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It is two and out for CBS‘ new reality series The Job, which is being pulled from the schedule effective immediately. The show The Job replaced in the Friday 8 PM slot, Undercover Boss, will resume its run in the hour next Friday. The Job, executive produced by Mark Burnett and Michael Davies, offered contestants a chance to get a job. It debuted with an underwhelming 0.9 rating in adults 18-49, 53% below the November season premiere of Undercover Boss. The Job dropped even further to a 0.7 rating last Friday before being yanked.
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So sad to hear Mark Burnett and Michael Davies lost their job.
I will miss this show so much – said no one ever
Clearly, the reality of competing to be a hotel front desk agent at The Four Seasons, personal assistant for some muckety-muck NYC magazine executive or Manager at Applebee’s was a little TOO much reality, and not enough escapism, for viewers.
Are you kidding me?????
This is a great show. It needs to have a separate channel. People actually getting jobs.
I’m so disappointed that this show is being cancelled. As a teacher, I found it useful in the classroom with vocational students. I only wish I had access to all the other unaired episodes. I would even buy on DVD if possible.
There were only 4 episodes, so have fun with that!
I’m with Ar and Fred, “The Job” was a great show and it only reflects what a retarded society we live in that would keep the idiotic reality show Survivor going for 26 seasons and not support a good show about the real world like “The Job”, and we wonder why there are 12 million Americans unemployed??? Duh???? CBS has got it all wrong, but I guess if it doesn’t sell all those wonderful
commercials that we are subjected too hour after hour every night if we chose to watch network television, then off it goes???????? Bring back “The Job” you network morons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree that I used this with vocational students to help them learn what to do and not do when seeking employment. I am sad it was pulled
A game show where the winner gets a job…welcome to Obama’s America
No, welcome to the America of the Perpetually Whining Conservative who could politicize a children’s birthday party. Really, dude, it’s BORING.
Thank the TV Gods…the show was awful! Just goes to show Burnett and Davies aren’t worth the huge salaries they demand. Networks are always talking about spending less money, but continue to spend for big names that don’t deliver.
I knew this was going to get canceled as the show’s concept was just plain stupid all along and embarrassing to a fault. The people spoke and told CBS to get this trash off the air and they did just that after two episodes. To “The Job”…you’re fired!
It was Lisa Ling…bad casting with Ty Pennington that show becomes a hit…silly as she resonate with no one. Can’t understand Burnett or CBS not going after the king of making dreams happen……weird
weird that you think ty could have saved this show. even weirder that you think ty could save any show.
Sorry but Alex is right. Programming for Obama’s Great Recession. (He thinks he’s F.D.R. so much it’s like he’s contrived for himself similar circumstances through neglect…except he’s just a cheap imitation of these heroes of his that he emulates. The mind boggles at the number of African American and Hispanic families that are going to be negatively impacted by the U.S.P.S. ceasing Saturday delivery.) Audiences reject this stuff because the truth is just too depressing to confront.
And the Clinton/Obama politburo rolls on Diddy-style like there’s nothing wrong and it’s everybody else’s fault.
I see nothing wrong with raising minimum wage…but you don’t think that the subject hasn’t turned up to cushion the blow of the mandatory fee of Obamacare, do you? Maybe the post office blows as well…So that check you might hope to get in the mail on Saturday because it didn’t show on Friday won’t turn up until Monday, Tuesday over a holiday weekend, something for show business/media free-lancers to bear in mind not just post office families.
FYI the post office hasn’t been green for years. The gov. has been keeping it alive.
No sat. delivery?? That’s one f n bad joke. They need to cancel the entire operation to email. Ever hear of ‘paper’.?????????
Last Man Standing sends another loser to the locker room.
Is there anything worse than going on a job interview? And these numbskulls tried to make a TV show about it? What they should do now is make a documentary of the people who were working on the show now looking for a job.
WHO on earth thought this would be a fun NETWORK-SIZED show??? You don’t have to buy everything that Burnett brings you.
