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This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight).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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Well that figures……I finally find a suspense show that is actually suspenseful, interesing and written with some degree of intelligence and what happens? It gets slotted into the worst time slot there is, on its way to cancellation. I know the ratings weren’t great this year….but the replacement shows on Thursday nights aren’t worth watching. Can you at least play out this season of the Firm before you cancel it? No wonder people are giving up on network tv. Good old NBC….never give a show a chance!
I finally found a great show on TV!!!! DON’T CANCEL “THE FIRM”!!!! I agree with so many of these comments!! I watch the show online and sometimes on my Iphone app. I think the show is getting more exciting and intriguing with each new episode. I have a friend in Mexico that has viewed a few episodes and loves it too! Sounds like a lot of people are watching this show on their computers or on demand.
I lose all hope for my fellow peers and the future generation when I look at the crap that gets the highest ratings. I feel insulted that networks want me to buy in to such unsophisticated garbage. Keep The Firm, or at least sell it to AMC or a smaller cable venue. So tired of trashy tv. Unfortunately, I’m the minority. The Firm is fantastic programming that deserves a second chance. It was given little to no promotion at launch… The networks were just waiting for it to fail.
Loved the show, can’t stand thge stupid reality shows. Enough reality, in fact too much many years ago.. I do not watch any of them.
Yes I still watch The Firm. Best show on TV. I have all episodes on my DVR. Move it if you must but please do not cancel.
Great show love it, don’t cancel it………. the Housewifes of where-ever are not the real everyday housewives…..Jersey shores is a embarrasment to society, certainly doesn’t teach that generation anything worth while. Drinking, sex, vulgar language, acting stupid, no responsibility, no real jobs, how to argue & cut each other down… Too much JUNK on TV today… There are too many channels so there just trying to fill the slots with anything they can find.
This is such a great show! We cant wait to see what happens next. There is so much trash that gets higher ratings and something really well done thrown into a Saturday night spot gets lost. Really a reflection of what people value these days. I hope there’s a way to give this show the shot it deserves!
I don’t kow what the HELL NBC is doing. First, they got rid of Prime Suspect which was an outstanding show and could have run for years if they’d given it half a chance. Then, they canceled The Firm, a show not quite as good as Prime Suspect, but still better than almost everything else NBC has. Then they presented Awake as if it were the second coming, but it’s based on a premise that cannot and will not sustain itself, and now is barely clinging to the schedule. NBC won’t be happy until they find another “reality” aka “cheap… Read more »
Please don’t cancel this show. It’s the only show worth watching these days. So sick of “reality” shows. If I wanted reality I would turn off the TV. Wake up! We’re sick of that stuff. The Firm is the first thing worth watching in along time and the actors are ALL fabulous!
The Firm is a thrill-a-minute show for the sophisticated viewer, which I suppose leaves out half the morons in the country and at NBC. DO NOT cancel such a well done show as the Firm. It is clever and enthralling making it the best hour on TV. If NBC drops the Firm I can only pray Fox snatches it up and makes it the hit it deserves to be!
We love this show. Please keep it on the air. I couldn’t believe it was moved from Thursday to Saturday. This is a wonderful show. Please do not cancel it. Thanks!
Give the show a better chance. Seriously. Keep it on Saturdays. There’s nothing on on Sarurdays and it’s a very good show. Not everyone wants to watch reruns. Move it to another time slot.
The Firm is the best show on TV, but I guess an intelligent show like The Firm doesn’t stand a chance in today’s world of “check your brain at the door” TV. If a show like this gets cancelled we doomed to suffer forever with Jersey Shore, Toddlers and Tiaras etc…
Don’t cancel this show. The stories are well written and captivating.
I agree with others that NBC failed to advertise this show as it should have so I think NBC should give this show a 2nd chance and extend it for another season.
I absolutely love The Firm! I hope they don’t cancel it but they will because they are stupid.
I totally agree. Take away those stupid reality shows. Why in the world are people so obsessed with that garbage. Watching what goes on in those peoples lives. Like the Kardashians getting richer. What talent do they have????