ELI STONE Cancelled - It is Official
It is official! ELI STONE is cancelled.
According to the LA Times Blog, the excutive producers of Eli Stone, Marc Guggenheim and David Petrarca, told the cast and crew that the show was officially canceled by ABC.
The show will officially get to finish the 13-episode that were initially ordered. Here is the story:
The executive producers of ABC's "Eli Stone" had the sad task Thursday afternoon of informing the cast and crew that the show will not go on.
Executive producers Marc Guggenheim and David Petrarca gathered actors and crew members to let them know that they had been notified by ABC that the show will not continue. Production will end when it completes the network's 13-episode order, according to a source who attended the meeting.
The drama, which stars Jonny Lee Miller, joins the ranks of "My Own Worst Enemy," which NBC canceled last week. The networks are in the process of finalizing their midseason lineups after a very difficult fall.
An ABC spokesperson said the network could not confirm if the meeting between producers and the show's cast and crew had taken place or what producers had stated.
What do you think of Eli Stone getting cancelled?
November 21, 2008 by Eric · Print This Article
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ABC is fast losing me because they consistently cancel good and decent shows. example - American Dreams, What About Brian, October Road, Men In Trees and now Eli Stone. When I sit down after a long days work I want to sit for an hour and be entertained with a good quality show. I don't want to watch people "swapping wives", teaching other people's kids how to behave, bimbo girls fighting for a bachelor or stupid immoral doctors trying to be funny. I hope the ratings take a crash dive.
I can't believe Eli Stone is cancelled......oh wait, yes I can. It seems like any show that has some morals gets cancelled. It is a shame that a show you can watch with the whole family gets cancelled. Oh well, I find myself watching more and more cable shows. Times are changing and the networks need to get a clue. People want to see good drama shows, without worring about hiding your kids eyes from the sex scenes and the lanuage.
BRING BACK ELI!!!!!! We watch Eli faithfully. Even my African Grey Parrot watches Eli.
I wish ABC would reconsider Eli Stone. I enjoyed watching the show with my husband and two tweenage kids, although I had to ***let them stay up past bed time to watch with us.*** We started letting the watch after the first season was over, and now it is gone. It was just on to late to get the best ratings for the type of show it is. Funny, smart, quirky, with an effort at seeing the better side of life.
I hope Eli Stone will survive this premature anuerism.
Please don't take this one wonderful show off the air. there are so few shows that are warm and family orented. I love the show it is funny and the caraters have a depth that is needed. We need more Eli stone and less reality shows. please my brain needs not to be rotted from the out side.
Besides some of the longest running show did not make it the first year Ex. MASH don't give up on it. yet
I can't believe they are going to cancel my most favorite
show!!!! I don't watch a lot of TV, but this is one show
that my husband & I watched together every week!!
I loved the show & we both are so ....sad that they
are going to cancel it!!
Please.....don't cancel this wonderful show with
a great message! We love ELI !!!
I am saddened as I love this show with such a pure message. I will miss Eli Stone terribly. I think we all wish there were more Eli's in our lives as this world has gotten to be such a horrible place. We all want to believe in someone good with moral convictions, as evidenced by the election of Barack Obama as President. Shame on ABC for not showing more intelligence.
Penny
I will not watch ABC anymore.
This is a very good show, and I do hope that an outpouring of support will encourage ABC to continue it. I appreciate its positive message. My husband loves it even more than I do, I think. Please reconsider, ABC. You have a winner here. Don't cut it off before it gets going.
I love this show. I'm 34 years old and I loved it and my kids also. This show is way better than Lost (Sorry but that's the truth). Find a different time slot and it will make it!!!!! Guarantee it! You can't deny it, there are great actors on this show!!!!!! Every time ABC gets a new show I like they cancel it, but this one is not just any show. This is the best show I have seen since I was a little girl, and there's no sex and violence. You know it's good if it doesn't need that and I'm glued to it!!!
I was so dissappointed to hear this was cancelled. I've been looking for it each week. This was the only show I would rearrange my schedule to be sure I saw. It is better than anything else on tv, including LOST and 24.
ABC, you blew it. I own stock in Disney, someone needs to reconsider this. Even at 10pm, it was worth staying up for, but it should be at 8 or at worst 9pm so kids can watch it, it actually had values worth teaching our children. What other shows can you say that about??
