NBC’s The Firm, since day one, has been doing horrible in the ratings. Not even a month after the series has premiered, the show is still going on, which to to many’s surprise. However, today NBC has announced they are moving The Firm to another day of the week where it will most likely die out, and is bringing in their quitely buzzed about series Awake to air in the series’ place.

TV Line reports that NBC has shifted The Firm from Thursdays at 10PM to the Saturday Death Slot, with Awake to begin airing March 1st in the previous timeslot. Until Awake‘s premiere on March 6th, Grimm will be airing reruns in the slot until the series’ debut. Last night’s episode of The Firm spouted 3 million viewers, and only a .8 demo rating, which is absolutely abysmal.

NBC needs a big hit, and Monday’s series premiere of Smash may be the first of many. Awake, meanwhile, has been much buzzed by critics, calling it the best among pilots ordered for the 2011-12 season. The series deals with a cop (Harry Potter’s Jason Isaacs) who is injured in a car accident along with his wife and son. Here, he toggles between two different realities: one in which his son survived the accident, and one in which his wife did.

The trick is that one reality is his actual life, and one is a reality he lives when he’s sleeping, but he cannot tell the difference. In both realities, he has a different partner, a different therapist, and more similarities/differences along those lines, while also adding in a procedural element with the character’s profession, but still maintaining that thriller atmosphere.