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The Sing-Off: Will It Be Back for Season Four or Cancelled?

Published:November 29, 2011

Sing Off season four or canceled[SPOILER] Last night, NBC aired the third season finale of The Sing-Off and crowned the winners of the a capella competition. Pentatonix, a five-person ensemble from Arlington, Texas, took home a Sony recording contract and $200,000. Will there be more winners and a fourth season of The Sing-Off or, will the TV series be cancelled instead?

Hosted by Nick Lachey, The Sing-Off began as a short-run series with just four episodes in December of 2009. It did reasonably well (a 2.3 in the 18-49 demographic with 6.9 million viewers) and was cheap to produce so the peacock network brought it back for season two. It returned the following December and was expanded to five episodes. That renewal paid off and the ratings rose 26%, to an average of a 2.9 in the demo with 8.6 million viewers.

NBC decided to take another chance and give The Sing-Off a two-hour timeslot on the fall schedule and 11 episodes. That gamble didn’t pay off and the ratings have been terrible.

The Sing-Off began this season with a disappointing 1.9 rating in the demographic with 5.3 million viewers. The numbers never got any better they dropped as low as a 1.3 rating, less than half of its worst demo rating last season. The show’s consistently been in fourth place in its timeslot and has lost 40% in the demo season-to-season.

The reality competition is the second-highest non-scripted show on the network but, given the state of the rest of NBC’s schedule, that’s not saying much.

Will NBC cancel The Sing Off? If the network were in better shape, of course they would. As things are, I suspect NBC will bring it back for another season but give it either a summer or holiday run, when competition and expectations are far lower.

In retrospect, they probably shouldn’t have messed with the success they’d been having with it.

But, what do you think? Should Sing-Off return for another season or are you done with it?

 

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Teresa May 21, 2013 at 7:44 pm

Bring it back , I love it!!!!

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Kristi March 11, 2013 at 3:15 pm

BRING IT BACK!! The singers who are on this so are truly talented and gifted and I loved watching it every week. American Idol has gone down hill with their cast of judges and really i look forward to watching a real singing competition such as the sing-off. Please Please Please bring it back!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Susan January 26, 2013 at 10:20 pm

Sing off needs to come back for another season.

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JoAnn Osman January 25, 2013 at 1:22 pm

i really, really, really enjoyed each season of the Sing Off thus far and TRULY hope you bring it back in 2013.

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Debbie January 11, 2013 at 1:22 pm

I really enjoyed watching the sing-off and think you should bring it back. Those kids were great.

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Nola January 7, 2013 at 11:38 pm

the best show ever! Please keep it going.

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Maddison December 29, 2012 at 2:56 pm

The sing off gone? This can’t be real! This can’t be happening! BRING IT BACK!

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Richard L December 29, 2012 at 10:45 am

The Sing Off Season 3 winners are playing to sold out concert venues all over the US and coming in top 20 on the digital music sales charts. There is clearly a demand for this type of music. Perhaps restrcturing the show would help but the demand for the a cappella music is solid.

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Heather December 28, 2012 at 9:36 am

BRING IT BACK!!!!
It is the only music reality show really worth watching because it it is the only one that shows the kind of musicianship that music teachers try to foster in their students – working together, listening, joy.
BRING IT BACK.

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