ABC don't do it. The show was great. Find a spot for it. The acting and stories are great. Give it a shot. Did all 13 episodes actually air for Season 2 already or did they cut it off sooner. I miss this show!
I am usually far to busy as a 1st year med student to watch TV but I made time for Eli Stone! It was a great show that had very tought provokign issues that no other show would touch Please bring it back ABC!
Well, now we know the perfect triad that will doom a show---use the name of God, help others, and do what is right at the expense of riches...
Way to go ABC. While putting together a killer lineup (Lost, October Road, Eli Stone, etc.), you have managed to torpedo your own network! These kind of moves take some mad skills, so I tip my hat to you all...
Thanks for the truckload of dissapointment...
PS: Ditto to what Chris said (Feb 4th)
way to go ABC! another great show goes by the wayside like yesterdays trash. I am so disapointed. my wife and I loved this show, I even let my 8 year old son watch, we recorded every show and could not wait to see what happens next.
i am sick of reality shows, i mean think about it who wants to see a bunch of girls fighting over a jock, if i wanted to see that I'd go back in time to high school.
Eli Stone hope you will contine on an another network, thank you for the wonderful showes you gave us.
and way to go ABC you continue to lose me as a viewer, whats next you will cancel pushing daisies, oh yea you did that too! jerks!
I'm with Chris (February 4, 2009 post) -- ELI STONE and OCTOBER ROAD are some of the best entertainment on TV for a LONG, LONG time. If I had to choose, though, I'd vote ELI STONE back on in a heartbeat -- it's quality TV and instead of catering to the devolving taste and cultural decline, I suggest that ABC be brave enough to begin elevating entertainment to something of quality and ethics -- as Eli learns there's more to life than money, status and winning, so, too, can we as viewers -- imagine that, elevating the culture?!!!!
I agree with ERIC -- if ABC doesn't have the sense and guts to continue a GREAT QUALITY show, then I pray and request that another station pick it up and continue elevating the quality of our choices in TV viewing.
It's a shame that most of the reality crap, violence, sex, murder and betrayal are so popular and a story that actually promotes moral values and the discovery of something beyond the "win at all costs" mentality gets cancelled. Shame on you, ABC, for not having courage to promote this show better and to put it in a time slot that can be viewed by a wider audience (such as families). Please look to actually serving your audience rather than feeding its less thoughtful tendencies. Eli Stone actually causes one to THINK about life. GIVE US BACK ELI STONE, please!!!!!!!!!!!!
mickey your next
I agree with almost all the other cancellations except Eli Stone. It is the only show out there that is different. Shame on you ABC
I don't understand the logic of which shows stay and which get canceled. Eli Stone was a fun, witty and well written show. My husband and I keep wondering why all the shows we love get canceled - Jericho, My Own Worst Enemy and now Eli Stone. Is the majority of the viewing public not wanting quality tv or what?
I agree with all the sediments above, Eli was a great show which you could safely let the kids watch. For the life of me, why can't the networks see that we don't want reality crap, sex all over the screen & foul language every second word. Wake up ABC and bring back Eli Stone.
It's been over a month and I'm still in mourning. As a social worker, I deal every day with the down side of the human drama. After work all I want to do is silence my phone and watch something on tv that helps lower my stress level and makes me feel happy. That's becoming increasingly more difficult to do. When I found Eli Stone, I recognized a rare mix of intelligence and humor that fully entertained me as well as reaffirmed my faith in the entertainment business. The loss of Eli Stone continues to sadden me on many levels.
I am appalled ABC!!! My husband and I loved that show dearly. As with the other posts it was wholesome and made you feel good after watching it. We need this type of postivity in all our lives. BIG MISTAKE ABC!! Down with stupid reality tv, and give us more wholesome fantasy that makes us feel good about our lives. If it wern't for LOST I would boycott watching ABC as well. Thats the only good show you got now.
I've been anxiously awaiting the return of Eli Stone only to find out today it was canceled in November. I'm really upset that a good, clean, family oriented show would be canceled. I'm guessing that it didn't have enough sex, suggestive material and homosexual relationships in it to keep it on the air. Personally, I don't watch the shows that contain that type of programing and therefore, don't watch ABC. Eli Stone was the exception. I'm glad American Idol is on Fox because I'm fed up with the programing on ABC and will no longer make it a part of my daily viewing.
