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.
Please don’t cancel NUMB3RS! I first started watching episodes of this show in my math class in high school, and I still watch it even after I graduated. It has become one of my favorite shows, and I’ve even gotten my family into it. We will be very disappointed and sad if it gets canceled.
I love Numbers, never miss it. But networks aren’t known for keeping good shows when there’s brainless junk to put on instead.
This is a great show that is for the entire family and encourages looking up the science issues jsut to see if they are real or not. Seems that all the new shows that are family and decent are cancelled.
KEEP It on the air, please
I’m sure we will get another crappy reality show or medical drama or maybe some new cop show based in New York. No wonder I watch more shows on TNT, TBS, SiFi, FX and USA than the networks.
Keep it on the air
Leave it on. The dynamics of this show is great. Excitement, family solidarity, good cast and great stories, which are entertaining yet intelligent. To take this show off would be a bad thing for the people who like all of the elements I mentioned in a televison show, something that isn’t seen very often.
This is a great show! Please bring it back
It is one of the few shows really worth watching, truly holds one’s attention.
Just what the world needs, another (yawwwwwn) medical show and another stupid sitcom. Bring back Numb3rs!!!!!!
We have watched Numbers regularly since the first season. The program that will begin next week does not look like it will interest us. We will be watching something else.
It is our favorite show. Hope it is not cancelled.
My wife and I both enjoy this series and would hate to see it canceled. Don’t let CBS go the way of NBC by canceling successful shows and lose viewers to other networks.
We watch CBS for Numbers, NCIS, The Mentalist, Medium and others. This is our most watched network. PLEASE DON’T CANCEL OUR SHOWS.
We like it and have watched it regularly since its first season. If it is not back, we will miss it and the proposed program that will begin next week does not seem likely to interest us. We will probably watch something else.
I love the show. I watch it every week. I even dvr it in case I miss something. I would hate to see it be cancelled and to be replaced with yet another hospital show.
KEEP NUMB3RS ON! IT IS ONE OF THE FEW VERY INTELLIGENT SHOWS BRIDGING THE INTELLECTUAL WITH THE SPIRITUAL , REALISTIC FAMILY ISSUES AND LOVE.