CNBC (see link below) as well as numerous web sources are reporting that NBC has opted not to pick up the next set of episodes of Journeyman. For those of us who are fans of the show this is obviously frustrating and disappointing news.

Tonight at 10:00pm NBC will air the likely final episode of Journeyman. This episode comes with virtually no fanfare or advertising support. In fact, the NBC official website simply listed tonight's airing as a "special episode" in which "questions will be answered." A disgraceful sendoff for a wonderful show.

I've been following Journeyman this fall and reporting my thoughts on each episode here on Firefox News. The show has been outstanding, and the stories engaging. Journeyman has a quality to its writing and storytelling that I don't believe we find too often on television, and it is such a loss to sci-fi community that this promising show, just starting to hit its stride, will be cut short. I know I am not alone in my frustration and disappointment, which makes writing this all the sadder.

And so, watching Journeyman go the way of other shows which audiences found amazing, enriching, and brilliant--Studio 60, Once and Again, and Sports Night come immediately to mind--we again see the reality that nothing deserves a place on TV that doesn't appeal to the greatest common denominator. NBC and the other networks aim to support programming that the largest segment of their target audience will quietly tolerate rather than a show that a smaller segment would absolute love and care about. It's just pathetic.

Perhaps Dan, Livia, Katie, and Jack will find a new home on a different network or perhaps in a different medium altogether. A series of Journeyman novels might actually be fun. Until then, I guess we can look forward to a tidy box set this spring…as well as a healthy supply of fan-fiction in the meantime.

In closing, I'd like to thank Kevin Falls and the entire cast and crew of Journeyman for the show they gave us. I hope they know that even if the "numbers" weren't enough to satisfy the NBC execs, there are so many of us who "got" the story they told and are so grateful to have been a part of it.