CBS’ Sunday night medical drama, Three Rivers, is destined to be cancelled here in the US but at least the show is still on the air.
The network hasn’t announced any plans to pull the Alex O’Loughlin series yet, perhaps in part due to the actor’s active fanbase from his days on Moonlight. Apparently people from the actor’s home land of Australia aren’t as sentimental. Three Rivers has already been cancelled there.
Three Rivers was pulled from the schedule of Australia’s TEN network after just one airing.
The premiere ran on a Wednesday night and attracted fewer than 500,000 viewers, putting it in fourth place for the timeslot. The show was replaced on the schedule by an NCIS repeat the following week.
TEN has yet to indicate any interest in returning Three Rivers to the schedule.
What do you think? Why isn’t this show working? Bad storylines, poor acting, a flawed premise, or something else?
This show is excellent! I don’t know why more people aren’t watching. It’s one of my favorite new shows this season. I really hope it doesn’t get canceled. That would be such a shame.
I hope they don’t cancel Three Rivers! I like this show so much more than the other medical shows that are on the air. I feel the reason it doesn’t do well in the ratings is due to football being on! This show very rarely starts at 9:00 PM due to football.
I LOVE THREE RIVERS!!!! I don’t think that it is fair for the network to cancel a show that has not been given a fair chance to really show what it can do. Frist of all they have it on Sunday night which is filled with football or basketball (when the season starts.). I think its a good show and it deserves a shot. The actors are great together and I think that the show could really make it. I also think that the show gives good insight on what happens when doctors are faced with choices.
i watched it for the first time last sunday and I LOVE IT
i hope it doesnt get cacelled
it seems like every show that actually interest me gets cancelled
but i forgot about the show then i seen it was on last sunday and watched it and now i cant wait until sunday to watch it again
Three Rivers has got a great cast! A former vampire (Alex O), a former government agent (Alfie Woodward), and a former lesbia n (Katherine Moening). You’d think this show would have a large loyal following. Too bad that the show doesn’t have a “real feeling” to it. The plots are very predictable. The characters have very little interaction with one another. The hospital is very “sterile”, there’s absolutely no realism to it, there aren’t any doors in the individual rooms. Operations happen in minutes. I would love to see this show improve cause I really love the main stars!
There are so many new hospital shows , too many.
They feel old and stale.
I have been watching the BCC online and they seem to have such interesting and different shows, like Ashes to Ashes and I love the new Dr. Who stuff.
I wish all the TV did not feel so “samey” in the U.S.
I do love The Closer, and Saving Grace, and In Plain Sight and of course House, (which features the amazing British Actor, Hugh Laurie.
Love Alex! Really loved him in Moonlight and wish it could have at least been finished. Three Rivers is good but just not as good as Moonlight. Find a good series for Alex as he really is good to look at and he agree he can act.
I love Alex but the show is real BORINGGGG! It makes me yawn everytime i sit down to watch it.
I could watch Alex O’Loughlin just stand still for an hour — but Three Rivers isn’t doing him any justice. I agree with other’s coments, that there is no personal development on the people. It’s hard to care about someone you don’t know anything about except that he’s supposed to be a great physician. Someone needs an organ – someone dies – etc. etc. – week after week. Boring!!! If the writers would give the actors personalities like Grey’s Anatomy this show might have a chance.
I watch this show only because of Alex O
people they don’t “bring back” shows, they can be “saved”…party of five…jericho…but rarely are they brought back. this show is fresh and has great potential…i’m tired of ER wannabes …there will never be another ER…deal with it….I love where I think this is going and Alex O’Loughlin is doing a fine job of selling the show…just stick in there….
Three Rivers doesn’t work well because there is limited character development and only the cases. Given the ultra-modern feel of the show, it’s hard to believe there is a hospital like that. The cases are the same every week–someone needs a transplant, someone dies, and will they get the organ in time? That can get old real quick. Moonlight had poor writing, which is why that show failed. It was rather corny. That show had too much character development and it’s hard to find something in between. Although Joss Whedon is “out there”, he struck a good balance between character… Read more »
One show was screened in Australia – not even a fair go in anyone’s language. Just give Alex a show he is damned good to look at and can act.
I agree Bob Moonlight has to come back. Alex is Mick St. John for sure. It is his role he was awesome in it and will be again. I love him no matter what he’s in but I much prefer Moonlight. When it does come back it will not be through CBS, but WB owns the rights to the Moonlight series.
Moonlight’s story was not finished …that’s why I see Mick St John(with short hair) not Alex’s doctor character when I view Three Rivers….Cbs should cancel Three Rivers and finish the Moonlight saga….send Alex on vacation to grow his hair back and announce the return of Moonlight for next years TV season…