Pauley Perrette Reacts to ‘Broke’ Cancellation: ‘This Show Healed Me’
CBS revealed the fates of its 2019-2020 shows Wednesday, and while it renewed a total of 23 shows for the next season, four were axed.
That included Pauley Perrette’s return to television, Broke. The midseason comedy had only aired five episodes before the cancellation. But it sounds like fans will get to see the rest of the first (and only) season.
Perrette shared that the episodes of what she is now calling a “limited series” will continue to air before detailing just what Broke meant to her. “This show restored my faith in people, in this industry. SO GRATEFUL I worked with this cast & crew,” she wrote on Twitter. “Best people I’ve EVER worked with. Healed me. Changed me. Made me whole. So Blessed.”
Broke also marked Perrette’s return to CBS after she left NCIS in its 15th season. In the comedy, her character, single mother Jackie, is surprised when her estranged sister Elizabeth (Natasha Leggero) and Elizabeth’s (formerly wealthy) husband Javier (Jaime Camil) show up needing a place to stay. In Thursday’s episode, Jackie finds out that Javier took her son to church.
About the “limited series” #BROKE Many new episodes are airing. This show restored my faith in people, in this industry. SO GRATEFUL I worked with this cast & crew Best people I’ve EVER worked with. Healed me. Changed me. Made me whole. So Blessed. Made this for you yesterday: pic.twitter.com/eADjPJ6Vy7
— Pauley Perrette (@PauleyP) May 7, 2020
The actress also posted a video in which she spoke about the importance of that episode, “Losing My Religion.” “It’s the most important half hour of television that I’ve ever done and the thing I’m the most proud of,” she said. “In the middle of a primetime sitcom, we are doing a beautiful episode about faith and about God and about getting through trials and tribulations with our faith and our relationship to God.”
Perrette revealed that they filmed the episode last year, “not even knowing that this is exactly what is needed right now.”
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I am deeply saddened about the cancellation of “Broke”. I think it is a really good show. I’m so tired of reality shows so it’s nice to watch a good comedy. I don’t think it’s fair to make a decision when only 5 shows have aired. It’s hard when you put a mid season show on. Especially when most of the other shows are having there final shows of the season going on. They have cancelled a bunch of the shows I watch. Guess I’ll start listening to music instead of watching TV
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What a shame. I liked and watched this show. One of the few that I watched.
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You just cannot predict what people will say about a show after it is cancelled. My wife and I enjoyed the show and are disappointed that it didn't make the cut. The show was funny and the casting of the husband and man servant were perfect and made me laugh every time they were on camera. Sorry to see it go.
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Why are good shows cancelled and shows with no merit return. People need to laugh, especially right now. No, they have to put depressing and evil shows on TV. Best of luck to the cast of Broke. Thank you for making me laugh.
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BROKE was off to a rocky start but got better with every episode. I would have liked to see how it would have played out. I think BROKE had a very good chance of making it if it had been given a chance!
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She's a great person who deserved to have her show renewed. I hope she has an amazing life and finds work again soon.
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I enjoyed Broke and think they cancel shows too fast. Not a fan of sitcoms so maybe that makes me no expert on this type of show. The last sitcoms i watched were Dharma and Greg and the Drew Carey show.
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cbs gets rid of broke but leaves a slew of the same crap. ncis & all it's spinoffs, evil, young sheldon, and fbi/most wanted. it's good i only watch 1 or 2 shows on cbs and now 1 is cancelled.
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No!!! We need this comedy!!! It's funny,family oriented, and there is a life lesson in every episode. Please reconsider keeping this on.
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I really like the show “Broke”. I can’t believe they cancelled it. It did start off rocky, but was getting better.
The characters were starting to flesh out. They didn’t give it enough time.
I hope Pauley Perrette gets another show or this comes back. I also like the actor that played Javier.
I actually started liking all the characters.
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Broke is so much better than Unicorn, yet they renewed Unicorn and cancelled Broke. I love this show and the cast was just great, and so were the writers. CBS seems to have cancelled many of their better shows, and renewing much of the same garbage. So I know I will be watching much less of CBS TV than I did before. They are killing their own network.
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All the good shows have been cancelled. People seem to only want to see violence, and unhappy situations
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I thought her hair wasn't naturally black, and she had issues with having to dye it for NCIS. So I'm surprised she's still doing it. Or am I wrong?
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She will always be Abby, that is probably how people still see her, and the crossover just didn't work.
I'm just not a fan of comedies as most really aren't funny...
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I thought the show was terrible. Not funny. Bad writing, Really disliked the husband. And who was that other guy running around? I am upset about Tommy being cancelled.
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Not crazy about comedies but because I was a fan of NCIS I gave it a shot. I though it was horrid. Not funny at all and I really have a feeling that she is going to bad mouth The powers that be because the show failed and won’t face the fact she couldn’t carry it
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this show was terrible, the casting, the acting, the writing, NOTHING about it was worth watching...BYE BYE , THANK GOD ITS GONE
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Agree. I made it through one segment of it before switching to something else. It was AWFUL.
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You should have given it a chance. I agree, the first episode stunk, but each episode got better and better. It turned out being pretty good and probably would have continued to improve once they got all the bugs worked out. It was not even given a chance - just like TOMMY!!!!!
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Sorry, but while she was interesting in NCIS, Broke sucked big time. Honestly, I was shocked that CBS even gave her her own series after her ridiculous NCIS meltdown. #attentionwhore Sorry, but while she was interesting in NCIS, Broke sucked big time. Honestly, I was shocked that CBS even gave her her own series after her ridiculous NCIS meltdown.
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What a wimp. Take your lumps and keep moving. You act like you are the only one in this world that ever had a problem.
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I'm inclined to agree. After many very well paid seasons on NCIS, she leaves of her own accord, is given a good send off and then throws the producers and cast under the bus after she's gone. She's fortunate she's wealthy from NCIS. I'm not sure she'll be getting many more offers to act.
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That's a very unkind thing to say to a nice person!
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