‘NCIS: New Orleans’: Scott Bakula Was ‘Surprised the Show Was Canceled’
Fans weren’t the only ones who were blindsided by the announcement that NCIS: New Orleans is ending with its current seventh season. The star, Scott Bakula, who plays Special Agent Dwayne “King” Pride, was as well.
“This being the last season, going out in the middle of a pandemic, I didn’t think it was going to happen,” he admits as part of TV Insider’s video going behind the scenes of Pride and Rita’s (Bakula’s real-life wife Chelsea Field) series finale wedding (airing May 23). “I’m surprised the show was canceled.”
He also acknowledges the fans who have been tuning in over the years. “They followed us to several time slots,” he recalls, and Field laughs in agreement. When NCIS: New Orleans premiered in 2014, it aired Tuesdays at 9/8c. It moved to 10/9c in Season 3. During Season 6, it changed nights to Sundays at 10/9c and occasionally 9/8c. There were also sometimes sports-related delays for the primetime lineup on Sundays.
“I appreciate they’re sticking to us and sticking by us and that transfers to all around the planet. We’re in 200+ markets all over the world,” Bakula continues. “We’ve had a great run. They’ve been very supportive. They seem to have liked the show, they like the stories we told, the characters on the show, and that’s why we do it. We do it because we want people to grow a relationship and attach and invite us into their homes and we don’t take that lightly. I never have. I honor them and we have always had had a great relationship and I look forward to continuing that in the future.”
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One of my all time favorite shows on!!! Very sad that it is ending. I love the characters, and the story lines. Please bring it back!
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This was our favorite show of the week. We looked forward to it and followed it even with all of the time changes. We hope they reconsider. The backdrop of The Big Easy made it unique and enjoyable.
Give it at least one more season for a good send off! Or let someone else pick it up?
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I have quit watching a lot of the shows because they went political, but I didn't this one. I, for one, will not be watching the show they put on in it's place. That is what I do when they cancel one of my favorites. I just stop watching that channel in that time slot-and find a different show, on a different channel.
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Will miss NCIS New Orleans. My favorite show. Loved the city, fun, music, story, and Pride and Loretta and all the cast. Should have had one more season when Pride's bar could have been reopened. Always liked the ending of each show with drinks at the bar. The show made you feel uplifted. I enjoyed the family chemistry with the team.
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I’m very upset they canceled this show! My favorite of all the NCIS shows!
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I’m very upset about this show’s cancellation! Great story lines, wonderful actors and characters, and the Big Easy as the backdrop...a great combination! I really wish they would reconsider!
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I think it was a mistake to cancel the series. Stories were always intriguing and I loved seeing all of the sites in New Orleans. What’s going on CBS? Bring it back.
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Can't they change it and make it a season finale. And spend the summer taping. I love this show with it's current crew.
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Yes, that’s what it felt like was a season finale.
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Sad to hear this. Great show and one of our favorites!
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Im so disappointed that they are taking one of my favorite shows away. They always take away great shows. There isn't going to be anything good to watch so I may just cancel cable cause nothing good is going to be on. NCIS shows are my favorites and this one was the best
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My husband and I have been avid fans of this show. We will miss these characters who feel like family. Never having visited New Orleans, it made me feel the jazz, smell the Cajun...I’m so sad!
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Enjoyed the show, especially being from the New Orleans area. Also got to be an extra 3 times on the show. Nice group of people to work with. Kind of surprised that NOLA was canceled before LA. Granted, NOLA went through a LOT of personnel changes in its 7 years, but the "LA" show story line has really been stretching since Hetty left.
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she didn't leave she had an accident and then covid happened
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Linda Hunt (Hetty) just appeared on the season finale of NCIS: LA. I suspect she may be back next season. But just to confirm she was in an accident and due to her age (76) with Covid it was not safe for her to be appearing as often.
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My favorite show and I will miss seeing it. I will order all the shows on dvd ! !
