has ended up on the bubble each year. For the past two years, ABC has been ready to pick up the show if CBS dropped it. Those were in the days when ABC wasn’t having much luck finding successful sitcoms of their own.
When CBS cancelled Old Christine this year, the alphabet network wasn’t as interested anymore because ABC already has some successful sitcoms with several new ones waiting in the wings.
This season, Old Christine aired opposite ABC sitcoms and didn’t fare very well. As a result, the network has decided not to pick up the Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom for season six.
The final episode of The New Adventures of Old Christine aired on May 12th on CBS. After five seasons and 88 episodes, there won’t be a final episode to wrap up the series.
On the positive side, reruns will begin airing on Lifetime and on local stations across the country in the fall.
What do you think? Should ABC have picked up Old Christine for season six? How would you have ended the show?
Image courtesy CBS.
I loved it — I laughed my %$#@ off.
I just realized I haven’t seen any commercials for Old Christine for awhile. Know I find out it’s been cancelled. Not happy. We enjoyed the show very much. Very disappointed.
They should have had a season 6. It was the best sitcom that came from the Seinfeld actors since that show was cancelled.
Oh come on!! This show is wicked funny, stupid to cancel it!
Loved this show. Julia and Wanda were great together. One of my favorite comedies.
PICK IT SOMEBODY PLEASE….IT IS TOO TOO FUNNY TO BE CANCELED.
Very sad! It was one of the funniest shows out there!
i absolutely loved this show. looked forward every week to watch it. it is going to be greatly missed.
this was an awesome clean, wholesome show that was sooooo funny to watch… i am very disappointed that it got cancelled… i have been waiting all summer for the first show….
whoever is responsible for this show getting canceled is an idiot…all of those responsible are idiots!! This was one of the top 5 funniest shows on prime time TV.
i loved this show…..this show was way to funny and should still be on! You will be missed christine 🙂
I am mad loved the show wish it would have had a ending
I loved Christine! Finally a show that was just funny! I hope
it gets a second chance! You gotta love lifetime..at least I can
watch the repeats
It was one of the funniest shows out there. The only reason I watched cbs was for old Christine. Well I guess I don’t have to worry about setting up my dvr. Its so horrible. I’m just so very disappointed that I’d won’t be on again.
I also just found out it has been cancelled. Funny show. Now if it only centered around some sort of doctor-lawyer that finds out about a big conspiracy and saves the world in the nick of time it would have never been cancelled even if no one watched it.