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?
I never watch TV on Sunday nights, but Three Rivers as one reason to do so. Shame on CBS!
It is such a disgrace that Three Rivers was canceled. It was one of the best shows out there, and simply got stuck in a horrible time slot. I vote to BRING IT BACK!!!
I enjoyed Three Rivers, also because of Alex who totally excelled as Mick St. John. I feel CBS really blew it when they canceled Moonlight. Now the other networks are raking in the dough CBS could have had if they had to foresight to poll and listen to the public. I don’t know who made the decision to pull Moonlight but I hope they lost their job for stupidity!
I too was disappointed to hear ‘Three Rivers’ was canceled. For a medical drama focused on transplants, it seemed to be a great vehicle to promote transplants and how vital it is that we have people out there who are selfless and want to be unknown heroes to other people. I just found out recently that my father needs a double lung transplant and sadly here in Australia there are none available. So my dad has to wait. I have no idea how long he will have to wait, but a show like ‘Three Rivers’ showed people how vital it… Read more »
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I love Three Rivers and will be very upset at it being cancelled. It is one of the best shows on the TV right now, I can’t believe they keep the crummy shows and take off the interesting ones.
Three Rivers just wasn’t interesting. But ‘Moonlight’ was. If the network got the entire team of writers, actors, director, producer, etc together again to pick up where the vampy series left off – maybe, just maybe the chemistry of the hit ‘Moonlight’ would take off again. If not, you can buy the entire series for about $25.00 like I did. At least it has no commercials.
I want to know what idiot puts a brand new television show with no following up against Sunday night football, with a floating time schedule i.e. it comes on whenever the stupid game gets over. Nobody could find the show half the time. How incredibly stupid. Why it was never tested on another night it equally as stupid. I guess CBS keeps the stupid shows because well, they’re STUPID!!!!
I increasingly get annoyed with network television for sinking to the lowest common denominator. The reality shows may be cheap, but they look it. Why can’t intelligent adults get quality television. This only happens on cable television now, not network.
Three Rivers was a show that doctors watched, and that’s saying a lot. I beg the network to give this show a chance, or eventually they will lose all of their viewers to cable television. Is that what the networks want? Please give it another chance, in another time slot.
I think it’s pretty shortsighted to cancel Three Rivers with nothing to replace it.
I just learned Three Rivers was canceled and it pisses me off tremendously! I’ve sat through with family members and friends who have had to undergo transplants and let me tell you, it’s not an easy thing to survive or to witness. I thought that having Three Rivers show the TRUE way in which transplants happen would perk the interest of the public but it seems that GOOD television is just not what people want anymore. Heck, I LOVED Moonlight; excellent television show yet it was pulled too. What morons are making the decisions? Are they just throwing darts at… Read more »
I am a transplanted man, 40 y.o and I am transplanted about 5 years( in 31/12/2004). I’m so sad because the show is cancelled…no words
I’m pretty disappointed that Three Rivers is canceled, sure it wasn’t they best, i myself love House, but i still enjoyed Three Rivers, I though it was interesting that there was a show based in Pittsburgh, were I myself lived, I thought the show to be pretty interesting, but having it on Sundays, would have never worked anyway, if they would move it to another day, would be a lot more easier for everyone to watch and enjoy.
Actually, Martine said it for me. CBS swallow your pride and admt you blew it. Not just for Alex but for the other actors (British anyone and left over Dr. Who?) Moonlight was a quality show and you axed it because of the writers strike and against the wishes of a loyal fan base……. Can anyone say stupid?
Although I don’t agree with the first part of Martine’s comment( I love medical drama’s esp house and Grey’s and thought Three River’s was quite original) I do agree with the 2nd part. Moonlight was amazing and Alex was born to be Mick St John – not to say he doesn’t play other characters well but Moonlight will always be my favourite show of all time. It would be awesome to see a second series or movie and from what I have read from fans can’t see how it could poss fail. Whether or not Alex would want to revisit… Read more »
I agree with what most people have said. Three Rivers never had a chance. It was not a particularly original show (ER, anyone?) Yes, I know it was different, but it felt like “reheated stuff”, I’m sorry to say. The premise wasn’t that easy to believe for starters (what are the odds that all these transplants would happen in this manner?) Anyway, the main reason I watched it was Alex O’Laughlin. And the reason I know about Alex is Moonlight, a show that was excellent, original, fresh. Moonlight sold like hot cakes when it came out on video (that’s how… Read more »
That would require a network executive actually admitting that they just might have made a mistake … Seen any ice skaters in hell?