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This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight).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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Love ‘The Firm’ very disappointed to have to search for it lately.
Please don’t cancel the Firm. This is a great show, that you have to actually think.
Best show of the season.
Did they really think that this trash was going to fly? Just listening to Josh Lucas’s hissy voice was enough to make me reach for the remote. The story lines are ridiculous.
Love the firm! Smart show!
Luv the firm! Lucas is amazing and hot!
Please don’t cancel….a tv series with plots and mystery.
Love the firm…. Pvr it though and watch it later. Does this effect ratings?
I love the show. Please do not cancel.
We looooooooove it!
Just love the firm. Great characters. Outstanding plots. Interesting format. PLEASE don’t cancel it.
Please do not cancel The Firm.
The Firm is one of the only shows my husband and I both enjoy (and it takes a lot for him to like a drama). I’ve tried to encourage all of my friends to watch to help the ratings as much as possible. I will be upset if it’s cancelled especially if it’s before we know what happens. We got into The Nine a few years ago. It was about a bank robbery and was cancelled mid season. We still don’t know who robbed the bank!
Please don’t cancel the firm. It is actually one of the only clean shows on now days that isn’t a reality show or a blood and guts show.
My wife and I love the twists and turns and the time lapse techniques. Definitely one of the most entertaining dramas on TV. Please keep The Firm on TV: ALL the characters are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My husband and I love the firm! It is the only intelligent show on TV! I am a legal secretary and a realtor, and my husband is a sales engineer with an MBA. It challenges us and we want to keep it on the air.
Please dont cancel the Firm!