An NBC insider has told EW that the network’s ambitious but poorly rated drama Kings, starring Deadwood‘s Ian McShane, will move from Sunday to Saturday nights at 10 p.m., beginning on April 18, for its remaining eight episodes. The network has not announced plans to renew the hour-long series yet, and Kings‘ move to Saturdays seems to be a silent indication that NBC has no plans to.
Apr 7
2009
06:53 PM ET
'Kings': NBC moves sinking show to Saturdays
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Unfortunately another show with great potential shot in the head by poor programing. Maybe NBC will transfer it to SyFy and bolster its slowly diminishing roster of TV shows.
If you haven’t seen this show yet, give it a chance, it is very well written and it has actually started making me guess about what will happen, which is really rare nowadays.
im adding Kings to that very long list of shows i’ve seem to have lost this season. it includes pushind daisies and the soon to be canned TSCC. i will watch it with devotion on saturdays.
Please don’t take off this show. It is excellent!!! The writing is superb.
This is terrible news. Why can’t they give shows a chance before they cancel them and put more reality tv crap on.
Shame on you, NBC. Ok, I don’t know which night this show should air, since it’s extremely rare that I watch TV in real time. But Sunday? Saturday? Thanks for the vote of confidence. Why did you even bother putting this show on in the first place if you were just gonna take a big poo on it?
At least they are airing the episodes.
Looks like all the people that watched the show have made comments about the show. All 6 of them!
Damn I’m really getting into this show and they do this? then again, the early Sunday slot was a poor fit for it so you never know. Still, be nice if it managed a new season since NBC can use everything they get when their prime-time Jay Leno show crashes and burns.
Oh good! Now NBC can expand Celebrity Apprentice to the three hours it so rightfully deserves.
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No wonder NBC gets lower ratings than Telemundo.
It’s really disappointing that NBC has decided to let Kings die a slow death on Saturday nights. I’ll still be watching faithfully, but it’s the loss of another creative and different show, just like Pushing Daisies. It’s a shame that reality shows last longer than these gems.
Chris,
Who do we contact at NBC to save this show? I’m sick of them. All they are going to do is replace it with some Howie Mandel crap. People we have to do something about this mess.
@lol – clearly you cant count, as there are 7 comments before yours!
I will miss this show if/when they decide to take it off the air! Its really good!
Make that 8 LOL
This is horrible news. This is a show that needs to build an audience. Every friend I’ve told to watch it, now loves it. This needs a good timeslot perhaps paired with Heros. To let it die a slow death shows yet again that NBC has no faith in the American public to enjoy a smart drama.
The marketing of this show going into the premiere was for sh.it. The OC meets Camelot. BO-ring. Watch the show, and find out just how wrong that surface judgment actually is. The only good thing that could come from NBC not renewing Kings is that it ends up on SciFi (or SyFy or whatever) to fill the hole left by BSG.