As expected, CBS has pulled the plug on their long-running drama, Numb3rs. A mainstay of the Friday night schedule, brothers Charlie and Don Eppes won’t be back next fall with a seventh season.
Numb3rs revolves around an FBI agent (Rob Morrow) and his genius brother (David Krumholtz) who helps solve cases with mathematics. The cast also features Judd Hirsch (as their father), Alimi Ballard, Dylan Bruno, Navi Rawat, Aya Sumika, and Peter MacNicol.
The cancellation doesn’t come as much of a surprise, especially when you look at the figures.
The ratings have dropped quite a bit in recent years. Last season fell to an average of a 2.2 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and 10.2 million total viewers. This season, the ratings dropped further still, to a 1.8 rating and 8.26 million viewers. CBS cut the show’s episode order from 22 to 16 installments last fall. While the official word was that CBS had an overflow of original programming, networks don’t usually cut the orders of successful shows.
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The cast and crew filmed what could serve as a series finale and Morrow and Krumholtz signed on for new TV show pilots. While the actors would be contractually obligated to return to Numb3rs if CBS decided to renew it, ABC and FOX were confident that they wouldn’t.
Last week, it was confirmed that the show’s sets were being dismantled, another sign that Numb3rs was finished. CBS has now made the cancellation official.
On the positive side, Morrow will return next fall in a new series for ABC called The Whole Truth. He’ll play an attorney opposite Joely Richardson. Unfortunately, Krumholtz’s comedy pilot, Tax Man, was not picked up by FOX for the 2010-11 season.
What do you think? Are you satisfied with the way that Numb3rs ended? What will you miss about the show? Will you give The Whole Truth a try?
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Love this show myself & my 2 9yr old boys, learnt so much from it, would love to see it back, but I also want to find the song from series 4 episode 15 some of lyrics right at end of show are I will be there when you rise, if anyone can help with that i would appreciate it
I love this show as do my boys aged 9 they learn so much from it as do I …I love the music & would like to find the song from series 4 episode 15 I only caught some of lyrics, I will be there when you rise, does anyone know the song or lyrics??
This is one of my favorite shows and I watch all the re-runs I can find. I even save them so that my 16 year old granddaughter can see them, she loves them too, PLEASE BRING IT BACK FOR ALL OF US WHO THINK SCIENCE IS FUN!
I loveeeee this show!!!!! Bring it back please !!!
I will really miss the the show it was done to such a degree that I felt apart of the show and was looking forward to finding about how things went for charlie in Cambridge along with his return to LA and to helping the FBI again along side his brother
Bring it back
I love this show right from the time i started watching it and not i no they did end it for what nothing the whole truth is ****** and im done with your cubs and fox office people think about how much people love the show i just got 4 peolpe watching it last week for what nothing now your all ******* dicks i hope one on you office ***** email lol because im not looking at it go out in the reallt world and ask people face to face see what they think 🙂 what you do not get… Read more »
I quite enjoyed this show when ti first came to the screens here in the UK. It had a good concept and a lot of it made sense. But it had too many characters in it, especially the guy called Larry. He may be a nice man I don’t know, but his part in the series to was completely irrelevant. For someone who is supposed to be intelligent, his character was a stupid as a snail, slow and going nowhere. The more I watched the show the more I wanted to throw up when he entered the screen. The worst… Read more »
I just discovered Numb3rs a few months ago on Netflix and could not stop watching it. I was surprised and disappointed to realize that it had ended after Season 6. I agree that there are so many solid dramas on television that get cancelled because of ratings and other shows that stay on that have nothing to offer. I will really miss the Epps family and friends. I will miss them as much as the crew of Friday Night Lights.
I have come across Numb3rs on German TV by accident and loved it from the first episode. Since in Germany they love to repeat episodes and seasons without continuing i lost interest but luckily discovered it online later and was able to watch it (in original with no german dubbing YAAAY). I think this show is amazing, not just because of its amazing plot but also because of its implication and well explained input on science. I was always interested in science in high school but I never was able to understand most of it… especially math. (languages and art… Read more »
I was very disappointed when you took numbers off. Why is it you get a good show and you always get rid of it? You did the same thing a few years ago with Crossing Jordan. Stop pulling the good shows.
I loved watching num3ers, i cry when don got shot, then i screamed when amida got kidnapped, what is it, every time a program gets good, its cancelled, i loved watching the chase and Alcatraz, i will just have to buy the box set and watch the dvds .
I can’t believe they’ve cancelled it right before amida and Charlie’s wedding!!!!! My mom and I have watched this show from the very beginning and we’ve waited for that wedding FOREVER!!!!! And now we’ll never know if Don gets married or not!! Did Don get promoted? What about Don’s team?? How could they do this?! SOOOOO disappointed with CBS…
Charlie and Amita did get married the last episode, Don also got engaged and accepted the promotion. It was all in there.
This was a program that both me and my husband enjoyed we ever brought the dvds to ‘re watch them. Am so upset that another good program has been stopped. Like flashpoint did as well.
CBS always does this garbage, they cancelled The Unit, they cancelled CSI Miami and they cancelled Flashpoint. All good shows, and they just dropped them. Thank goodness for dvd’s or the fans would only have their memories to hold on to!
I wish they would put it back on I mean what happen when they came back from London so many questions need to be answered