CBS's 'Unforgettable' is indestructible
Cancelled series gets surprise second life.
CBS’s ‘Unforgettable’ is indestructible
David Hiltbrand, Inquirer TV Critic
Lazarus has got nothing on Unforgettable, the CBS police procedural starring Poppy Montgomery as a detective who can recall everything she’s ever seen or heard down to the smallest detail..
A month ago the network cancelled the series after its first season. On Friday CBS announced it has changed its mind and will bring back the show for 13 episodes to run next summer.
It’s hard to say which decision was more baffling.
Unforgettable was averaging 12.1 million viewers when the plug was pulled. No other network show with an audience that size got cancelled this year, so Unforgettable’s demise was something of a shock.
Not as big as CBS’s decision to bring it back, though. The networks almost never change their minds, not even after massive fan campaigns (which Unforgettable didn’t enjoy).
So you figure it out. Why did Unforgettable expire too early and then refuse to stay dead?
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Poppy agreed to get a shower for the show and not appear the gay Prostitute whose 2nd job is a police detective. The few times I watched the show with my wife,I always felt I needed a shower after watching poppy in her brown "T" Shirt.— rduexpress- I thought all this drama started with Montgomery's too close relationship with Les Moonves. Julie Chen wasn't too happy with the whole thing. Keeping the show in production, even as a summer replacement kept the lid on a potential P/R nightmare.— RayTom
- Don't know why Julie should be upset. She should remember how she landed Les. Did Poppy leave Adam Kauffman? — Anne Arkey
- 12.099999 million viewers only watched to see Poppy.— scootch
- More Poppy, less of the male love interests.— atp2007
