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This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight).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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Please do not cancel this show! I love it. I cannot wait for the next episode. why is it that a lot of dumb comedies take the place of shows with a real story line. In the beginning it was a bit hard to follow but as everything unfolded it just great. Please give it a chance.
It’s a great show. NBC didn’t give it a chance to be successful. We used to watch mostly NBC shows, but they cancel them so quickly we rarely watch anything on NBC anymore. Just when you start to get in to a show they take it off. If they want ratings back they need to give shows a chance. They didn’t set The Firm up to be successful to begin with, putting it on Thursday nights up against Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice.
I tv this show and love watching it. Please don’t cancel the show
I positively LOVE Josh Lucas and the rest of the cast is perfect too. The storyline is tremendous. DO NOT CANCEL this drama. Good writing too.
Great show!
Give people a chance to find it!!
I love the show! Been watching on demand just because I don’t stay awake not because I like anything else better. I think the cast is great and each episode leaves us hanging! I look forward to each week! I hope NBC finishes out the season.
This show is fantastic . Even if you miss a week , it is easy to follow. Please
do not cancel before the end of the story . John G. is such a great writer.
Mill Milla Koyle
PLEASE PLEASE DON’T CANCEL the show. I am a huge fan . I have seen every
episode and love it . John Grisham is my favorite author and I have read every one
of his books . I hope you do another one of his books as a tv show. I will flip out
if I do not see how this story ends. Never to watch NBC again . Lise Johnston
I love this show!! The actors are great and it has a really good story line, it has me on the edge of my seat every episode! I can’t understand why it would be cancelled when there are so many other bad shows out there, like all the reality shows about getting drunk and acting like an idiot!! I really hope NBC will keep it on the air.
We can not wait for the next episode to be shown! We absolutely love this series–it makes one THINK! The acting is superb. The plot, regretfully, too realistic. PLLLLLEEEEEAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
do not cancel the series. We don’t know how you figure the ratings, but we and our friends talk about this show weekly and eagerly. IT is our favorite tv show in YEARS!!!!!
I LOVE THE`SHOW….BEST ONE ON TV
I love this show! Hope you will keep it on indefinitely – Saturday night is fine.
I enjoy the Firm but it took a while for me to understand what was going on. I think the show is very good and hope that if it is cancelled that it will wrap up the ends. So many shows leave you hanging and I think that is a problem that viewers don’t want to get involved with series on the chance that they will be cancelled in mid-series.
this is a fantastic show…finally something good on tv just be cancelled. please give it a chance!!
Great show, but I can understand the bad ratings. It would be impossible for viewers to start watching the show mid-stream.
Of course it will be cancelled. It’s the best show on TV but you have to have a mind to watch it – something 99% of the TV viewing public apparently lacks.