'Elementary' on CBS: Keep or Cut?

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  • Cynthia Gardner - 7 years ago

    This is a wonderful show. I live it and never want it to end.

  • Kathy - 7 years ago

    I think it is a great show I think Lucy Liu. And johnny miller work great together I love the whole cast Aidan Quinn , Jon Michael hill the show doesn't seem to center around one character I think they all share the lime light

  • george parr - 7 years ago

    Have watched every episode and and am also watching the re runs. Never fails to please, plots are involved, intriguing and always solved in the unique Sherlock style.You don't want the episode to end. Brilliant writing, excellent cast give it a try and become hooked like the rest of us.

  • michael mc court - 7 years ago

    This is the best show on tv at the moment I look fowatd for this show every week .what a cast to have johnny lee milar and lucy lu in the same show indpired. please make more series as its the ony program that all my family look foward too aswel as the story lines its so refreshing the best program ever

  • Steffi Stevens - 7 years ago

    Please don't EVER! cancel this show! I love the stories, the characters, the actors... Everything! Pleeeeaaaaseeee!!!

  • gustav - 7 years ago

    A very good show. I do not like when it is moved by football games but I still watch it on the CBS sight to keep up.

  • Robin - 7 years ago

    Please don't cancel my favorite show! I have DVDs of all episodes available and watch on vacations. I read Shelock Holmes. I love the actors and the twists and turns of each episode. It is what I look forward to watching to see which supporting characters will be back on the show. The writers do a great job of not making it predictable like many other ongoing series.
    It wiould also be nice to not miss episodes due to being scheduled after sporting events.

  • Charlene Mays - 7 years ago

    Please don't cut Elementary !! It's my favorite show. I hate it when sports programs last so long cutting into Elementary's time slot.

  • Debby - 7 years ago

    I offer 3 reasons to keep the show indefinitely:

    * The core of the Sherlock Holmes character has successfully been transported to a new time and place without any loss in the core essence of the story. Not only is SH's fine-tuned observation and reasoning featured, but I am confident that the viewing public is being instructed on how to observe and reason that can translate into everyday life. As a former classroom teacher, I see the value to students and adults.

    * The acting is outstanding as other commenters have already stated.

    * In a time when TV shows and movies often have dark portrayals of society and human beings with little hope for improvement, "Elementary" addresses the darkness of society and human nature with Watson's unfailing compassion and hope, Sherlock's sincere struggle to stay clean, and the delicate balance among the characters to encourage and admonish each other throughout everyday life.

    Thank you for the opportunity to share my comments. Please take pubic input into consideration when renewing TV programs.

  • Jan - 7 years ago

    Like all the others here I say, 'PLEASE-PLEASE' don't cancel the only detective show I watch!!! It always bothers me when the network moves a show all over the place then cancels it because of bad numbers!! This is a show that I will and have hunted for. Why you'd put a show of this caliber on sports night is beyond me!! How can people watch it if it's bumped all the time? We diehard fans look for it and wait on it. Please don't cancel this fantastic show, give it the respect it deserves and get it off Sunday night right after a ballgame or not shown due to an awards show!! Put 'The Big Bang Theory' on Sunday night and see what happens!

  • Mark Halsey - 7 years ago

    This is, without doubt, the best Police Procedural Drama on television. Just the mere fact that the network is considering cutting this show, over others they have already renewed, is another tale of looking solely at the numbers and not the huge potential for growth in the storyline. I wouldn't disagree that occasionally this show lacks a true storyline on a week-to-week basis, however it has in the past, and allows for the producers to reincorporate old storylines, or bring one into the mix.

    It is arguably one of the most intriguing shows, which brings me back every week, with characters that possess phenomenal talent. Jonny Lee Miller @jonnyjlm is one of the most dynamic actors of his time. Since his breakout performance in #Trainspotting I have been enthralled by his work as an actor and would never have thought of him in this role, but nobody could replace his quick witted repartee. He is one of those people I find so inspiring that I would love to meet and have a chat with. Everybody has a list of famous people you would like to meet, and he is definitely one of mine. And as far as Lucy Liu @LucyLiu her acting career speaks for itself. She is simply a brilliant actress and to have her on the network's roster is one decision they have made right in casting.

