To little surprise, CBS has pulled Three Rivers from the Sunday night schedule, effective immediately. Will the show be back? Has it been cancelled?
Three Rivers follows a group of dedicated doctors and medical staffers who help those in need of organ transplants. The series stars Alex O’Loughlin, Katherine Moennig, Daniel Henney, Justina Machado, Christopher Hanke, Amber Clayton, and Alfre Woodard.
The medical drama got off to a slow start in the ratings back in early October. Unfortunately, the numbers only got worse as the weeks wore on and it became a likely candidate for early cancellation.
To CBS’ credit, the network has been patient with the series and has kept it on the air. Two weeks ago, the network tried switching timeslots with Cold Case. While the veteran crime drama benefited from the time change and attracted more viewers, Three Rivers did not.
Three Rivers has now been pulled from the Sunday night schedule. As expected, Cold Case will slip into the earlier timeslot and repeats of various crime dramas will take over at 10pm.
A CBS spokesperson has said that Three Rivers’ fate has not yet been decided but the network has not ordered any additional installments beyond the initial 13 episodes.
Eight episodes of the drama have been aired, leaving five on the shelf. CBS will likely burn them off either on Saturdays or during the summer months but, unless the execs have a major change of heart, Three Rivers is essentially cancelled.
What do you think? What went wrong with Three Rivers? Is Sunday night football to blame for the show’s failure to attract more viewers or was the show flawed?
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I’m sure my opinion doesn’t count, but if this show was on during prime time, Monday – Thursday at 9 pm as a lead in to one of your hotter shows, such as CSI, and left it there for a while, you would find that this show would be a hit. This show would be a great substitue for the long running NBC hit ER. The characters are charismatic and very likable.
Please give this show another shot before canceling.
Thank yhou
It was flat from the start. No gloss or shimmer. Unattractive boring characters. If people want real hospital shows they have them on some channels such as life in the ER and others it’s called reality shows. I want exciting drama with gloss and attractive strong characters. Three Rivers just was a bore.
I have extensive hospital experience and generally do not watch any of the medical shows. But I did make an exception and watched all of the episodes of Three Rivers that aired. I thought it was an excellent example of ethical and moral medical teams working together to achieve the best for their patients. I was very disappointed when it was no longer on TV.
We loved the show – with the abundance of medical drama’s available to choose from we definately feel that this show stood out above the rest…..Its a shame that the audience out there has not given this show a viewing – Just noticed that a new episode will aire on Saturday – Thank you, I will enjoy the last 5 new episodes this summer and hope that the audience out there will watch the show…maybe by chance CBS will change their minds on the cancellation. Oh, one more thing, that Alex is absolutely yummy!
I loved this show….I was hurt when I found out it was cancelled 🙁 …….it will be on wednesday and I am going to watch every one of them!!!!!
CBS posted that the reason for cancelling Three Rivers is because it was pulling viewers away from COLD CASE. RED FLAG——-CBS——–You are beating a dead horse with COLD CASE. We want something new…and when you constantly cancel the good stuff we stop watching the C R A P that you leave on. COLD CASE is washed up and constantly repeating story lines DUH
I almost hate to enjoy a show too much these days. If I like something its sure to be canceled. This was a great show.
I LOVE this show! Especially the first episode which talked about the patient getting an LVAD. My husband got an LVAD in October 2008 and I think more people should know about these lifesaving devices. Anyway, they could take away some of the stupid shows like The Bachelor or Amazing Race or Hell’s Kitchen or some the stupid reality shows that make no sense and are not worth turning on the TV!
I just love this show…I hate that it was canceled.Why is it they take all the good shows off the air leave all those stupid sit0-coms on…I mean reallyh how many sit coms .do we really need???? Bring Three Rivers back,please….
Three Rivers is NOT coming back; CBS will be showing the remaining episodes that were shot for the series. This is according to Alex O’Loughlin’s blog on My Space.
I just read someone’s comments that said the show was coming back. As much as I hoped it would, if it does Alex O’Loughlin would not be in it as he is staring in the new Hawaii 5-O that starts in the Fall of 2010. Don’t know how that would be, but I will give the new show a chance just because Alex is in it along with one of the guys from Lost.
@Linda: They’re airing the five remaining episodes on Saturday nights in June. The show’s not going back into production.
So I hear it is coming back!!!!!
I hear int he next couple weeks we may have a chance to save it. Sop DVRing it (my bad as well as many others) and appreciate that we may get another chance!!!!
Now the sadness of the loss of the other 5 shows….
Give it a better time slot. This show was great.
I really liked the show, so did my friends and family members. I believe Cbs should put it back on the air in slots where the higher rated shows aren’t on, therefore the ratings will increase. This is the simplistic solution, also it will keep the Three Rivers viewers happy. This is called cause and effect.
i loved this show alot…. i want it to come back on…..