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00doll · Joined: 07 Nov 2005 Posts: 4

I was setting up programs to be recorded in the dvr.... Crossing Jordan has no new episodes sceduled for the entire month of November. Does anyone know if the program has been canceled? I hope not it is one of my favorites.

CrazyAboutTV · Site Admin Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 1151

I've heard nothing about Crossing Jordan being cancelled.

Due to the competition from hundreds of cable channels, networks rarely get a large enough audience for a series to substantiate producing one episode for every week of the season. In order to save money, they air reruns or movies or something else cheap during periods where they expect viewership to be at its lowest.

Enacia · Guest

Does anyone know who we go to to find out when Crossing Jordan's new episodes are going to air? I would realy like to find out.

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CrazyAboutTV · Site Admin Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 1151

"Crossing Jordan" was originally scheduled to return after a limited run of Bob Saget's new game show, "1 vs. 100" but that clearly won't happen now.

In an attempt to cut $750 million in expenses, NBC has decided to shelve many series that are expensive to produce, especially ones in the 8PM time slot that was planned for "Crossing Jordan".

Those slot will be mostly filled with an unending list of (cheap to produce) game shows for as long as those shows draw the huge audiences per dollar of production cost.

So Crossing Jordan's future is now very much in doubt. It is possible that it could replace a series that currently resides in a worse time slot, however.

Even then, expect to see much more of "half-season runs" for all but the highest rated series. Others will be airing either September through December, January through May, or June through August.

This is not an evil move on the part of the major networks. It's necessary for their survival. With hundreds of channels to choose from, there's not enough audience for most series that cost numerous millions of dollars per episode.

CrazyAboutTV · Site Admin Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 1151

Well ... just a few days later than my previous post and now I've found a few sources saying that Crossing Jordan will return on March 7th at 10PM on NBC.

The official word from NBC is that Crossing Jordan will return "soon". Whatever that means. My experience has been that when it's "soon", they also give a definite date and air time.

So hopefully the March 7th return is true! That's not too soon, I guess.