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?
Allegiance cancelled? Blacklist having issues? How?
Unbelievable! Who is NBC polling? We looked forward to Thursday night with the Blacklist and Allegiance back to back. How do you pull a series before it’s even finished? Wake up NBC !!!
Was looking forward to Allegiance! Been watching it since it premiered!
Now will watch Elementary! Put Allegiance back on, please!
I like the blacklist and allegiance. It is sad that they cancelled it. They should bring it back! At least let us see what happens. I mean really??? This time of year is basketball season/March madness! Who cares about the slap. Ugh!!! I don’t want to watch stupid shows about gays and lesbians that is not comedy! Shows like friends and the Cosby show are real comedy.
I can’t believe it! I need to know what happens! Allegiance is a great show! Bring it back!
The only 2 shows that I looked forward to on NBC are the “Blacklist” and “Allegiance”. Instead of moving Allegiance to another time slot and cancelling it, you lost my allegiance!!
Yes it was similar to the Americans but I still liked it.
As for E.B. Saying once the son is turned in ALLEGIANCE the show is over is not very thought out because one could say the same for THE AMERICANS once they turn their daughter, which is their main objective this season.
I want to see the rest of the season, also be notified of when it airs, not see it play out of weekends etc without people knowing and then missing 🙁
Allegiance was the only show my husband and I watched on NBC, we even watch episodes with On Demand to catch up. Now that NBC has cancelled the show we will not be watching them at all. So sorry!
My husband and I loved the show. When it didn’t appear tonight, we realized they really realized NBC really doesn’t get it. I guess they’ll be canceling Blacklist next@#@!%^
This is a great show. I watch so few shows on NBC and now only 1 is left. It’s not the shows fault that they put it in a crappy time slot. You killed tat and soon Blacklist will be gone and I will never watch NBC again.
I live in Edmonton Canada.NBC should fire there marketing director fired for cutting Allegiance. I’m sure the followers of this show were never asked for their opinions regarding just how much they enjoyed this series. This show should be advertised better and moved to a new time slot. In my view this show is a gem and if NBC gives up on it will proove how incompetent this network is becoming. Give us break NBC and reconsider this poor cancellation decision. I for one will assure you the ratings will start to soar if you allow time for this series… Read more »
My husband and I both really liked the program Allengence . We looked forward every Thursday to watching it directly after The Black List. We are very disappointed it has been cancelled. And worse yet, cancelled suddenly, without conclusion. We would like to see it aired again, maybe later in the evening.
Really,
That was a great line up Thursday night. Just when you get sucked in NBC yanks the show. Did the same thing pulling Constantine. To be extra stupid, there going to fill in with more Date Line. Crap, how much Date Line can one person watch?
Thursday night finally had an interesting lineup with Black List and Allegiance… and pufffff… gone. NBC’s bad decision was made worse by replacing it with the non-thinker Slap.
I cannot believe that NBC killed another great show. Just because it needed time to catch hold. It was running against the ABC show How to Get Away With Murder. I really enjoyed the show. Allegiance is a much better show than The Slap. Allegiance has complex characters which is wonderful.
Please give this show a chance. Put it back on the schedule.