Wow, way to drop the ball ABC. I have to say that I had quit watching ABC for over a decade before I stumbled across Kyle XY on SPACE. I took a look to see when this show had started, and it was the first episode. I was amazed at how great the show was. That Christmas I got Season one as a gift and was extatic. I have watched it religiously and then during Season 3, ABC cancels the show. Jericho was the same thing. I think to myself, "Now here's a show I can really enjoy." Part way through Season 2, ABC announces the cancellation of the show (yes I know it was before Kyle XY, again, I was watching this on SPACE). After some protests and what was it, beans? were sent to the network they say its back on. After months of waiting I realized that the execs were full of bs and Jericho failed to re-appear on the network. Then a friend tells me I have to watch this show called Eli Stone. Freaking brilliant! I am a huge fan of Johnny Lee Miller and was pleased as punch that I would get to watch him weekly as he plays a lawyer who learns to become a caring, compassionate human being again. Now you go and cancel Eli Stone as well??? Did you hire the guys from NBC who decided to cancel Surface??? You have shows that are doing great, and you cancel them while you keep crap shows playing? I think I'll just avoid ABC like the plague again. I don't watch NBC, and ABC is now on my list of not worth watching again.
I live in da Uk and am 20 yrs old, I had seen da Eli stone title on several tv sites but for some reason did not want to watch it, but wat a surprise when I finally watched it on Sci fi network, I was not only hooked but surprised at da shows high quality and dat to, by including morals in da script which was powerful. This was my one hope of watching a gem of a show in years, I din even know who johnny lee miller is before this show and he is an A grade actor, what I didn't know however was dat ABC had ****holes working for them as execs who knew only to see stats and not da quality of dis show. Even a moron would know dat dis is sumfin fresh and a long term investment in business terms. Hate u ABC NETWORK, I HATE U all
I am so very disappointed that Eli Stone has been cancelled. It was one of my very favorite shows. A GREAT drama with humor and music. Someone is not thinking straight that they cancel this wonderful show and keep on all those cop shows and medical dramas.
i just cant believe they have cancelled eli stone. this is the only show i watch and i've been anxiously waiting for the upcoming episodes only to find out its been cancelled! what a disappointment!! i really really love this show and i actually recommend it to all my friends and colleagues. i do hope ABC would reconsider.
i just cant believe they have cancelled eli stone. this is the only show i watch and i've been anxiously waiting for the upcoming episodes only to find out its been cancelled! what a disappointment!! i really really love this show and i actually recommend it to all my friends and colleagues. i do hope ABC would reconsider.
When networks cancel quality shows like Eli Stone after just a season or two, they lose me as a viewer for any new shows they might be trying out. Why would I waste my time watching a new show on network tv only to be disappointed after the network pulls the plug. I decided months ago to rent (or buy) some of the quality shows on DVD that I never watched when they 1st aired on network tv. I don't know if my little efforts affect the networks, but it makes me better.
My husband and I loved Eli - it was the best show since ED, and that show ended way too soon also.
I can't believe that every time I fall in love with a GREAT show they freeking cancel it! what is wrong with you people(the ones in charge)! This show was wonderful, innovative and funny as hell, I am so sick of this happening. I also loved Journeyman, thank god Kevin McKidd turned up on Grey's amatomy! Also, I loved New Anstredam, there is a serious flaw in the choosing of what shows should be canceled. I am disgusted, and frankly, I am getting turned off to new shows in case I get hooked and they cancel it. I have taken up scrapbooking and reading more instead!! Screw you network tv!!
Eli Stone should not be cancelled. Bringing some faith in these recession days is so important to cheer depressed hearts. Eli stone is a coach and we all need him badly. The show is amazing and should not be cancelled. All my love to every single person worked on this show.
Eli should take the ABC to court!! We want more!!
it's THE Best show i ever watch on tv, it's aired here in KUWAIT, and have alot of Fans, i hope ABC will think about it, and bring it again, coz there's alots of shows deserve a cancelation, not this show..
Please bring back Eli Stone. its one show i LOVE watching and was so awesome. I love that there are morals in the show!
if you want, i can list other show that u can replace it with!
