CBS puts “Three Rivers” on the cancellation list

Fans of Alex O’Loughlin will have their hearts stop beating and start breaking, as CBS cancels Three Rivers.  The medical drama about doctors helping their patients find suitable donor matches for a new liver, kidney, or heart has been on life support in the ratings against Sunday night football and ABC’s Desperate Housewives since this fall.

Three Rivers could’ve filled the void left by Grey’s Anatomy on Sunday nights thanks to O’Loughlin’s Dr. Andy, who may have been the next Dr. Doug Ross on ER or Dr. McDreamry. 

However, production of its 13 episodes will continue, yet there is no word on whether the final episodes will air or not.  Repeats of Criminal Minds and NCIS: Los Angeles will take over the Sunday 9pm slot.

Also, TNT has filed for cancellation of Steven Bochco’s Raising the Bar, the courtroom/legal drama starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar about friends who graduated from law school and went working as either prosecutors or public defenders.  After a strong freshman season, the series may have hit the sophomore slump, which gave TNT reason not to renew it for another season.  However, the remaining episodes, first reported by E! Online, could air next March.

Are you going to miss Three Rivers? Is CBS making a mistake?

ABC hopes to bewitch viewers for 2009-10 season

ABC makes plans to invade the 2009 television season, as the network already renewed Grey’s and spinoff Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, and Lost.  Also making the list are Castle, Ugly Betty, Better Off Ted, and Scrubs with Zach Braff — for at least six episodes.

Coming this fall is Eastwick with Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price, and Jamie Ray Newman — adapted from the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick, Flash Forward with Ralph Fiennes.  In midseason is V, with Elizabeth Mitchell in the revision of the classic 80s miniseries about alien oppression and the human resistance.  But don’t expect Lost’s Juliet to be dead, as ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson told TV Guide that the actress may return for the final season while shooting V.

Sadly, Samantha Who? is one of the shows that has been given the pink slip, along with Life on Mars, Cupid and The Unusuals.