NBC cancels Lipstick Jungle
Posted on November 13th, 2008
Say goodbye to your lawyer, fashion designer, and recently fired movie executive because NBC is pulling the plug on the most hyped show on its network – Lipstick Jungle. The Candice Bushnell inspired drama/comedy was supposed to be a highly rated spin-off to Sex and the City, but a writers strike and lousy rating put a stop to that in a hurry. This wasn’t a surprise and after they moved the show to the worst line-up location for a show ever – Friday nights- you knew the end was near. No ward if any filmed episodes will be aired or if they will just cut their losses. Look for the complete series on DVD for Christmas!
**************UPDATE*******************
NBC has announced they will complete th 13 episode oder for this season an will consider letting the show live on if it shows some growth in the final weeks. They aren’t making it easy with the show returning in 2 weeks and now on at 9PM instead of 10PMon Friday. I dont know why they didn’t leave it on Wednesday night when it has no competition.
Did you see it tonight? No way she is keeping that baby! Kirby was a bit of a tool though…I dind’t like that side of the character.
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November 14th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
DO NOT CANCEL LIPSTICK JUNGLE, YOU ALL TAKE OFF THE GOOD SHOWS AND LEAVE THE CRAPPY ONE’S ON, LIKE THE OFFICE AND MY NAME IS EARL, TAKE THOSE STUPID ONE’S OFF INSTEAD, NBC IS GOING TO HECK IN A HAND BASKET.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I can’t believe that you are cancelling the show! This is a huge mistake and a lot of fans will be very disappointed!!! I agree with the previous comment, you are noly leaving crappy shows on!
November 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Please DO NOT cancel Lipstick Jungle!!!!! It’s been a hard couple years for the writers I understand, but it’s going to take time for shows to catch back on again…
It seems everyone I talk to just heard about the show recently & were just catching on… Then NBC made the announcement that it was going off the air!!! >:-(
***LIPSTICK JUNGLE fans out there, please voice up about this!!! Just like when the show “Friends” was cancelled & people voiced up about it going off the air & now look, it was a #1 hit T.V. series for a very long time!!!***
November 17th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Please don’t cancel the show, this is the best show on your line up and on tv right now. Put it back on Wednesday nights where it belongs, my coworkers look forward every week to watching and discussing it, we love the storyline for all the characters, fashon. Everyweek we recruit a new co-worker to watch and they end up loving it.LEAVE THIS SHOW ALONE WE WILL KEEP WATCHING IT.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:30 am
PLEASE! do not cancel this show! its my favorite and just starting watching it this season. Im so bent over this
November 17th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Don’t worry! They’re not canceling Lipstick Jungle! They were going to because of weak ratings but they decided to wait a while because last Friday’s ratings were really high!
Also, Nico is not a lawyer. She’s the Editor-In-Chief at Bonfire magazine.
November 17th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
PLEASE don’t take Lipstick Jungle off the air!!! My girlfriends and I look forward to it every week, even though it’s now on Friday nights. Why is it that every time there’s a good series on NBC, it gets cancelled, but you keep stupid crap on like Earl and The Office? I don’t get it. How about doing something intelligent for a change, NBC? Give it a better time slot and give it a chance!!
November 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
PLEASE don’t cancel! I looooooooooooove this show!
November 19th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Please do not cancel Lipstick Jungle. It is a great show to watch. NBC juggles there shows around so much til they can never find a true following!!!! It’s a very enjoyable show to watch. Please reconsider cancelling it.
November 20th, 2008 at 1:50 am
PLEASE do not cancel!! you are making a huge costly mistake! thirty somethings cant afford to go out on friday evenings like we used to.This cast is infectious! People will want more! After putting my four babies & husband to bed I want to have a glass of wine, relax & watch Lipstick jungle!!!! especially when I am no longer getting dressed up & going out!!! Reconsider I know you wont regret it!!
