NBC blows

[Dude111]

All the networks sadly blow now!!


Very sad.........

[TMC]

Originally Posted by TMC

• The show averaged 25 million viewers per episode for Season 1, finishing the season at #3.
  
• Season 2 was moved from Thursday night to Monday, against Cosby on CBS, and it fell drastically in ratings, and averaged 11 million viewers a week and finished the season at #71
  
• Season 3 averaged 9 million viewers and finished the season at #81
  
• Season 4 averaged 6 million viewers and finished the season at #94

Brooke Shields speaks about it here, how NBC cut her show off at 99 episodes on purpose, keeping it from being sold into syndication:

What made the Warner Bros. Discovery/NBC comedy Suddenly Susan such a success for 4 seasons? Why was it finally canceled?

Question: What made the Warner Bros. Discovery/NBC comedy Suddenly Susan such a success for 4 seasons? Why was it finally canceled?

It was never a “success”, querent.

The show was the attempt by Brooke Shields to obtain a long-term television role for herself. While Shields had been in the entertainment business for nearly her entire life, no one ever thought of her as being a comedian or a comic actor, so when it was announced that she’d be helming a sitcom, many people were more than a little surprised. Unfortunately for Shields, the results were predictable.

While some of her costars were exceptional (especially the veteran Barbara Barrie) the writing was uneven and Shields just has never been good at conveying complex emotions onscreen. The series stumbled and by the fourth season the series adding Monty Python vet Eric Idle and a few other actors to help boost the ratings. It didn’t help and by the middle of the fourth and final season, the show was on the bubble.

OPINION: What fatally weakened the program was the offscreen suicide of one of the series performers, David Strickland. Strickland had both substance abuse and mental health issues and they seem to have consumed him in the third season of the program. He died before the third season finale which was rewritten to incorporate his death and had series of touching fourth wall breaking interviews with his costars, including Shields herself.

The fourth season changes were made in part due to the absence of Strickland. However the series was failing anyway and so the changes were also a “Hail Mary” pass in hopes that the program could be saved. Unfortunately it didn’t work and the fourth season is arguably the worst of the series. The show was cancelled and even now after more than 25 years, it’s never been resurrected; nor has anyone tried to make a finale to close out the narrative universe.

The show was never a “success”, querent.

It just had Brooke Shields and a lot of hopes.

Neither of those panned out for it.