Bellisario says the viewers were simply too old. According to him, the older demographic is what caused the show to fizzle out. Almost all of our viewers are over Bellisario told TV Guide he was looking to hire someone younger and reduce costs. David left, and we wish him well. On Friday, after 10 seasons, episodes and countless salutes, the military drama "JAG" will go off the air for good. The final episode 8 p. In fact, the show's producers had to scramble to make the season-ending episode a fitting series finale.
But perhaps the low-key sendoff is appropriate for this hard-working but generally buzz-free series. As loyal viewers know -- and "JAG" does have a fiercely loyal following of around 10 million viewers, even if the show's ratings have slipped in recent years -- in last week's episode, Marine Lt. Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. Add it to your Watchlist to receive updates and availability notifications. Do we smell a JAG reboot in the works? It will be Elliott's first appearance on any of JAG's spin-offs.
Send questions and comments to askmatt tvguidemagazine. It was a game changer, but I guess it left me feeling slimed. Alicia has always taken a righteous position and walked a fine ethical line. In the spring of , NBC announced that the series had been canceled after finishing 79th in the ratings, leaving one episode unaired. In December , the rival network CBS announced it had picked up the series for a mid-season replacement original 15 completed episodes from its second season.
For several seasons, JAG climbed in the ratings and ultimately ran for nine additional seasons. In total, episodes were produced over 10 seasons. At the time of the original airing of its fifth season in the United States, JAG was seen in over 90 countries worldwide. JAG entered syndication in early Template:Quote box The series follows the exploits of the Washington metropolitan area —based " judge advocates " i.
Navy and the U. Marine Corps , conducting informal and formal investigations, advising on military operational law and other associated duties. While not part of the mission of its real-world counterpart, some of the main characters are at times also involved, directly and indirectly, in various CIA intelligence operations, often revolving around the recurring character, CIA officer Clayton Webb played by Steven Culp.
Bellisario, served for four years in the U. Marine Corps , and after having worked his way up through advertising jobs, he landed his first network television job as a story editor for the World War II-era series Baa Baa Black Sheep , where he got a habit of promoting a consistent promilitary stance in a business where he got the perception that "antiwar" and "antisoldier" mentality were the commonplace.
Navy aircraft carrier, where the victim was a female aviator, [21 ] inspired by the Tailhook scandal. While doing research on which organizational entities would partake in investigative efforts of crimes committed aboard Naval vessels, Bellisario found the special agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service filled the police role, and the uniformed lawyers, in the Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps, could alternate between the role of defense attorney, prosecutor, and field investigator.
Bellisario chose to go ahead with the lawyers and remarked season six about the unique advantages it brought from a story-telling point of view: "Unlike most law shows , I've got a detective, a prosecutor, and a defender.
Initially, the producers of JAG did not receive any co-operation from the Department of the Navy, due to sensitivity in light of all the accumulative negative publicity that had been generated from the Tailhook scandal and its aftermath. In , though, the naval services had begun to change their minds, and began to render support to the production team on a script-by-script basis.
A primetime network series about Navy lawyers bringing out controversial subjects in a very public arena was apparently no longer an issue in itself, but as noted by Commander Bob Anderson of the Navy's entertainment media liaison office in Los Angeles in a TV Guide interview: "We're fine with that as long as the bad guys are caught and punished, and the institution of the Navy is not the bad guy".
Almost all episodes of the series feature scenes filmed aboard real United States Navy ships. The ship most widely used was USS Forrestal , in commission as a training carrier at the time. Most of the Nimitz -class carriers also appear in one or several episodes. Kennedy were also used in the series. Eisenhower were also used as the fictional Seahawk , both in season four and for one episode each. In these episodes, all crew members wore caps with the CV pennant number.
This number was intentionally out of sequence with the pennant numbers of active USN carriers at the time the series was filmed.
CV would have been the real pennant number of an Essex -class carrier actually called Reprisal , which was canceled during construction in when World War II ended, and broken up in after consideration had been given to completing her to a revised design roughly similar to that of USS Oriskany. Kitty Hawk is mentioned in one of the season-three episodes, but never seen on screen.
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