# Where's BOOMTOWN? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 18, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134 "2003-10-18T01:54:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/1 "2003-10-18T01:54:42Z")
This is the second week in a row it’s been listed in local and TV Guide as being a new episode, but instead, a Law & Order rerun airs. I know West Wing got replaced with L&O due to baseball, but there’s no baseball tonight. Has Boomtown been cancelled? ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/2 "2003-10-18T03:15:26Z")
I am sorry to report that it has been cancelled. My wife and I were distraught to learn of the end of Boomtown. Apparently the network demanded a serious overhaul of the format and tone of the series. They wanted a lighter and more standard police procedural. By all accounts the resulting product was abysmal. Who could have guessed ten years ago that I would be saying this but, I will watch anything with Donnie Wahlberg in it. If you need a fix check out the fantastic movie _Diamond Men_\* with him and Robert Forster. Sorry to deliver the bad news. ---
**Author:** ![Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@Caesar\_s\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caesar_s_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/3 "2003-10-18T03:57:07Z")
Sorry, it was canceled. [Here’s a story on it.](http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/articles/1016goody16.html) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/4 "2003-10-18T14:42:36Z")
What was even the point of showing two episodes? That’s what I wonder, personally. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/5 "2003-10-18T15:09:39Z")
Probably they didn’t have anything particularly promising to put in that slot, and were hoping that by dumbing down the show (see [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=212897&highlight=boomtown)) they’d be able to pick up enough viewers to make it worth airing till mid-season, or whatever. But even Vanessa Williams as a tough cop wasn’t enough – go figure. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/6 "2003-10-18T15:43:04Z")
It hasn’t been _officially_ cancelled. I think it’s likely that NBC will eventually burn off the episodes that have already been filmed, probably during some non-sweeps period (the middle of the summer, maybe?) It’s also possible that Bravo or another cable network will agree to run the remaining episodes. But I agree that the chance that NBC will pay for any more new episodes is slim to none. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/7 "2003-10-18T15:50:52Z")
It may return. There were numerous times last year where Boontown was apparently cancelled because NBC stopped showing episodes for several weeks. It’s obvious NBC doesn’t like the show and is giving it minimal support. But there are more episodes that have been completed; for economic reasons, if nothing else, NBC will probably broadcast them at some point. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-boomtown/208134/8 "2003-10-19T19:23:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*It may return. There were numerous times last year where Boontown was apparently cancelled because NBC stopped showing episodes for several weeks. It’s obvious NBC doesn’t like the show and is giving it minimal support. But there are more episodes that have been completed; for economic reasons, if nothing else, NBC will probably broadcast them at some point. \*\* I only recall them not showing it for weeks when they were airing that miniseries Kingpin(? I think that was the title), but we knew about that long before it happened.