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This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight).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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Enjoy the show. Hate the “replacements”. It’s difficult to believe that they have a better rating. I question the kind of audience could bear to sit through them? Check out the homes you’ve placed your rating boxes. Something is afoul!
I am a lawyer and I love The Firm.
Please don’t cancel the show. I watch it every week with my brother On Demand….watch most shows this way nowadays. It’s a great show!
We love The Firm!!! Great acting and writing!! NBC please give it a chance….
We have been recording The Firm since it first aired but didn’t start watching it until we’d accumulated the first ten episodes. We’ve now watched all ten, and we love it! Please don’t cancel it!
Please don’t cancel the Firm, it’s one of the best shows I have been enjoying since the debut!!!
Figures. All the shows I like tend to get cancelled. Whenever there is a well written script, the sheep find it dull or do not understand. NBC is trying to appeal to sheep. That’s sad, but we are living among sheeps.
I LOVE this show! Why can’t NBC give it more of a chance? Geez….
I can’t believe this! Finally a good show with great actors and an awsome story and they cancle it?! Location location location! Im sure if it was on a diffrent night it would have been way up there on ratings. Too much competition on thursdays and saturdays… People like to go out. So dissapointed!
Bogus… finally a tvshow with real acting…. yet we have to sit through all of these reality dinging shows …… get in the real world Nbc
The Firm is the best show NBC has. KEEP IT ON,PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like The Firm. It’s a really good show. I thought it is well written, exciting, and has a really good cast. There is always a new twist to try to figure out. There is always some suspense that keeps me wanting to come back next week and find out what’s going to happen to which character. And the cast – they work so well together. This is a really great show. Find a spot for this show and quit moving it all around the week and clock. I tried watching Awake, which took the spot on Thursdays and can’t… Read more »
Good point. I watch and like the show as well, but have had trouble finding it. I watch very little network tv, but I watch this.
I really like this show. I don’t care at all about the sinister plot only about the courtroom drama. There are no lawyer shows anymore. Maybe if they had just let him be a lawyer the reviews would be better. I’m glad to have it on the weekend when there is nothing worth watching on television.
Please do not cancel The Firm. There are very few smart shows on tv anymore and this is one of the few. It’s going to take a bit for someone to hook to this show but give them time. Well scripted and intelligent. I can only imagine what you will choose to replace it with…sad.
I absolutely love The Firm, my boyfriend and I watch it every Sunday online after it airs the night before. I feel like since it airs on Sundays a lot of people watch it online and this is probably why the ratings and viewings are so low. Please do not cancel this show!!