CANCELLATION ALERT: Undercovers

The ax has swung at NBC for a second time this fall as Undercovers became the fifth new fall drama to get cancelled. An early spring pickup by NBC, it came with lots of hope with JJ Abrams running the show and two very attractive black leads, but the show received mixed reviews and never found an audience. Through seven episodes (including last night), it has averaged 6.5 million viewers and a low 1.5 in the demo. Its highest performance was the pilot which got 8.7 million viewers and a 2.1 in the demo. It headed in the wrong direction most every week and hit a series low 1.3 in the demo last night.

I wanted this show to be good - I had high hopes for it, but it just wasn't. It was visually beautiful but the stories (at least through the first three episodes, I stopped after that) were incredibly boring. It was low key romantic drama masquerading as a high energy escapist espionage series. If it had actually been the latter, it may have had more success. This has to be a disappointment for NBC as it was one of their big shows at development time last year but unfortunately it never was able to live up to the early hype. NBC will likely air at least a couple more episodes in its timeslot but there will likely be some of the 13 episodes left on the shelf or benched to Saturdays.

With this news, there are a mere three series that have not been cancelled or received a full season: ABC's Detroit 1-8-7, FOX's Running Wilde, and NBC's School Pride. Pride and Wilde are as good as dead and we should see them pulled soon though Pride may air all 7 episodes made. Detroit had additional episodes ordered and could still see a full season.