It was only a matter of time. CBS has cancelled Partners, the new sitcom from Will & Grace creators Max Mutchnick and David Kohan.
Revolving around a pair of best friend architects, Partners stars Michael Urie, David Krumholtz, Sophia Bush, Brandon Routh, and Tracy Vilar.
The show debuted to a 2.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.56 million viewers, substantially lower than the CBS sitcoms that preceeded and followed it. The numbers have gotten worse as the season has progressed and Monday’s episode hit a new low with a 1.8 demo rating and 5.48 million viewers.
While those numbers would have been good enough to keep the show on the air on NBC or FOX, they weren’t high enough for CBS. They’ve opted not to order a full season of episodes and have pulled the show from the schedule effective immediately.
Sitcom reruns will start airing on Monday. CBS hasn’t said what will replace Partners on a more permanent basis but Rules of Engagement, the utility player that used to air on Mondays, seems a likely candidate.
What do you think? Are you sorry to see Partners cancelled? Why do you think that it didn’t catch on?
CBS is notoriously anti-gay. The only reason they put the show on the air was so they could cancel it. They knew in May they were going to cancel the show. They just wanted to prove a point that they will not have any gay characters on their network.
This was the funniest show on monday nights, truly going to miss this show, I hope they shop it to another network.
SO disgusted that this show has been canceled! It was the ONLY Monday night show I was watching. It was truly a funny show. The others rely on being trashy. The only CBS show left that I watch is Hawaii Five-O.
That really really stinks!! My husband an I looked forward to Mondays only because of that show 🙁
I’m extremely disappointed and so is my family. This was the first show in a looooong time that actually made us laugh and it was so genuine. The characters were amazing! PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! Guess its back to watching Netflix. Nothing else good on tv anymore 🙁
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SO sad this show has ended! Plus, it was back-to-back with How I Met Your Mother. A winning lineup if you ask me!
Definitely bummed. This was a great show 🙁
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In so mad! I really enjoyed Partners, it was funny and entertaining. So sad that its canceled. Any hope another station will pick it up?
I thought Partners was great show. One that you really laugh hard and that makes you cry, because it was so funny.
I’m so bummed!! This show was so funny!!! I hope another network picks it up!!
I really liked this show and am disappointed to see it is cancelled. Hopefully another network picks it up.
Come on!!! This show is amazing! It gets funnier and funnier!!!
You can’t judge just by watching the first 2 episodes. That’s so not fair !!
Glad to see it go. It should have been gone since episode one. I gave it 4 episodes and ha, surprise, I couldn’t even finish watching the forth episode. The writing was so bad, characters over acted, overly cliche, and why on earth there’s that oh so annoying laugh track? Bad writing+over acting+laugh track DO NOT and will NEVER make the show or any shows, any funnier. It simply is a bad show. It’s a rotten egg, and there’s no way you can make it fresh again.