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Eileen’s pursuit of the truth won’t continue into the 2023-24 network season. ABC has cancelled Alaska Daily, so there won’t be a second season.
A drama series, the Alaska Daily TV show stars Hilary Swank, Jeff Perry, Matt Malloy, Meredith Holzman, Grace Dove, Pablo Castelblanco, Ami Park, and Craig Frank. Eileen Fitzgerald (Swank) is an award-winning investigative journalist and high-powered newspaper reporter in New York. Her reporting methods and abrasive personality are called into question after a high-profile story blows up in her face, and Eileen loses her job. Her former mentor, Stanley Cornik (Perry), approaches her about making a big move, and she goes to work for a struggling downsized Anchorage newspaper, the Daily Alaskan. Grudgingly, Eileen teams up with a young local reporter named Roz Friendly (Dove). Together, they begin investigating the murders of a group of indigenous women. Eileen is on a journey to find personal and professional redemption in a new locale, across the country, and in a very different world.
Airing on Thursday nights, the first season of Alaska Daily averaged a 0.23 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.84 million viewers in the live+same day ratings (including DVR playback through 3:00 AM). It was one of ABC’s lowest-rated scripted series in the demo and a middle-of-the-road performer in total viewers, when compared to other shows on the network.
The show nearly doubled its viewership in the live+7 day ratings, but that was apparently not good enough to secure a second-season renewal.
The first season of 11 episodes finished airing on March 30th.
What do you think? Have you enjoyed watching the Alaska Daily TV series on ABC? Are you disappointed this show wasn’t renewed for a second season? Were you expecting a cancellation?
Enjoyed the show. Good scripts. Much better than other shows that were renewed. Very sorry it was cancelled
Bring it back! This was a great, different, important story!!
That’s awful!!! Was so looking forward to seeing it gain!!!
Disappointed I watched faithfully
Alaska Dailey was a GREAT SHOW…cancelling is unbelievable….Hillary Swank is a great actress and she proved it in this series.
Really loved this show- why do they only cancel the good ones??
I loved the show and I’m very disappointed it’s gone.
One on the great shows. Hopefully a streaming service will pick it up.
I am so disappointed that Alaska daily has been canceled. There are so few shows today with substance and good acting. Why do shows like “Ghost” stay running? Please reconsider….
I loved Alaska Daily and looked for its return. Very disappointed to read that it will not.
Typical of the networks, a good show with grit and guts to take on important issues is cancelled because the majority American viewers aren’t interested in such things. Still, these things need a place in the mainstream. Look at all the lies from the right who blindly follow little t.
To bad the higher upside are to afraid to produce a show that exposes how native Americans in Alaska are truly treated
Hillary Swank is one of the best actors today. This show was intellectual, entertaining and enjoyable. All things most shows today are not. I am disappointed in ABC for not seeing it through to a second season.
Of course it’s TOO intelectual. It’s TOO real. We NEED to be exposed to the inherent racism that is all around us. We NEED shows that show us our true selves. Disappointment in ABC is too mild a word. Shame on ABC. Shame.
I loved the FIRST SEASON!So sorry that the Executives of ABC CANCELED ALASKA DAILYI was so looking forward to seeing what happens in S2 E1.
Loved all the superb acting from the cast!?
Please bring the series back or sell all rights to another movie director producer who is interested is making S2 E1.
I haven’t watched an ABC program in YEARS, and won’t again anytime soon now that they have canceled Alaska Daily. This show was too intelligent for prime time network tv. Please pick this up streaming networks! There is an audience for intelligent storytelling! Leave The Golden Bachelor for ABC.
Totally agree.