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 Show! Don’t cancel it without an end. Great Series!
This is the best show on TV! Canceling this show would be a big mistake. Don’t give viewers like myself a reason to switch networks.
Bring Numb3rs back!!! I have been waiting and waiting watching the reruns on TNT at 4 and 5 am that is how into the show I am. I love watching the way Charlie goes about telling how he came up with his math analysis. It is fun to watch and educational at the same time. How many shows can actually do that now?
I miss Numb3rs already. It’s probably too late to bring it back, except maybe another network could do it? Maybe Fox?
Numb3ers should definitely return! this show is awesome. i get wrapped up in the story line. seventhn season is abosolutely worth doing! bring it back. the repeats never get old. i enjoy every single episode from beginning to end.
Numb3rs should definately do a Seventh Season! I watch it all the time, and there are always awesome nail-biting storylines. I could never walk away from the TV when I was watching….
please do not cancel numb3rs
Please bring the show back my daughter and I share every night watching the show reruns, and now tonight we watched the end of six again. Please we want more of the Epps family and all the crew. We want Numbers back on please and thank you
Bring Numbers back! It’s a great show!
I saw lots of ads for Numb3rs in the television guide but I can’t find it in the programming lineup. We need one more season of the show! There was no closure, no real series finale.
J0AN OCT. 15,2010 I LOVE THE SHOW,THE BEST PART OF ALL WAS THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS,. I LOVED THE EPPS FAMILY, AND, NICKOLS.
It is a shame that they have cancelled this show. I was so surprised to see David Krumholtz on Law and Order: SVU. He was very good on the show; but I would much rather see him on Season 7 as Charlie.
I enjoyed Numbers and have all six seasons. I will enjoy watching the shows, but will miss not having new ones. It was a good show.
My wife and I have never missed a showw if we were not at home it was always recorded.
Please don’t cancell this great show. you have apositive vote of five from my family..
Numbers is excellent!! I love it, but it is only scheduled for 2 or 3 AM in this area?? It would be a ‘SMASH’ is the time slot was where we ‘ALL’ could watch it like NCIS.
I am sick of Law and Order repeats and others that repeat over and over and a good series like Numbers is on at Hours I am asleep. (Where are your MINDS?)