CBS' Cane Is Not So Sweet

Seems CBS' Cane is not registering with folks as intended.

Jimmy Smits as Alex Vega
Three weeks into the new Fall season and we are already getting word of what shows will soon be ending up on the chopping block.

As reported by the New York Post, Cane for the third week in a row has lost the viewers most important to it's advertisers, 18-49 year-olds.

This of course comes as no surprise to me. If you recall [click here], I wasnt feeling this show when I previewed it back in August. It was obvious CBS execs were banking on Smits' adoring female fans tuning in to the snoozer just to catch a glimpse of his 'cane' face. What CBS failed to realize is that it wasn't Smits' sex appeal alone that garnered high ratings for ABC's NYPD Blues. The show plot on a whole was actually good.

I highly doubt this show will make it to the season finale. And if it does, you can best believe it will be the series finale.

Stay tuned. Because I am sure there are a few more new (non-black) shows (Dirty Sexy Money, Caveman, Chuck) on the list to be chopped. Serves them right. Maybe next Fall these networks will consider adding a little more 'color' to their lineup and not just 'sugar'.

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Keys 'Smit'ten By Jimmy's 'Cane'

As reported in today's New York Post, singer Alicia Keys is dabbling in acting again as she is scheduled to be a guest star on CBS' upcoming drama series, Cane, starring Jimmy Smits.

Keys will play herself and perform her latest single, 'No One'. It is also said she will have a line or two of dialogue in the show.

I previewed this show a few week's back. Check out the promo:

Cane? More like Splenda.
Jimmy Smits [NYPD Blues] stars in this new drama series scheduled to debut on September 25th, but it doesn't pack the punch Smits' fans are accustomed to.

Playing daddy's little girl boy, Smits comes across very weak in this role of a husband/father turn head of the Duque family's sugar cane and rum empire. But casting isn't really the shows main problem.

The plot lacks a lot by way of action as I found myself nodding about twenty minutes into the show. Yes, it's a known fact that drama series of this kind have to dedicate the first episode to building the storyline but one would have to care about the sugar cane/rum industry, the Cuban culture in South Florida, Rita Moreno (also casted in the show), or all of the above to want to tune in for a second watch.

Personally, I won't be. (3 Stars)