I can't believe ABC have cancelled another good show. In England the show is a hit but the UK networks had the sense to air it at a time kids could watch it to i.e. 8pm. and they have rerun the show at 7pm.
ABC, why do you always seem to cancel the shows people want to see. Reality TV is getting annoying, I do not want to see reality TV that now seems so staged and rehursed. Get a grip and show good drama shows that the whole family can enjoy!!!
here in italy tv shows are very stupid (very, very, very much)....they talk about a false and overmoral reality, without any special event (like a lawer talking with god, for example, or a guy who can't touch his girlfriend without killing her XD), and they do it in the worstest way i ever seen...there are only two or three themes (love, love, love, love, medical division, crime investigation), obviously copied by your american most successful shows...and all the shows seem to be written by the author of Beautiful....if you understand what i mean....
so i decided, many years ago, to watch your amazing series, without waiting for an ipothetical translation for our private network...eli stone it's been buyed by our Berlusconi...and till 2 weeks it will start from the first episode...
i watched all the episode, till the last one...and now...after two new entries from the terrific and unforgivable dawson's creek!, they closed the show?!
cross your fingers people....and stay tuned...
I say that sometimes what we see on TV is just that. I love acting. I find that people are people, even actors. I worked this show and it destroyed my life. I was a girl sick and striving to put my life in order after beating cancer. I was taking classes to build websites and I was happy with what I was doing. From my perspective the egotistical actions of individuals affiliated with this show robbed me of my security and my hope and everything I fought the disease. They did not know I was a survivor, but the background did, including a young woman determined to make it as a character on the show. She made fun of me when I was sick and adjusting. She would do things like when I politely told someone we were taping, who happened to be in production, she took credit for my actions. She was a political on the show and knew people there already. Lied about it to me, and her friends laughed about what happened. I got tripped on a set with crew from this show and had my knees banged up. I am walking now, because I am a fighter. I've heard that she and another girl wanted me gone. How stupid is that? I had told people there I was not coming back to the show. I am a pacifist, and I believed in this show, until they stuck a knife in my back after I stood up for it. I lost over $10,000 because of this shows actions, and the agents this company hired. They also treated me inhumanely. I never acted like I was owed anything but justice. The woman they wanted to make into a charcter, acted like she had the right to destroy my life.
We all know why it was cancelled.
I showed morals.
It talked clean talk.
It showed true, clean friendships & relationships.
It gave hope to those who have "chronic uncontrolable diseases"...that it might be a "blessing" vs. "curse".
It did not have violence, foul language, rape, sexual sickness etc.
But the BIG reason it was cancelled....IT TALKED "GOD"!
[In the "end times" these type of actions will be seen as "evil" & "unacceptable". It also say's people would not speak out against evil so evil wins on acceptability & GOOD will be MUTE! Here is one example of MANY of it happening in entertainment...we already know it is happening in real life!]
***==> Last night I watched another show that was "slightly" similar. It was called "The Listener" (NBC channel).
The theme is a man who felt cursed due to being able to read minds since a child. He had to learn how to block out all the thoughts of others around him. But now as an adult he is a paramedic & uses these skills to help solve, prevent or help in crime cases he runs across. He too is afraid to tell friends & this is getting in his way w/ a relationship. It is clean w/ great morals so far. (episode 1 & 2 aired last night)
So the theme is slightly the same.
Maybe NBC (who's ratings are trash right now) has read this site & decided they might get Eli's viewers if they create a show "like it". They are not giving credit to God for this talent, unlike in Eli, maybe due to fear of complaints from athiest who complained about Eli "pushing God into their lives".
Well I AM TIRED OF SHOWS PUSHING EVIL INTO MY LIFE/HOUSE!
If they dont like a show w/ God as a player....CHANGE THE CHANNEL!
It is time we keep SHOUTING that we want GOOD CLEAN MORAL SHOWS & NOT THE TRASH THEY ARE PUSHING ALMOST 24/7!
Give US a choice!
**Take a look at this new show. Maybe if it continues on the same clean theme NBC will keep it going longer than one season (unlike Eli)
==> Maybe ABC might re-consider bringing it back to stay in competition?
[ps did anyone get an email from a actress on Eli who was OUTRAGGED about the show? It sounded like a child who had a "peer presure" problem on the set & blamed it on the show vs. the creaps who harassed her.]