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CBS cancels ‘True Lies’ after a single season

The show was shot in Atlanta but didn’t have the staying power of ‘MacGyver.’
“Waking Dreams” – With an Omega Sector spy missing, the entire agency searches for clues. Harry and Helen’s relationship with each other, their team and reality itself, is tested in unimaginable ways, even for the best of spies and spouses, on the conclusion of the two-part first season finale of the CBS Original series TRUE LIES, Wednesday, May 17 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available on the CBS app and streaming on Paramount+*. Pictured L to R: Ginger Gonzaga as Helen Tasker and Steve Howey as Harry Tasker. Photo: Jace Downs/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
“Waking Dreams” – With an Omega Sector spy missing, the entire agency searches for clues. Harry and Helen’s relationship with each other, their team and reality itself, is tested in unimaginable ways, even for the best of spies and spouses, on the conclusion of the two-part first season finale of the CBS Original series TRUE LIES, Wednesday, May 17 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and available on the CBS app and streaming on Paramount+*. Pictured L to R: Ginger Gonzaga as Helen Tasker and Steve Howey as Harry Tasker. Photo: Jace Downs/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Rodney Ho
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CBS, not surprisingly, cut its least popular scripted drama “True Lies” after a single season.

The effort to try to recapture the magic of the 1994 Arnold Schwarzenegger hit movie without Schwarzenegger did not stick.

The producers tried to blend action, comedy, drama and romance into a spy drama on a TV budget, using Atlanta to masquerade as a variety of worldwide cities.

But the show ― which starred Steve Howey and Ginger Gonzaga as a seemingly average couple who were actually CIA agents ― generated the worst ratings of any CBS scripted program this season, averaging 2.6 million overnight viewers over its first 10 episodes.