NBC has decided to yank their freshman sitcom Perfect Couples from the schedule after April 7th. It’ll be replaced by The Paul Reiser Show on Thursday nights. Does this mean that Perfect Couples is canceled and gone for good?
Perfect Couples revolves around three young couples. Dave (Kyle Bornheimer) and Julia (Christine Woods) are the “everyday couple,” who are messed up in all the “normal” ways. Vance (David Walton) and Amy (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) are the high-passion, high-drama couple. Rex (Hayes MacArthur) is a reformed party guy and Leigh (Olivia Munn) is a self-anointed relationship guru who considers it her duty to mold the other couples in their image.
The NBC sitcom has been struggling in the ratings from the beginning. The network gave it viewers a sneak peak in December and that generated a terrible 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.56 million viewers. A month later, the second episode brought a mediocre 2.1 rating and 4.15 million. The numbers quickly started falling and the latest episode hit a low of a 1.2 rating.
The whole season of Perfect Couples currently averages a 1.5 rating in the demo and just 3.27 million viewers. It’s the lowest-rated scripted series on the network by far and even The Cape has a better season average. Bornheimer has committed to a new FOX pilot while Walton has signed on for a new NBC one.
So, no, NBC has not cancelled Perfect Couples officially, there are many very strong indications that it won’t be back next season. NBC has no incentive to bring it back and even cast one of the sitcom’s actors in one of their new shows.
Right now, it looks like there will be four unaired episodes of Perfect Couples. They may or may not see the light of day at a later date.
What do you think? Are you sorry to see Perfect Couples go? Do you think that it still has a chance to return for a second season?
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE PERFECT COUPLES!!!!!!!!!!!! DON’T CANCEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT CANCEL PERFECT COUPLE! this show is one of the wittier sitcoms to hit us for a long time. And to the commenter below, Outsource is Hilarious!
perfect couples is my favorite new show, don’t cancel it!
I love this show! It always makes me laugh and that is rare.
Sad!! This is such a great show. Why do all the good ones get cancelled?
I love perfect couples and can’t believe it hasnt done well. it is smart and hilarious. i am very disappointed that america doesnt have my sense of humor 😉
I have to admit I was a latecomer to Perfect Couples, since I do all my television viewing online and I didn’t realize there was one more show on NBC’s Thursday night line-up. Although I thought it was a little “meh” in the first episode I saw (which was not the premiere… thanks hulu.com!), I liked it a lot more with each episode. Frankly, that was the way I felt about Outsourced as well, which I now look forward to each week. What is it with NBC not marketing shows well enough so people will watch them and let them… Read more »
No, I’m not done. I forgot to mention that I liked Kyle Bornheimer in “Worst Week,” which I also think met an untimely death.
Listen.
The show is bad, yet absolutely hilarious.
Such potential and definitely not the worst show on right now, but the rating are miserable. No reason for it to stay on. RIP Perfect Couples.
I hate to see Perfect Couples go. I can’t believe it did worse than The Cape. The Cape was horrible. They could at least box it up on DVD so we can get the remaining episodes. Please NBC, at least do that.
My husband and I love this show!! Please don’t cancel Perfect Couples!! If people just gave it a chance they’d learn to love the charming cast and hilarious writing! So sad to see it go.
Noooo!!!! This show was laugh at loud funny, I can’t believe no one watched it. The writing was great and the characters were hilarious…..I’ve lost faith in TV!
This show was great! It kept getting better each week and it was one of the few shows I watch that I laugh out loud too, they are all hilarious and have great timing on their deliveries. Booo nbc, you seem to have a real knack for getting rid of funny stuff. First Conan now Perfect Couples. Booo.
Perfect couples gets cancelled yet Outsourced remains? I’ll miss Olivia Munn I enjoy her and the waitress from Always Sunny is great. And to all you Parks & Recs bashers, are you retarded? thats one of the best shows on any network.
Don’t worry, Outsourced isn’t doing well enough to justify renewal either, it’s just that Bob Greenblatt seems to hate Friends w/out Benefits so much that he’d rather keep Outsourced on the schedule until the end of the season.
DONT CANCEL PERFECT COUPLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also 30 Rock won 14 Emmys and have recieved 52 nominations!