Bones has been a quiet hit for FOX but the same can’t be said for its spin-off, The Finder. FOX has now cancelled the low-rated series after one season.
The Finder is a procedural series that revolves around a man (Geoff Stults) with the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable. Other castmembers include Maddie Hasson, Mercedes Masohn, and Michael Clarke Duncan.
The spin-off debuted on January 12th to a disappointing 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.50 million total viewers. It was fourth in its Thursday night timeslot right out of the gate and lost nearly 30% of the all-important demo from its compatible lead-in, Bones. This was not a good start.
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Things picked up a bit in the following weeks, thanks in large part to the show having FOX’s blockbuster American Idol as a lead-in. Still, the numbers weren’t as high as they should have been.
After seven weeks on the air, FOX put Finder on hiatus and then moved it to Friday nights, giving its Thursday timeslot to Touch. If The Finder could maintain a healthy percentage of its viewers after the switch, it would likely garner a renewal.
But that didn’t happen and Finder’s numbers dropped like a rock. In its first Friday airing, the freshman series attracted a 1.1 demo rating — an episode-to-episode loss of 53% — with just 4.03 million viewers. The numbers for future episodes fluctuated a bit but didn’t really get any more encouraging. The network could do just as well or better by running cheaper reality programming.
The season finale of The Finder is set to air this Friday night and there won’t be any episodes after that. Hopefully the producers saw the writing on the wall early enough and won’t leave viewers hanging with any major unresolved storylines.
What do you think? What went wrong with this show? Why do you think The Finder failed to attract a bigger audience? Was cancelling the series the right decision? How would you have fixed it?
omg same as a few others i just found it on netflix and binge watched it, such a great show but i can’t believe it ended like that and that it ended at all… i pray they bring it back!
I just found this show on Netflix and fell in love. I hammered through all the episodes in 2 days I love it but I was so upset with the way it ended and THAT IT ENDED!!! Y? at the right time and with the right advertising this show could be #1 wish they’d bring it back
So disappointed that this series ended. Loved the characters, loved the storylines. It would be very difficult to replace Michael Clarke Duncan, but I think the show could have lived on. I’m a huge fan of ‘Bones’, but I enjoyed this show more. Please revive it!!
What a great show I thought it was so amazing off the bat I couldn’t believe it got canceled. I watched it like a hawk off hulu and it just died. Everything was so off and just when you thought the train was off the rocker crazy town something super serious would rage it back on track. You cant get shows like that anymore.
I found this show a year or two ago on Netflix. I now own the series on Amazon and watch the same darn episodes over and over. It frustrates me to no end that they ended it and ended it by just burning it to the ground in the finale! I don’t see anyway it can come back, and it makes me so sad.
To whom it may concern,
The finder series was the wonderful, funny, exciting show that unfortunately been canceled. I believe that too many interesting shows out the same times, my dvr have problem keeping up.I don’t even know what channel the finder was on. Someone needs to give the finder a chances. I just found the first season on Netflix, my family could not stop watching them.
I’d pay good money to se a season 2 even put it out on a box set I’ll be the 1st out the door to buy it
I just found this show on Netflix. Yes some were not so great, but left so much unfinished. I would watch more to see Walters crazy mind finding things. To ee willia stand up to her family and accomplish something great in her life. Isobel to follow her dreams to realize that they are not the same with out Walter, Leo and willia. Can Netflix buy the rights and make it a Netflix original if fix won’t air it.
totally agree. I just watched the last episode and my heart aches for everyone of the main characters.
I’m going mad to the ending of thus show everything that happened it is begging for another season and I bet now that it was on Netflix and if u give it a good promo spot on tv. It will explode you left the last episode with people wanting more please public don’t let this be another firefly
I just found this show on Netflix and I love it! I’m so frustrated that there’s no season 2. I love quirky Walter and I like the father/daughter type of relationship developing between Willa and Leo. We were left hanging – what happens to Willa? Does Walter get out of jail and go back to finding? I hope so. I want to see Willa back at the Ends of the Earth with Leo and Walter and Isobel back together finding lost things.
even tho you canceled what i believe to be a show that had it been exposed like it should would have got the viewers it needed but as usual advertisement of of this very entertaining show simply wasn’t there. But i still like it and would gladly buy the seasons episodes when and if they come out. mainly because it is not full of filth and vulgar language. Is there a possibility that season two was made but not aired if so i would buy it just so i could find out what happen with walter/U.S.Marshal.
Would love to see more “The Finder”.
Loved the action and creativity in the storyline.
I’m on the Nelson rating now, and would have put this show as one of my favourites.
Shame it wasn’t given a chance:(
Why does this ALWAYS happen to me, I find a great show I get all excited and once I watched everything I get depressed cause I want more episodes and then I get angry cause people back then didnt ***- watch the show. Shame on you!
Im from Holland so these shows dont air here especially when there’s only one season I only found recently that they were airing this on rtl 4 which I will thank very much cause this is an exception, even they saw how good this show was.
I really liked it, it was fun and great…however I think they should have added more story on walter it should have gone further apart from only finding things…but generally they should have let it continue….