Under the Dome End Date Set, Series Finale to Air Sept. 10
It’s three and done for Dome.
CBS announced Monday that Under the Dome will not be back for Season 4, meaning the Sept. 10 Season 3 finale will now be a series finale. And the network is promising closure.
“In the series finale, when the Dome comes down, many questions about its origin and power will be answered,” per the episode’s just-released logline, “as two groups of residents engage in one final conflict that some won’t survive.”
Under the Dome opened in June 2013 with a boffo 13.5 million total viewers, and by its freshman finale was still pulling 12.1 mil. Season 2 averaged 7.2 million weekly viewers, while its current run — airing Thursdays versus Mondays — hasn’t come close to even 6.5 million viewers. At last tally, it drew 4.6 mil with a 0.9 demo rating, after hitting series lows.
“Two years ago, Under the Dome broke new ground in the summer and became an instant hit on CBS, as well as with viewers around the world,” said Nina Tassler, Chairman, CBS Entertainment, in a statement. “Dome’s event storytelling and multi-platform business model paved the way for more original summer programming with the successful rollouts of Extant and Zoo. We’re excited to present the final chapter in Chester’s Mill as the story comes full circle, with the Dome coming down as dramatically as it went up.”
Thoughts? Is Dome packing it in at the right time? Or did it run one (or two) seasons too long? Hit the comments (after you watch the series-finale promo below)!
I was hoping that Barbie would wake up and tell Julia he had the craziest dream with a really awful person named Christine ruining his series! What a mistake bringing her in.
This has beenan awful and boring and TRULY unfathomable deason which has ruined all interest in series that has now insulted our intelligence and any imagination.
I always said that every show Marg Helgenberger does post CSI gets canned. And her character on dome did no favours.
Never liked her on CSI
I feel she’d be a talented actress if she did not have a permanent poker face on. Her facial expressions are difficult to interpret. And yup she is the kryptonite , every show she’s on get canned.
The fact that she still dresses like she is the hooker from China Beach is what turns me off about her. I couldn’t stand her on CSI because with all of that cleavage she looked like she was working the streets of Las Vegas not protecting them.
@Dean…you are soooo right!! She was great on CSI 15 years ago. She needs to move onto a new genre more suited to her “talents!”
I totally agree with you!!
YES!!!!!!
I agree with you wholeheartedly. Bringing in Christine was a huge mistake. I missed watching a few episodes because of her addition to the show. Her character was not needed and was detrimental to the show. I felt that portions of the old movie “Invasion of The Body Snatchers” was unnecessary.
does anyone care? Season 2 was so bad and so illogical that I haven’t bothered with Season 3
You cant say anything if you havent even bothered to watch season 3, which explained a lot about the dome.
When season 4 will come….. I’m eager to watch
me too, cant wait
I am waiting for season 4
Mega-cancelled.
Yeah, it was time to end. The writing has been pretty awful in a lot of recent episodes. I’m currently 3 behind. Not nearly as much a fan anymore, as the first two seasons. Hopefully though, it’ll bring closure like they’ve said.
Ajjj u really need to watch the episodes and get caught up. I spent last Sat and benged watch 5 episodes. The best part spoiler alert!!!!!
Some one gets killed and it was great. I’m really surprised they are cancelling the show. I’ll watch the finale and then I’m going to Netflix. I’m so tired of my favorite shows getting canceled. USA Network, ABC, now CBS. I just hope the arrest Big Jim for all the murders he committed in season 1, and Julia is the one who puts on the cuffs. She knows where the bodies are buried. Also for the hero Julia ‘ s boyfriend I never got his whole story back round. He killed her husband in season 1. Oh well Netflix here I come.
Oh Barbie !!!
2 season too late. The original idea to have this be a miniseries was right on the money, but nope, speaking of money, the show was such a hit they abandoned that idea and instead sacrificed the story, character development and overall quality of the series by making it open ended (aka a long form tv-series). Garbage garbage garbage is what it became after S1 (and it wasn’t THAT good in season 1 to being with).
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Barbie was cool, the dome was a fairly cool mystery, a few other characters were decent, the psycho boy was horrid, the girl that he was obsessed with was sub-par, but overall it was a show i was having fun with. :/ then they had to go and frak it all up.
Completely agree.
Couldn’t agree with you more. Glad it’s finally cancelled. They should have stuck with it being a mini-series.
You are absolutely right. Stephen King should not have let them change his ending
Season 3 has been awful, thanks to Christine and Ava/Evil. No idea what possessed them to take a great series and totally destroy it. They literally took everything good about the show and just ripped it apart. A real shame. But I do totally agree it should end now — no way this series could come back from this disastrous season.
Aside from a handful of characters, the show has been getting progressively worse….
At this point, I’ll consider it a victory if they just kill off Julia before the final episode.
I watched 1st season but when they killed offBritt Robertson they lost me
So once again we’re gonna end up with no conclusion? The worst is when networks cancel something and promise it’ll work fine as series finale but that’s always a lie. I think all the shows should have guaranteed in their contracts that in case it gets canceled it’ll get a TV movie to wrap things up.
That actually sounds amazing because they never explain everything. I mean they said this was cancelled 11 days before the finale. Thats not even 2 whole weeks.
I think CBS decided to cancel UTD early in the season (or maybe before filming it) but didn’t announce it until now so folks will tune in to see the ending. Once the Dome comes down – goes up (?), that should be the end of the story.
Yep- I remember before this season even started, there was an exec or showrunner statement/interview where they said that the season pretty much wraps up the story and it sounded very final to me. In fact, that was the only reason I watched this season, b/c it wasn’t something I really wanted to stick with, but figured I might as watch 13 more eps and finish everything up. They said something along the lines of “there may be a way to continue the story if another season happens” during that same interview so I think they all knew this was the last season well in advance.
