And I thought networks just dumped shows on Friday when they were on their way out. Technically, Kings hasn’t been cancelled yet, but it’s headed to the Saturday night graveyard, after which it will likely promptly be cancelled.
Starting next Saturday April 18, the network plans to air all remaining episodes of Kings at 8/7c.
In Kings’ current Sunday night time slot, NBC will merely extend Dateline into a 2 hour show.
Update: Kings has been moved to summer.
Update: Kings has been officially cancelled as part of NBC’s fall lineup announcements.
Maybe HBO will pick it up. They arent doing anything descent, at the moment. And Kings did feel like NBC making an attempt at the ‘Deadwood/Rome’ style of storytelling.
NBC SUCKS!!!!!!
Kings was a pretty good show. Listen, NBC you are going to end with an audience that no longer trust you. You really suck!
Angry fan.
Why cancel such an amazing program NBC? Kings is one of the best things you’ve done. 🙁
Please, please, please do not cancel this show!!!! I finally caught up on the series and it is the best thing on television!
Dont you know what year it is???? You keep cancelling shows….KINGS being the latest and keep forcing LAW AND ORDER down our throats. I hate the show…or should I say the series of shows…
If it werent for Jay Leno…I wouldnt be even be watching your network. You dont let a show on long enough to even get known. Whats the deal…do you honestly think there is no one at home on Saturday night???? you can not believe that your network can survive without an opinion from those that are watching TV….who are you polling??? it aint me.
You watch Jay Leno? That show is terrible, they always put those crappy shows, David Letter, etc on at midnight when noone watches tv over here, cuz it sucks. Kings though, was a good show, though I can see why people don’t like it, someone mentioned 4 million per episode, good luck on anyone else picking it up
I am so tired of Great/good shows being cancelled & garbage
staying. I am about done even giving them a chance. The last
ones the biggest ones I am still pissed about are Deadwood,
Carnivale & Black Donelleys! 3 of my favorites of all time.
Others like Journeyman & even John from Cincinnati as well. I do
hope Southland stays.
Screw the morons with the Nielson boxes or whatever. I’d gladly let them monitor what I record on my dvr to help track what people watch. I’d even agree not to fast forward through
commercials. Maybe have an option to monitor & it disables FFing
through commercials. SOMETHING!
KINGS cancelled?? WHY are the morons running the network? This is a good quality drama. I hope someone else does pick up the show – to your shame!
NBC; You don’t Deserve “Kings!”
The most intellegent, imaginative, artful, well cast, superbly written and delightfully different show on network television…by far! And what do you do with it?
You failed at adversiting it, you move it from Sunday when families actually get together to watch something good to Saturday when NO ONE Watches Television to begin with…and then you chop the best gift you had? MORONS!
This show was of an HBO or Showtime caliber and you idiots slot it where no one watched it and then wonder why it’s rating sucked!
NBC you’ve done it again, Surface was another, like “Kings” where you left us hanging. CBS did it with Jericho, but at least they knew they couldn’t ignore the millions of peanuts sent to Exec’s. But what are we to do with a paltry apology? “I’m Sorry.”
The last words spoken on the last episode of the BEST SHOW NBC ever had!!!
Well ok..I’m Sorry NBC..but I’m sticking with HBO & Showtime…at least there, I get what I pay for!
I guess national television is going crazy! All the garbage is staying and the best shows have been canceled. What is going on with NBC’s owners??? Listen people, Kings is magnificent, very intelligent, very original. I adored it in a second. It makes me shocked when I see it in a list full of idiot shows. Kings needs to be rescue. It is my opinion.
KINGS was the best show on TV. Hands Down. It’s sad that people would rather watch 2 hours of Dateline, or CSI (like we need more of the same thing).
Too bad. A beautiful show that had substance and at long last was written with intelligence, with actors of such high caliber….gone! For what? Stupid filler fluff. Sad.
They f***ing premiered the show on a Sunday, in the middle of their retarded Trump reality TV series, KNOWING full well 2 hr episodes of that show were coming soon and they would have to pull it from the air. After what, three episodes? Yeah the people running this station MAY be retarded, they canned the Donnelly’s when there was obviously a TREMENDOUS cult following, that show was amazing. Frankly, I don’t want to ever want to hear the “I hope HBO picks it up” ever again either…. I heard that a ton with the Donnely’s, please someone tell me when HBO has ever picked up anything? I would love to be wrong about that statement, NBC just makes stupid decisians regarding, that oh I get it….see he’s a king, it just doesn’t fit with the American legal system, obviously no ones going to watch this….damn, i’m so dumb…
Why would the cancel one of the best shows out there. One that finally broke away from the police/medical drama crap that plagues tv.
