Despite their differences, Oscar and Felix are sticking together — and CBS is sticking with their show. The network has renewed The Odd Couple for a second season.
On this version of The Odd Couple, endearing slob Oscar Madison (Matthew Perry) is a sports-writer and uptight neat freak Felix Unger (Thomas Lennon) is a photographer. They’re two former college buddies who become unlikely roommates after the demise of their marriages. Other castmembers are Lindsay Sloane, Wendell Pierce, and Yvette Nicole Brown.
The series had a great launch in February (thanks in part to the series finale of Two and a Half Men) with a 3.08 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 13.573 million viewers. However, the ratings saw a big drop in week two and have been dwindling downward ever since.
Last week’s episode hit a new series low of a 1.5 demo rating with 7.028 million. That’s hardly a positive sign for the future. Still, CBS renewed it anyway. Perhaps they’re hoping that the series just needs a little more time to catch on. If it doesn’t, perhaps we’ll see a repeat of what happened to The Millers earlier this season — the series was cancelled and dropped from the schedule midway into its second season. Regardless, fans of the show will have more episodes to watch.
What do you think? Do you like The Odd Couple? Do you think CBS made the right decision in renewing it or should they have cancelled it instead?
Great show. Matt Perry is great.So is Tom Lennon. Show will catch on in season 2
I love The Odd Couple and so glad it will be back for a second season! Matthew PERRY is my favorite friend and he rocks the part of OSCAR!
I love this show.. so funnyyy !! Great cast they work well together. Good chemistry!!
As the show got past the first few,I started to like it. I’m glad it is renewed. I will give any show a chance if Wendell Pierce it in it.
That woman who plays Thomas Lennon’s love interest is really good and also cute.
I’m so happy this got renewed and am looking forward to next season so glad that Matthew Perry has broken the curse of his shows only getting 1 season.
I love the odd couple. This show is fantastic! I love Felix and Lindsay. They should renew it still. The original was good yes but changes are also great and I love this change.
I like the show, the first few were not that good, but they are definitely improving.
I refuse to watch it. Why rehash classics. You can’t improve on Walter Mathau / Jack Lemmon or Jack Krugman / Tony Randall. You just don’t mess with real classics.
Who says that this won’t generate renewed interest in the old show and movies by revisiting the idea? What is this” you can’t remake a classic” nonsense. Who knows for certain that is what they were trying to do? I don’t, and neither do you.
Thank goodness for Matthew Perry for having his own series finally breaking through.
I am glad that they have t a good new show for a change. The networks have been canceling shows so quickly lately. I hope it gets many more seasons.
I can only say ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? I love Matthew Perry and really wanted to like this show, but it is so badly written and acted. It reminds me of a really bad stage play. I watched it 3 times and finally had had enough!!!
Sorry Greg, but I love this show. It’s actually laugh out loud funny (unlike the stink bomb 2 broke girls!). I’m so glad to see that Matthew Perry is in a winner of a show this time. The rest of the cast is great as well and I’m thrilled that they renewed it.
This show was very lucky to be renewed–the ratings steadily declined after the opening episode–this hardly can be classified as Matthew Perry’s “breakout”—if the writing and acting (especially Perry’s) don’t improve this show won’t get half way through next season
I concur. Once this show is out of the shadow of Big Bang, it will quickly wither and die, like what happened to the Miller’s. A horrendously bad show.
This must be the least expensive show on network TV. How in gods name this show got renewed for a second season? It’s really unbelievable how executives at the CBS network could continue a show of this caliber. It’s really hard to fathom if you’ve ever seen the show. Hell, just by looking at the teasers you tell what crap show this is. Unbelievable
Are yo so certain it doesn’t deserve more time? How many shows are there on TV today that are better than this show? I would argue that half of it is worse than this show. If the alternative to the REALLY stupid shows is The Odd Couple, I’ll take it.