If you need proof that The Firm is doomed to be cancelled by NBC, you just have to look at the show’s ratings. Not only did the new legal series bomb on Thursday nights but it’s currently being trounced on Saturday nights as well — airing opposite CSI: New York repeats, 20/20, and FOX’s forgotten Q’Viva! The Chosen reality series.
The ratings for The Firm have been so poor that one had to start wondering if NBC might bump the series off the Saturday schedule as well. Well, that’s what they’re doing — at least for one week.
This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight). That will be followed by an encore of the first episode of Betty White’s Off Their Rockers, which first aired in January. Rockers returns to the NBC schedule on April 4th.
On March 24th, NBC has slotted an episode of the USA Network series Fairly Legal at 8pm, a slot that had been filled by reruns of Smash. The network hasn’t announced which episode of Fairly Legal will air but the season two opener (which will run this Friday on USA) seems likely.
The network is shaking up their Saturday night schedule and if they can come up with better numbers than what The Firm has been getting, the legal drama could easily be off the schedule for good. NBC has aired just 10 of the show’s 22 episodes thus far.
What do you think? Are you still watching NBC’s The Firm? Do you watch the episodes on Saturday nights, on demand or online? Would you be upset if NBC pulled it for good?
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1150 Comments on "The Firm: To Be Cancelled on Saturdays Too?"
I’m so so! Looking for when the new season of the Firm will finally start and I see you have cancelled yet ANOTHER really good show! And left us with total CRAP like SIBERIA!! Come one – how stupid are we REALLY!!!
Please bring back the Firm. I agree, it was not given a chance. I just happened to find it thru Netflix and love it. You must bring it back. It is excellent.
loved the firm, you never give new show A CHANCE , GUNSMOKE WAS A FAILURE see what happened to it. some crap shoot up /med / dead bodies/
yes i would be ver upset if the firm got cancelled its a very good program.
You really need to renew this show I hate that it’s been left like it has! I LOVE this show and I’m a reality junkie…but reality does not compare to a CSI episode or Breaking Bad which at last will give us some closure, or even The Walking Dead! Keep this show alive,heck sell it to CABLE!!!!!!!
One of the best shows on TV – please keep this show on.
Don’t cancel the show! We’ve been waiting to see when it will come back on!! We looked forward to it every week!
Please bring back “The Firm” – it was one of just a few TV series I watched.
NO!!!!!!!!! DON’T CANCELL this show, it’s a good show. QUIT MESSING WITH THE TIME SLOTS, and maybe you’d find the ratings would increase. I’m tired of watching reality shows, and shows with seduction and vulgar language. My family watched this show, from my 21 yr old daughter and her husband to my 84 yr old mother. Please bring it back, this show required that you use your brain.
This series is GREAT, Always a new twist in each episodes. I hope you keep this show alive , it is never boring, similar to Missing , an ABC show, I hope goes to a 3rd season. Another good show Tera Nova, got axed after one season. Where is peoples adventure
at . They have stooped to a low degree of metal dumbness. At least I still have Falling Skies, another favorite of mine- going into the 3rd season.
I am very disappointed that you are not showing new episodes of such a great show. !! You ALWAYS take the great shows away and replace them with either reality shows or totally stupid shows. You have a great cast that works well together. The public wants new episodes or we wouldn’t be leaving comments on this site. Bring it back please!!!
I also am very disappointed that you have cancelled The Firm I thougt it was a great show really hope that you bring it back Great show
Good grief, another well acted show is gone. I think I am going to stop looking for why the shows I enjoy are not showing up on the schedules. I must have really bad taste OR maybe I am guilty of watching shows that require the viewer to think a tad… So sorry The Firm did not make it. There needs to be something for those of us who refuse to watch all the reality TV that is not reality…
Thought it was the best show on the air.
Please bring it back.
Loved this show!! Please bring it back!!