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This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight).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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My husband and I look forward to this show every week. We love this show! It’s a good show with an amazing mind twisting plot. We used to watch it on Thursday and still watch it on Saturdays. BRING IT BACK! All the good shows get cancelled. Please keep it! It was just getting to the good part. The plot has really thickened!
I simply loathe the cavalier way the networks show and cancel and manipulate good programs like the Firm. Love it! It was in the TV schedule tonight. What a disappointment! At least show in on the web site?
My husband and I look forward to The Firm each week. We watched it on Thurs. and have been watching on Saturday. We have to search the web to find out what is going on from one week to the other but we still watch it.
We also look forward to watching the Firm, however the weekends are busy so we usually watch it online.
I like the show a lot. Bummer that the ratings are so low. I hope they show the rest of the season. Any way to see the rest of them if it gets canceled before?
My husband and I don’t watch much TV together, but we really enjoy The Firm and look forward to it every week. What a HUGE disappointment not to find it on tonight, but instead have that disgusting Betty White on instead. Please don’t cancel it. I can understand why it doesn’t do well on a Sat. night. Change it to a better time slot, give it some good publicity, and watch it soar.
I’m so sorry that NBC cancelled The Firm. Hopefully another channel will do a better job of airing it.
My husband and I look forward to this show every week! We hope it doesn’t get cancelled.
I like the show its the best thing on Saturday nights, kindly do not cancel. We could do with a lot less of these reality shows, cancel them.
Why do all the good shows get canceled? My husband and I love this show. We DVR it and watch it every week. The Firm is action-packed, suspenseful, and family friendly. All the actors are great and do a wonderful job of making their characters believable. Please don’t cancel The Firm!
It is so maddening to tune in to “The Firm”, which I look forward to all week, and see it replaced by a so-so Candid Camera rip-off. Even TiVo was surprised by the change in lineup–it recorded the program as “The Firm”. Please give this show a break! Put it on Wednesday night, when there’s nothing else I like to watch! NBC programmers are a bunch of losers and they don’t know a thing about what the public (the real people) want!
I think it is an excellent show and my wife look forward to it each week. It is the only show that we consistently watch on a regular basis. I hope it doesn’t get cancelled
We really look forward to the show. The actors are great and we are big fans of John Gresham! Please don’t cancel.
My wife and I really enjoy and look forward to watching “The Firm”. Please don’t cancel it!!!
Love this program. Hope it doesn’t get cancelled. It is so intelligent, action-packed, captivating and thrilling. I look forward to it also and must stream the episodes on my computer which doesn’t compare. Please keep it on. I tell everyone about it!