After being on the bubble for several seasons, CBS has finally cancelled The New Adventures of Old Christine. There’s a chance that it may be saved by another network but odds would have been better if this had happened in previous years.
The New Adventures of Old Christine follows the challenges of Christine Campbell (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) , a neurotic single mom who has a hard time finding a relationship and juggling her responsibilities at home and work. Others in her life include her low-key brother, Matthew (Hamish Linklater); best friend and business partner, Barbara (Wanda Sykes); young son Ritchie (Trevor Gagnon); irresponsible ex-husband, Richard (Clark Gregg); and his current love, “New Christine” (Emily Rutherfurd). Often popping up to make “Old Christine” feel even more incompetent are “mean mommies,” Marly and Lindsay (Tricia O’Kelley and Alex Kapp Horner).
After being part of CBS’ Monday night line-up for two seasons, Old Christine was used to help establish a second comedy block for the network on Wednesday nights. Unfortunately, the experiment wasn’t a big success. Old Christine was barely renewed last season. As there had been in the past, there was talk that ABC might pick it up if CBS had actually cancelled the show.
This season, Old Christine’s numbers have gotten worse and CBS decided to abandon the Wednesday night comedy hour. As a result, the network decided to finally cancel Old Christine.
In past years, Old Christine was attractive to ABC because they weren’t having much success with their own sitcoms. This time around, they already have a well-established night of sitcoms and several new options waiting in the wings.
Still, there is some talk of ABC picking up the series. As of today, the execs at ABC and Warner Bros. are trying to work out the numbers. The deal that Warner Bros. can offer is likely being impacted by how much profit new episodes will bring in syndication.
Last summer, Warner Bros. sold the Old Christine syndication package to Lifetime for some ad time and about $350,000 per episode (compared to 30 Rock episodes which went for $800,000). The sitcom was also sold to local stations in most of the US markets.
Reruns will pop up on cable and local stations in the fall. It remains to be seen if new episodes will be on ABC.
What do you think? Should ABC rescue The New Adventures of Old Christine? Where would you put it — with The Middle, Cougar Town, or someplace else?
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PLEASE KEEP THIS SHOW ON AIR! i just love The new adventures of old christine! i mean, without it it’s like hole in my heart, a missing piece of the puzzle, or a child without parents. as you can see, i would miss the new adventures of old christine and there would be nothing fun or funny to watch. THIS SHOW IS THE BEST!
I LOVE THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE. TOO BAD THEY USED THE WOMAN INFLUENCE AS THE TITLE OF THE SHOW. MEN DID NOT UNDERSTAND ITS INTELLIGENCE AND HUMOR, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT A WOMAN, IT TURNED THEM OFF, AND MADE THEIR WIVES DO THE SAME.
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This is a great show. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is hilarious, usual! Any network that does’nt take the opportunity to scoop up this show, is not aware of what the public wants. They are also missing the possiblility of makin a forture for their network. A perfect fit would
be on the same night as Cougar Town. They are both talented comedians and I can’ t see viewer switching to watching to watch something else. Save Christine!
Please bring back this show! This show is better than tHe other silly sitcoms that atre on and will be a great replacement for the now cancelled Two and A Half Men on CBS.
I LOVE THE NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE. THIS IS SO STUPID!! WHY WOULD YOU TAKE OFF SUCH A GREAT SHOW??? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THEY TAKE OFF THE BEST SHOWS AND LEAVE ON THE ONES THAT ARE ALL ABOUT DRINKING AND SEX. I KNOW CHRISTINE HAS BOTH IN THE SHOW BUT ITS NOT AS BAD AS MOST SHOWS OUT THERE. YOU MADE A BIG MISTAKE TAKING OFF SUCH A GREAT SHOW!! BRING IT BACK PLEASE YOU WONT REGRET IT!!!!!
PLEASE BRING NEW ADVENTURES OF OLD CHRISTINE BACK!!!!!!! I FREAKING LOVE THAT SHOW!!!!!!!! I recently started watching the reruns on FOX after I got off work at like 2 am. It makes me literally laugh out loud every time. I liked the show so much I download the complete series on my ipod and introduced it to my girlfriend and she loves it too. Today we finished season five which leaves us fans with a complete cliffhanger!!! All the good series end that way which is a major bummer.
I just discovered the show and I love it!. This show is hilarious, please bring it back. Most of the time when I watch something funny on tv not sure why but I usually don’t laugh but this show has me laughing out loud until my stomach muscles are sore. =(
I too recently started watching this about 2 months ago, and it is one of the funniest shows I have seen. I was expecting to catch up on the previous seasons in hopes of watching the new season, I just found out it has been cancelled. It is a shame that comedies like this are few.
Ridiculous! I love this show!!! I own season 1 and 2!!! i’ve been waiting on the others to come out only to see this article!!!!! It is one of the best shows since Seinfeld and Friends!
I love this show! They need to find a way to put it back on the air. If anyone out there can, Please bring back The New Adventures of Old Christine!!! I just told my mom and my best friend about it and they are hooked. I watched from the beginning and now that everyone has a better feel for the show from the reruns, I know this would be a big hit for some network. Hopefully they will wake up and smell the coffee and bring back Christine and Barb and the gang. We want CHRISTINE!!!!
I absolutely love this show and have watched it from day one. I was so disappointed and surprised when I discovered it had been canceled. Please bring this show back!!!
I just started watching in the last few months and love it. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, as always, is hilarious! Great writing, as well. Hope it comes back. I’d put it with “How I Met Your Mother”, another one I just started watching and admire.
I just recently started watching this show over the past month. OMG!!!!!! How funny. With the hustle and bustle of life you somtimes dont have time to catch the new shows and I believe that’s why it wasnt getting very high ratings, but dont under estimate the show. It is super funny. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!! Again PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!
pleaase bring it back PLEASE!!!!!!
I started watching this only after it was aired on lifetime. And I have to say I was very dissapointed that I had not been watching this great show all this time . Then I find out after watching for a while that it was cancelled…WOW!!! This is the FUNNIEST show I have seen in years, since the 90’s.. please bring this show back. Now all I can do is watch the re-runs over and over,which I am happy to do, but it would be nice to have some new ones. Christine (Julia louis-dreyfus) is the crazyiest, stupudiest, slow and… Read more »
I never watched the show until I saw some of the reruns, it is the funniest show I’ve seen in a long time. Please bring it back.