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?
Image courtesy CBS.
shows, how much they know if a show is not filled with sex they think it wont work. Loved the show ans I am sure they have not replaced it with anything as good.
Friday nights will not be the same without Ghost Whisperer and Numb3ers! I keep giving CBS another chance and they always FAIL. After 6 seasons you don’t even give the fans a finale.
I AM DONE WITH CBS FOREVER!
I just found out, to my great shock, that Numb3rs has been cancelled. We “cleared” our schedule to watch it every Friday night. The only show we watched regularly, never missing.
Numb3rs was a great show and I never missed an episode. I brought together a love of math with drama. . . .I’m such a nerd LOL! I think one of the things I most enjoyed about it was waiting to watch a new episode with my Dad. Thanks for the great show CBS, I wish it could stick around for a little longer!
Numb3rs was far better than the Mentalist. Bring it back and dump Mentalist.
my husband and i loved numb3ers and watched it faithfully. we are sorry to see it go!
My wife and myself are from Scotland and we love this show, we are saddened to hear it has been cancelled, we even named our daughter Megan. Well we still have the dvds to watch.
Big mistake! Numbers was a great show! You guys blew it!
CBS-bluntly put, you suck. Leading us on to think the show may go on, instead of just giving us a nice ending with some closure. Numbers was a well written show with quality actors, not many shows can say that anymore. I am very disappointed in the way you ended your run of a show that has lasted many years and has many fans. Some warning would have been nice and maybe an ending for the characters so many of us grew to love.
It was a great show. What a shame. Probably won’t watch the new one. Bring it back!
Once again., CBS just doesn’t get it.But the way thr last show eded, with a lot of the main characters moving on, I was afraid the writing was on the wall.Numb3rs was just about the only show, worth watching, on TV, nowadays; especialy with all this brainless “reality tv” garbage.
To hell with you, CBS!
I think they can cacth more audience if they try to conect the level they explain with the level we see at the school, in that way more people gonna really enjoy, because we gonna understand, but if they keep that complicated notation only for MIT, OR CALTECH students they loose aundience of course. maybe if they putting somebody to be the stupid guy and every time he or she need more explainations .
I HATE that Numb3rs was cancelled!!! I enjoyed every episode and looked forward to Friday nights or DVR. The show was encouragement for me to return to college, study Combinatorial mathematics, and pursue a master’s. It was educational, well filmed, well written, quality content. I will certainly miss the stories and math and pursue the boxed sets to relive memories and continually be encouraged.
Faith and Peace to all who are as disheartened as I.
I was watching CBS last night and noticed that they were advertising a new show for the time slot Numbers had before. I asked my husband…”did they cancel Numbers?” Neither of us recalled a series finale. We loved the show. Like all the other posters, we made it a point to watch every Friday night. It is one thing to lose a show that everyone really likes, but to lose the show with no finale is just plain wrong and unfair to the audience. I am seriously considering canceling my entire cable because I am tired of paying a monthly… Read more »
Ditto! Well said! I hated math, but I too learned an immense amount
from Numb3rs. And if I didn’t understand it, I looked it up. Gee
keeps the brain working. Unlike those dumb reality shows as you stated.
I totally agree! I’m 13 and I loved watching Numb3rs on Friday night. All the stupid nonsense staged ‘reality’ shows are just plain dumb
Boo CBS. We always watched numbers.