Update – Kings Gets the Boot, Again

April 22, 2009 at 5:54 am | In News and Updates, Paul S. White | 7 Comments
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NBC has decided to shuffle its low rated series Kings once again.  The show premiered in March on Sunday nights to very low ratings.  This prompted the peacock network to move it to Saturday nights to allow the show to finish out its run (it’s a foregone conclusion that it will not get picked up for a second season).  After one abysmal outing on Saturday, pulling a 0.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.4 million viewers, NBC has yanked Kings from its schedule until Summer.  The show will return to the Saturday 8 PM EST timeslot on June 13 and will air out its remaining episodes until July 25th.  Producers of the show have asked fans to send Twitters to @DirectTV in hopes that the satellite provider might save the show, similar to what they did with Friday Night Lights.  However, since Kings has only managed to air five episodes, it has not been able to build up the same positive buzz that show had.  At this point, it seems certain that Kings will fade after its Summer run.

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  1. It’s a shame about ‘Kings.’ I’m surprised still that it did so poorly, and that viewers would rather watch something like Dateline.

    Comment by Thumbu — April 22, 2009 #

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  2. [...] low numbers, then they moved it to Saturdays, where it got even more horribly low numbers, and now they’re moving it to summer, where the show can finally die in [...]

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  4. Too bad, another really good show thrown under the bus because it wasn’t given enough time to build something up. TV execs are big into the panic reaction these days, especially with location dramas. It costs so much less to keep wafting reality TV under our nose, and they’re also re-discovering the two-camera 1/2 hour sitcom this fall.

    Comment by Muggins — April 22, 2009 #

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  6. I loved the NBC series “Kings.” It’s still being listed in the weekly newspaper TV guide for 7:00 p.m. Saturdays. So I get all excited to see it’s coming on again, only to have my hopes dashed by reruns of Law and Order. Now I hear it won’t be on again until June/July, and then will die a slow death. More’s the pity. Finally something on network TV that isn’t a rerun on Saturday night, and it gets booted. I am very disappointed.

    Comment by Carla — May 2, 2009 #

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  7. did this series originate from a book,
    I find it sad that it is no longer on I think you should have advertized this a little bit more and you would have had more viewers

    Comment by macdonald — September 10, 2009 #

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