CBS Cancels 3 Lbs.
 

That was fast.

We don't need any more doctor shows.

While I agree, it's better than another cop/lawyer show.

This was the one new show (aside from Shark) that the wife liked. She will definately be annoyed. I didn't care for it too much (but miss Smith quite a bit).

That's only one pound per week!

My Dad was telling me how good this show was, I watched it hated it, and predicted it's near-immediate demise. I win this round.

I agree. But what we do need more of is WWIII/end of the world/mayors son cheating on his wife shows.

I liked the 1st 3 episodes, but I wasn't optimistic on it's long term survival. I'll miss seeing Indira Varma....I hope she lands another TV role.

I think the 5 remaining unaired episodes will probably be posted on CBS' Innertube site at some point as they did with Smith.

CBS Tuesday at 10pm is the new Fox Friday. I think CBS is just too spoiled. The ratings both Smith and 3 Lbs. delivered were not terrible by any means, just terrible when put on par with their own shows. Those sorts of numbers would be considered a minor hit on Fox, and would at least get time to breath on NBC and ABC if not a second season.

Fucking hell...I was really liking this show - had a great cast. I also really liked Smith too... fuck you CBS.

I guess if CBS doesn't see double digits, they will pull the plug.

Speaking of cancellations, has the shows The Nine and Six Degrees of Seperation (I think both shows were ABC shows) been cancelled? It seems like I have not seen new episodes of either in quite some time.

Both shows are off the air, but neither have been officially canceled.

That says very little about NBC with their ratings track record (bottom). And have you SEEN their mid season line-up?! :horse:

It still makes me chuckle that House (17.16m viewers this past Tuesday, without the aid of a strong lead-in), Fox's biggest scripted hit, is produced by NBC/Universal.

Coincidentally, if House were on CBS, it would have been canceled after its 3rd episode (Actually, probably its second, since it only managed 6.7 million viewers a week until its post-American Idol spot.)

One of the worst titles for a network tv show .... ever.

What genius' thought that one up.

I didn't think it'd last long from the start...so not real surprised.

What the hell is "3 lbs?"

...is what I would be saying if I had not watched the Cowboys/Colts game the other day and seen the ad for it.

Thats the last I've seen of CBS since then.

Since it's a show about brain surgeons, the human brain supposedly weighs 3 lbs.

Even when I saw the title of the show, I didn't get it right away. I don't think most Americans even know that stat.

I watched one episode, I guess the last one? that was on this week, and was bored. I tried to like it, but I fell asleep during a commercial. There just wasn't anything about it that made me like it and want to tune in again.

I was going to say the same thing. CBS is very quick to pull the plug on anything that doesn't get like 10 million viewers or something. They don't seem to have any patience to grow a show. I do think they are very spoiled by the huge ratings their other big procedurals pull in.

I think there are times when it's not just being spoiled about performance -- it's about having no faith in the direction a show is going. While it's hard to claim that about Smith, I can see how that might be the issue with a midseason launch like this one.

No surprise here...One of the worst shows I watched this year. When the lady was told she had a brain tumor and was basically going to die, she and her husband were nice and calm especially when the supposed greatest neurologists ever decided to be all willy nilly with the brain surgery. Hell Jericho is a more believable story than this was.

Guess he's not going to need that hot air balloon..

I saw a reference to 5 remaining episodes in another thread. Just curious, where is this coming from? The article I saw made no mention of it.

Thanks.

:lol:

Have them recorded, so I guess I will just delete them.

This article mentions that 8 episodes have been produced

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds40166.html?rss

The BBC got this show relatively cheap at just over $500,000 an episode

Thanks DJariya. I'm never sure how many episodes "ahead" these shows are.

but as we learned in jerry mcguire, the human head weighs 8 lbs. :lol:

(someone had to say it)

I think this was just a victim of too many shows and starting too late. Seriously, if you look at past trends, VERY few shows have been cancelled. Fox started their fall in August and here we are at the end of sweeps and what has actually been cancelled? Vanished, Kidnapped, Justice, wahtever the hell that Rey Loilitta show was, and I think one of the comedies. In the past; by the start of Nov sweeps, like 1/2 the new shows were gone. This season, even Justice was only recently cancelled. The Nine and 6 degrees both lasted at least until Lost went on Hiatus and neither have been cancelled...yet. It really seems this season that EVERYTHING is sticking around a bit longer than normal.

Do you think they have figured out yet that the reason so many people tuned out of the nine at 10:30 was because lost always ran long and people just recorded until 10:30 to be sure they got it all?

I thought the first episode was very lackluster, the second was a little better. I haven't watched the third yet but my wife says she wants to see it so I will eventually. I won't miss the show.

I'm not going to even bother watching the 3rd episode. I was leaning towards dropping the show anyway, but why should I give it another chance if the network isn't?

I watched the firts two episodes as Boston Legal wasn't on, but I switched back to BL this week. No huge loss, but they should think about trying shows on other nights. This show would have been a good companion to Numb3rs on Friday.

Darn, I didn't even know this show was a medical drama or I might have watched it. I heard the title and just assumed it was a reality show about Nicole Richie.

Innertube sucks. I tried to watch the remaining Smith episodes, but it would constantly buffer and delay on me. I don't have this same problem with NBC's site.

I've had no problems with Innertube. I've watched Jericho and the episodes played smoothly with no problems.

You forgot Runaway on the CW. Technically Vanished is simply wrapping after its 13 episode order - same as Kidnapped.

BTW, is something wrong with your keyboard? I corrected some of your quote.

I actually enjoyed Runway and completely forgot about it. Still, not much was cancelled this season. And, no nothing wrong with my keyboard. It was 1 AM and I had been up for 36 hours.