NBC had big hopes for their all-drama Thursday night schedule. Unfortunately, the ratings have been dismal and now the network has cancelled their new drama, Allegiance, after five episodes.
On the Allegiance TV show, Katya and Mark O’Connor (Hope Davis and Scott Cohen) and their daughter Natalie (Margarita Levieva) are part of a dormant Russian sleeper cell that has just been reactivated. Their mission is to turn their son Alex (Gavin Stenhouse), an idealistic CIA analyst, into a spy. Others in the cast are Morgan Spector, Kenneth Choi, and Alex Peters.
The series debuted on February 5th to a dismal 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.98 million viewers. Then the numbers got even worse after that, hitting lows with a 0.7 in the demo and 3.32 million viewers.
NBC’s eight-episode mini-series The Slap has also been doing very poorly and recently relocated The Blacklist has been taking a beating opposite Scandal on ABC and with no lead-in support.
The network has now decided to pull the plug on Allegiance. They’re moving The Slap to 10pm for the remainder of its short run and will fill the 8pm timeslot with special editions of Dateline NBC.
It’s unclear how many episodes of Allegiance will be left unaired or when/if they will see the light of day. Whatever happens, it looks unlikely that the show’s relatively small audience will get any kind of closure.
What do you think? Did you like Allegiance on NBC? Do you think that the network should have cancelled this series? Should they air the remaining episodes?
I have just finished binge watching this, and so far have not allocated any other show quite like it. it has definitely kept me on seat’s edge. it would be a travesty to discontinue.
Please bring it back! Thanks
MORE SEASONS OF ALLEGIANCE! MORE!! THANKS#
ALLEGIANCE IS SUPER GREAT, BRING IT BACK!! I CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF IT! I LOVE THE ENTIRE CAST!! NEVER A DULL MOMENT!!
BTW, there’re much more action in this series than The Americans. I love the excitement & chemistry, especially the intrigue & fast-paced action, which The Americans lacked.
This is definitely one of the best shows around & doesn’t deserve to be canned. Perhaps, it was competing with established shows in that time-slot & there weren’t enough publicity to garner sufficient viewers but I’m a diehard critic, so I’m seldom wrong about the potential of any new series. I liked Katy & her children very much. Perhaps, comparisons were made with another series, The Americans, which I think that Allegiance is so much better. Please bring them back, at least to finish the season & not leave viewers unhappy & dissatisfied.
Please bring season 2 of Allegiance back I thought season 1 was great. Pretty please…
people that think scandal and the blacklist is better then this then they don’t know about the story telling in tv shows because there is so much story in this tv shows and the end in the final episode made the story even more telling full i think not the rating from other shows is the reason why this show got canceled i thinks it’s because of the conection with the United Stade Of America and The Russian that they need to cancel this show now that Donald J. Trump is the new president as how stupid that sound and… Read more »
NBC has a lot of crap they should cancel. Allegiance is not one of them!!
I wish they would bring Allegiance back
Please please do bring the series back…its one of the best series i’ve watched in a while…….
please bring it back . It is so interesting to watch please bring it back. BRING IT BACK! BRING IT BACK!BRING IT BACK! PLEASE DO SEASON 2 AND MORE PLEASE BRING IT BACK
Just one thing to say: NBC sucks!
Been waiting when it would come back. Love these niche shows that are far improvement from the 2 broke girls, Mom type shows. Sad to see they cancelled it so soon. Give it to seasons in a good time slot… Wish the networks would employ more intelligence based programmers instead of money people. Look what Star Trek did given a chance.
I’m so upset I’ve been waiting for this show to air. And it really upsets me that it was cancelled for another to take it’s place. Please bring it back. That is one of the best eye catching action show’s of all time. Find a spot for it please. Your disappointing so many people.