NBC keeps swinging the axe. After 5 seasons, Montecito is closing down for good. Is "Friday Night Lights" next on the chopping block?
The show originally aired on Monday nights, but midway through season 3 (in early 2006) NBC successfully moved the series to lower-rated Fridays.
Last summer James Caan, one of the original cast members, left the casino-centered drama. The studio replaced him with Tom Selleck.
Despite the writers' strike, the cast and crew managed to film as many as 19 out of 22 episodes ordered.
This season the ratings went down 8% (from 9.02 million the show averaged in its 4th season to the current average of 8.29 million).
"Las Vegas" has already ended its run with a 2-hour episode last Friday.
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very sad news... oh well. I love moonlight much better :D
ReplyDeleteI'm so upset about this! Also, I'm old, so I'm home every friday night to watch this show, but why put it on friday night? Wouldn't most of the people who would be interested in the show be young and going out on friday night? They set the show up for failure! At least don't leave the fans on a cliff-hanger last episode! End it properly!!!!
ReplyDeleteagreed.... FINISH the show properly!!!!
ReplyDeleteFans have mounted a huge campaign to at least get NBC to give them and ending.
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thanks for the link....
ReplyDeleteUGH!!!!Why,with all the bad shows on tv THIS was my favorite show with entertanment!Very Bad choise to end the BEST show with the Best actors leaving a HUGH hole in my heart!Thanks again!
ReplyDelete..are u kidding me we should petition to keep this show going. they cant cancell this show. !!!! so ridiculouly mad
ReplyDeleteonce again another show cancelled witha true ending.how many times has this happen to tv shows. why why why. heck why dont we just cancel all good tv shows and just bring on dumb reality shows we sure as heck dont have enough of them. Nbc has done it again there just as bad as abc,fox,cbs, and cw networks.
ReplyDeleteAre they kidding? Las Vegas is one of my favorite shows, they kept canceling my fav shows I'm going to quit watching tv all together. If they are going to cancel the show at least they show do another 2 hour show to tell us what happens with the baby and everybody else. Please come back on the air!!
ReplyDeleteFridays were no big deal. Could watch on line
ReplyDeletethis really makes me mad. that was the best show on tv. this is stupid. i looked forward to this ahow every week. now there is nothing for me to watch all of the other shows are stupid. well i guess i will sell my tv there is no need for me to have it.
ReplyDeleteAs a die hard fan, I will admit, I was a bit disappointed when James Caan left the show. When Tom Selleck arrived, I was again disappointed in his role and found it all a bit boring and childish. But, being the true fan of the show that I am, I toughed it out, hoping things would improve. And, to my delighted surprise it really came into it's own. Tom Selleck's character revitalized the show, and was setting the path of anew. It is very disappointing that many a lesser shows have been saved.
ReplyDeleteCome On.. Are you Kidding Me?? Why is it when I Get into a show it gets Cancelled. Las Vagas was an awesome show.. So it's ended without us knowing about or seeing the baby? What about the Danny/Delinda wedding? What happens with Piper and Mike, Sam (Love Her) does she find love? This really sucks!! Perhaps another network could pick the show up. I agree Friday Nights may not have been the smartest time to air the show, NBC should move it to another day where people are home to watch, (IE Sunday-Thursday)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you are cancelling one of the best shows on tv. There are no good shows left anymore to watch. I always looked foward to Friday nights so that I could watch Las Vegas. Think you are making a "REAL BIG MISTAKE". Every time a show is a sucess, it is cancelled............
ReplyDeleteI just read Vegas was cancelled. It was a great show that didn't (for the most part) take itself too seriously. It was fun to watch and you could tell the cast had fun with each other. I do hope they film a proper ending. Sadly that was the only show I watched from NBC...guess they lost just a viewer for the whole network...
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I HATE NBC! FIRST JOURNEY MAN, NOW LAS VEGAS. I HATE YOU NBC!
ReplyDeleteI can't believe this!!!!! I LOVE LAS VEGAS! I just started watching this season and I have fallen in love with the characters, the humor, and the stories. NBC has made a BIG mistake! At least finish what you started. You can't leave us hanging like this without knowing what happens to Delinda and her baby and what about Sam (who is the best by the way)...NBC you SUCK!
ReplyDeleteWhy cancel the show because of low ratings. When the writer strike was going on parents took their kids to a movie or went out to rent movies. This is so stupid it was a great show. After 5 seasons i think they would let it go further. Tom Selleck is a good actor. I think NBC should here from the fans and tell them to bring it back.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is sad! NBC finally gets a GREAT show and then cancels it. I agree, ANY show sshould not suffer the axe because of the writers strike. Most people figured (like me) that most all shows were reruns anyway because of the strike. Unfortunately I don't think it matters what anyone does because NBC won't listen. THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE!
ReplyDeleteI just learned of this travesty last night! We had DVR'd the 2 hour special and finally had the opportunity to watch it. I was blown away by the ending and was so anxious to find out when the next episode would air. So off to the internet I went....That's when I found out the show had been cancelled. I almost cried. I'm very, very disappointed that NBC doesn't have the brains to realize what a mistake this is.
