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This week’s episode of The Firm has been replaced by a rerun of the 90-minute premiere of Fashion Star (which debuts tonight).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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I love watching this show – I mostly catch up on demand. Please do not cancel – I need to know how this ends!
It will be a real loss if we lose The Firm. It is a well written and very exciting show. Like many other comments… I have to search to find it and usually end up watching it on my laptop. I certainly hope they at least air the rest of this season. It is a great show… very compelling viewing!!! Please do not cancel it NBC!
My wife and I look forward to The Firm every week. Can you please give all of us a chance to at least watch the rest of the first season?
I love this show. There are no more great show on like this. Everyone at my job love this show. We discuss it on monday morning and sometime rewatch it online. please please please keep this show, Maybe it is not the shows from NBC but NBC is not a popular channel because of this crap. I watch NBC just for this show. Hope another station pick it up.
I love this show and hope it stays on for some time. I watch it on Hulu and can’t wait to see the next episode.
The Firm is the ONLY TV show I have regularly watched since 24 ended. I am baffled that the ratings are so low.
What if this show does get canceled though….does that mean we will never see the final 12 episodes? Will another station pick it up or would it ever be for sale?
Got us hooked, don’t just leave us hanging…please finish out episodes.
I agree with Beverly…I NEVER commit to watching a new show because it inevitably gets cancelled just as I’m hooked (see “The Unusuals” for example)…however I gave this one a shot and…
Please at least air the remaining episodes and allow the FEW loyal fans an opportunity to see the storyline closure…
Am so disappointed The Firm might be taken off the air; love the characters, plot(s), acting..etc. Nice to have a series of this type..are ratings everything?? We are definately NOT reality show watchers.
We look forward to every show and are horribly disappointed at the prospect of never finishing the series! No wonder NBC doesn’t get the ratings….get something fun like this and it’s canceled. Bummer!
Seriously? Do not cancel. Ive watched every episode on my iPad. Great show. PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL.
It seems that every time an interesting and decent show comes on–they fail to give it any publicity and put it in a bad time slot! I think that if they truly wanted it to succeed, they’d listen to what the majority of us enjoy and that would be to leave it in one time slot so that we could find it –to watch!!!! Please leave it on as it is really one of the few shows out there that makes a person really want to watch and hate for the hour to be up.
Please do not cancel the series. It’s a great show! I tend to agree with the previous person that if you keep moving it around, everyone can’t find it.
Please, Please, Please don’t cancel The Firm!!!!!!!!! It is one of my favorite shows on TV. It is a brilliant idea of a show and I enjoy watching it every week. I think it is hard for people to follow a well written show that requires the viewer to think a little. I know we are all busy and watching it religiously when it is scheduled is hard to do. I mostly catch up on On Demand. There is do many horrible shows that should be cancelled instead. Please let us finish the series and not keep us hanging!!!
I agree with most comments, but I am hooked too, I hope they find a time slot for the remaining ipisodes. They don’t even tell you where or when the show will be moved too.
NBC needs to get with the program and do some advertising like other networks. The shows they put in place of The Firm……STINK
Just my thoughts.