TNT recently premiered a new police drama, Rizolli & Isles, starring Angie Harmon. Will the TV show be a big success or be cancelled like her last detective series, Women’s Murder Club?
In Rizzoli & Isles, tough detective Jane Rizzoli (Harmon) teams up with serious forensic pathologist Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander). The rest of the cast includes Bruce McGill, Lee Thompson Young, Lorraine Bracco, and Jordan Bridges.
The show debuted on July 12th, with a lead-in from The Closer. The series premiere attracted a 1.5 in the demo and 7.55 million viewers. Not only is that an excellent sampling but it nearly tied its established lead-in and came in third place among all of the week’s cable shows. It set a record as the highest-rated debut for a commercial-supported cable series.
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In week two, Rizzoli & Isles actually beat The Closer’s demo numbers. The episode again drew a 1.5 rating in the demo but total viewers slid to 7.27 million. For week three, on Monday night, viewership dropped — to a 1.3 in the demo and 6.548 million viewers.
While the ratings are still very good for the cable series, this week’s ratings drop is not a good sign. Hopefully it’s not the start of a trend. You may recall that TNT’s Raising the Bar also set ratings records when it debuted. After just two seasons, it was cancelled. It remains to be seen if Rizolli & Isles will follow in its footsteps.
What do you think? Do you think Rizzoli & Isles is worth watching or should it be cancelled already?
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! It’s much more realistic, than Franklin and Bash, and all the other crap i’m not even trying to watch.
This is a brilliant show. I’ve read some of the books and i think the series is better. Angie Harmon is amazing and drop dead gorgeous too. I can’t imaging anyone else playing Jane even though she’s not physically like Jane from the books she’s very easy on the eye. Sacha Alexanda plays the quirky Dr Isles so well. The show always puts a smile on my face and i look forward to it every week
I think this is a great program. I love watching it, I am hoping it will come back for another season. The comments below don’t know a good program when they see one. It has some drama plus a bit of comedy to it.
R&I has the worse acting and even worse writing.
I would love to see this show get cancelled. How can a show this bad have a first season never mind a second season?
How can anyone sit through one episode of R&I, Never mind one season? It’s a very bad show. AH should have known better than to take such a bad part.
This show is really bad. The writers should be unemployed. Cancel this show and replace it with something decent.
Please cancel this garbage. Please, please. PLEASE!
This is the worse show ever. Cancel it. Get it out of my misery.
Please keep Rizzoli and Isles on. It is a great show and the female stars aren’t half naked all the time!! And the girlfriend thing DOES work, thank you.
cancel… whats her name was good in NCIS but the girl friend thing doesn’t work.
Amen!
I LOVE RIZZOLI AND ISLES PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL.
I love Rizzoli and Isles. Please do not cancel another good show.
Glad to hear that ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ is returning for another season, since we thoroughly enjoyed the first season. Hope to see many more to come.
i loved the show and was waiting for it to come on . I never saw the previews. I hope the second season starts now.
ANGIE AND SASHA ARE MY IDOLS!I WANT TO SEE NEXT SEASON WERY SOON!!!