Tonight, Numb3rs finishes off its sixth season with episode 118, “Cause and Effect.” Will the show be back next season? A decision hasn’t been made yet but lots of people are betting that it will be cancelled.
Numb3rs follows FBI Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) and his genius brother, Charlie (David Krumholtz), who helps the authorities 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 series debuted in January 2005 and has long been a successful player for CBS on Friday nights. In season one, Numb3rs averaged a 3.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic and about 11.1 million viewers. They went up in season two, with an average of a 3.3 rating and 11.7 million viewers. Viewership has fallen since then however and last season, Numb3rs scored a 2.2 and 10.2 million.
This season, Numb3rs’ ratings have dropped further still — averaging a 1.8 rating and 8.26 million viewers each week. As a result of the decline in ratings, CBS (which is having a very good season) decided to cut back on the number of episodes and reduced their season order from 22 to 16 installments.
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The official reason for the decrease is that CBS had too much programming and needed space to try out new series. Next week, Numb3rs’ timeslot will be occupied by a new show, Miami Medical.
CBS has maintained that the fate of Numb3rs hasn’t been decided yet but, considering the series’ production costs and ratings, it seems fairly certain that the show is done.
In fact, ABC and FOX are betting on it. The networks have already cast Morrow and Krumholtz in new pilots.
Morrow will star in a dramatic pilot called The Whole Truth for ABC, opposite Joely Richardson. He’ll play a fiercely competitive and successful defense attorney who is close friends with his equally talented courtroom adversary (Richardson). Whole Truth is being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.
Meanwhile, Krumholtz has been cast in a comedy pilot for FOX called Tax Man. The project’s being produced by Ron Howard and stars Krumholtz as an IRS Agent who’s trying to find nobility in his work. Judy Greer recently joined the cast.
If CBS does decide to bring Numb3rs back for another season, both Morrow and Krumholtz will be obligated to return. However, the other networks wouldn’t cast them in new pilots unless they felt it was a very strong possibility that Numb3rs would indeed be cancelled.
What do you think? Would you like to see Numb3rs return for a seventh season or is it time to say goodbye to the Eppes?
Image courtesy CBS.
I agree. It seems it is always the good ones to go! How about getting rid of one of the 11 or so csi and or ncis’ shows….. To bad if it does go great run, great show
I am a late bloomer here, but I just recently started watching numbers. I can’t believe i didnt even now this show existed and was so good. Its just a smart show. I love the logic games. Now it might be canceled. I guess I will have to get the dvd collection and watch the last 5 seasons.
If I might make one appeal to CBS. Please oh please, give us another season. And dont let Charlie move to England. Half the brains of the show will be lost.
Thank you for baring with my pathetic begging.
Cheers!!!
Numbers is a different type of cop show and is interesting. What do we need with another medical show or plain copy show !! Every time I get interested in something different they cancel it. Is 8 million people not important to the networks !!! Here’s hoping they get smart for once and keep the show for several more seasons !!!
This is by far one of the best shows CBS has, aside from NCIS and How I Met Your Mother. It has performed well despite being given the typical friday time slot where network shows go to keel over and die. And yet, it maintained decent ratings…for a 10pm friday night show. To be perfectly honest, this is the first time I have watched it in its time slot all year. I hope that this is truly just the season finale. And in response to Michelle Caron’s comments, no new Numb3rs episodes aired during the Olympics…in fact most shows opted… Read more »
If it means the death of NUMB3RS, I won’t watch Miami Medical (even if I like the producer’s other series – NCIS, NCIS LA, JAG, etc). The episode does look to be a series ender, which if it does end is grateful, but … still I don’t want to see it die).
Please leave the show on. My entire family enjoys this intelligent thought provoking show.
Stacy
please leave it on I really enjoy watching it.
This show has always been a wonderful departure from the ‘normal’ “cop” TV shows of the past and even the present. It was brilliantly esoteric, and showed deep elements that made us – the viewers – actually have to think about not only the subject matter of the episode, but also about the underlying human emotions we all have a tendency to stifle as a defense mechanism as well as the diametric oppositions we all encounter in our own lifetimes. The generationally-blended family living in one big, comfortable house … the deeply committed brother/brother relationship between ‘Academic’ Charlie and the… Read more »
It’s my favorite show. I vote to keep it on the air for a 7th season!
please leave it on – it is one of the very few intelligent shows on tv
I really hope it stays on the air. Such a fun show. Dynamics of male relationships
keep it on – one of the very few truly intelligent shows on tv!
This is one of my favourite shows and I have never missed an episode – even when in hospital – had them all taped so I could watch them when I got home. Why do the networks always cancel good shows and bring in garbage – I will never understand.
To hell with “Miami Medical”. I like Numb3ers.
I truly think it should stay on the air..
This year there was the Olym[pics so its not fair to use this year as a guide.
please keep them on..
This was Num3rs’ best season yet. CBS should keep them on the air!