NBC had big hopes for their all-drama Thursday night schedule. Unfortunately, the ratings have been dismal and now the network has cancelled their new drama, Allegiance, after five episodes.
On the Allegiance TV show, Katya and Mark O’Connor (Hope Davis and Scott Cohen) and their daughter Natalie (Margarita Levieva) are part of a dormant Russian sleeper cell that has just been reactivated. Their mission is to turn their son Alex (Gavin Stenhouse), an idealistic CIA analyst, into a spy. Others in the cast are Morgan Spector, Kenneth Choi, and Alex Peters.
The series debuted on February 5th to a dismal 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.98 million viewers. Then the numbers got even worse after that, hitting lows with a 0.7 in the demo and 3.32 million viewers.
NBC’s eight-episode mini-series The Slap has also been doing very poorly and recently relocated The Blacklist has been taking a beating opposite Scandal on ABC and with no lead-in support.
The network has now decided to pull the plug on Allegiance. They’re moving The Slap to 10pm for the remainder of its short run and will fill the 8pm timeslot with special editions of Dateline NBC.
It’s unclear how many episodes of Allegiance will be left unaired or when/if they will see the light of day. Whatever happens, it looks unlikely that the show’s relatively small audience will get any kind of closure.
What do you think? Did you like Allegiance on NBC? Do you think that the network should have cancelled this series? Should they air the remaining episodes?
So bad that the series get canceled. It was so interesting, phenomenal and indeed it keeps the watcher gazing as you don’t expect where it takes you. Am in suspense.
Need badly season 2
Same as me i couldn’t stop searching for only to find out it was cancelled
Very disappointed that it has been haulted. It was a great. Sadly missed. Should bring it back to life.
Great show and had very good hook to keep you guessing, I think the time slot was the issue. But if the numbers are low the big boys don’t care. They need the Ad revenue. Its a shame
Well I don’t know why, Allegiance tv series should never have been canceled. Fantastic spy drama . Maybe due to low numbers watching or more likely people just don’t understand what the series was about. Just shows a lack of intelligence of viewers.
It wasn’t called for. The series should haven’t been cancelled at all
Its so annoying that it’s been cancelled I loved the series I and my family and most of my friends followed it untill it got cancelled I so wish I could be brought back
I want season 2.
Never heard of Allegiance before even though I love the genre. I discovered it quite by accident and just finished binge watching it this weekend. Well done show and prescient. Ofc it had to be cancelled, didn’t fit in with all the other crappy shows. Imagine if they’ve done a 2nd season on Russian cyber spying. Maybe it would’ve helped waking people up to the danger we’re exposed to today. But I’m aware that the purpose of tv is to put people to sleep, not wake them up. In that sense NBC remained true to its purpose
Netflix should bring back the series, like they’ve done for so many shows that we’re dumped.
I just watched The American and binged watched the 6 seasons in two weeks. I found Allegiance because of The American’s. My husband and I watched episode 1-4 tonight, I know crazy. Absolute stunned it didn’t finish filming Season 2. I watch Blacklist every Friday and never saw Allegiance advertised ever in 2015. I think most people don’t even have cables anymore and wait for shows to air on Amazon Prime, Hulu or Netflix. Bring Allegiance back if it’s too late then another Family Spy series. Great to watch and love and dislikes characters.
Like the show. Pretty sad that they canceled it.
The show was “very very very” marvelous and you can’t get board watching even a million times. What NBC did it’s awful coz most of the fans were left hanging upto date.
This is why I never watch NBC shows or any network that would cancel a TV show in the middle of the season. It becomes a waist of time to start watching something just for it to be cancelled a few weeks later.
NBC always disappoints me. They always cancel great shows. The Black Donally’s. SURFACE. Now this. I swear to God, if I hear a new show is on NBC, I will not watch. Only
5 million viewers! NBC, your so greedy. At least I got to see all the episodes, because I watched it in Xfinity.
I want Season 2!