November 20th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Please keep this show!! The reality shows have taken over, that are stupid! I love LIPSTICK Jungle….. I will quit watching NBC to protest this!!!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 9:07 pm
I am so tired of you all canceling shows I like. I just get into it and you cancel it. You have three really good actresses and just need a better storyline for each one. Find a new writier, Get creative and take the really stupid shows off. Earl, the office. Please reconsider, you are making a mistake on this one. The peons of the world need something wonderful and glamorous to drool over. Thank you
November 21st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
I think the show should stay on the air.. It is just getting started. I love to watch it and I agree with Penny.. I think the Office is one of the dumbest shows on right now.. It looks like a home made documentary. Keep Lipstick Jungle on!! I figured taking Friends off was the last dumb thing this Network would do
November 21st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
please dont cancel this great show!!!
November 21st, 2008 at 10:26 pm
If NBC cancels Lipstick Jungle…they will make a huge MISTAKE!!! I think they could kiss viewers like me goodbye…bc i wont tune in to their stupid channel…HA!
November 21st, 2008 at 11:28 pm
LP is the only show that I watch. I rarely find any show that I’m willing to commit an hour to. I would be very upset if it was cancelled, and like others have stated I will probably not come back to NBC.
November 21st, 2008 at 11:55 pm
PLEEEEEASE don’t cance this show. My friends and I all look forward to our Friday get-to-gethers just to watch this show. We all love it. I think it is way better than SAC! With the state of the economy right now none of us can afford to go out on Friay nights and this is the one thing we can all do together.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:07 am
Please don’t take Lipstick Jungle off the air. I have been talking to lot’s of people and they are very upset about the show being cancelled. I love this show!!!! I will be very dissapointed in NBC.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 am
I loved watching LJ on wed. but I followed it to fri. I never watch tv on fri! So if you can get this girl to watch a show on a friday night you should keep it on. I agree with everyone else about my name is earl. I would get rid of that and some others before even thinking about LJ.
November 22nd, 2008 at 6:11 am
Okay – so we know the ratings have been low – but they are based on live hits and most of us are DVRing it. If we want to keep it on we are going to have to watch it Live to bring up the ratings…let’s do it ladies.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 am
Sinead –
NBC did state in an article that the ratings, when DVR tapings were counted, were showing growth…..so you never know. LJ is a hell of a lot better than another Law and Order series
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Please don’t take off Lipstick Jungle, please remove Earl or The Office but leave the Jungle on it is the best show on TV. Come on I mean get real. Open your eyes you have the best show and if it isn’t broke don’t try to fix it. Leave it on the air PLeaseeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:37 am
Don’t take the show off the air! It’s one of the few good shows left that has some depth and quality. This is pretty much the only thing I regularly watch apart from the Food Network.
December 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
DON’T CANCEL Lipstuck Jungle…it’s one of the best shows on TV. It’s got pizazz and the right amount of everything…love, life, design, family – you name it!
December 8th, 2008 at 6:54 am
I agree with many on here. Cancel crap like Earl and the Office – I never watch either one of those. However, Lipstick Jungle I look forward to each episode. I do DVR the show most times as I work evenings. Please, please don’t cancel my favorite show on television. My husband is right there with me. He says even though it’s a chick thing he is all caught up in it and enjoys watching it. Keep LJ on the air.
December 8th, 2008 at 11:21 am
So actually where do we go to protest this cancellation. It is absoutly riduculous that they would cancel this. Should we bombard NBC!!
December 11th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
If they would quit moving the night and time around there would be no problem. They leave all the crime shows on and take off anything that a smart, sophisticated woman would watch.
December 13th, 2008 at 3:26 am
DONT CANCEL!!!… amazing show.. i pvr it every week!… i heard that there is a problem when you pvr it it doesnt count as a rating or something!…. THAT IS SO STUPID!!!