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Once they start messing around with time changes and then day changes you just kinda know something is up. I loved this series but then I love all the NCIS series'. This one was sabotaged when they put it in the Sunday time slot.....thats what killed this one. Why on earth, do you put a great series on a day with all sports??? Whoever did this crap should be shot.
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I agree! It seems all the good shows are always interrupted by sports at some point in the season. Y'all need to interrupt all the reality crap!
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Please don’t cancel NCIS New Orleans. There are just too many great stories left to tell. Cancel one of the other ones as they are good with great cast but getting tiring. If you are going to put a NCIS Hawaii in its place, I could not think of anything more boring !! Please reinstate NCIS New Orleans.
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Very upset they are being canceled!!! This is mine and my Husband’s favorite show. So much so we love watching reruns time and time again! So very sad😢
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I think the original cast had a great chemistry. Much better than LA. Each time they lost a cast member the chemistry worsened. LaSalle was the final straw. I’ve heard they let the first actress go because one of the big wigs didn’t think she had enough sex appeal. Most of the women they tried to replace her with had none that I could see. None of the two spin offs were as good as the original, but I will miss Pride and CCH Pounder.
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Truly disappointed loved the show and characters Dwayne, Loretta, Sebastian and Rita. Show really got interesting with Sasha and kid. Hoping to see they realize the mistake and bring back. Loved Scott Bakula on star trek enterprise also so hope to see him and Cch Pounder on something soon
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I quit watching after Sonja Percy left the series. Many viewers were not interested in what was happening to the actors and to the crew. What major organization fires two leaders in a few months time? I can point my finger at the right person but it is clear that once they lost the creator Gary Glasberg, the series drifted and then began to sink. The entire Franchise had issues with female actors/staff and NO particularly with ethnic individuals. One of those continued hidden issues in New Orleans society overall. I had never been able to visit the 'world class' city of New Orleans and have been educated in both the cultural and the beautiful buildings via NCIS. I enjoyed how they wrote Pride to be such a supportive and intuitive supervisor and his always uncomfortable relationship with the character of Sonja Percy. I'll add that I tried to watch LA last week and turned it off. I only recognized four people. Where did all those others come from? Trusting that Scott and CCH find exciting new shows to star in and that Zoe and Shalita continue to rise into their destiny.
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Best of the NCIS franchise as far as I am concerned. Love this show and how they used the city itself as a character in the show. We always looked forward to watching every week, what a BAD decision to end it! Please, let this show be picked up and continue on!
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Very disappointed this was cancelled. We are great fans. Too many shows done in Hawaii . New Orleans a great place to film a show. Please reconsider. All we have left that we enjoy is NCIS.
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Im really sorry to hear about show not continuing. I even got my spouse watching this 1.
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So DISAPPOINTING that NCIS: New Orleans is cancelled!! It's one of the best shows & still in the prime of its run! Hoping another network will pick it up!
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I'm gonna miss this one for sure! I love watching all the NCIS shows. I miss the CSI shows also.
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But they never sayd why the show is stopping.
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We love this show, don't know why you'd want to cancel a show that has great characters and story lines. Come on people bring this back. It's a winner.
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I love Scott Bakula and have followed him to whatever show he was on. I am so disappointed that they are canceling the show. I have come to love all of the actors and am going to miss them tremendously.
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I have watched when it was on and wherever it's was on. This is an awesome show. Really gonna miss watching it weekly. Love the characters and actors that bring them to life. Just awesome great TV program. Will miss this show immensely 😭😭😭😭😓😞😓
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I love this show and all the actors. Please reconsider the cancellation.
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Man—that’s a bummer. I’m surprised and sad about it, but at least it sounds like they’ll wrap up the storylines. Thanks guys—it’s been fun.
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awe I love this show, and even watch reruns!
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This is really disappointing. We really like NCIS NEW ORLEANS - this is such a shame to cancel a show that so many people really liked. To the stars of the series = you have done a great job and made the characters come to life.
