04-22-2009, 09:42 AM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
It's as good as gone. After 4 episodes, they moved it to Saturdays which is where TV shows go to die. Nothing official though.
It's a shame, because it had plenty of potential, and a big reason for its low ratings is that NBC did a terrible, terrible, terrible job promoting it. The showrunner even had about 5 years of plot arc planned out (which is easy considering it's the retelling of a specific biblical tale).
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It took me two weeks to realize this sad fact. GathDammit! It's "Journeyman" all over again! 
Here's the official:
April 07, 2009
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NBC pulls 'Kings' from Sundays
NBC is replacing freshman drama Kings on Sunday nights, yanking the struggling allegorical series after four episodes.
Kings will be swapped out for another hour of Dateline, which will now run for two hours starting at 7 p.m.
Sunday's Kings episode was seen by 3.6 million viewers and received a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49. Yet Dateline had a 1.5 rating in its half hour leading into Kings. NBC suspects an expanded Dateline will provide a better lead-in for 9 p.m.'s Celebrity Apprentice, which has seen some audience erosion in recent weeks that might be attributed to Kings.
The remaining eight episodes of Kings will air on Saturday nights at 8 p.m. starting April 18.
The situation is a shame because, as nearly every TV critic pointed out, NBC took a chance here on an imaginative idea with a strong cast. Kings, which retold the story of King David in modern times, wasn't another police procedural, it wasn't a cynical programming move. Some may harp on NBC for airing Kings on Sundays at 8 p.m. -- it's a weak slot for the network -- but if the network had misjudged the show and it was truly effective its ratings would not have sunk week to week.
Incidentally, over on iTunes, the most-recent episode of Kings currently ranks as the most-downloaded TV show.
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Oh, and just in, it's been completely yanked off now:
April 21, 2009
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NBC moves 'Kings' to summer
By Nellie Andreeva
NBC's "Kings" is on the move again, this time to summer.
After originally scheduling the midseason drama on Thursday, launching it on Sunday and moving it to repeat-laden Saturday night after four low-rated episodes, the contemporary King David drama has been pulled off the schedule.
Starting this Saturday, NBC will air reruns of "Law & Order: SVU," freshman cop drama "Southland" and "Law & Order."
"Kings" will return to its Saturday 8 p.m. slot June 13 and will finish its run through July 25.
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