Kings was the most creative and best show on NBC and they did not even give it a chance before moving it to SAT,And canceling it. I am going to Boycott NBC for this.
I’m reading the posts in this thread and I’m suprised NBC hasn’t picked up on how upset people are about the canceling. NBC didn’t even give the show a chance to get really interesting before the Execs canned it. Now that they know it’s going, NOW they make so interesting we can’t tear ourselves away from it…but to no avail, it’s still going to end before it ever began.
The writing is of Shakespearien caliber, the actors cast are amazing, he plot twists fascinating and enchanting even though a tad predictable…but that only adds to it’s charm.
NBC what were you thinking? Oh…silly me…your Execs need brains Before we can accuse them of thinking.
Seriously NBC, I have lost all respect for you!
Kings is the only sophisticated show with great writing, acting & an original plot! I watch The Office & Kings on NBC, (usually online, as I work late) and that’s it. I rarely turn on the T.V. anyway, and you guys just gave me one more reason to keep it turned off! No point in tuning into any of your new fall shows, just to have it canceled.
Thanks NBC Execs, keep up the generic, mundane, uninteresting & predictable crap programs! While you’re at it, keep canceling awesome original shows, disappointing your viewers and let us all know how it works out for ya!
NBC = No Brained Channel
Just watched the 13th episode. What a great show. Is NBC insane? I am a 20 year cancer survivor and it takes a lot to move me. This show really touched me in a great way. I can hardly wait for another reality show to take it’s place. WooHoo!
Did the Nielsen’s die and leave their cat in charge of the remote?
Not sure what network execs rely on, but with one’s skull firmly implanted between one’s own buttocks it’s probably difficult to use their own senses when determining what is actually a quality program.
It is shocking that Kings has canceled. Even so, just as David Shepherd, (I’m being dramatic, of course) I cannot allow it to go on without doing as much as I can to save the Peace, er, show.
“It’s just a show,” everyone tells me, and my reply, “Have you watched the show? Have you experienced the show?”
Their reply, “When was it on?”
What a shame NBC. I wrote a blog of my distress and opinions of the cancelation of the show for those whom are interested to read at http://mikesworld74.blogspot.com/?zx=d0b46bbd30657fe9 please feel free to comment afterwards and show support.
But talk about “Finish your food, they’re starving people in the world!”
I know thats a bit off topic, but think about it. Look what the great writers and producers started, and look how NBC is just wasting it? And think, just how hungry you are for more?
And so many people out there who didn’t have the chance to witness and experience for themselves, and I believe NBC’s fault for poor advertising!
Ok NBC, follow the others and give us soft cheese with unsophisticated taste like “Get me out of here, Im a Celebrity!” -Yea, that should do it. More millions for your pockets, but between the pockets you have no balls!
The mass networks are obsolescent and they know it. In their heyday, ABC, CBS and NBC fed their (roughly) evenly shared mass audience heaping helpings of schlock, pablum and the rare (accidental) feast. The programming chiefs had a straightforward job: pick shows that could gather fat ratings, select an optimal time slot and then give the show a year or so to find its feet. The alternatives were usually limited to a couple of medical dramas like BEN CASEY or DR. KILDARE, a lawyer series or two such as PERRY MASON or THE DEFENDERS and lots and lots of cowboy series. The list of westerns was endless. Innovation was NEVER a top priority for the networks. They understood their mission: park as many butts as possible in front of their respective programs and sell the advertising for their shows’ sponsors. Their mission has not changed. What’s different is that the Big Three grew to five networks, all peddling their fares to an ever-shrinking mass market. The explosion of cable, satellite and (now) internet has been steadily picking off the networks’ traditional market share by emphasizing targetted marketing to splinter interests. The networks can no longer sustain a significant audience based upon a lowest-common-denominator formula.
A series like KINGS was doomed from the get-go. Too smart for the average boob tuber and too expensive for the splinter networks to broadcast. Much as I liked KINGS (and I did), I cannot blame NBC for cancelling the show. It’s not called show BUSINESS for nothing. It needs to make a profit…immediately. If you were an exec at NBC, you’d have axed the series too; either that, or you’d swiftly be sampling new career prospects on Monster.com.