    The following is a list of CBS television shows, and May Sweeps results, and their respective fate, as taken from TVLime.com. Some of these shows which show already have Been Renewed, compared to Elementary, for instance, always makes me feel like the decisions are made based simply on "today's poll numbers and current viewership." They don't ever appear to make decisions based on future potential of a series, just what's hot at the moment. It feels a lot like the old business model of the Record Business, where decisions were made haphazardly, and with much regret.

    2 Broke Girls: A safe bet. Could go either way
    The Amazing Race: Could go either way
    American Gothic: Officially cancelled
    The Big Bang Theory: Officially renewed for two more seasons
    Big Brother: Officially renewed
    Blue Bloods: Could go either way. A safe bet. Officially renewed
    BrainDead: Officially cancelled
    Bull: A sure thing. Officially renewed
    Code Black: Could go either way. A long-shot
    Criminal Minds: Officially renewed
    Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: Could go either way
    Doubt: Officially cancelled
    Elementary: Could go either way
    The Good Fight*: Renewed for Season 2
    The Great Indoors: Could go either way
    Hawaii Five-0: Officially renewed
    Kevin Can Wait: A safe bet. Officially renewed
    Life in Pieces: Officially renewed
    MacGyver: Officially renewed
    Madam Secretary: Officially renewed
    Man With a Plan: Officially renewed
    Mom: Officially renewed
    NCIS: Officially renewed
    NCIS: Los Angeles: Officially renewed
    NCIS: New Orleans: Officially renewed
    The Odd Couple: Essentially cancelled
    Pure Genius: Essentially cancelled
    Ransom: A long-shot.
    Scorpion: Officially renewed
    Star Trek: Discovery: Premiere pushed to Fall 2017
    Superior Donuts: Officially renewed
    Survivor: A sure thing. Officially renewed
    Training Day: Essentially cancelled
    Undercover Boss: Could go either way
    Zoo: Officially renewed for Season 3

    Looking at this list, it appears as though Some Series jus won't capture the audience they are looking for after 5 excellent seasons, such as with Elementary. The decision to Renew Zoo, Kevin Can Wait, Superior Donuts, Mom, Man With a Plan, The Good Fight and Life in Pieces, yet have doubts about not only Elementary, but also a great new series, Ransom, has me wondering who makes these decisions and what rational is used, apart from the "Numbers."

    I personally enjoy CBS' lime-up, however, once a show is Cancelled, it's unlikely to make it back to "The Big Screen", and if you decide NOT to Renew Elememtary, please just think about your long-term viewership when making your decisions CBS @CBS. If you Cancel Elementary today, and later Cancel Superior Donu

  • Danish T - 7 years ago

    I am from India and here the show airs almost a week after it was aired in USA. I have been watching this show since 2012 when it started and I still love it. I love it as much as BBC's Sherlock. Please renew the show. Request from an Indian fan.

  • Carla mullen - 7 years ago

    I have watched this show from the very beginning and I think it is stil as good as the start. It has always been my favorite. I also feel that changing it to Sunday put it up against other stronger shows it just can't go

  • Mary Myers - 7 years ago

    Though I watch the show at a time of my choosing, it remains the ONLY show that I watch. Needless to say, I want it to continue. Thank you.

  • Dinna - 7 years ago

    Please renew the show. Love the characters. The writers are phenomenal with unpredictable endings. Only problem is the Tv stations screwing up the time it is aired because of sports shows. They have to talk an extra half hour re a sports event we just watched that was analyzed ad nauseam by sportscasters at the time. This throws the air time off for Elementary. They should move it back to the night it was previously on and leave it alone!

  • Lorraine Boyd - 7 years ago

    Great show: well-written, intelligent, thought-provoking, terrific stars, different from so many other detective shows, delightfully quirky, just plain good! Please leave at least some shows on air for people who are discerning!!!!
    Ratings would be significantly higher if it weren't constantly pushed back due to sports runovers. Move the show! Please keep it on the air. It's a jewel!!!

  • Lorraine Boyd - 7 years ago

    Great show: well-written, intelligent, thought-provoking, terrific stars, different from so many other detective shows, delightfully quirky, just plain good! Please leave at least some shows on air for people who are discerning!!!!
    Ratings would be significantly higher if it weren't constantly pushed back due to sports runovers. Move the show! Please keep it on the air. It's a jewel!!!