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Why do you cancel all the good stuff and put some stupid game show in its place????
Have you ever thought about asking the public what they think? Obviosity not!!!! I am NOT happy with this decision!!!!
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Oh no why? I love this show
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CBS! Please bring back the whole team!!! NCIS New Orleans is the only show I watch on TV.....bring them back!!!
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I love NCIS: New Orleans. Please keep the show going! If you're not going to air it on CBS, move the show to Paramount+. Even if it ends up being exclusive to the streaming service. At least the show will still be alive.
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Maybe someone needs to start a channel with all the "cancelled" shows on it and let us decide what WE want to watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😡🤬👹😡😠🤬
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Done with CBS
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Go woke go broke. Show became unwatchable with all the political crap.
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To end such a popular show is not smart. Wish they would reconsider.
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I have enjoyed NCIS New Orleans right from the jump. I had no idea that the last episode was the LAST!! Haven't we had enough craziness for the past 18 months? Now our show that we watched, to forget the world for an hour is no longer going to be there. A heads up would have been appreciated. To the cast members, Thank You, you had a great show and I for one, wish you all the best.
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They need to reconsider. There are very few good shows on TV and this is one of them. We followed wherever time slot they put them in and look forward to watching each week
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So....disappointed that they’ve cancelled the show!! This has been one of my favourites. We’ve been fans since it started. Thanks to all the cast for entertaining us through the years! The big boys made the wrong call in pulling this show!! Speak up fans!
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Please don't cancel this series! I love it! Shame on you cbs
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Keep this show on!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this such a shame!!! Most of the new ones coming a on are disgusting and most sexual r violence oriented. Our poor grandchildren and children subjected to this trash.
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It’s sad to see a good show get cancelled without any warning. The actors are great! This show is better than any of the dumbfounded reality shows.
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I am going to miss this show. I wish they could keep it going for at least another season and give it a proper send off. This way they can close up all of the story lines.
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I’m very disappointed in losing NCIS New Orleans. There aren’t many good shows on tv and this one was good entertainment for an hour. Get rid of reality tv which isn’t reality at all.
Rethink this decision because whoever made it doesn’t know what an audience likes to watch.
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I think they should cancel NCIS Los Angeles not NCIS New Orleans.
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Good Evening Yes when Shalita Grant & Lucas Black left the show was not the same they were excellent as partners should have gotten a spinoff RT
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This is MY favorite. I am so sadden. I don't care when it airs, I record it. Yes, the sports and Sunday's was a little bit of a pain but I would watch it on Demand if this happened. Never missed a show. PISSED!!!
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they do this with a lot of good shows and keep crap show on
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Went woke
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I think you all are making a mistake you are going to lose a lot of people
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This Season they just went over the top with their political story lines. I quit watching because of it.
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It was a lot better than the one they replaced it with!!!! Wish they would poll the fans first!!!
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Really disappointed the show was dropped. Frankly, the two new shows do not stand up to NCIS New Orleans. Ir was one of my favorites and I'll miss it.
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Looks like replacing this with the Hawaii version was a big mistake.
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I liked it at the beginning. But honestly, after the first three actors of the initial cast left the show, I watched it out of habit. Then, too many hallucinations and dreaming and a soap opera plot... I will not miss the show. And, by the way, NCIS Hawaii is even worse.
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I will miss Scott and the show. Wish they had cancelled NCIS LA instead!
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Will miss it one of my favorites. Initially started watching because of Lucas Black, following his career since he was young.
So hard when they killed him off. I liked the entire cast and it taking place in New Orleans. The other NCIS shows have gotten slow and boring. I watched the Hawaii one tonight not impressed !!!
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Real lol by season 3 it had become a cartoon. Apologies to cartoons!
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Absolutely cannot believe they would cancel NCIS New Orleans, yet leave NCIS Los Angeles on!! New Orleans was a MUCH better show. Great staff, wonderful stories. Darn shame!
