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?
Every time this channel puts a good show out there they end up canceling it due to views but what you don’t realize is that most people now record all if there show to be able to what them later. View should be the last thing in this day and age to get a show canceled
Due to all the TV shows that NBC put out there and then cancel I have stopped watching any show from this station. Examples: believe, alliance, blackbox and more good TV should canceled by NBC.
I agree with Josh. It’s so frustrating. By the time people get pulled into the story, it’s canceled. It takes time to develop a following. Five weeks is not enough! Tired of starting nbc shows and seeing them get canceled. Makes me not want to watch anything on this network.
Can’t understand why you would remove such a good show. Every time we start some thing good you guys take it off. This is starting to get old!!!!
It was a brilliant show aimed at people with some intelligence, it just shows the type of people NBC is targeting. I will drop NBC.
Allegiance is good I like it and looked forward seeing it after Blacklist , don’t really understand how you all think and the Slap Blows
One of the best new seasons shown. Was looking forward to more shows. Hated that it is being cancelled. I hope another station picks it up. I don’t believe network gave it a fairs it.
NBC – Ratings, Smatings. You had a gem in Allegiance and you, now my least favorite network, dropped it. – Shame on you.
I was hooked!! Very good show. Bring it back on a different night!!!
My wife and I have significantly different viewing tastes, yet we BOTH agreed that Allegiance was a GREAT show. Much like the Americans, it had a great plot that we thought was unfolding well. I suspect the poor level of advertising of was as much an issue as anything else, and given an adequate chance and proper advertising, I think it would have done well. Big mistake to cancel it, in our book.
Could Obama have anything to do with this??? Would not surprise me in the least. There is more to this than we are being told!
I loved this show. I thought it had great promise. The writing was wonderful. I’m already missing it!!
Allegiance was an awesome show! The show was action packed with a great storyline. You cancelled the wrong show NBC.
My wife and I loved the show Allegiance. It takes a while to get to know the characters and get hooked. But the story and plot line were good right away. Hope you will release the other episodes or bring it back. The Slap that took it’s place is lousy.
What is up with that? Cancelled after 5 episodes? This show was getting good with a plausible plot! You should have changed the showing day/time to a better day at least air the remaining episodes. Some of the good shows get cancelled and the crummy ones stay on! Not happy
Why is it that 4.3 million people are not enough and before you take something off why don’t you try another night your Saturday line up could use some work what about that Grimm binge? Surely you could have tried it ther. You people make me sick.
Please AIR the remaining episodes!! Shame on you NBC!!!
Very disappointed in your removal the program Allegiance! My wife and I both were hooked from the first episode of the show. If nothing more could you please make the rest of series available on HULU.
It’s available on NBC & HULU