I really liked Undercover Boss. Glad they are bringing it back!
too bad it is all set up – everyone knows the show is there as they shoot
the first year worked but then they had to set up the storylines
A hundred terrific producers and ideas floating around out there and they produce another
Mark Burnett disaster. I have nothing against him doing what he does – but the network execs
are terrible these days – all just trying to keep there jobs as opposed to doing them.
I saw a promo for a show where a noted dog trainer has two or three families competing to be the one to adopt a rescue dog, and envisioned these desperate families, kids and all, being set up for disappointment. No singing, no talent, just watching some hopeful people most of who will be set up for a fall. And I didnt think anything could be more cringe inducing until I heard about this show.
The show was the wet dream of wealthy privileged out-of-touch execs. In the real world, it was offensive and exploitative and the public rightly rejected it.
…yet it’s still better than King of the Nerds, Bet On Your Baby and whatever other crap Ben Silverman is putting out this week.
Precisely.
So pull a show after a showing during a Blizzard and the second week on a Holiday weekend. Granted it was probably bad but the numbers could be slightly skewed.
another friday night dead-show…what a surprise…to no one. friday nights have always been the sinkhole of tv programing, since i can remember. no part in thanks to the lovely state of affairs in this country, as of late. ALL of us are out busting our humps to keep our families above water, pay the bills, then, look forward to the uber-expensive dinner out, or is it a trip to a fast food outlet to take our minds off of all the stress, of all of the previously aforementioned idiocy…only to have to go back to work all too soon, at one our two or three part time jobs. when you have too much on your plate, a reality based show may be too much to care about, in the end. saddest state of affairs in “this economy”, is all of what i just said, and more, not a tv show.
Guess youre under 30. The Friday night lineup used to be solid, especially on ABC back in the 80s. A string of family friendly comedies. But agree w/ the rest – people who are getting a peek at what a hit theyll be taking w/Obamacare, getting the pink slip, watching gas go back above 4 bucks and thinking the next paychecks gonna have a pink slip dont want to sit down at the end of the week and watch their worst nightmare , someone telling a guy or gal like you that you won’t be getting the job.
Friday the show to beat is turning into Shark Tank that has people aiming for an investor but it leans on the crreativeness of the pitch, the success and even recaps some of the contestants who didnt get a deal but went on to make a go of it.
This show has been pitched by everyone and their uncle for the past ten years, even before the downturn. It was passed on for a very good reason – while plenty of people dream of being Top Chef or even (God help them) Donald Trump’s apprentice, it’s not aspirational enough for viewers to just get a job, any ol’ job. Yeah, everyone needs one but it’s not a TV fantasy. But Davies and Burnett managed to sell it. Will the networks wise up and buy shows from people who actually participate in the process of developing and making these shows instead of the guys who are relaxing at their beach houses?
Who at CBS would ever think that this mess could get ratings? People out of work aren’t going to watch because they’re basically looking at their own life. People with jobs, at least the decent people out there, wouldn’t watch it because of guilt over the voyeurism into someone else’s misery.
What an abysmal premise for a show. I have Burnett’s next show: “Five families had their houses foreclosed, but one family has the chance of a lifetime to own their dream house worth $1m.” The other four families will obviously go homeless but what the hell, maybe a housing lender will sponsor them. You start putting people’s necessities out of a gameshow environment (survival, basically) and put them up on a big screen for everyone to watch and you get a soft approach to a film like the Hunger Games. Shows that humiliate people like this should be shot down at the development stage.
This show has many great tips. I love the competitive aspect of it and well, what you should do and not do for certain jobs. In my opinion I think it’s a great show for today’s economic job status.
Wow, I understand why our society is so messed up. This show actually made sense to me as it offers great tips and and practical advice that is applicable to any person who is willing to think for a change.
Absolutely agree, here’s a great opportunity for someone to land a great job with an establish and stable organization in the best city in the world. Most people would give up everything to just get a start in the big apple, and landing a JOB before packing up and leaving your home would be just the ticket. Sorry, I never got to see the entire season.
Just wanted to add, that not being able to find it on the Friday night line up brought to http://www.cbs.com to find out WHY.
Sorry, but “Yawn” was dead on. Would you neo-”cons” like a little cheese with your whine?