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CANCELLATION ALERT: Person of Interest

Person of Interest got a long-delayed premiere date and cancellation announcement in the same day from CBS. The show will have its season premiere on May 3 and end its five season run on June 21 after double pumping episodes on Mondays and Tuesdays for May and June.

Person of Interest was a very hot pilot and new show in 2011. It came with high expectations and initially was underwhelming in the prime Thursday 9pm slot. However, it slowly caught on as the season went on and then it really made some noise in season two (it's best numbers of all time came in January of its second season). In 2013, it was moved to 10pm Tuesdays when CBS wanted to expand its Thursday comedy block to two hours. After two years on Tuesday with a big decline in 2014-15, it was held to midseason and saw its episode order cut to 13 so the writing was on the wall. It probably would have gotten more of a CBS syndication push had it been owned by the network and the fact that it wasn't didn't help matters.

I was a devout viewer of Person of Interest for its first three years (in fact, a highly publicized episode killing off Taraji P. Henson (pre-Cookie Lyon) was my #1 episode in 2013). But, soon after that great episode and arc, I lost interest. It got unnecessarily complicated and this was a show that I actually think could have benefited from keeping its procedural thread more regularly. Either way, I have fond memories of those first two and a half seasons and will probably watch them again at some point.

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