Six Degrees: ABC Pulls Drama for Second Time
After miraculously returning to the airwaves after almost five months, it looks like ABC has now closed the book on Six Degrees.
Six Degrees debuted last Fall and was pulled after just six episodes due to low ratings. The network believed in the show and, after some retooling, production resumed on the 13 episode order. ABC returned Six Degrees to primetime on Friday, March 23rd.
There have been rumors that, if the series performed well, it was being seriously considered for a second season. Unfortunately, Six Degrees attracted a dismal 4.6 million viewers on March 23rd and then dropped to 3.2 million on March 30th.
As a result, Six Degrees has been pulled from the schedule effective immediately. Reruns of Wife Swap will air in that timeslot for the foreseeable future. Though it hasn’t been officially cancelled, there is little chance we’ll see the five unaired episodes or a second season. Stay tuned! 
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September 14th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I agree that it is one of the most original show ard and i really hope they will come back
August 6th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
I live in England and six degrees has been aired for the last six weeks we truly love the show and believe that it should it was one of the most original tv shows I have watched. In England I record the show and introduced it to my sister she watches the same episode again and again. I warm to all characters and the twists are fantastic. My fianc?e and I watches it in bed and look forward to next weeks show with eager anticipation. Well done to all who produced something so special. Michael
September 6th, 2007 at 8:45 am
I just checked to see when Six Degree’s was returning and to my horror ITS NOT !!!
That was a great show..save the show
July 12th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
This show was great! The demographic that this show really appeals to doesn’t normally watch TV on a friday night. There are plenty of nights other than friday that have nothing but crappy tv. Tuesday would be a great night to get this show back on. Give it a chance ABC. Get those morons who get paid to know what viewers are looking for to do a better job. And ABC wonders why they aren’t the top network!
July 9th, 2007 at 12:18 am
Great Show. Probably got axed because it was for older/more mature audiences.
July 7th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I 6 Degrees was a great show! They should have given it a little more time, I think it would have been a hit… and maybe they should have thought about changing days and times…. Americans love their TV but there is only so much drama we can take in one night!
July 6th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
WTF ARE THOSE NUMBNUTS DOING??? ABC, KEEP THE SHOW RUNNING!!!
June 7th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I really liked the show and and upset that it was pulled off the air. The low ratings was probably due to the fact that it was on a friday night!!
June 4th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I use to work for Nielsen TV Ratings…and I can tell you first hand that network executives only care about $$$. There are only a limited amount of households that are equipped w/a ratings detector, therefore, it is NOT ACCURATE to say that ONLY 4.3 million people watched on a particular Friday night. ABC can only calculate the homes that have the Nieslen ratings device and from that they are making an educated guess…not factual numbers of tv audiences as a whole! And, what was ABC thinking about airing it in that time slot???? I personally wrote to ABC, regarding the cancellation of Six Degrees, and all I got in return was a default email saying “we cannot respond at this time”. If fans continue to pour in their support for Six Degrees, another network might pick it up. In the event that this does occur, we (the public) will not know until the fall (just a tid bit I learned from working in television). Please sign the petition below if you wish to bring Six Degress back, thanks!
http://petitionspot.com/petitions/SixDegrees
June 3rd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I am so very disappointed!!! I looked forward to the show..then it disappeared!! I started trying to find updated info on ABC.com, but no insite was ever posted as to whether the series was cancelled or not…I did not ever see much advertisement for this series either. My friends even told me they had never heard of it…of course I turned them on to watching it via the ABC.com web-site. This show is better than Grey’s Anatomy and I am a big fan of that show. What an awesome cast on this show…I can only hope that another network will have sense enough to pick up this series!!!
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:52 pm
I ‘accidentally’ found Six Degrees was back by just surfing the channels one Friday night. How did ABC expect the show ratings to be favorable when it didn’t even give the public any idea it was back. The Starter Wife received enormous promotion before airing. there was never even any indication 6 Degrees that it was being re-aired and then after 3 episodes, it was gone. ABC must get a grip on their demographics and the sophisticated crowd with some sense of decorum, taste, maturity and stimulation they should be catering to instead of trying to feed us reality TV shows and crap which emphasizes the banal and undignified state of affairs being fed brainless Americans who can sit and watch just about any garbage instead of exercising their mind and which sadly has embarassingly brought this country to its knees. Six Degrees had a lot of promise and its co-star, NYC, made it an even better show to watch. Millions of people flock to NYC from the rest of the US and the world - doesn’t that give ABC an indication of what people have on their wish list or….is the station being run by a bunch of inexperienced adolescents with severe ADD and can’t piece together how “6 Degrees” works or even what it means….
May 28th, 2007 at 11:16 pm
I’m very disappointed 6 degrees isn’t coming back. I am not usually a tv watcher, but i really really love this show! I have never written to make such a comment before, so this show has really captured me.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Six Degrees is awesome, I hope the cast read these comments-this is a really believable program. Cancellation is a BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!