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?
I cannot believe that NBC cancelled Allegiance. It’s the only show worth watching on the whole network. I don’t understand where they got the poor ratings numbers. There is obviously something wrong with the ratings system. I seldom watch network TV because the programming is so terrible. The arrival of How To Get Away a with Murder convinced me to give the networks another look. The Slap pilot was promising but by the next episode it was floundering. Terrible writing and mediocre acting. However, every episode of Allegiance held my interest. Now it’s gone. I’m going back to the premium… Read more »
Enjoyed this show very much. NBC I am done with this network. Poor decision. really enjoyed this show.
I found Allegiance to be one of the finest shows on this season. I am terribly disappointed that it has been ended before its time. I would love to see the rest of the shows and more drains to come. Thank you for your consideration.
Epic Fail NBC!! Bring this back or sell to some one who can promote it properly (HBO???).
I will not watch ANY NBC for the rermainder of 2015. Promise. Perhaps longer.
Do the right thing!
NBC should at least air the remaining episodes, maybe during the summer when there is not much on worth watching.
I think most people are just too lazy or their attention spans are too short to appreciate a show that has some intelligence.
Get your noses out of your cellphones, people!
I agree Allegiance should be returned to NBC. I’ve watched it avidly. Slap not so much. If you have to cancel, don’t kill it; sell it to a more discerning company.
Come on! Leave this show alone. We enjoy it!
I love Allegiance!!
Please do not cancel Allegiance! Finally a good series!!
I watched on episode of Scandle. It was so predictable and its premise so outrageous , I never tuned in again. Alligence was so well written …. Oh, that’s what was wrong. Way to go NBC.
Epic Fail NBC!! Bring this back or sell to some one who can promote it properly (HBO???).
I need to see the remainder of this seasons episodes… on-line, late night slots so I can dvr, doesn’t matter. If you don’t co0mplete this season I will not watch ANY NBC for the rermainder of 2015. Promise. Perhaps longer.
Do the right thing!
I hate NBC. Allegience is my new favorite show! Maybe if you promoted it correctly it could have avoided this! So you put on a show about violence to children? A constant reminder of abuse still wins over imagination. I wish someone worthy of the show could pick this gem up, but alas, just another comment from a crazy makes post. I object officer…
Bring allegiance back. It’s a good show just wrong time slot. They should play it for the rest of the season.
Loved Allegiance it was the only thing I actually looked forward to. I Feel the remaining episodes should air online. If not, then at least release the remaining episodes on Google play store and iTunes. Especially Since I already paid for the series. NBC is stupid for deciding to cancel, I am not happy… NBC definitely needs a new president of programming.
I agree with Joy! Put Allegiance back on the air and get rid of The Slap don’t punish it for making a poor decision to move Blacklist up against the strongest scripted competition on broadcast TV. Anyone who mistakes Allegiance for The Americans must have had some one else watching the shows for them or just read the Cliff’s Notes.
I really hate that NBC is cancelling Allegiance. As someone noted, they cancel good clean tv and promote violence towards children. If you don’t sell the show to someone else which I would prefer, let Hulu Plus show the remaining episodes.