December 13th, 2008 at 3:32 am
DO NOT CANCEL MY FAVORITE SHOW LIPSTICK JUNGLE
December 13th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
It would truly be a mistake to cancel Lipstick Jungle. I appreciate the stories the writers create as well as the acting. Such a nice mix of stories. We are just now getting hooked please don’t cancel. NBC needs this show TRUST ME!!!!
December 13th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
I forgot, if its true that the ratings are down because people are watching on DVR then they shouldn’t have moved the show to Friday. People are busy on the weekends and this show is so worthy of a weekday primetime slot. Get a grip NBC!!!
December 14th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Please don’t take Lipstick Jungle off the network. I love this show, I love the characters… The writing is brilliant and unique. You people have viewers out there. This makes no sense. There are so many other shows that don’t deserve the ratings they are achieving. Lipstick Jungle is perfect for middle age women out there who have careers and love lives and want to relate. Please, please don’t take this show off the air.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I am so sad they are canceling lipstick jungle! this is my absolute favorite show if I were to only watch one show ever it would be this one. it makes me want to cry… please leave it on air!!!
December 20th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
PLEASE! are you kidding me? I am one of your DVR watchers….I don’t watch ANY live TV! If something doesnt tape I pull it up online….who calculates ratios from live only veiwers anymore? Why would you canx such a smart and sexy show? This is finally a GREAT show for women and fun to watch for men! My husband and I watch this show together…..You, NBC are dooming it by changing it around so much! why couldn’t you just leave it where it was on Wednesday nights?!!!! The Cast of stars is incredible…..please rethink your decision and give it a solid chance…there are plenty of other shows that are not near the caliber of writing, star quality and acting this show has that you could canx…
This happens every season….a good show gets canx before it really has a chance….I am going to stop watching NBC at all…get your act together.
December 20th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Don’t Cancel Lipstick Jungle!!!!!! It is the best show ever (after sex and the city) and it keeps getting better!
December 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Please do not cancel Lipstick Jungle. Have you not read the posts from this site and from other sites. Just google and see. People are outraged and rightly so. It is a great show and I look forward to it each week. Even though you changed the time slot – did not matter to me – still will watch it. That why they make DVRs. Anyway, sorry NBC but you do not have any shows I watch but this one. At least keep the ones that are worth anything.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Lipstick Jungle is the only show I watch on NBC besides ER (which is over after this year). Everyone I know watches this and have had a bad reaction to news of it being cancelled. You are missing the boat. To add insult to injury, it was moved around two (2) TIMES, in the graveyard night, Friday.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Lipstick Jungle is an excellent show, If you cancel it, I will boycot NBC. It’s a great show. Cancelling it would be a huge mistake.
December 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 pm
You are completely missing the boat…Nothing on NBC to watch except Jay Leno and ER….Looserville I am going to boycott if you cancel this
December 27th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
eventhough i dont live in US (i’m from malaysia), but i still watch it online. i’ve never been so committed to watch any shows except for lipstick jungle. and if NBC wants to cancel it, i will be very disappointed. i became so obsessed about the only show i’ve ever watched and now you’re taking it away from me. please don’t be so cruel! think about it, someday and somehow it will attract lots of people. and who knows? lipstick jungle could be a huge phenomena like ’sex and the city’. i can’t wait to see what will happen to victory and joe since they are definitely the cutest couple i’ve ever watched in any TV shows. despite andrew mccarthy is one of my favourite actors. so please, DO NOT CANCEL THIS SHOW!
