FOX had high hopes for their Utopia reality series but the ratings were anything but perfection. The network has now cancelled the show after less than two months on the air — 10 months short of the network’s social experiment plan.
Utopia follows a group of regular people who are relocated to a remote area and given limited resources. They must figure out how to survive and create their own society. Those who are dispensable can be voted out and replaced with newcomers.
The series started out airing twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday nights. Utopia had a decent debut thanks to a special post-football debut on Sunday, September 7th. The ratings dropped about 50% a couple days later with its first Tuesday night. The Friday airing did even worse.
After a handful of showings, FOX dropped the Tuesday episodes and now they’ve dropped the dismally-rated Friday ones as well. The live-streaming feed will be shut down today and the participants — who committed to spending a year in this social experiment — will be sent home.
Utopia’s Friday night timeslot will be filled with repeats of MasterChef Junior starting this week. Season two of the young cooking competition launches a new season this Tuesday — filling Utopia’s former timeslot.
What do you think? Did you like Utopia? Why didn’t it catch on? What should have been changed?
I loved the show too and looked forward to watching it and wish it came on more than once a week like the soap operas. Maybe Fox should have lef the show for online views if the TV ratings were down. This way it can go on. Very disappointing to get everyone involved and just drop off with no warning. Very upsetting, but life goes on.
My husband and I LOVED the show and looked forward to it every week. I am so sad it was cancelled.
Cant believe its canceled!! i loved this show and looked forward to it every week!!! PUT IT BACK ON!!!!
Me too Frank very disappointing.
I think its absolutely ridiculous to cancel a pre planned YEAR long experiment and then just Cancel, Nix,El Fin, Bye bye said Show in less than 2 months! ! So, was this TRULY an experiment or some kind of Silly staged REALITY show!? Because IF it was the former, the correct response would be to let the YEAR long Experiment play out so at the end of the day, there’s some kind of USEFUL INFORMATION that hopefully todays Corrupted Society either learned from this show OR at best, formed an opinion on west kind of Society best exists with one… Read more »
I agree whole heartedly! How do they get the figures to cancel a show anyway? BOO FOX!
I’m not that disappointed that it’s been cancelled. I did watch it but all the bickering and cursing and hot tempers of the guys just showed how immature they were, with the exception of a few of the mellow males. They’re supposed to be making a Utopia–where did all the anger and intolerance and impatience come from with the idiot males? (again, not lumping them all in because some were very cool, but some were just plain jerks) This was the biggest turn-off for me. Feel sorry for the ones that wanted to go the distance, and sorry for the… Read more »
Totally agree, its there own egos that made it onto the show, transferred over to ratings that got the show axed
This totally sucks! I looked forward to it every week and was even planning a visit there. I watched the beginning, then watched Tuesday and Friday. Was disappointed when they took off Tuesdays, but I thought it had to do with conflicts with other shows. So I was settling for just watching it on Fridays and on line. NOW IT’S GONE!!! Totally sucks. They sucked me in and then took it away. What else are they gonna just stop showing.
i enjoyed utopia and hope it returns soon, give it another chance.
What do you think you are doing, Fox? What nitwit decided to cancel this show? You disappointed a lot of people. I had really gotten involved with the show and looked forward to watching it every Tuesday and Friday night. Then it moved to at least Friday nights. It gave me something to look forward to Friday night since Friday night has been so bad and boring in the past. You had a hit and you let it go. SHAME ON YOU!!! Bring it back!!!
this sucks donkey balls…….I looked for it and watched it every time it came on and to just up and cancel it is stupid way to go fox…..another mess up once again!!!!
totally agree, very disappointing. I didn’t like the bickering but I like that their was hope and dreams for a better way of living.
The problem was clearly fox and also the app… I’m not going to lie, I downloaded the app so I could check in to see what was going on. Seeing stuff on the app then watching it again when it aired may have messed things up. Before I had the app I was more excited about the next episode. Anyway. If HBO or Showtime were to have it on there network it wouldn’t be censored and may have had more viewers. The concept was great and the show was great, but it’s gone… Another thing I just thought of, you… Read more »
They said in the first episode that there will be twists and that people would have to go home while new people came in.
TO BAD, I’LL KEEP SAYING IT TILL ITS BACK ON.GOT IT
PUT IT BACK ON, MAN………….. IT WAS THE BEST, I LOOKED FORWARD TO IT EVERY FRI. BUMBING BIG TIME, WHY????????????????????????? WOULD YOU DO THAT, DID THE PEPOLE SAY I QUIT, WHAT?????????????????
This sucks i was sad when dropped tues. And now all together wth. I agree i think it took off and fox was afriad that people would start their own uptopia on thier own, and such america obviously was watching cause they were voting people off. Fox always does this brings out a new show and then a after one season cancel it. They said that after season one they were caneling two broke girls and were on season four now i believe. They cancelled the finder after one season. I also feel sorry for the contestants. When they found… Read more »
Seems to me that the. guys at fox were afraid. to take a chance..and that sucks because. me and my friends looked. looked Foward to it every. Weekend…it was somthing different. Thanks. fox. For going back. to your same old programing on Friday wont. Be watching fox on friday nights now
OMG are you kidding me, I loved this show and waited every week for the next show to come on. You had people watching the show voting people off, so you know it was being watched.