CBS officially resurrects 'Unforgettable' for 2013

Poppy Montgomery cheats death with 13-episode renewal

By Daniel Fienberg Friday, Jun 29, 2012 10:37 PM

Poppy Montgomery of "Unforgettable"

Credit: CBS

A month-and-a-half after it was one of May's more surprising cancellations, "Unforgettable" has been resurrected by CBS.

CBS announced on Friday (June 29) that "Unforgettable" has been uncanceled and tentatively scheduled for a 13-episode return in the summer of 2013.

The CBS TV Studios production averaged just over 12 million viewers and a 2.5 rating among adults 18-49 in its first season, delivering the sort of numbers that would have earned a no-brainer renewal on any other network. CBS, instead, decided that the network didn't have room for the old-skewing drama starring Poppy Montgomery.

Perhaps CBS has been looking at its lackluster programming so far this summer -- all repeats and "Dogs in the City" until "Big Brother" returns -- and decided that even a fraction of that "Unforgettable" audience would be an intriguing improvement.

Meanwhile, CBS will have to hope that "Unforgettable" doesn't follow in the footsteps of such cancelled-then-resurrected shows as "Jericho" and FOX's "Breaking In," which returned for low-rated second seasons and were cancelled again. Among shows cancelled and then uncancelled by the same network, it would be hard to do better than FOX's track record with "Family Guy," so at least there's hope.

Unless you want to go all the way back to the cancelled and uncancelled "Cagney and Lacey" in the '80s, CBS has had better luck with picking up cancelled shows from other networks. While "Medium" only aired for two seasons after its cancellation by NBC, CBS got nine seasons out of the NBC castoff "JAG," plus two wildly successful spinoffs.

The news of the "Unforgettable" resurrection was first rumored on Deadline.com two weeks ago.

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July 1, 2012 at 10:05AM EST Reply to Comment
Willie Lump Lump

This is great news to hear that Unforgettable is back. I love this show and I was a bit upset it was cancelled. I’ve enjoyed watching my episodes commercial free thanks to the new Auto Hop feature. This was some great news I heard from my coworker at Dish when I got back from my vacation. I always hate having to fast forward the commercials manually and the new Auto Hop will do this for me. This feature only works on PrimeTime Anytime recordings is what I mainly watch. Now my family and I can save a ton of time not watching commercials, and save money on replacing batteries for my remote.
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CBS officially resurrects 'Unforgettable' for 2013

Poppy Montgomery cheats death with 13-episode renewal