Move over Outlaw, NBC has cancelled another new series. The spy dramedy Undercovers is ending its run after 13 episodes.
Undercovers revolves around a married pair of former spies who are pulled back into service after their close friend goes missing. The TV show features the talents of Boris Kodjoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mekia Cox, Carter MacIntyre, Gerald McRaney, and Ben Schwartz.
The series stumbled right out of the gate and attracted a disappointing 2.1 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic and 8.7 million viewers. In week two, the demo fell by 24% to a 1.6 rating and the numbers essentially kept on falling. Last night’s episode hit a new demo low with a 1.3 rating and 5.913 million total viewers.
Though NBC ordered four additional scripts in mid-October, the studio suspected that that show’s been doomed for quite awhile. Today, the network made it official — Undercovers has been cancelled.
It remains to be seen if fans of the series will get to see all 13 installments. Seven episodes have aired so far and three more are scheduled for November 10th, November 17th, and December 1st. NBC has a Shrek holiday special scheduled for Thanksgiving eve (November 24th) and The Sing-Off will take over the timeslot on December 8th.
Three episodes of Undercovers will be left on the shelf at that point and the network will decide at a later date if or when they’ll air.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that Undercovers is coming to an end? Why do you think it didn’t catch on? How would you have fixed it?
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My wife and I loved this show. We’ll be sorry to see it go.
I enjoy UC I think the series is entertaining I also see no reason to cancel the series. Give this series chance…. I watch this series every Wednesday and the time slot was perfect for me. I’m not a big fan of NBC in the first, but thought for once they had a series that I enjoyed watching.
#undercovers fans tell NBC how you feel by helping sign the petition http://www.petitiononline.com/Undr9078/petition.html please spread the word so we can help save this show!!
I agree with ch. I think NBC is shooting itself in the foot by canceling decent shows too early. Viewers are not encouraged to watch a new show at all if they know its just going to get the axe. Furthermore, I do think that Undercovers was a good show…sure it had some kinks to work out but I feel most new shows do and this show was good enough for NBC to let it try to work things out at least through the beginning of season 2.
Once again another reason to really pull viewers from the networks. I have just turned off the TV because every show that I get interested in they pull the plug on after several runs. I happened to love this show and truly hate to see it leave the network. But again, it is on NBC — that is the first problem!! Maybe if it was on another network like A&E, Sci-Fi, TNT, USA, etc. the show would still be running!!!
As soon as the female lead said her character used sexual manipulation to get the job done, I scratched it off the list. It’s a tiresome device that is insulting to the intelligence of both genders. Haven’t these people noticed the shows that survive are actually driven by great WRITING? I think Baywatch was the exception, not the rule, of what we want to see.
I enjoyed the series very much and have watched every episode. I applaud J.J. Abrams for taking a chance by producing a 007-like show with African -American actors playing the lead roles. Both of the leads where beautiful and aptly capable of creating a variety of character types – including foreign languages and accents. Both of them were fit enough to handle the physical fighting scenes quite well. The secondary characters were also fun, quirky and interesting to watch. I do not think there was to much romance between the two leads – they were a married couple for crying… Read more »
I also think this show was good, but a little contrived. There have been so many other shows just like this. They should have done something more to distinguish it. Same old criminals, same old exotic locations. Same old “tech guy” who gets in the way. Same old “director guy” who just gives the secret plan then disappears. Maybe if there was some kind of twist on the type of bad guys they tracked down, such as a bunch of corrupt politicians, or white collar criminals embezzeling billions from foreign governments… I dunno. Sorry to see it go, but only… Read more »
Good riddance. Maybe if the show had some writers with imagination it would not have been cancelled. Plus the two leads had no chemistry whatsoever. They were both pretty to look at, but a show cannot survive on looks alone. All the writers did was re-write the same script week after week. This only worked for Three’s Company!
I think this is why a lot of new shows never catch on anymore. People are sick of investing their time in a show only to have it canceled before it is given a chance to succeed. You know if new shows were put on the air and had to be given an entire first season regardless of ratings there would be far less garbage on TV and good shows would be given the chance to gain an audience.
I agree 100%. Last season 84 shows were canceled. And over 30 of those were new shows. What the heck do the networks expect if they won’t show any faith in their shows?
I really enjoyed the show. I think in time it would have found its feet but now it will not have that opportunity. Why is it that predominately white shows can limp along forever but shows with african american leads only get a limited window of opportunity?
I liked UC. The two leads were extremely good-looking people. They had chemistry together.
The plots were a little weak, and the two made out too much on certain episodes. It needed more action and some conflict between the two and other characters, but, in time, it could have been a better show.
Why can’t the network moved the show into another time period and see what happens before pulling the plug? Thursdays at 10pm would have been a good option.
I’m sad to see it go so soon.
Looks like another opportunity to bring back Law & Order.
Law and Order: Los Angeles is worse that Under Covers and it has not been canceled.
The more shows NBC cancels, the less viewers NBC will have. People are getting tired of getting interested in TV shows only to have them canceled every time we turn around-so interests are going down!!!
It’s a good show but it is on the wrong network.