ReplyDeletePlease, oh please....bring Las Vegas back!
NBC, you're crazy!!!!! There are NO good TV shows, NO good entertainment nowadays with all the dumb reality shows!
ReplyDeleteYou guys had a great hit with FANTASTIC actors going with the VEGAS show. It was one of the only shows on worth watching, and you cancelled it and not only cancelled it but ended it with NO ENDING AT ALL!!!
I'll just turn off NBC altogether!!! YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!
NBC SUCKS - One of the BEST shows and beloved cast of characters on TV - Who is in charge at NBC? Is it anyone that even owns a TV? Hopefully another network will have the sense to pickup this ensemble cast - with Tom Selleck leading the way.
ReplyDeleteSo they finished 19 of 22 episodes.
ReplyDeleteWhy not complete the season? We're talking 3 more shows. The writers strike put everyone on pause, but it wasn't to blame. It didn't stop The Office and the Las Vegas producers didn't want to end it - it was NBC's call.
Bad ratings?
8 million instead of 9..
What they hell did they replace it with? What new show was going to grab more than 8 million in mid-season?
3 Episodes!! Just amazing.
The smart thing would have been to film the shows, and put them on the Season 5 DVD. More reason for people to purchase it - like 8 million reasons, give or take 4 million :)
But I said smart. Clearly there has been no smart thinking regarding this yet. It won't start now.
The saddest part is I heard they have a new 16 week show running - Celebrity Circus or some crap.
With great celebrities, like 2005's one song, two month hit, recording artist, Blu Cantrell performing circus stunts.
What brilliant NBC exec, can compare Las Vegas with that, and look themselves in the mirror in the morning. Pathetic.
I can't believe that Vegas has been cancelled! It has been one of my favorite shows on TV. I just discovered that reruns have been airing on TNT in the morning and have been watching those while on maternity leave. I think that NBC is making a big mistake. This is a great show!!!
ReplyDeleteI am so bummed!! I totally loved this show. I hate when they do this. You get into a show and they take it away. It was not its time to go!!
ReplyDeleteThis sucks the shows end with a cliff-hanger. I need to know what happens to everyone. I love this show Can Ya'll aleast bring it back for two hours to finsih the show. I mean how do you exspect me to buy the dvd's with a cliff hanger i mean really would you want to do that.
ReplyDeleteCancel the best show on television !! watched it faitfully bought every season box set and then cancell it... with an ending that says to be continued !!!!! whats up with that. you people should be sued!!! you want to ruin tv foever!! go ahead cancell them all see how much money you make then!! anyways thanx for ruining the best show you had never again will we get attched to anouther show. which means less money many of people i know feel the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is bull I've been waiting for the new stuff all damn summer and I hear about this. What the hell you guys could have a least put out a 2 hour ending to leave everybody with, too many damn shows have had this done to them. I know this crap is just about money to you guys but damn you wonder why people are starting to watch less and less tv cause there tired of this kinda crap happening, theres no point in watching something and getting attached when you know it could just be canceled at any moment.ALSO STOP PUTTING SHOWS THAT YOUNGER PEOPLE LIKE ON FRIDAY NIGHTS HOW STUPID ARE YOU,DAMN EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUNGER PEOPLE GO OUT ON FRIDAY AND SAT. NIGHTS SO LEAVE IT ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE COMPUTER HITS AND DVD SALES CAUSE YOU PUT THE SHOW ON DAMN FRIDAY NIGHTS SO HELL I WOULD JUST WAIT AND WATCH IT ON THE COMPUTER OR WAIT AND BUY IT ON DVD.
ReplyDeletePlease bring Las Vegas back on the air. This is the best tv show ever.
ReplyDeletethis is very sad news. best show ever cancelled. guess I will watch eli stone on abc.
ReplyDeleteHow could you do this to people this is the one top show people watch beside ER you are making a big mistake. Especially Delinda is getting ready to of the baby. So you had made bbbbbad choose.
ReplyDeletei agree with all the other comments..... every time ashow is a succes it gets cancelled .... NBC you are making a very bis mistake.... i even got my 65 year old grandma and grandpa hooked on the series..... if you are going to make them end their fantiastic series at leat let them end it properly.....
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that whenever a good program gets on the air, you cancel it? Your Fall line-up isn't that great. You really messed up by canceling LasVegas. I guess it doesn't matter what fans think or say, its all politics... What do fans have to do to bring it back?
ReplyDeletethis is just idk i feel sick when i think is over
ReplyDeleteLas Vegas and Friday Night Lights. I don't even want to watch another NBC show because it will just be cancelled when it is getting good and I'm hooked.
