To: NBC

You Suck!!!

From: Stone

Ah, Saturday, once the home of great television, now the place were TV shows go to die.

Well, I can't say that I didn't see this coming, but I'm disappointed all the same - it is only a simple step from here to cancellation.

I'm quite enjoying the show though, so I'll continue to DVR it every week. Personally, I don't care WHEN it is on - DVR is wonderful for that! - but if NBC is moving it, then they're likely going to cancel it. :(

Yet another reason I am happy to dump my tv service. I will get reacquainted with books, since they cannot be canceled half way through, leaving me disappointed. I have been baffled over the last two years to see 90% of the shows that are water cooler topics at work get canceled while they continue churning out crap that I am not really sure anyone watches.

Its a shame, i really have to force myself to watch this show but its very good once you get passed its flaws. I'm not a an expert it just feels wasted on NBC and the writers are just playing too safe. I'm not expecting another early seasons of bsg when it was worthy watching, just the the same

I'm sorry to see that the ratings have been so bad for Kings. My wife and I watch it every week and have been enjoying it a lot. We've also been talking it up to friends and trying to get them to watch as well. It's far too rare for something this well written and acted to get airtime at all, and we've been hoping that it would somehow find an audience and survive. The closest we can come to it in recent years is West Wing, if we want to describe the content, but this is more Shakespearean.

Good luck to it on Saturdays, and fie on the beancounters.

What's wrong with the American viewer? A great drama gets pushed aside while we have 2-hours of Biggest Loser on NBC! I say trim the fat on reality TV and replace it with TV worth watching.

NBC is a horrendous network, even their good shows like The Office have become awful. It's just terribly run with no quality control, this show never belonged on this network. It needed HBO to succeed.

sadly good shows get removed because a majority of people have been dumbed down by reality tv

add to the fact that its way cheaper to film fat white trash then it is to pay actors, writers, producers etc

Been watching these episodes on Hulu and it really isn't a bad show. I hope it doesn't get axe'd

A secon hour of Dateline? Drop a show and put in an extra hour of news?

Did someone at NBC think this would have more people tuning in?

Morons.

Kings is a great Drama!...why it's not on a weeknight beats me. Hopefully when NBC gives up, a good cable outlet like USA or Sci-Fi will pick it up. Hail to the King! =)

Can't say I didn't see this coming. NBC did a horrible job advertising this show. The main campaign simply involved the Butterfly logo and the title of the show, no description, no real information...of course no one tuned in, no one really knew what it was about. I had to look it up online to find out.

If NBC had done this right they could have really pulled in a large crowd. All you had to do what play up the Christian theme like their Revelations Miniseries, and BAM 10 million people would have watched the show for the Christian theme alone.

But again NBC kills a show before it even gets on the air. Any one who read this article about the show could have done a better job!

Well, if NBC is going to move it. Move it to SciFi on Friday nites. This show is just starting to show its twists and turns, and the slight fantasy element is just getting interesting. Sunday was a good nite, not conflicting with other shows.

I second LadyStarr's post.

Saw it coming from the first time I saw a teaser for the show online. Knew it would be moved then canceled.

It's a great show. I'd be sad to see it go. So little programing that is worth watching anymore.

I just hope to Hell the final episodes wrap up the storyline--I hate it when a show is cancelled leaving things unresolved---Night Skies, Invasion, Blade: The Series, Carnivale, Deadwood---ugh! It's like a bad case of blueballs.

NBC is a terrible network, but this show is a mess. NBC is doing fans a favor by letting the show finish out on Sturday nights instead of just pulling the plug and forcing fans to buy or rent the DVD. Why do fans of a show think that the networks should keep a show on if nobody is watching and it is not making money for them?

Just to be clear, NBC owns USA and SCIFI - sorry SyFy (morons).

If they cancel Kings, its likely canceled for good. That being said, I surely hope hey do not cancel it. I, for one, greatly enjoy the analogous tale of King David.

After resisting the idea of it, I did start watching from the beginning and have been totally engrossed! Really good drama--and of course, they are cancelling it! I am so tired of the reality crap--I do not want to watch reality shows. I want to watch good, intelligent dramas--where do we go for that now?

I can't say I will miss it, They (the actors) of this and other NBC series actors do almost nothing to promote their series. I never saw the actress of "Bionic Woman" promote her own series.

It is all about the money, why do you think NBC is having Jay Leno on at 10 pm through the week and shows with the style of The Office are being produced on there. NBC is getting as bad as Fox when it comes to T.V. shows like this, they don't give a show a chance to develop an audiance...what a shame !!!!!!

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one around here who likes Kings (I am in my circle of friends) and wish there was some way to make NBC want to put more support behind this great, original, innovative show. It's disappointing but - to echo many here - not unexpected that Kings is inching closer to cancellation.

I would love to see a way to rally support behind the show to make NBC appreciate that there are loyal fans out there ready to chant "Long live the King" if it'll keep Kings on - wherever they decide to stick it in their line-up. Or maybe have another network pick it up?

