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Another new show has bitten the dust: "Outlaw" is riding off into the sunset on NBC.The network, which shut down production of the show last week, has pulled the low-rated low-rated legal drama starring Jimmy Smits from its Friday-night schedule. Starting this week, the show will air at 8 p.m. ET Saturdays through Nov. 13; after that, it's finished.
On Fridays, meanwhile, NBC will air the new unscripted series "School Pride" (which premieres this week) at 8 p.m. and a two-hour "Dateline" at 9.
"Outlaw" had a somewhat promising start for NBC this fall. The pilot drew better than 10 million viewers after the "America's Got Talent" finale on Sept. 15. Once it moved to Fridays, though, the audience plummeted: Its three Friday episodes averaged only 4.6 million same-day viewers.
Factoring in DVR viewing for the Sept. 24 episode (the only week for which those numbers are available), "Outlaw's" average climbs a bit to 5.1 million viewers, but that still trails CBS' "Blue Bloods" and ABC's "20/20." It averaged a meager 1.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic.
"Outlaw" becomes the third new series this season to get the ax, following FOX's "Lone Star" and ABC's "My Generation."
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any word on Fox or ABC burning off the remaining episodes of Lone Star or My Generation that are already in the can?
Still Jimmy Smits can't seem to get his a series and a act together. The fall TV season still didn't get the memo. The millions of viewers need to get their heads right.
What? They need to cancel Hawaii Five-O. Now that show is horrible.
i really hope they burn off the remaining Lone Star ep's, i'd watch however many of them that i could get. after i saw the second episode i thought this show could really be great. too bad it didn't last.
I was starting to enjoy this show... even though I saw this cancellation coming from a mile away: Why did NBC purposely schedule a new show on Friday night? That's where old shows go to die... not new ones to thrive.
Shocking. Who, other than anyone who heard the premise of this show, would have thought this show would fail?
I tuned in for the start of the first show just for the Velveeta factor (not even real cheese here) and the scripts were bad, the acting worse, but the lighting was actually even more annoying. It was almost as if the actors were trying not to be seen in this drivel.
Perhaps everyone involved should voluntarily walk away from the entertainment field. The smell from this stink bomb won't wash off easily.
They shouldn't have canceled Cane-- I still miss it. Now THAT was a good show!
Why didn't they just move it to another night since it did good on the night it previewed??? I liked Cane and this show. Stupid idiots!
This show was TERRIBLE. I couldn't believe how bad it was 15 minutes into the Pilot. NBC is a failure of a network, Just look at the ratings week-to-week...awful.
Yeah...I know.