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NBC Cancels ‘Outlaw’ (Jimmy Smits unemployed)
TV By the Numbers ^ | October 11, 2010 | Robert Seidman

Posted on 10/12/2010 4:59:04 AM PDT by tlb

NBC has canceled Outlaw. This news isn’t particularly surprising on the heels of another low-rated Friday performance (a 1.0 rating with adults 18-49) following an announced production shutdown,

NBC will just fill the 10pm hour with another hour of Dateline beginning this Friday, October 15 . NBC had been running Dateline from 8pm-10pm, and with the premiere of School Pride this Friday, will just shift Dateline to 9p-11p.

NBC will burn off the remaining four episodes of Outlaw at 8pm over the next 5 Saturdays (preempted on October 30 for scheduled repeats of Halloween specials).


TOPICS: Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: canceled; nbc; smits; television
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No big deal but I recall a month ago there were a couple of busy threads complaining about this show. This is the rest of the story. As for Dateline, I can't even force myself to watch this filler.

Other shows already canceled:

ABC My Generation

Fox Lone Star

ABC Family Huge

1 posted on 10/12/2010 4:59:07 AM PDT by tlb
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2 posted on 10/12/2010 5:01:27 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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I don't know where this thread is going to go, but I realized, while watching "Lie To Me" last night, why I felt uncomfortable watching that English actor play Dr. Lightfoot (or something like that) ...

He does that uncomfortable Vincent D'onofrio thing of looking at you askew, up close and stating accusingly something very unnerving.

I have a love/hate relationship with "Lie To Me" ... I think it will ultimately be cancelled.

3 posted on 10/12/2010 5:07:16 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: tlb

Jimmy has a difficult time finding a series that doesn’t get cancelled out from under him.

He won the presidency in West Wing and it got cancelled.

He tried to be the drug kingpin and that one got cancelled.

Now, he is a SC justice and it gets cancelled.

He would have better luck back on Dexter, except that Dexter cut him up and threw him out in the ocean.


4 posted on 10/12/2010 5:11:07 AM PDT by TomGuy
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This show was up against Tom Selleck in Blue Bloods, and date night.


5 posted on 10/12/2010 5:12:02 AM PDT by NautiNurse (ObamaCare uses Bernie Madoff theory of economics)
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I haven’t watched a crime drama in many, many years. Boring & discouraging!

Never saw Outlaw, so good riddance.


6 posted on 10/12/2010 5:13:11 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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Outlaw was my pick as the first new fall program that would get pulled/cancelled.

Lonestar and My Generation beat it by a few days.


7 posted on 10/12/2010 5:14:51 AM PDT by TomGuy
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This show was up against Tom Selleck in Blue Bloods, and date night.

It was also up against common sense.

From what I understand, since I never saw it, it was about a lawyer, who as a judge, leaves a comfortable lifetime appointment with all the perks and does something ...noble and altruistic.

In the last episode will they have 0bama praising Bush and Republicans while sipping a Slurpee?

8 posted on 10/12/2010 5:18:20 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
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Friday is where networks send shows - sometimes good ones - to die.


9 posted on 10/12/2010 5:52:50 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Psalm 109:8 Let his days be few and let another take his office. - Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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The show was crazy left-wing propaganda. And now it has crashed to the ground. Result!


10 posted on 10/12/2010 5:53:14 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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I have a love/hate relationship with "Lie To Me"

Me too. The show is loaded with left-wing toxins, and yet Tim Roth can act.

11 posted on 10/12/2010 5:55:15 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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Lonestar was cancelled before the second epi.

Dennis Miller had an actress on promoting her own show, and said a friend was on Lonestar and had already gotten the news.

Without seeing it, I could have told them that Lonestar was doomed to fail with a growing disgust of all the real-life con artists in the Obama Administration in particular, and Washington in general.

Maybe Fox just guessed wrong on where the culture was going to be at this time.

Smits, and his choice of projects, never appealed to me, so I guess I'm not surprised at one of "vehicles" getting cancelled so early.

Just another guy with the "Ted McGinley" syndrome. Maybe he could pull a "Garry Shandling" and sue his agent/manager.

12 posted on 10/12/2010 5:56:06 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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13 posted on 10/12/2010 5:59:03 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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14 posted on 10/12/2010 6:02:13 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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BTW .. I stole this from your home page


15 posted on 10/12/2010 6:06:36 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: tlb

I know most of us avoid the MSM and especially the news divisions but have you seen these news magazines lately? The Friday night versions (20/20, Dateline) regularly attempt to scare the hell out of senior citizens with all manner of ‘danger is lurking around every corner’ stories. Microwaves will explode! Bacteria live on your kitchen faucet! etc.

They tried to turn Y2K into Armageddon and more than one senior was heard to worry that the banks would fail on 1/1/2000 and they would lose every penny.


16 posted on 10/12/2010 6:12:54 AM PDT by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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17 posted on 10/12/2010 6:13:54 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
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Y'meme button don't work n' yer 13 is still an x...Go back to work and stop replying to my inanity.

/8^)

18 posted on 10/12/2010 6:22:52 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Saw the upcoming preview commercial for it, and told the wife, NBC has another off target bomb coming on. They would have had better ratings if they put on a Judge Dread type series instead of this bleeding heart crap.


19 posted on 10/12/2010 6:33:56 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (The candidate they smear the most is the one they fear the most.)
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Friday is where networks send shows - sometimes good ones - to die.

The Good Guys is an example of that. The show is really quite funny, with decent action, and no political slant to note.

20 posted on 10/12/2010 8:26:22 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Liberalism can be summed up thusly: someone craps their pants and we all have to wear diapers)
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