NBC's Journeyman Faces End of Journey
Network Lets Option Lapse on Ratings-Challenged Drama
By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 12/12/2007 11:51:00 AM
It looks like the end of the road for NBC’s freshman time-traveling drama, Journeyman.
The network let its option lapse on the drama, effectively dooming it to the scrap heap.
The series -- starring Rome hero Kevin McKidd as a San Francisco newspaper reporter who is intermittently yanked back in time to save lives and right wrongs -- has struggled in the ratings. Journeyman garnered a paltry 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic Monday, a new low for the series.
The writers' strike further hurt the struggling show's prospects since there is little incentive for NBC to keep an option open on a series that has almost no chance of catching on.
There are 13 episodes of the show in the can, which will air as scheduled, according to NBC.
This season, NBC gave full-season orders to Life and Chuck. But the jury is still out on Bionic Woman. The heavily promoted remake of the 1970s series has been plagued by viewer erosion since its premiere.
