Image Credit: Jordin Althaus/NBCNBC has officially pulled the plug on Jimmy Smits’ struggling rookie procedural Outlaw. The Friday-night legal drama, which was already on a production hiatus, will be replaced by a second hour of Dateline. The final four episodes will air Saturdays at 8 pm beginning this week. Any questions?
For more on Outlaw: Why can’t Jimmy Smits catch a break in primetime?
Mr. Smit, not again!
I knoooooow!!!! They cancel Cane and now this!!!
screw your old man and get off this website!
Who keeps putting that junk on like LOVER? Are people really that hopeless?
Maybe they could continue with President Santos on a West Wing type show. Big Jimmy fan, hate it has all gone south as of late.
That’s because he hasn’t had a good enough role since Santos. smits is a fine actor and deserves better shows/ characters than he’s been playing lately. I wish they had also continued West Wing with his presidency. Hopefully, his next project will be worth of him and he won’t end up on Housewives or Grey’s.
Good riddance, Outlaw – what a dumb premise for a show. And speaking of dumb premises, cancel Undercovers!!!!
Undercovers is pretty good and is getting better every episode.
OK, Undercovers is pretty superficial, but it’s fun. It has the same vibe as Hart to Hart (from back in the 80s), and the two leads are great. Outlaw, on the other hand, was dull and unworthy of Jimmy Smits’ talents. I won’t miss it.
And the lame-ass “Chuck” continues.
Aaaaaand nobody will miss it.
I didn’t even know this show existed until right now.
Agreed.
Worst preview for a show I have ever seen.
Sorry, that ‘honor’ goes to Lonestar
Giving any show a friday night time slot is just asking for it to get canceled.
Tell that to Blue Bloods, they’re doing just fine. This show failed because it wasn’t very good.
Blue Bloods has Tom Selleck. Enough said.
I love Blue Bloods. I dvr’d Outlaw but never got around to watching it.
@Casey and Outlaw had Jimmy Smits.
Outlaw was just a horrible horrible show. “Blue Bloods” is OK (there are better shows, but there a lot worse).
Medium still appears to be doing fine since it’s been moved to Fridays a few years ago…
Sad, I really liked it.. I really don’t think NBC gave it a chance- shocker
They did considering it was DOA from the start. Should have been canceled weeks ago.
They premiered it after the biggest show (and episode) they have! America’s Got Talent’s FINALE and it premiered with dismal ratings. Now, I admit that Fridays isn’t the best night for TV but NBC (and all networks) must continue trying to program Fridays. They thought this would work but it didn’t.
They should have premiered The Event in that slot. Not saying that I really like The Event (although I watch it) but since they were pushing that show through and through it just makes sense.
TGIF used to be must see TV in our household (back in the 90′s) they need to bring that kind of TV back to Friday nights. I would gladly watch it with my young daughters the way me and my family watched it 20 years ago. TV geared toward young families seems perfect for Friday nights.
I couldn’t agree with you more, Liz.
How could they “not give it a chance” when it had terrible ratings that just got worse? Should they have waited until literally no one was watching?
For some reason, more and more people seem to think that a network should just keep throwing money after a clearly sinking ship. See: Lone Star.
The ratings were awful, and I’m not surprised. The whole premise of the show was silly. “Bad Boy” Supreme Court Justice quits to help get justice for the little people – really who thought that was a good concept? Maybe for a sitcom, but not a drama. I laughed everytime I saw a promo for the show. I don’t know about quality of the show itself, as I didn’t watch. The promos made me want to avoid it at all costs.
I did watch Lone Star, and can say that it was bad and deserved to be cancelled.
Yeah, I agree. I was so turned off by the ridiculous promos for this show that I was never interested in giving it even one chance.
I agree with the comment by Lois. Jimmie Smits is a fine actor, but the premise of the show was weak at best. Who would leave the supreme court to become a trail attorney.
Seriously bad concept. Ask any attorney – getting appointed as a Supreme Court Justice is a dream job akin to being appointed Hugh Hefner (but without the sex)! It’s a lifetime gig where you do little or no work (top-grade law clerks do all the researching & will write most of the opinions; it’s an editing job at most). And as if an attorney with the “dark past” Smits’ character supposedly had would survive Senate confirmation hearings! Just too dumb to be taken seriously as a show.
The networks seem to have forgotten about Seinfeld. It, too, debuted to lousy ratings. But NBC gave it time and it seemed to develop a following, if memory serves…
Everybody just LOVES to throw Seinfeld out there but what they forget is that for every Seinfeld there were about a dozen shows that crashed and burned no matter how much money and advertising they put into it. It’s the nature of TV.
no surprise
I watched the first episode but wasn’t impressed..Something was missing. now I love Detroit 187..send him over there
Detriot 187 is on its way to being cancelled
Then we can transfer Mr. Smits and the entire cast of Detroit 187 to Running Wilde to see if they can pick up ratings and make the show somewhat funny. Hmm, a comedy about an ex-Supreme Court Justice and his homeboys the Detroit Homicide Squad, living in a mansion with a selfish billionaire, his screechy ex-high school sweetheart, her smartass daughter, and various wacky servants. Hilarity ensues.
@Meli – you’ve already pitched this to the networks, haven’t you? Bet you get green lighted…..
sad, but not surprised. just waiting for this to happen.
Well…
I agree jille…Detroit 187 is a great show
I like Detroit 187 as well. Personally thought the last episode was the best yet. Too bad the pilot was kind of jacked up and, you know, shot in Atlanta.
If shows like BLEEP my father says and Outsourced live longer than 187 I’ll be annoyed, because those two are terrible!
it was liberal propaganda disguised as a show- and i cibsider myself liberal
What a tool.
Nobody who uses the words “liberal propaganda” is actually liberal.
unless you are incredibly open-minded and your vision and thought process isn’t clouded by your political affliation
@KRibbons: That’s funny, I thought that’s what the definition of liberal WAS
I never had a chance to watch this show, but watching the commercial, I don’t think I would have like this show.
Had to be one of the stupidest ideas for a show ever!
I will have to watch one of the episodes on NBC DEMAND. I had never seen CHUCK before, until I saw season 3 on the Internet last month. Now, I am hooked on CHUCK. It’s a cool show with comedy and DRAMA. Those 2 goofy guys on CHUCK need to be given the ax.
He can still get work as the Conky repairman
Just one question, which show is next?!
Either, Detroit 187 or The Whole Truth OR Running Wilde on Fox. I think Running Wilde will at least last through November, but the aforementioned two are definitely on the chopping block.
A lot of people are speculating that “Running Wild” won’t be back after Halloween when double episodes of “Raising Hope” are aired.
Why is Good Guys still on? That’s a crap show. and so is Rubicon. How are they still running?
It was a truly stupid concept for a show. No Supreme Court justice would resign to become a defense lawyer. He had far more influence on the court to free the innocent than being a defense lawyer.
NBC should be ashamed of itself for wasting Smits & our time with such lameness!
Agreed. Admittedly, something like this might have worked back in the 80′s, but not now.
@Garry & TJ – Agreed. I watched one truly awful episode and gave up. Victor Sifuentes would never have signed up for this pathetic mess.
It was a ludicrous premise.