cbs has announced that the latest season of the king of queens will also be
its last.
currently in its ninth year, the blue-collar family comedy is the longest-
running sitcom on television right now, taking over the title this year when
will & grace and that '70s show left the airwaves.
while the series, centering on ups driver doug (kevin james), his hard-working
wife carrie (leah remini) and her eccentric father (jerry stiller, of course),
largely flew under the radar, airing on monday nights alongside emmy favorite
everybody loves raymond, it was a steady presence for cbs over the years.
the first episode of the show's two-episode ninth-season premiere on dec. 6,
despite being in a foreign wednesday-at-8 p.m. timeslot, attracted 9.4 million
viewers, with the second half-hour gaining 700,000 pairs of eyes.
proving that at least a few things are still working after almost a decade,
the king of queens also received its first emmy nomination this year, a best
actor nod for james, the portly star whose onscreen marriage to remini put him
in the according to jim club of "how did he get her?" sitcom unions.
(fyi, according to jim is still technically on the air, as well, but abc is
saving it for midseason.)
the king of queens flirted with cancellation earlier in the year, finally
receiving a 13-episode renewal for 2006-07. the show is slated to head back to
monday nights at 9:30 p.m. on apr. 9, where it will ride out the rest of its
existence on the tails of two and a half men, which is still frequently the
only sitcom to break into the nielsen ratings' top 25 each week.
but at least the king of queens will be able to make a graceful exit after a
good run. it's hard out there for a sitcom these days.
a number of this season's freshman comedies are long gone (fox' couldn't get
happy hour off the air fast enough; nbc didn't foresee twenty good years),
while the ones that remain are hanging on for dear life (abc's help me help
you may or may not be back after a winter hiatus; nbc moved 30 rock to
thursdays in hope that those who appreciate the office's brand of wit will
finally embrace tina fey's dry humor).
cbs also had to shuffle its monday prime-time lineup a bit to fit the king of
queens back in.
sophomore show the new adventures of old christine will go on hiatus after its
jan. 29 broadcast to allow seven episodes of the brand-new relationship comedy
the rules of engagement to fill its monday-at-9:30 p.m. spot.
then, first-year sitcom the class will have its season finale mar. 5, after
which the new adventures of old christine will move into its 8:30 p.m. slot,
allowing the king of queens its post-two and a half men perch once the rules
of engagement winds up.
you follow?
how i met your mother and two and a half men will stay put in the meantime.
it's just everything else that's changing.
"these scheduling moves enable us to program more original episodes of comedy
in targeted time periods for the remainder of the season," cbs entertainment
president nina tassler said thursday. "it also provides an opportunity to give
the king of queens a proper send-off in a high profile time period in the
monday night block it helped build."
its last.
currently in its ninth year, the blue-collar family comedy is the longest-
running sitcom on television right now, taking over the title this year when
will & grace and that '70s show left the airwaves.
while the series, centering on ups driver doug (kevin james), his hard-working
wife carrie (leah remini) and her eccentric father (jerry stiller, of course),
largely flew under the radar, airing on monday nights alongside emmy favorite
everybody loves raymond, it was a steady presence for cbs over the years.
the first episode of the show's two-episode ninth-season premiere on dec. 6,
despite being in a foreign wednesday-at-8 p.m. timeslot, attracted 9.4 million
viewers, with the second half-hour gaining 700,000 pairs of eyes.
proving that at least a few things are still working after almost a decade,
the king of queens also received its first emmy nomination this year, a best
actor nod for james, the portly star whose onscreen marriage to remini put him
in the according to jim club of "how did he get her?" sitcom unions.
(fyi, according to jim is still technically on the air, as well, but abc is
saving it for midseason.)
the king of queens flirted with cancellation earlier in the year, finally
receiving a 13-episode renewal for 2006-07. the show is slated to head back to
monday nights at 9:30 p.m. on apr. 9, where it will ride out the rest of its
existence on the tails of two and a half men, which is still frequently the
only sitcom to break into the nielsen ratings' top 25 each week.
but at least the king of queens will be able to make a graceful exit after a
good run. it's hard out there for a sitcom these days.
a number of this season's freshman comedies are long gone (fox' couldn't get
happy hour off the air fast enough; nbc didn't foresee twenty good years),
while the ones that remain are hanging on for dear life (abc's help me help
you may or may not be back after a winter hiatus; nbc moved 30 rock to
thursdays in hope that those who appreciate the office's brand of wit will
finally embrace tina fey's dry humor).
cbs also had to shuffle its monday prime-time lineup a bit to fit the king of
queens back in.
sophomore show the new adventures of old christine will go on hiatus after its
jan. 29 broadcast to allow seven episodes of the brand-new relationship comedy
the rules of engagement to fill its monday-at-9:30 p.m. spot.
then, first-year sitcom the class will have its season finale mar. 5, after
which the new adventures of old christine will move into its 8:30 p.m. slot,
allowing the king of queens its post-two and a half men perch once the rules
of engagement winds up.
you follow?
how i met your mother and two and a half men will stay put in the meantime.
it's just everything else that's changing.
"these scheduling moves enable us to program more original episodes of comedy
in targeted time periods for the remainder of the season," cbs entertainment
president nina tassler said thursday. "it also provides an opportunity to give
the king of queens a proper send-off in a high profile time period in the
monday night block it helped build."
