When Alcatraz debuted, it looked like the show had a very good chance at being renewed for a second season. But how do things look now? Will the TV series be cancelled after all?
Alcatraz follows police detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) and Dr. Diego Soto (Jorge Garcia) as they try to solve the mystery of how 340 prison inmates and guards disappeared in 1963 and are now reappearing in modern day. The cast also includes Jonny Coyne, Parminder Nagra, Jason Butler Harner, and Sam Neill.
The TV show debuted with a solid 3.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 10.05 million total viewers. In week two, the demo slipped 9% to a still respectable 3.0 rating with 9.03 million. New shows typically fall 15-20% in their second week so this was a good sign. Week three dropped another 7%. That wasn’t positive but not horrible either.
Unfortunately, the ratings have just kept falling. In February, NBC kicked off the second season of The Voice and Alcaraz took a big hit, dropping 18% on February 6th and then another 17% on the 13th. And the numbers just keep going down. Last week’s episode was a series low with a 2.1 in the demo.
For the first time in many years, the big networks all have really strong programming on Monday nights and FOX has ended up on the bottom. House, which is in its final season, keeps dropping and so does Alcatraz.
Alcatraz’s season average is currently a 2.3 in the demo with 7.1 million. On our FOX report card — which ranks the network’s shows based on demo averages — Alcatraz has a “C.” Terra Nova, which has already been cancelled, had a better demo average and has a “C+”. When a show that was performing better than yours has been cancelled, that’s not a good sign.
Alcatraz is definitely on the bubble but, in light of the downward ratings trend, I expect it to be cancelled by May. There’s just no reason to expect that the series will do any better if given a second season.
But, what do you think? Do you think Alcatraz will beat the odds and be renewed for a second season? Should it be cancelled?
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Come’on Man!!!! You gotta bring this back, it was just getting warmed up.
We are getting bombarded with all these reality, it would be nice to have a show like Alcatraz with some imagination and depth.
This is one of the BEST!!! shows of the season. It has alot of potential. PLEASE!!!!!
don’t give up on it.
I really like Alcatraz, I got invested every week. I believe it deserves another season, maybe a new night like friday before Fringe, that would be great!
SEASON TWO!!!!!!!
I hope they renew it. My husband and I love it!
I really like this show, and was so sad when I didn’t see anymore episodes on! Thankfully I found this petition, and I hope it helps. After getting this far into the show, there are so many questions left to be answered, and I need some answers! What were they doing with that man’s blood?? Why did that woman doctor come back with them, and why are they after her?? And most importantly, why the heck did everyone go missing in the first place and why have they all come back now?? Don’t let us down, give us some answers!… Read more »
Exactly!!! couldn’t have been said better
This show is rocks
This is really a great show, please keepit on.
This show has a unique premis. each inmate has their own backstory that could sustain the show for several seasons as a (relatively) straight cop drama. The weird SF mix could be interesting but as is, isn’t really helping things as long as the inmates travel up in time. Perhaps, with developments seen in the finale, our heroes can travel *back* in time.
I just hope we are given more episodes.
There is not I love to watch on tv besides movies and would hate to see Alcatraz go off the air, I love this show!! Sooner or later (hopefully sooner) all those stupid singing shows will start to bore people and the ratings will go back up. Please give it a chance 🙂
They should cancel it. It’s terrible, it’s like some weird cross between CSI / Criminl Minds, Fringe, Lost, with a tiny tiny hint of prison break (well not really, just taht they’re in a prison). Essentially they’ve tried to make another CSI style crook chasing program, added a bit of Fringe experimental crap in there, and put in Fringe & lost style music. I suppose if you like all those shows you’ll love this, personally I think it’s just another crappy cliched show which will not be renewed for a 2nd season. Love the cute blonde chic in it tho,… Read more »
I was glad to see Jorge Garcia getting some air time … he did what he could with the part he was given. I don’t think that Sarah Jones stepped into her character (or the role did not fit her). Sam Neil certainly has the ability to act, but there seemed to be no “performance potential” in the script and he may have overplayed his part. All-in-all I felt that the writing and direction were rather two dimensional and knew early on that the show would go nowhere, even though I was hoping that this underdog would find some traction… Read more »
Omg..they can not cancel this show..its my favorite of all time to watch..next tot the firm and missing..i will be so disappointed if they cancel this show. Fox be trippin with the cancelling of the shows. What do they execpt when you have all these dumb singing shows coming on every two seconds. I just hope this show gets a second season.
You absolutely can not cancel this show. Alcatraz is one of the best shows on prime time tv right now. It’s a great show and the fans deserve more than one season!
Please don’t cancel this well written well thought out intriguing show! It’s so different then anything else thats ever been on tv. if you cross promote it and run reruns through the summer you will pick up a whole lot more viewers for next year. If you watch 2 or 3 episodes you will be hooked. It has to come back to many unanswered questions..