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.
come on bring it back i really love the show its one of the few crime shows i actully follow
Please bring numbers back it was one of the best shows on friday night.
I have been a fan of numbers since they have first came on the air it was sad when i did not see them returnin the fall. but I pray to god that numbers come back beacuse the cast are great actors and actress and that will get me to watch cbs on firdays. the way that the cast act is so gernally and i hope that they bring numbers back on the air.
Please Please bring Numbers back…It was one of my very favorite shows and it was also encourages my grandchildren to see how important and useful mathmatics was in their daily lives.
Another good show bites the dust. Like others have said, it was a truely intelligent show, and it’s a shame it didn’t receive the support it needed to continue airing. I wonder if a different time slot would have made a difference. I guess we’ll never know, what a shame.
Numb3ers is one of the few series that I actually follow. NCIS is the other. Beyond these two network programs I stick to Discovery, NetGEO, History, and the Science channel. If this program is canceled, the networks loose another patron. Cable TV reality series beat 99% of all network programing.
I don’t read Hollywood-type news so I was disappointed when, after waiting all summer for the return of my absolute favorite TV show, I Googled it, only to learn that it had been cancelled. What folly! The chemistry among the characters was engaging, the plots clever, the format a change from the boring routine of other crime-dramas. Guess I’ll have to wait for reruns on the non-prime-time networks. No wonder audience shares are dropping for network programming.
I love the show and watched it every week. I have all the dvd’s.
HELLLL YES…..BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to see it continue. Love this show
Numbers is GREAT!!! Keep it on air.
Numb3rs is a really good show, I still dvr episodes. I really
Enjoy the characters, it’s been fun watching them
Develop. I hope the show is brought back and if so, I
Hope it stays true to it’s theme and doesn’t try new wacky
Stuff for rating sake. My only critic is the don eps character.
He’s got way to many issues to pull off being an FBI agent, it’s a little unbelievable. 🙂
They are always taking off the really good shows! Leave the show on! It is one of the best shows on, I hope it stays on, Quit taking all the awesome shows off, and replacing them with stupid shows,LEAVE NUMB3rs ON !
This show is genius! The creators are genius! The cast is awesome! I really hope you bring it back. It is hard to believe they had such low ratings last season. I love the show.
***********I say bring it back, Charlie was my favorite character! and the show was so amazing, its story line, using math to solve mysteries. and its “math is more than formulas and equations; its using your mind, to solve the biggest mysteries we know.” I LOVE THAT QUOTE! I love the show all around, I think it should have gotten better ratings, <3