  • Cindy Denney - 7 years ago

    This is my favorite show! It is thoughtful, smart, intelligent, something to think about.

  • Andrew karycinski - 7 years ago

    Love rhe show johnny Miller really looks like Sherlock and the rest of the cast Is the best just like jeopardy in watching to try to catch the bad guy it's the second reason for watching TV Sundays next to walking dead

  • Ray - 7 years ago

    CBS-This is the best show on television and if you dump it you are all idiots! The acting, writing, backdrop, etc is all top notch. If someone has never seen it, they can fall in love the first time they watch it without having to binge watch or get lost due to old and tired storylines that go on and on (although they should binge watch because every episode is captivating). The Sunday timeslot, with the frequent bumps/skipping due to sports and whatever specials, is horrible. Yet, we still watch it, tracking it down if we have to. I can't think of any other show worth the hassles we go through just to watch it. Move it to any other night, PLEASE. You have a hit show with ratings potential equal to or higher than, the likes of Seinfeld and Friends. Learn how to maximize its potential.

  • Gloria - 7 years ago

    Elemantary is the best thing to happen to CBS. Top notch writing and acting makes this our all time favorite show. Please keep it going. This is a show that will be long lived if allowed.

  • sam - 7 years ago

    Only show I watch live! So many stories left to tell. Truly believe the numbers would be different if it played on time or on a different night. The networks running it into the ground. No advertising & feel like they don't care if it airs or not. So frustrating

  • L.B. Myers - 7 years ago

    The time slot is always bumped by games or lost. Pick a better time so we may watch and enjoy at a predictable time!

  • Lmccoy - 7 years ago

    It's such an interesting show.... nothing else is like it. Unlike every other show that is predictable and boring

  • Kathleen James - 7 years ago

    There is so little on network television anymore: I can count on one hand how many shows that are worth watching. Elementary is one of the few shows that is interesting and holds my attention. The cast rocks and I really like Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu. Keep Elementary!

  • Ed - 7 years ago

    CBS is a joke this network is terrible. Read you viewers comments and get your head out of your ass!!! Stop bumping shows and get it together.

  • Elena Tucker - 7 years ago

    Please, please, leave me my Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson! The Great Detective must live on!

  • Christine A Williams - 7 years ago

    Please keep this intelligent and socially aware show alive! Few scripts hit as many new and publicly unexamined topics as the kind I keep seeing on this show...they're my friends!!!

  • Judith Dartt - 7 years ago

    I love the show, the plots are tricky and the writing above what is offered on most networks. It is hard to believe what you have renewed, while leaving Elementary hanging.

  • Deborah - 7 years ago

    This is my favorite show on television! Great writing, great acting. A show you actually have to pay attention to, rather than halfway watching doing something else at the same time. I hate the Sunday timeslot. Whenever CBS wants to get rid of a show, they stick it on Sunday night after football. I record it sometimes using an hour extra time to get it all. Please don't cancel the best show on tv!!!!

  • Lisa Moore - 7 years ago

    I LOVE this show. I don't love it being on Sunday night. I look forward to watching it ever week.

  • Let. Hardy - 7 years ago

    Love this show, great writing and performances.

  • Chris - 7 years ago

    Please move it to a different night. It gets frustrating only getting to watch half an episode because of football or basketball run overs. We find the episode and watch it but alot of people will just say "forget it".

  • Karla Cooper - 7 years ago

    Move it to another night, because Sunday nights are an end game because of sports shows.

  • Karla Cooper - 7 years ago

    Move it to another night, because Sunday nights are an end game because of sports shows.

  • Angie - 7 years ago

    Love this show. .can't get enough

  • Liz - 7 years ago

    PLEASE keep this excellent thinking person's drama. If possible, return to Thursday. I not only watch the new episodes, but like all episodes of NCIS shows (all 3), I watch and rewatch all re-runs. Learn something new on every episode. I truly look forward to Elementary. I DVR, and it's the first Sunday show I watch. Please keep it on my TV.

