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.
Great! Another smart show gets cancelled and replaced by a bunch of cookie cutter doctors. Wow CBS, dont work too hard keeping a really good smart show going. Lets just pull out the formula book and create another “doctor drama”. Except this one has explosions. Oh and wait. Its set in Miami. Wow, what work you put into that show. So now Friday nights goes from upper level math to learning your multiplication of two.
Please keep the show. Favorite on TV. Nothing else like it.
please return this show. It is my favorite
My husband and I VERY MUCH adore the show!!!!!!!!!!! We started watching it when we were dating and hope to continue watching it now that we are married! CBS, PLEASE consider leaving it on even though the rating have gone down. It is a cute, humerous, yet informative show. It is nice to be able to rely on a show of such great quality as Numb3rs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great! Take away a show that actually has a different take on crime, etc., with great actors and great plots. Replace it with ANOTHER MEDICAL SHOW. Pretty soon all we will have to watch on network tv wil be some kind of medical show, lawyer shows and clones of CSI. Now there will be NOTHING to watch on Friday night. I’m going to give up my TV.
Bring it BACK!!!
Love it…please return it!!!!!!!!
Sorry to see the show cancelled or shortened..humor, drama, character definition, varied age groups appeal, generational interaction, variety, brains==what more do they want? Promote it more, And hope some other wise net will pick it up if CBS unwisely chooses not to.
PLEASE PLEASE get them back! it an awesome program and needs to continue.
It has been getting more and more exciting please bring it back!
perhaps use the UK as the next cases? but with the USA spice! ??????
too many crap UK crime dramas that just havent got the kick like the USA does
I think NUMB3RS was a great show. I hate to think it’s being cancelled after 6 seasons. I mean, you have shows like NUMB3RS that really go beyond the usual and they always seem to be cut.
How can they do this?? My favourite thing on UK TV. Look forward to it every Wed. on Channel 5 and can’t believe it’s to be cancelled. I even watch the re-runs…
We watch the reruns over and over. It is a good cast program. Bring it back!
I really think the show is stimulating. Let’s keep it going.
I luv the show. I even bought it on DVD. It is so interesting. Please keep it.
I love numbers it is my favorite tv show. why do they cancel the great shows when we have all this crap on tv. i love shows that really take me there. KEEEEEEP IT PLEASE