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in my opinion one of the reason why NCIS New Orleans was canceled was do to bad behavior behind the scenes from some of the producers and the security and the original showrunners Brad Kern and Adam Targum who were fired before Christopher Silber and Jan Nash took over as show runners but by then it was most likely already too late for NCIS New Orleans and the show was canceled and the people responsible for permeants probably were tired of the complaints and bad behavior. probably didn't want to give CBS another chance and didn't want to renew the permeants to film in New Orleans. with the show being canceled CBS, the show runners and the producers ended the show with loses ends from season 6 that will never be resolved and fans will be confused. old fans will always wonder what was supposed to have happed on those two un aired episode and new fans are left confused. i still wonder if the Connor, Sasha and Pride story line was even apart of the original script from Choices and Once upon a time but of course we will never know
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So sorry to see it end; love NCIS NOLA and wish they’d reconsider.
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I blame the 10:00 PM time slot for the reduction in viewership. I could not watch it when it aired, as I am in bed by then.
You'd think someone at CBS would realize this.
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It was cancelled only because of when it was scheduled to be watched. It has been one of my favorite shows - much better than NCIS LA. The characters were much better than the LA show with a more unified group than the LA show - more like the original NCIS. Perhaps CBS should reconsider just how and why it gets shows cancelled. Looks to me as though it was planned for by CBS. Not a good move CBS.
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Please don't take this show off! One of the better shows on television
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UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME, I WASN'T ABLE TO SEE THE PART WHEN OR MAYBE WHERE LASALLE WAS KILLED. BASICALLY I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THE WHOLE SHOW ITSELF, WHEN THAT HAPPENED. AND UNFORTUNATELY FOR ME, I DON'T HAVE A DVR TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT. ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M ON DISABILITY. SO WHAT AM GOING TO DO,IS HOPEFULLY WAIT TO SEE IF THAT PARTICULAR SHOW CONES BACK ON FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO WATCH. BUT I SERIOUSLY DOUBT THAT WILL HAPPEN NOW, THAT THE SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!
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Loved this one, I will miss all the chemistry of the cast.
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Maybe with some luck another network will pick this well liked series up
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I am very disappointed that NCIS New Orleans has been cancelled. The story lines are real and the acting is well done. NCIS LA, on the other hand, has been slipping. Both the acting and story lines do not have the same quality that NCIS New Orleans has.
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Of all the shows in the NCIS family... I loved this one because it felt real@@!! I will
miss it! Let's hope the replace-
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I am so sorry to hear that. It’s one of the few shows I watch on TV. Really going to miss it.
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I most disappointed with the cancellation of NCIS NO. I liked the characters much better than those on theLA show. I really like the character of Dwayne Pride. I doubt that cbs cares one hill of beans about these comments, but doubt that a Hawaii location will be an improvement. RECONSIDER!!!
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Why on earth would CBS cancel such a popular show? Not WOK enough for their sponsors?
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NCIS: New Orleans was my favorite of the NCIS franchise. If a show had to be canceled, they should have canceled NCIS.
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I wish the show would continue.
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CBS needs to rerun the finale. It was taken up for the first half of the hour by the finish of a NCIS-LA program so we didn't get to see the whole final show.
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I will miss the show!
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Cancelling of this show is BS. This was a great show and I followed it continuously from the first season. The end was ok but I did not find any closure in it as a series finale. It was just BAM and over with. This may mean I have to stop watching the other two NCIS too. A stupid decision! 😠😡🤬
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I'm bewildered and sad they canceled NOLA. I couldn't follow the other NCIS shows. This was the only one that held my interest. Bring it back please.
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I will miss NCIS:NEW ORLEANS. The best of the NCIS Franchise!!. Love NOLA the energy of the city, the stories and the cast. CBS made a mistake by canceling the show. The characters were wonderful. I would love reconsideration and bring NCIS New Orleans Back!!!.