Has anyone started a petition? I know it's a long-shot but if people act now that might give NBC a reason to at least pause or consider a different approach at developing an audience.

*sigh*
What a shame. I thank NBC for continuing to air all the episodes, but boo to them not doing much to help the show. It got minimal promo support and the promos that did air said nothing about what the show was actually about.

It is always sad when a great show goes unnoticed.

It's a shame. I really liked this show. It took over my drama slot since BSG ended. I think it should have aired on a cable network channel instead. I believe it would have had more luck there. Now I'll catch it online most likely.

I watched part of the first episode, and the whole past episode, and really liked this show! It's no best show ever on television battlestar galactica, but, it is quite good. UNFORTUNATELY, NBC's suits are likely to cancel it. So, like other great shows before it, Jericho and Journeyman, so long Kings

I have enjoyed Kings, but never expected it to return after these 13 eps (You are going to show ALL 13 eps, right? RIGHT?). It should have been planned that way from the beginning.
The Broadcast Nets could take the same page from the BBC and Japanese Anime and plan shows that complete their runs in 13 or 26 eps.
That way you can order more eps if the ratings are good, but otherwise give fans a complete storytelling experience.

Network TV is going the way of AM radio. Talk, "reality" and other low cost or down-market shows.

Cable hit it hard and satellite will kill it.

Producers of quality need to go elsewhere.

i'm sorry to see this very entertaining, yet somewhat baffling, tv show come to saturday night death row. To be honest i don't think this show had much of a chance.I hate to say it, but i think that with the exception of the " TEN COMMANDMENTS" any show which has the least bit of a continous biblical reference, will not make it on a major network. This show would have been best done as a 2 or 3 part mini-series and maybe a little more explanation as to the timelines that brought mankind to where they are today on the show.

The ONLY reason I heard about this show was reading two early write ups about it. That was last fall...I waited all this time for it. The write ups are deserved, it's an excellent program.

Sad to see it is being cut off at the knees, like so many other fine shows.

What now NBC...Deal or No Biggest Loser reality TV drivel?

My wife and I have been enjoying this show from the get-go. Sad to see it go like this. But such is the way of American television. I think I'm gonna stick to British Telee. Good stuff coming from over there.

I third LadyStarr's post

This is NBC after all. If no one watches to see the promotions then no one will watch. It is one of the most downloaded shows on iTunes. But they do have to make room now that Leno is going to prime time.

Kings was meant to only run 13 episodes anyways (I believe they called it a Maxi-series) but I hope that they do show the remaining 8 episodes. For a story based on Judaic-Christian mythos, they have done a great job updating the story in a more modern setting.

Although, not hearing they guy who played Al Sweringen in Deadwood cuss ever other breath is a bit weird and I am waiting for him to bust out a C*cks*k*r at David Shepard.

I've been enjoying Kings from the beginning -- thanks to my DVR. I'll keep putting it on my DVR and watching it until it is eventually cancelled by the NBC idiots. Finally, a good drama amongst all the dreck that is reality programming and of course it's going to get cancelled.

I'm actually kinda glad it's moving to Saturday nights, even though having it Sunday nights made a certain amount of sense in a Biblical sense, I really like 'Kings', and I need to get caught up with it, I hope the move to Saturday nights will help. it's a great show!

Kings is a good series on its own merits, but I sort of don't like them using the Bible as a basis for a TV show outside of a religious TV channel. I just don't think any religion based material should be outside of something people have to get specifically to see like going to a movie. It shouldn't be on regular TV if it is going to be singularly religious. It's like the mormon soap operas in Utah, because it doesn't belong anywhere else either than its own place/channel.

Hahaha! What a concept. Mormon soap operas? What sort of storylines would they have? Villainous gentiles trying to seduce Mormon maidens? Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convince Mormons that the Mormon Church is a cult? If I want bland I'll have a bowl of Cream of Wheat.

If a show is smart with good writing (and I mean good writing) and an original script (not CSI) then it won't survive the season it's currently on. It's a hard and fast rule. This is probably the best show to run since the first 4 seasons of the West Wing. It's horrible to see it go.

Let's start a letter writing campaign... I enjoy the show, ans would definately like to see it on SciFi, as opposed to some of the other stuff they've had in place of Atlantis or Sanctuary...

NBC please stop pulling good shows off the air. You run crap shows but kill good shows. NBC just give Kings to Scifi and stick with your crap dramas that are worthless.

I must admit that it wasn't advertised well at all which is probably the reason for low ratings. I'm addicted to it though and if it gets taken off-air completely I'm going to be mad! Please don't get rid of it, its such an original idea =]

Shame on you NBC. "Kings" is so much better than the usual pap on the TV. I hope there will be a big promo if and when you rerun it in June.

I didn't find Kings until last week on Hulu & watched it all the way through. It blew me away. It was truely great. I wish I would've seen it before & been able to support it's live program. I would've watched a 2nd season on live tv!!