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?
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I love the show, Allegiance! Other than The Blacklist, it was becoming one of my favorite shows! I am shocked that it is canceled. Please bring it back!
Very disappointed. Just started watching and I was hooked!
What is wrong with NBC? They have nothing going for them except Blacklist and then they move it to a night that is rife with good shows and cancel the only other show that is excellent–Allegiance! And to make matters worse they replace it with Slap which was such a ridiculous concept that I could not even stomach the trailers. Bring back Allegiance, cancel The Slap and whatever you do, do not cancel Blacklist!!
We are very disappointed about the show’s cancellation. We really liked Allegiance and looked forward to watching it.
Loved Allegiance from the beginning. So upset to have found out it was no longer being aired. Sat down to playback my dvr recording and it wasn’t there! Thank goodness it’s still playing on PToD!! Hopefully, the remaining episodes will still be available to watch on PToD. Even better, hope it’s bright back!!!
Well big broadcasting company. The 2.3 million people like a program and now it is gone. Shame on you. Guess you pocketbooks aren’t fat enough. You didn’t even give it a fair chance and let the characters evolve. I wonder why rating are down. People will stop watching NBC. I will find some other program to entertain me and I am sure it won’t be on NBC.
Was expecting to watch “Allegiance” tonight, only to learn that NBC abruptly cancelled the remaining episodes. Cable stations understand that it sometimes takes time to develop an audience, especially when the plot is intelligent, thought provoking, and well acted.
NBC should be embarrassed that they removed intelligence and replaced it with banality. By playing the remaining shows of “Allegiance,”would produce faith in network TV.
OMG!!! I love Allegiance. This is a great show, if the ratings are bad that’s your fault for not getting the word out. So now what are you going to put on… A reality show about crap just so you can get what. You guys are amazing. Ps. If you cancel Blacklist I’ll never watch NBC again.
I found allegiance fascinating as a tightly wrapped, carefully parsed, dilemma filled, psycho-political thriller. Please bring it back. Contact me if you’d like some input re broadening this show’s appeal.
I love Allegiance! I hope someone else picks it up. I was looking forward to watching it tonight but it wasn’t there!! I hate how you left us hanging. At least finish it as a mini series. Give us something. 🙁 I hate reality TV and these raunchy evening soap operas. I was glad to see something worth watching, like the Blacklist. I hated the day change for blacklist too. I had to record it and allegiance to watch later due to conflicting schedules. Not happy with all these changes.
Why do they keep canceling good shows like Allegiance??
I’m about ready to stop watching NBC altogether.
I really like Allegiance!! Please bring it back!!!
We were shocked that NBC dropped Allegiance! We were hooked early on. The story and characters were just getting deeper and better. Shame shame NBC!
I am not a person who watches a lot of TV, and recently really started enjoying Thursday night TV on Fox the most with The Blacklist and Allegiance. What a shame to take such an intelligent show like Allegiance off!!!