[Beer Can]

Too much of the show reeks of the "What the Bleep Do We Know" bullshit, i.e. the show generally goes "through math, we can find this out!" regardless of what "math" actually means here. Problems are much better at falling under "suspension of disbelief" than solutions, and whereas House came up with bizarre/absurd medical conundrums to solve, Numb3rs uses real-life crimes and then hand-waves away the solutions.

It's really no more "intelligent" than all the CSI type shows, where the forensics lab is capable of coming up with anything they need to solve a crime. Frankly, I actually find those kinds of shows insulting to my intelligence, where the directors/producers think they can just pass their bullshit off as "too smart for the audience to understand."

The big lesson these companies need to learn is that Science =/= magic.