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Terrible!!!!!!!!!! Love this show. Great stories and a family group that worked together. So sad.
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We love this show. I wonder what CBS is thinking? Were the ratings that bad.
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😔We really like this show and they are leaving us hanging with so many loose endings!!
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I think it stinks! It was a good show and y’all put a lot of great people out of a job!
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I am very upset about this. I love this show and the whole cast.
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Truly disappointed they are cancelling NCIS NOLA. I think this is the best one of all the NCIS shows. Another excellent CBS show bites the dust. CBS is really declining.
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This stinks period!
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I think they should keep the show I will miss watching and my son who is only 14 loves this show he hates that it going off for good RIP to all the good shows they keep taking off
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IT IS SAD DO NOT TAKE NCIS NEW ORLEANS OFF THE TV
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Bring it back! This is a great show why do you think after all this time you should cancel it? There are those of us who really enjoy NCIS New Orleans! Did you take a poll of what the viewers wanted? Well I didn't get that poll! I want my NCIS New Orleans! We invest time in a show and you without warning cancel it! It makes me MAD! Adding the new actors has really made the show interesting and adding Pride son! Don't leave us hanging like this!
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You cancel the good shows then bring in one that is junk! Please change your minds!!
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Love the show…..very surprised it’s being canceled!!
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I hate the ending of NCIS NO I love this show and all the characters. It and NCIS are my favorite shows on TV. It’s so sad all the good shows get canceled. Please don’t end this series it’s great and NEEDS to continue.
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Very upset!
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CBS does it again. Takes an AWESOME show and cancels it. Very disappointed!!! 👿
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eToo many cancellations on Sunday nights, too many personnel changes, too many continued episodes and long running stories (got tired of Pride vs the crooked mayor...). Enjoyed Bakula and Pounder...also missed Lucas.
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Sorry to hear it’s the finale.Really loved the show. Wishing you all the best
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The show went downhill fast once Percy left. I'm surprised that it lasted this long.
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Damnit! Canceling it?! Ridiculous! I've been a faithful watcher of NCIS: NO. Scott has been good in everything he has been in, but all of the cast members of NO is good and they're cancelling it. BAD MOVE!
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Too good of a show to let go ! I hope somehow someway it picks back up .
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This was my favorite show I have watched it for years. Why was it cancelled?
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I am getting really tired of finding a good show and having it canceled! 😡 This is one of the few shows I watch that isn’t SyFy and now you are canceling it??!! Why don’t you ask the fans before you do such stupid stuff!! We love Scott Bakula and have watched him ever since Enterprise. PLEASE reconsider!!
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I think that they are ending one of the best show on tv
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Canceling NCIS NO is idiotic but at least it's consistent with a series of senseless decisions by CBS.
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move the new orleans team to hawaii and carry on the show
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Awesome idea!! 👏🏼👏🏼 👏🏼
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I watch NCIS New Orleans I have always watched it. The one thing I didn't think was going to happen has and that is the show being cancelled. It sucks that CBS cancelled it for shows I probably won't watch. I was lucky that the show stayed on for 7 years. To see how it would all go down and be surprised when an episode ended, because I didn't see that outcome coming. I ABSOLUTELY love the show!.
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Unfortunately it seems that Scott Bakula's character has almost taken on the oh so obnoxious tone that drove me crazy on CSI Miami...only reason I watched that was for the other characters..."Horatio" was almost unwatchable...I still liked "Dwayne" but every once in a while I would see Horatio-esque moments creeping in...They better not touch CSI LA...Hetie is back!
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I hate to see this. One of the very few shows we still watch.
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I think that they spent too much of this season's shows on political issues of today. People tune in to get away from things with stories, not to have them pushed at you some more. Just my opinion 🤔
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the character of Pride became a little to violent and to much adolescent behavior with the other characters regarding their private lives. that seems to be the theme with most shows, since when do adults act like 15yr olds around those of the opposite sex.
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