HBO or Showtime cater to a brighter viewer. But in the case of KINGS, I can see why the series’ producers could not sell it to subscription TV. Bluntly, the show was a religious allegory and a huge chunk of America’s intelligencia are atheists. They’d despise the whole notion of KINGS. They’d only watch if the object of the series was to ridicule faith as superstitious claptrap.
The natural audience for KINGS would reside figuratively, if not literally, in the Bible Belt. And these prospective viewers could certainly have been depended upon to bicker amongst themselves on matters of creative license and heresy. Paradoxically, such a controversy might have temporarily drawn some curious viewers. But most of them would have found the dialogue bewildering and switched to BIG BROTHER, wrestling or some other fecal festival. Inevitably, whatever network might have bought the series would, inevitably, have beheaded KINGS. The dumbbells would never have comprehended it. And the so-called discriminating audience would have done just that; discriminated against a show that challenged their pet prejudices.
Could NBC have hyped the show better? Sure. Might NBC’s programmers have given the show a less competitive time slow? Of course. But, in the end, NBC’s executives are schlockmeisters. And they know their audience, dwindling as it is. They knew KINGS would fail. So they treated KINGS to the harsh reality of broadcast triage. The network put its time and money behind stronger commercial prospects. And KINGS was speedily transferred to the network’s Saturday night hospice to await it death.
My complaint is that NBC ever gave KINGS the greenlight. It would have been kinder to the millions of people who (religiously) watched and enjoyed the series to have been spared this pointless exercise in the first place.
I cannot believe NBC are cancelling yet another show after they have showed us the first season. Kings is an extremely good programme and I was very much looking forward to another season. For me this compltely takes any confidence away in tv networks today, clearly we would all rather watch rubbish then something well made, well acted and completely addicitive.
What a complete let down.
Well i do not usually reply to these things, but i felt in this one instance i would. this show was amazing. when they took the brake for the few weeks they were off the air, i spent so much time wondering what was going to happen to David and if he would be King. When the show came back i was happy that NBC had finally got something right beside HEROES. This was a show that i would have watched with my children. this was a show that i did not feel like i was completing a sin by watching. most shows today either take reality and twist it completly to where reality tv is so absurd that to watch them give me a headache. people do not fall in love on tv, at least not on these many many ,love shows that air….if they did there would not be a season two of any of them. i cant let my children watch those shows, the women wear no clothing and the men are vulgar. not the real world people, only a small part of it is like that. Kings was the one show in a long long time put out by something other than fox (who is becoming the same as all the other networks) that i could sit down with my family and watch together. my son who is very Religious and only 9 knew exactly where the story was going becasue it is based on a biblical story. Thank you Netflix and Hulu or there would be nothing worth watching.
Kings was too good for nbc. it definitely seemed more like an hbo or showtime show. depressing
this is why i have the networks. won’t some intelligent network pick this great show up?
Too bad..this is some of the best narrative television to come out of the three networks in a long time. I have to wonder if the show was too smart for the average American to connect with. Mediocrity on the three main networks prevails. More reality TV…ugggh!
I am very very disappointed that KINGS will not return to NBC this fall, this was one of the best shows I have seen in decades. What is the matter with NBC what do we have to do to get it back on the air?
BRING BACK KINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i want my kings back
I recieved the first season of kings only 3 days ago and i have finished it already which was no easy feat i work 14hrs a day i got that into it i even snuck in an episode whilst at work on trying to find out when season 2 was to start i was extremely disapointed in reading that NBC had canceled the show i meen the only TV series i enjoyed more then that is HEROES there seems to be alot of support for the show and considering the story line it seems to grab people from every direction and suck them in religeous or not the story line was really starting to get good, NBC seeem to have givin us little time to build up an appropriate fan base as most TV series these days seem to have about 20 episodes in the first season to give viewers a chance to really get to know the characters and fall in love with them i say they should at the least give them another season i reakon NBC will get a suprise and from what i read NBC move it to a time slot over there in America that doesn’t get a very wide variety of viewers i say BRING BACK KINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see on the NBC website that there will be a 2 hour premier on the 15th of March. Kings is a well acted, superbly written and visually stunning show. I became deeply engrossed in the stories and remained rivetted until the end. I would venture to guess that the true reason for the weak attempt at marketing the show and the final cancellation is due to the Hollywood executives general aversion to anything Christian. My thanks and admiration for Joss Whedon and his solid set of brass balls in having the courage and the faith to make an amazing show such as this.
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