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?
It is so crazy to end this wonderful show.. There are not enough really good shows out there and Rizzoli and Isles is one of the best. TV is so full of all this Reality crap that my head is going to explode. I hope there will be a spin off of the show. One where maybe Jane is in Washington doing the FBI traing school job and she gets called in by that guy to help on some cases and the it goes on from there and maybe some guest spots by the old cast of Rissoli and Isles.That… Read more »
I think that the decision to cancel one of the best cable shows out there is simply crazy!! Rizzoli and Isles have a tremendous following and I think it is a travesty that the producers of the show chose to cut them out of our lives and our family. Their family is our family and it is like experiencing the death of a loved one. TNT should reconsider and bring them back instead of filling their time slot with dark, immoral, brutality!! Rizzoli and Isles brought great acting and entertainment for the entire family. Please reconsider and listen to the… Read more »
I hate this…I love this show and the characters. I am so upset to find out it is the producers choice! I thought one of leading ladies wanted out. Darn!!!
I love the show and hate to see it leave. Its not only a detective show but a show about family and friendship. Not to many shows that are like that any more. Bad decision.
What a HUGE mistake! This is one of the shows we really look forward to watching each week. I too echo all the positive comments made by others. I can only hope the TNT boss will think twice about the mistake he has made and keep/put the series back on the TNT schedule!
I loved the show it break,s my heart your canceling it.Talk to the fan,s we will be lost not watching it.
This is one of the most grossly mistakes this TNT station can make! The series was informative as well as funny. It was a good “family” show, but for some reason TNT is choosing to take off the clean family series, and replacing them with satan, demonic shows. Not something I want my kids to watch. Rizzoli & Isles was such a good influence on my children that my daughter now wants to become a police officer for a while and then she wants to go back to school to become a medical examiner. She wants to be able to… Read more »
It’s a mistake. Love the series and hate to see it go. Everyone is tired of “Reality” shows and “talent” shows.
Rizzoli & Isles is an original in sad world of sequels, remakes and “new” McGyvers.
This was one of the good shows on TV. Why are all of the networks taking off the good shows and replacing them with junk. Person of Interest replaced by what; a show about a man who takes a pill and becomes Einstein. Terrible show. Elementary being shoved off to Sunday which is the pre-death of a show. These networks are showing Lucifer and the Exorcist and other Satan glorifying programs and putting on Preacher to degrade the Godly position of a minister of God. I do not watch much TV but shows that show good battling evil and winning.… Read more »
I echo the sentiments below…unless it was the decision of the cast, one or more – Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Lorraine Bracco, Bruce McGill, Jordan Bridges and Idara Victor – then why end a show that has maintained its following and its quality, inside and out. Revamping TNT, huh? Well, Mr. Reilly, I know you don’t care about the little people or what we think…as the audience and ratings speak for themselves – making that point quite obvious, I, too, will no longer find anything on TNT worth watching. Bon Voyage to the cast and crew, thank you for the… Read more »
I love this show I seen it from the beginning to the last season I wish they didn’t take it off the air this is the best show ever
Why would TNT Kevin Riley.pull the plug on a program that gas done so well in the past 7 seasons with such great ratings and millions watching it? I’ve considered this cop program to verify along the same fame as a program.that I faithfully watched years ago. RIZZOLI AND ISLES HAS HAD THE SAME CALIBER AS HILL STREET BLUEROCK which was a fantastic police drama with a great ensemble of actors who gave their all on a weekly basis to turn out a great series. 7 years is not enough. 12 years is much better to have a series around.… Read more »
I think it is a huge mistake to take such an entertaining show off. We never missrd an episode at least make some special movies where they are reunited for special circumstances and let people have something to look forward to
I have watched this show for all seasons and can’t understand why it would be pulled now. Few shows grab my attention. It will be a real loss to your station since there is only one other show that I watch on TNT regularly.
I really enjoyed” Rizzoli and Isles.” The only one left That I really like is
“Major Crimes”…none of the others are worth my time!