I really hope the dome doesn’t come down till the end of the series finale and I also hope they make this last episode a 2 hour finale as well…
Agree, agree, agree!!!
I agree with you. I have watched it since day one and cant stand being left hanging not finishing the story. I wish the tv networks would give the fans that have did stick by and do right by us and finsh the shows. I did enjoy the show up til the end but after that like i said left us hanging with no conclusion which sucks. It would have been great as a mini series at least then it would have been done right….lol
I usually like Marg Helgenberger, but not in this show. I’m sick and tired of the networks moving good shows all over the place, and pitting them against other networks popular shows. It’s all or nothing, either 2 good shows are on at the same time, or there is nothing on. I’m still into this show, although they could have done without Christine, and the Barbie storyline could have been better.
Enjoyed Season 1. Enjoyed parts of Season 2…though it got stupid near the end. Season 3 is fun to hate watch and mock. The addition of Christine was stupid. Barbie being brainwashed. The baby thing. It became a ridiculous joke. The only actor who made this season worth watching was Dean Norris. And I bet he even cringed at those scripts.
Totally agree except I thought Season 2 was cringe worthy to watch. This season has been enjoyable because it’s a laugh fest especially Dean Norris. When he called Julia Dexter when she gave Barbie the needle, I laughed so hard. The fact that it’s only 4 weeks in and Julia runs around like she wasn’t close to death in Season 1 makes it even more unbelievable. I’m not heart broken at all by this cancellation.
I can live with this.
Thanks God! I really liked the book and, if they had stuck with what happened in the book, it would have been a GREAT show. What the show turned out to be was so far from the book that the only thing they shared were the title and some character’s names.
It’s called creative license. They had Stephen King’s permission and he even wrote episodes for them. There was another one of his short stories they adapted into a TV series. You might of heard of it: Haven. It worked out good too.
But this one is done. I think this season was driven off the tracks or maybe nobody was driving. Even if this was to be the last season, it could have been written better.
I whole heartedly agree!!
The first session was good but the 2nd session went downhill and the 3rd session was all in and it just doesn’t seem to be working. It is still good enough I am still watching but no where near as good as the first session.
I hear that Robert
GOOD! I watched all 3 seasons — but it’s just gotten so ridiculous. the last few eps it’s been “UNDER THE DOME” merging with “EXTANT.” so yeah, it’s long overdue.
UTD deserves to end after three seasons and why should they. Really hope Extant is next.
Unlike Dome, Extant was good this year. I was planning on dumping Dome if it came back again anyway.
Got so bored after season 2 but keto watching as really want to see what’s happening. Only half watching each episode now just to keep up with it but sirens most of each episode pottering around doing other things and just listening in. Can’t wait forth finale. I don’t know how much more of this I can take!
You know when you dont pay attention to something its not gonna seem as interesting. You dont just go into a movie and talk the whole time and tell everyone that the movie was horrible
I Potter around because the show now bores me. Other shows I watch keep me entertained enough that the cleaning up can wait till later. This Il one just can’t draw my attention why from menial tasks anymore. It used to, but now it doesn’t.
This is such crap they could of turned the views around the Christine and Eva thing sucked oh I’m so mad they cancelled this
Got so bored after season 2 but kept watching as really want to see what’s happening. Only half watching each episode now just to keep up with it but spend most of each episode pottering around doing other things and just listening in. Can’t wait for the finale. I don’t know how much more of this I can take!
I liked it very much, but agree its time to end, the baby stuff just killed it! Hope the finale js good!
I record Under the Dome weekly as I cannot always watch it as it airs. It is one of my favorite shows!!!
I will miss Big Jim he always says shoot them and worry later
No it should not end just put it back on Mondays duh. Like it says it did good on Mondays it’s not that the show isn’t a good show just need’s to be on Mondays is all… Try that and lets see what happens and lei’s keep it going. People just do more outside in the summer who wants to be in the house on a summer night.
You have a point. They moved it off Mondays and screwed up a good thing. Can We put Tea Leoni and Patricia Arquette under the Dome and then SUCK ALL THE AIR OUT? Just an idea.
A Season Four would have been fine with me, but if it ends, it ends. If CBS was spending the money on Under The Dome that they are THROWING AWAY AND WASTING on shows like Madam Secretary, Scorpion and CSI:CYBER(and probably at least 3 more new shows) then Under The Dome would be a much better show with higher ratings. Being just a summer show doesn’t help either.
All the shows you mentioned are ones I watch and I think they are all good… The first 2 have very high total ratings but like most things on CBS, they are older… Cyber I think will be better with Ted Danson moving over from the Mother Ship after it ends…
Madam Secretary is an excellent show and so is Scorpion! What do you like, “reality” t.v.?
Good. Only better thing would be if the last two seasons never happened and it was cancelled after the first.
I love this show, but even I can admit that this third season has been terrible and completely disconnected from the other two seasons. They killed it with this kinship crap. Hoping for enough closure in the finale.
Yeah but the thing is its the only season that has actually in any way explained what the dome is and why its there. The first two seasons were just what the dome did to them but now that we’re learning things people are complaining. It honestly doesnt make sense to me. I really like season 3 cuz it actually provides information on the main conflict
But where will I get my fix of endlessly repetitive storylines, characters who behave illogically and in pretty much random ways, and always undoing/reversing even the slightest of interesting twists the very next episode?
I need to go check what the maximum amount of TVLine Power User Points (no cash value) I can award in one batch is. Please hold….
Hey Matt, thanks for commenting on my post last night on “Falling Skies.” That was another show that ran too many seasons long. If you have any influence with the networks, maybe you can tell them that some shows need to be limited duration.