December 29th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
You know, this is the very first time i have actually written anything online (i mean ive never “blogged” or written compliants about products…etc…and im youngish). But, when you feel for something..at some point in your life, no matter how trivial it may seem to most, you have to SAY something..So, I’m saying: this show hits the heart and alot of topics, but even more, it highlights human interactions that are very relatable to people. Im not writing this comment thinking I will have some huge impact..but at least a voice thats saying..dont cancel…people love this. and they watch online (which means maybe they dont get good numbers on tv).. but its clearly popluar and worth continuing,
January 1st, 2009 at 9:21 am
I really hope NBC does not cancel Lipstick Jungle. This is one of the best shows on syndicated television right now. The writing is great and the acting is excellent. NBC needs to give it some time to draw more of an audience. Leave it in one spot so people know when it’s on and the audience will grow.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
I hope NBC does not cancel this show. I LOVE Lipstick Jungle. All of my friends love this show and get together and watch it. Please don’t
cancel.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
omfg i cant believe that your canceling lipstick jumgle you people are sick thats the best show on nbc and u decide to cancel it wow
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Please don’t cancel LJ I love it and it has some real life events. I guess people want the happily ever after shows and ones that don’t make sense.
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL LIPSTICK JUNGLE!!! It is the only show I look forward to watching every week….I don’t care what night you put it on….I will watch it. I am so addicted! NBC….if you have a heart, you will leave LJ alone!!
January 3rd, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Seriously…how can you cancel LJ??? There is NO OTHER SHOW on TV that I enjoy more! I love the style of the ladies….I love their attitudes…..I just love everything about this show…..I will not watch NBC anymore if they cancel LJ….I just refuse to support NBC when they leave on crap like Kath & Kim and that stupid Earl show…I just don’t get it!?!?!?! Someone – please explain the rationale to me!!!
January 4th, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Please don’t cancel our show it is so good! Love the hot drama of it all way to good to cancel!
January 5th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
LIPSTICK JUNGLE IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK. I ALSO AGREE THAT YOU LEAVE ON THE JUNK AND TAKE AWAY SHOWS LIKE THIS AND FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS……BRING BACK THE QUALITY AND GET RID OF THE JUNK
January 6th, 2009 at 1:34 am
I watch very little television, and discovered Lipstick Jungle accidentally this past weekend. I came across the pilot and was completely HOOKED by the end of it. I watched the entire first season, until 4:30 am, and couldn’t wait to continue – thinking that I would be able to find season 2 on hulu… Does anyone know when season 2 will be available (either on DVD or to download)? I am suffering L.J. withdrawl! I truly hope the show is not cancelled!
January 6th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
I can not believe how stupid this is, as I LOVE almost all the actors…..Like who would NOT!!! I really looked forward to watching LIPSTICK JUNGLE every week. Please do not CANCEL this show. Just make it more apparent as to when you want to have it on though. Do not leave us hanging as I want to see what happens next – are they really going to get married at last.
January 8th, 2009 at 10:00 am
I watch Lipstick Jungle every week in the UK and absolutely love it. I adore the characters, their lives, the costumes, the shoots in New York and most of all their endearing relationship, its so believable. I watched the most recent episode on Monday and loved it so much, watched it again and cried because its so beautiful and funny and captivating. My sister and I will be devestated if you cancel the show.
Sex in the City was not popular with me and I prefer Lipstick Jungle much much more.
Producers please do not cancell this show and for ‘Nico’, I love you, you are my absolute heroine.
January 10th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Why do the TV networks cancel all the shows that are good just because the young people don’t watch. I would bet the majority of your viewers are really the older adults not the young yuppies who are always out partying. Lipstick Jungle is an entertaining show. Leave it alone. Get rid of the reality shows where people make fools of themselves and teach the young people how to be shallow, violent, etc.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
DO NOT CANCEL LIPSTICK JUNGLE!! THE SHOW IS GREAT
January 11th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
If you cancel Lipstick Jungle I hope some other channel has the good sense to pick it up!
Geez…what is wrong with you people?
January 12th, 2009 at 12:54 am
please do not cancel this show. it is exciting and funny. i have always been a huge desperate housewives fan, but like lipstick jungle better.
please do not cancel. thank you.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Best show on TV..speaks to my generation (25 year olds) as much as the women’s actual peer group. It’s fantastic, don’t cancel!
