It's Official: CBS Revives 'Unforgettable' for Summer 2013

5:12 PM PDT 6/29/2012 by Lesley Goldberg

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The network has ordered 13 episodes of the Poppy Montgomery drama after axing the series in May.

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"Unforgettable"

It's official: CBS is bringing Unforgettable back from the dead.

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'Unforgettable': CBS May Revive Poppy Montgomery Drama

The network announced Friday via Twitter that it is reviving the Poppy Montgomery drama with a truncated 13-episode order for summer 2013.

"Hey #Unforgettable fans. It's official, the series will return to #CBS for summer 2013," CBSTweet wrote Friday afternoon.

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The series about a female detective (Montgomery) who remembers everything except the day her sister was murdered was canceled in May to clear space on the network's schedule for the four drama pilots the network ordered to series.

The drama from Ed Redlich, Carl Beverly and Sarah Timberman had been a steady performer at 10 p.m. Tuesdays, averaging 12.1 million viewers and a 2.5 rating in the advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic.

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The series was one of two at the time (including CBS' A Gifted Man) that hailed from EPs Beverly and Timberman to end their run in May. However, the duo's Sherlock Holmes drama Elementary was one of the network's hourlong efforts to land a series order. They will now have two series on the air.

Unforgettable, which co-stars Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck), joins Fox's Christian Slater workplace comedy Breaking In, which the network brought back from the dead after canceling it in May 2011.

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Breaking In was canceled (for a third time) in May after it failed to attract viewers in its prime post-New Girl slot on Tuesdays, drawing around 3 million viewers.

Breaking In hailed from Sony Pictures Television, which produced Unforgettable with CBS Television Studios.

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