  • Joanne Melanson - 7 years ago

    Elementary has consistently been one of the smartest & best written shows on tv. Cast is top notch, especially Sherlock, Watson & Capt Gregson characters. Annoyingly, Sunday time slot's football, music & movie awards shows push the show later & later or out completely many times during the season. This unfairly hurts the shows ratings. Diehard fans like my family appreciate a cleaver who-done-it and love the fact that Sherlock always baffles us This show is a true jewel & the network would be foolish to let it go

  • Wendy - 7 years ago

    Elementary is much needed intellectual drama. Please do not cut this show that delivers a strong and well-written crime drama week after week. Everything on television is so serialized these days. Elementary is a refreshing departure from the norm!!

  • Jess Grant - 7 years ago

    I learn something new every episode of Elementary. It cleverly combines modern dilemmas with Arthur Conan Doyle references; it feels both cutting edge and authentic. The writing is always impressive; it is one of the few murder mysteries on television that I can't unravel in the first five minutes. The characters are not static; they grow and learn about themselves in a way that mirrors real life and draws us in. This show is not a fast paced, action packed, shallow dish of cliches - it requires thoughtfulness and attention. It ebbs and flows in a timeless, sustaining way; there is true beauty in its subtleties and sincerity. I will truly mourn if this brilliant show ends!

  • Roslyn McKenzie - 7 years ago

    I really love this show. It's so hard to find a good investigative drama and this fits right into my kind of show. Please don't cancel. Maybe expanding more would open up the door and bring up the ratings.

  • Trish Ament - 7 years ago

    Please keep the most interesting and unique show on TV. CBS your fault my moving it to Sunday....should have kept it on Thursday

  • Stephen Graham - 7 years ago

    Great characters like Sherlock Holmes never grow old. Yes, Watson as a woman was unique and a novelty; Lucy Liu has won all Sherlockians over. But clever writing and inspired updates on century old storylines have not grown stale. Elementary is a rare treat from the usual crime drama that relies on sex and violence as opposed to deductive reasoning. SAVE Elementary!!!

  • Marj - 7 years ago

    The casting is great. Nothing is dumbed down. The plots are varied and believable - novel idea. The humanizing of Sherlock has wonderfully and slowly been unfolded. Joan has been given some real credibility - maybe a bit more please. And I LOVE Aiden Quinn. I voted YES - big surprise.

  • brenda - 7 years ago

    PLEASE do not cancel this show!! This is the only show I watch all week...Watson and Holmes are awesome together..please, please, please :-)

  • Ross Johnson - 7 years ago

    Two commentators, actually. My wife and I are equally enthusiastic about Elementary. Unusual chains of circumstance, sharp (but not outrageous) twists of plot line, dialogue that fairly reeks of intelligence and wit. These are only a few of the reasons we enjoy watching Holmes, Watson, and Company. I very seldom laugh out loud, or exclaim in delight at a line of dialogue, during a TV show or movie, yet scarcely an episode goes by in Elementary where my dear partner is not startled off the couch by an explosive guffaw. Intelligence rather than pure physical action is so rare in TV presently, as is a show which by and large eschews bad language. We both want to continue to enjoy this rare gem of a show. SHERLOCK LIVES!!

  • Carole Green - 7 years ago

    Please don't cut this programme... I'm a viewer in the UK and I love it!

  • Carole Green - 7 years ago

    Please don't cut this programme... I'm a viewer in the UK and I love it!

  • Bill - 7 years ago

    Elementary is one of CBS best shows and it is one of the best on tv. CBS needs to promote it more. Elementary must stay on. Please return it to Thursday night.

  • Stuart Dungan - 7 years ago

    The fact that I would spend the amount of time I have searching to make these comments speaks volumes towards how I feel about the show. I have purchased all of the boxed sets of series.

    My telling key about the series is the chemistry of the cast. Especially, but limited to Holmes and Watson.

    Even admitting that there have lapses in excitement in some of the episodes, my wife and I look forward to a weekly visit to the brownstone.

    Please keep the show!!

  • Susan - 7 years ago

    I love the fact that the endings are not pedictable. It is so much fun to try and figure out whose done it.
    Finally, it is the only show my family can all agree on.

  • Mark Thibodeaux - 7 years ago

    Watson rules!

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