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'Undercovers' canceled: NBC breaks up with the gorgeous spy couple
After struggling since its premiere in the ratings and despite executive producer Josh Reims saying NBC had the new spy show's back, "Undercovers" has been given its walking papers.
According to Variety, NBC has decided not to pick up the show's "back nine" episodes essentially canceling the series.
While its ratings has seen nominal improvement in recent weeks, it continued to struggle with the coveted 18-49 year old demographic with a 1.3 rating.
A much-hyped entry into this fall's offering, "Undercovers" was co-created and executive produced by "Lost" and "Alias'" J.J. Abrams.
Alas, the gorgeous Blooms, caterers (played by Boris Kodjoe and Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who return to the C.I.A. after a five year absence, never quite caught on with viewers. Even as the mythology of why the C.I.A. sought to bring the couple back has started to emerge, it's apparently too little, too late to capture viewers' attention.
The first three of six remaining episodes will air Nov. 10, Nov. 17 and Dec. 1. The final three have yet to get an airdate.
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I was starting to like undercovers not only was it different in having the diversity of 2 black leads. It shouldn't take to 2010 to have that but, with nbc doing things like giving jay leno the 9:00 slot every weeknight having some programming that the other networks wouldn't try could've been a good thing. I remember nbc also had generations the only daytime soap with a majority black cast.
NBC might as well run the last three episodes during December so the series can end having a consecutive run during a non-sweeps month. I didn't watch Undercovers, but I'm somewhat surprised that it did so poorly, particularly in the demo.
Come on, this is not a black issue. The show failed on many levels. It tried to reach too many different viewers, and as most common with these feeble attempts, failed on them all.
I loved the show!
Perhaps my favorite of all the new series.
She is gorgeous and the minor characters were
all wonderful.
Reminds me of what happened years ago
when a series called Sherlock Holmes got
canned. I loved that one also.
I might just be a great contra indicator of
what makes a good series.
Just my two cents.
I felt like everything that was done on Undercovers had already been done much better on Alias.
anonymous you need to watch less TV and pick up some books on English grammar.
I watched the first few episodes of Undercovers, but lost interest. It has nothing to do with the actors and especially nothing to do with the actor's race. It just wasn't interesting. I suppose, however, that you could say that about just about everything on NBC.
This is why NBC is a failing network. They leave on shows about fat people losing weight. But cut a quality show like this. I should have known this show couldn't last on NBC; it's well acted, well written, and it involves a loving relationship between to married people. I was amazed when this show debuted. It was smart, interesting, and fun. I didn't think NBC had this kind of show in it any more.
Guess I was right in the first place.
I hope the producers shop this around to other networks; like ABC.
What's weird is that Chase got a full season order. The 18-49 ratings are basically the same, but Chase has a stronger lead-in and weaker competition than Undercovers. I don't know why NBC has faith in Chase and not in this.
Uhm.. where exactly was the improvement you talk about? It has been in the ratings.. which have been down down down steadily every week.
I'm black and convinced all my friends, this was the show to look out for. 20 minutes into the pilot, I knew there was trouble. By the time it was over, I told everyone it was OK if they stopped watching.
I've watched so many TV shows flare up and die, even though I'm only 22. I've liked a lot of the one-shots like Justice, Kings, Boomtown, Kingpin. My Own Worst Enemy was a show that deserved better. Lone Star deserved better Even Jericho pulled me in, regardless of how much it was a good idea more than it was a good show.
This show never worked. You saw all the threads of a show that would never be good from the getgo. None of the characters worked together. None of them made you want to keep watching. The plot was never good. The tone was never right. The lighting, the direction, the pacing.
It's just a failed blending of genres and styles.
I went from watching religiously for a few weeks, to auto-torrenting, to having it on in the background, to preferring episodes of Nikita instead, to not even bothering to download it anymore.
When you watch enough shows that only last one season, you understand the feeling of a pilot where they're just never gonna get it. The idea wasn't good enough for a real show and all you managed was to prove it. That just sucks.
Too much Felicity mixed with Chuck, not enough Alias mixed with Sayid from Lost.