Recently, we reported that TNT had cancelled Rizzoli & Isles. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, TNT chief Kevin Reilly discussed why he’s ending the popular procedural.
Rizzoli & Isles is currently in the middle of its sixth season and will end after a short seventh season this summer.
Speaking the Hollywood Reporter at the TCA winter press tour, Reilly said he pulled the plug on Rizzoli & Isles because the series has run its course:
If I came in and said, year two of Rizzoli & Isles, we’re pulling the plug on it, I would have probably gotten some [feedback]. They have not said no to me on anything and I don’t think they would have said no, but I think they would have gone like, ‘Really?! You want to do that?’ And, honestly, that would have been a stupid move. I’ve got a show that people love, that’s performed really well, why would I do that? Coming to the end of a seven-year run, it’s an easier decision. Everybody involved, from producers to talent, are like, ‘It’s been a good run. We’re going to be one of a couple cable shows that has made it to that 100-plus [episode] number. There have been very few cable shows that have made that many episodes. So let’s go out when we’re strong and not limp.'”
For years, Rizzoli & Isles has been one of TNT’s flagship series, bringing in good ratings and an average of around four million viewers per episode in season six so far. The series’ cancellation seems to be part of Reilly’s larger revamping of both TNT and TBS as networks with acclaimed original material.
Rizzoli & Isles is just the latest dumpee for TNT. In December, three of the network’s dramas were cancelled—Legends, Public Morals, and Agent X.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Rizzoli & Isles? Do you think it’s time the series end?
I think that it is too bad that you have to cancel my favorite show! Love all the actors and look forward to watching every week. Can say that about very few shows!
What a crock. They cancel the show because it stands for all that is good with society. The good guys win and the bad guys lose. it’s the way it SHOULD be, but TV people prefer to show trash, perversion, and sleaze…stuff the 20 something crowd eats up.
Please don’t give us the line about they’ve run out of ideas for the show. We get new ideas for the show daily from the headlines, just like Law and Order did. Terrorism, political corruption, drug wars, gangs…geeze there’s enough material for the next 25 years!
Rizzoli is the best why finish all family look forward to this its always the good shows go and we are left with rubbish
I hate that they have cancelled this show while it was still on top. It was one of the good ones but they can’t leave it alone. They leave the trash behind. So sorry to see Rizzoli & Isles go
No I cannot believe that they are pulling the plug on this show it is one of the best, all of my family watch it from my mum to my daughter which spans a lot of age range. They need to rethink their decision because there are hundreds of storylines yet untold. I for one will stop watching tnt they are losing the best shows.
I love Rizzoli &Isles and I am very sorry that it is ending.
I believe it’s time to STOP watching any tnt originals!!! Rizzoli and Isles is a good show and there is no good reason for it to be cancelled.
Please don’t take it off it is such a great show i never miss an episode it has excitement, family, and funny all rolled into one. Really you all are canceling everything that has any quality to it
It’s time, means that TV executives have an idea that will bring in more money. That’s the name of that game. Fan? Money? No brainier for them!
No! It is a great show! It has not run its course! Other shows are still on in their 12th and 13th season! Kevin Reilly needs to either get new writers or new inspiration because there is more to Rizzoli and Isles than season 7!
I can’t believe that such a good show is cancelled the stories are always good. It’s upsetting that they decide to dump shows that can still keep your interest after so long. Ding bats!!!!
They probably cancelled Rizzoli & Isles to replace it with one more stupid, immoral reality show. Every time there’s a great show — the AH’s in charge cancel it. Fed up with TNT!
I cannot believed they have canceled this show. I loved it. The writing was wonderful, the characters all seemed to work well together and their was always humor in the show. Big mistake canceling this show.
Ridiculous that another great show is being cancelled. No way it has run it’s course. Possible the writiers don’t wanna write any more cuz we all know there are all kinds of investigative stories to tell – still tell even! Anyway another fine show gone and am sure this “revamping” has to do with a younger audience with “acclaimed and accredited” shows.
My husband and I are very upset at another cancelled program. It doesn’t have blood and guts, blowing up things and severe slaughter of people. We’re doomed to watch crap or just turn off the TV.