Tonight, NBC airs the ninth episode of their action drama The Player. Is this the last episode? Has the show been cancelled or will it be back with more episodes in 2016?
Set in Las Vegas, The Player follows a huge game in which world events are predicted, gambled upon and influenced by a shadowy elite. Controlling the game is the “The Pitt Boss,” a mysterious Mr. Johnson (Wesley Snipes). “The Dealer” is Cassandra (Charity Wakefield) and she recruits rogue FBI agent Alex Kane (Philip Winchester) as “The Player”. Alex is driven by the need to find out who killed his wife. Damon Gupton also stars.
Debuting on September 24th, The Player got off to a poor start in the ratings, averaging a 1.16 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.86 million viewers. The second episode’s numbers were even worse with a 0.95 in the demo and 4.58 million. The numbers have dwindled lower since then.
After the fifth episode, NBC cut The Player’s episode order down to just nine installments but kept the series on the air to finish out its run. The network (and fans) were likely hoping that the numbers would improve once CBS’ highly-rated Thursday night football concluded but it didn’t happen. The Player’s viewership actually dropped even lower.
NBC hasn’t officially cancelled The Player but then, networks rarely officially cancel any of their shows. One thing’s for sure, the network won’t be ordering any more episodes so tonight’s will end up being the defacto series finale. It’s game over for The Player.
They’ve also already committed the show’s timeslot to other programming. Starting January 7th, the Thursdays at 10pm timeslot will be taken over by new series Shades of Blue starring Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta.
What do you think? Have you been enjoying The Player TV series? Do you think it should have been cancelled or saved and given more time to prove itself?
I loved the show lots of action. So no matter re shows?
This was one of tube better new shows. Instead of cancelling it should have been moved to Wednesday night, which in my opinion has the weakest programming schedule of the week.
We really enjoy The Player. It toTok a few episodes to get into it, but by the last few, we were hooked. Hope to see it back!
I’d like to know who does the ratings.
Bummer – I LOVE this show. I looked forward to it every week. Great concept, Actors were exceptional. The story line was intriguing.
I really enjoyed The Player! It’s a fresh, new idea and a good mix of old school crime drama with cutting edge technology. I’ll be keeping hope alive that the show will continue.
me too
Absolutely loved this show! It took a few weeks for me to really get in to the characters and figure out what the gist of the whole show was about. It’s actually written very smart and if they would give it a little more time, I think people would actually love this show. Quite interesting and not your average run of the mill drama. We need more shows like this! Please don’t cancel this show…. Television is over-run by mindless comedies. It was refreshing to have an intelligent drama on. We need more shows like this one.
Ridiculous that they cancel all the great shows and leave crap on the air. Starting to wonder if watching new series is even worth it. Why invest time in developing characters to just toss them aside after only a few episodes. Perhaps advertising the show better or a different slot was the more logical choice. Wish Netflix or some other station would buy the rights to this storyline- the storyline and actors were amazing and worth another season.
Wow, The Player was a great show. I don’t know why NBC cancelled it.
So disappointed this show was cxd! They could of at least finished the storyline!
NBC stands for NoBrainCancellations! This was one of the best shows they could have had! No chance to devekop! At least I got to see a couple good episodes. NBC-you missed your mark again!
Unbelievable – another great show canceled. I was looking to see when new season started and found out it was not renewed. This is why people don’t bother watching the first season of a show – you get involved with characters and story line only to be left hanging. Goodbye first season shows. I’ll wait till I know the powers that be have given the okay to keep it on the air – then I’ll watch.
NBC should give shows more time to build an audience! Really enjoyed this show, am very disappointed it will not continue.
This was one of the best new action series out there. I can’t believe the ratings were low — maybe the time slot they stuck it in? They could dump some of the crap that airs & keep the Player going…….. although I don’t know how Philip Winchester can do both extreme series at the same time………
I taped the player and haven’t watched it till the christmas holidays. It’s great. The problem with broadcast channels is that that don’t give new shows time to find their audience or better the audience time to find them. NBC tossed a winner