ReplyDeleteBring back Vegas. Great actors!! Viewers should at least have a REAL final show. That was about the only show I watch on NBC. Really need to revamp your executive staff!!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I started watching Las Vegas mid-series. We LOVE it! We have kids, so we are home on Fridays, so we didn't care about the night it aired either. I looked up what was obviously an old website a few weeks ago and it said the new season would air on Oct 27th.....it wasn't until I realized that the 27th wasn't on a Friday that I dug deeper and found out it was cancelled. It never occurred to me! With the cliff hanger at the end and the "to be continued".....we've been looking forward to the new season and watching the reruns on TNT in the meantime! We miss James Caan, but love Tom Selleck and we are VERY disappointed with NBC's decision to cancel. I agree with other posters that NBC should at least air a proper series finale. But I wish instead they'd bring the show back!!
ReplyDeleteI can not get over this !!! This was the show that i watched all the time!!!! And they could at least give us a better ending and not leave us all hangin and wonderin what happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with everyone's sentiment here. This was definitely one of the best shows on tv with a captivating cast of actors that really worked well together. I just hope another station has the vision to pick up this ball and run with it.
ReplyDeletei cant belive it its my fav shoow and they can not even have real ending!
ReplyDeleteI LOVED this show! It was so stupid to cancel it! Especailly the way they left things on the show, could have at least sumed things up. :(
ReplyDeleteI kept waiting for the show to come back after the writter's strike. Why do they cancel shows without any warning or information of where the heck it went? I enjoyed the show and agree with the fustrations of leaving it without an ending.
ReplyDeletei'm really really mad that you finally get a show that is great to watch and you pull it from tv there is so much crap reality who needs it in this day and age let watch something that take our mind off of reality...bring it back what a great cast bring it back already
ReplyDeletethey have to bring it back.. i bought all the box sets and i want it to carry on... its the best show ever!! :(
ReplyDeleteMy husband ask me all the time, when is Las Vagas coming back on? I'm so mad that you closed the show. This is one of our favorite shows. There was never any thing good to watch of Friday nights, and now there isn't again. How sad! BRING IT BACK!
ReplyDeleteO'well I just found out that you have cancelled the only good show on network TV "Las Vegas" It was the only show I watch on the big 3. Guess I will go back to watching my DVDs
ReplyDeleteIs there anything we can do to start a petition to try and get Las Vegas back on the air??? Please respond
ReplyDeleteJust once it would be nice and proper for a series to end without leaving a viewer 'Hanging'.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that Las Vegas was cancelled. IS there anything anyone can do. I would like an ending, I have been wondering what happened to Melinda for a year... PLEASE give us an ending. ONE LAST SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please or at least post what would of happened so we can read it. Please and Thank you
ReplyDeletethis was the only show i watched on t.v.. so sad it's gone. but now i can get my fill of the show on TNT for 2 hrs a day!!!!! But i'm still in need of an ending for the show!! please NBC bring it back
ReplyDeletedelinda and danny might be on knight rider wtf. just bring it back. people keep saying about 8 million viewers. thats just the us what about the rest of the world we love it here in scotland to. tom selleck was a great and the star of the show was polly. over here the only shows they put on tv here are fat z list celebs trying to fucking skate.
ReplyDeleteVery dissapointed in the show getting cancelled like a person said earlier leave us with a better ending please...oh well they probably don't care...but I have not found a show quite as interesting since
ReplyDeleteIt's May 09 and I'm still upset with them cancelling the show I have not found a show that can satisfy what Vegas did for me and I wish just like everyone else in here that they would come up with at least a proper ending for us
ReplyDeleteman im soooo pissed off that they cancelled las vegas that was the bad ass show. I watch it ever friday when they have it like i watch that show like for almost like 5 yrs and that was my favorite show to watch cuz i luv josh duhamel thats is my favor actor on there and that he is also hot. so like when i heard about this i got sooo upset about it cuz i wanted to see what happen on the next season but i guess not anymore. = [
ReplyDeletei am so angry that the show was canceled. to end the show with such a questionable ending. i mean what happens with the baby and everyone? why not cancel the shows that dont mean anything or just show bad and naughty stuff to our kids. watching las vegas was a great way to end the week. it was a time where me and my husband could sit on the couch and relax while our kids slept. such a dissapointment in NBC. bring it back, from loyal fan
ReplyDeleteI can't believe It's gone I really liked that show I wish TNT or someone would pick it up or at leasst NBC give it a decent ending. If there was one I missed it and want to know how to see it.
ReplyDeleteThis show is the only good thing to ever come out of NBC. How they can expect a show to grow on Friday nights, I have no idea. I'm 22 so I'm usually out when Las Vegas was on. I love this show and still watch it all the time, and wish NBC would pull its head out of its ? to renew the series.
ReplyDeleteLas Vegas is a better show than all the others on NBC. Its really funny and serious and great music and can come very close to crying.I cant believe its cancelled.Loved how the War in Iraq and afgan came apart of the show. very well done.I love this show... from a Marine
ReplyDeleteAre you kidding? This was the only show that I watched on regular TV. Ending this series this way is a good indication of how the network could care less about the TV viewers!
ReplyDeleteCANCELLED!!! Between my friends and myself we agree wholehartedly: U SUK!!!
ReplyDeleteSellick helped make the show even better!