January 15th, 2009 at 8:33 am
please don’t do it. I love that show…… Give it one more chance…
January 16th, 2009 at 3:08 am
is nbc nuts!?!? howie do it is on, but LJ is off…makes no sense…
January 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Please do not cancel this show, it has the best writing and the actors are all so great together. I have enjoyed this show better than any other show in a very long time. I can’t stand to miss a minute of it.
January 24th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
please do not cancel LJ, its fab, we love it all the acors, script, New York, and the fashion, there are 17 nurses in my dept, and we are hooked, can’t wait till see whats happening on Monday, with the gals and their men, i’m in the UK so we are a few episodes behind, (I think),
Please Please Please don’t cancel it, theres no decent programmes left if that goes off screen.
January 26th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
Please do not cancel lipstick jungle there are sooo many shows out there that are creap and your wanting to cancel the good tv show are you mad? PLEASE dont cancel it its such a good tv show SOOO much better than sex and the city.
January 27th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
How is that you can take a great show like this off the air and put Jay Leno on every night.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Look at the line up of show’s that are called hits, and then look at the people watching them. They don’t have to be on NBC on all he networks. Show’s like Lipstick Jungle show Class, Business sense, Relationship
up’s and down’s, and a good look at working upper middle class America.
Oh and let’s not forget Intellectual, Maybe that’s why it wont make it!
LEAVE LIPSTICK JUNGLE ALONE, GO PICK ON ONE OF YOUR
OTHER SHOWS THAT YOU CALL HITS THAT NO ONE IS WATCHING!
February 5th, 2009 at 1:41 am
WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? LIPSTICK JUNGLE IS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS ON TV. THE ENTIRE CAST IS WONDERFUL, THE STORY LINES KEPT ME INTERESTED FROM WEEK TO WEEK. LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, I WATCHED IT EVERY WEEK. IF YOU CANCEL THIS SHOW, I KNOW YOUR STATION WILL LOOSE MANY VIEWERS, DEFINATELY ME. PLEASE. PLEASE RE-CONSIDER YOUR DECISION. THERE IS NOT MANY GOOD TV SHOW TO WATCH, WE VIEWERS NEED LIPSTICK JUNGLE, IT’S ONE OF THE BEST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
February 6th, 2009 at 8:50 am
I LOVE LIPSTICK JUNGLE !!!
February 11th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
To cancel a show with such great characters would be a huge error!
A show such as Lipstick Jungle comes along so seldom, please reconsider!!! All the women I work with absolutely love it too.
Way too many goofy shows on the air…reconsider!!
February 14th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I love this show. Pleaes do NOt cancel it. People are just starting to get into it….it will take off…there is an audience.
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:53 am
I hope this comment helps…b/c I absolutely LOVE this show. I just started to get into it and then I heard it was being cancelled.
SO SAD! Please give it another season to redeem itself in ratings. I swear I know so many people who say they love it too.ONE MORE SEASON…..ONE MORE SEASON!
March 4th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
PLEASE DO NOT CANCELLE THIS SHOUW ALL MY FRIENDS IN BULGARIA AND UK LOVE IT. PLEASE !!!!!!!!
March 18th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
PLEASE do not cancel the show!!! It is fabulous and it is to bad that you would want to get rid of something really good as there is so much crap on tv and really nothing to watch. LIPSTICK JUNGLE is great and I look forward to seeing new episodes!!!
April 13th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I also like this show …. this show is too good
April 20th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I love this show,i even had my timer set to record it every week cause i cudnt bare to miss it. big mistake to cancel it..HUGE!its so in the same league as Sex & the City an every female on earth can relate to it.dum producers at NBC.Im irish by the way and people in Ireland and England love it!!
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I also love LJ, I keep checking the t.v listings in case i miss the preview, to see if it is on. Not sure if it is being moved to a new day and time. There is nothing good on anymore, You gotta give people a chance to toon in. So many new shows started at the same time, as new ones that were on for ten years were ending. I know if you give it another go more and more people will watch.