After some very lackluster ratings, NBC is shutting down production on Outlaw. Is it the next to be cancelled?
The Outlaw TV show follows the crusades of a Supreme Court Justice (Jimmy Smits) who decides to step down and go back to being a lawyer to fight injustices. The NBC series also stars Carly Pope, David Ramsey, Jesse Bradford, and Ellen Woglom.
Outlaw debuted via a special preview on Wednesday September 15th, following the season finale of America’s Got Talent. The series premiere was reasonably sampled with a 2.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 10.68 million viewers.
In its regular timeslot a week and two days later, episode two attracted only a 1.1 rating in the demo and 4.89 million total viewers. Last Friday, Outlaw garnered only a 1.0 rating and 4.72. Though expectations are lower on Friday nights, this performance is terrible.
NBC has now shut down production of the series while execs mull over how to proceed. They supposedly want to see how the series performs over the next couple weeks but there’s no reason to expect that the numbers will get any better.
Eight episodes of Outlaw have been produced and five haven’t aired yet. While it seems likely that NBC will air them all at some point, it seems even more likely that Outlaw will be cancelled soon.
What do you think? Do you watch Outlaw on NBC? Do you think the show could be saved? What would you change?
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Put some of the inane “reality” shows on in the middle of the night and put “OUTLAW” in true PRIME TIME… excuse me but 10pm Friday night is not the best opportunity for the viewership… consider this… the people who watch the “reality” crapola are probably the people living off of society. The people watching OUTLAW have to get up early the next day to GO TO WORK. Give us a break NBC, you never gave this show a shot at all.
THIS IS THE BEST SHOW ON, CANT BELIEVE NBC WOULD TAKE IT OFF. HOPEFULLY ANOTHER NETWORK WILL PICK IT UP. ANYTHING WITH JIMMY SMITTS IS GREAT,BUT THIS SHOW ACTUALLY TOOK ON ISSUES WITH SOMETHING EXTRA. DO AWAY WITH SO MANY RIDICULOUS SHOWS, AND KEEP OUTLAW. LOVE IT.
Outlaw is fantastic, i hope they decide to continue it, i love watching it
Love the show… is NBC on Crack?
I like Outlaw. It is a good entertaining mix of contemporary crimes without the horrific and graphic depictions of CSI, Criminal Minds etc, This show adds a human concern to the defendants rarely seen in other ;aw shows. Please reconsider and keep it on.
I really liked this show. I watched the first episode and then tried BlueBloods on Friday. I didn’ realize they were on at the same time. Decided I did not like Bluebloods. And was channel surfing and found Outlaw had been on in the same time slot. Watched it again. Loved it. And now it’s gone. NBC is the worst. Don’t know of anything else I will watch on that station.
This is a great show. Maybe we should all write TNT and beg the execs there to pick up the show. It seems to fit their image of characters only persona.
I love Outlaw!
Outlaw is my favorite show.
Please don’ t cancel
find a set nighrt and leave it try mon or wed
do not cancel outlaw. It is great!
oh man this show is awesome, finally something too watch on friday nights!!!!
jimmy cant catch a break, first Cane and now this:) i bet everyone was watching blue bloods instead, maybe a bad night, keep it on
I thought it was a really good show. I have looked for it for the last 2 weeks. I finally had to get on the internet to find out why it was not on. Come to find out it has been cancelled. I don’t understand why you come out with a new show and after only a couple times of it being on, take it off. I feel that it was not really given a chance. Perhaps a different time slot or different day would have helped. Sure will miss it.
Outlaw is my favorite new show and I am disappointed that NBC is not giving it a fair chance. The Friday time slot set it up to fail and now I will watch another network.
what are thinking maybe that we need more stupid realility shows?? come on and leave this show on. I believe that if you refuse to bring it back I will not watch your station again. really mad!!!!!