NBC Cancels Trauma

As announced yesterday NBC will not be ordering any new episodes of the freshman show Trauma. The original pickup was for 13 episodes and those will air as planned. Trauma was easily the most expensive new program for NBC this year and despite decent ratings it wasn’t enough to keep the show going.

This move has led to speculation that Chuck will take over Trauma’s Monday night at 9PM time slot and be coupled with Heroes. Six additional episodes of Chuck have also apparently been ordered though that has not yet been confirmed. While the original plan was to bring the show back in March after the Olympics finish it could be that it will now return in January once the run ends for Trauma.