It’s been a disappointing summer for Mark Burnett’s reality shows. FOX’s much-hyped On the Lot filmmaking competition has been falling in the ratings since its debut and was cut back to a single hour long episodes per week. It looks like Lot will finish its run but Burnett’s other new reality series isn’t so lucky.
Pirate Master debuted on CBS on May 31st and attracted a lukewarm seven million viewers — despite coinciding with the release of the latest Pirates of the Caribbean film in theaters. Many feel that the series was highly derivative of Burnett’s Survivor series and ratings have been steadily falling.
As a result, CBS has cancelled Pirate Master effective immediately. Five hours are left in the competition and the network plans to post a new episode online each Tuesday at CBS.com. The “news show” 48 Hours Mystery will fill in for tomorrow night. Stay tuned!
Can someone please tell us who won? We poor Canadians can’t view the on-line shows.
Thanks!!
Wow what an ending, I really enjoyed watching this reality show, it was awesome. Please reconsider and give us another season , the ratings were not good because of the date and timing of more popular ones , but if you try it at another time I think more people will watch and learn that they love this show.
How annoying!!! We knew it wasn’t “quality” television — but it was cheesy fun! My nephew and I had a lot of fun with it… how many places in your adult life do you get to play pretend??? We were jealous and would have loved to get on that ship! Treasure is cool, but the whole experience looked like fun!
You have got to be kidding! I cannot believe that once again CBS has pulled a show befor the fans have been able to see the end of the story line. Please air the final episodes online at least. You owe it to the loyal 7 million viewers to bring closure. I may rethink watching anything I like on CBS…this happens time and time again.
We just got home from vacation & looked for the final weeks of the Pirate Master!We just found out the series has been cancelled. I think CBS are nuts to not give the viewing public at least the final show of the series and let us know who are the winners! CBS this may come back a bite you in the rear on any other series because you cannot be trusted to follow through on a series!
Now I can only watch the ridiculous WAR in Iraq on CNN.
I too was a watcher and figured they would bring it back to show us how it ended. But was no info on it so got on here and now see it will not be airing…..NOT FAIR to the people who were watching it…..Think again its not too late.
I live in canada cna someone tell me who won??
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Cheesy is what made Pirate Master so fun to watch. The current management at CBS are idiots! You would have gained so many viewers in the second half of the summer because there is nothing else on! Some of the best programming on TV in the past has been on CBS, but with all the channels available to people, you have to give something new a little time. I looked forward to Thursdays for PM. What adult can’t get into playing pirate like a kid. Seven million in the early summer seems like a pretty decent number to me and… Read more »
At first I thought Pirate Master must have been Pre-empted to show something else, but after a few weeks I came to the conclusion that it must have been cancelled. Now I have confirmation. Admittedly it was not the greatest reality show, but I have been watching survivor almost since the beginning, and was willing to give it a try. My wife and I came to look forward to it. Face it the summer is a desert of TV entertainment, and Pirate Master was a small oasis. Now even it is gone. I spend my Thursdays channel surfing for a… Read more »
It’s incredibly irritating to get interested in a show and then not being able to see it finish out. There were some really interesting personalities and it would have been great to see who won out in the end. CBS should have sucked it up and let it play out. It’s summertime and not a lot of good viewing on any channels. I believe Pirate Master would have continued to grow an audience if left on the air.
CBS…big dog on the block…you have made alot of us reality freaks really pissed at you. Pirate Master had a great following of pre teens who are into the Pirate Thing, and Thanks to the uncaring SUITS, we were all cut adrift! Your time will come Big Dog, you made so many fatal mistakes lately and we have very good memories !
I just spent 3 weeks in Europe and the only show I dvr’d was Pirate Master. Once again, CBS disappoints and cancels a show midstream. I still have it on my DVR, so please bring it back (even at 2:00 a.m) so we can see how it ends!
to me its better that ‘heroes’, ’24’ or ‘lost’. tq
I didn’t watch the first few episodes because I thought it looked so cheezy. For lack of something new I finally watch a couple shows and the Pirate Master hooked me. I think CBS made a mistake pulling this show before it played out