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?
Nooooooo! This was my favorite new series I’ve seen in a loooong time. I couldn’t wait for the next episode! It’s so good! This makes me so sad…and angry! I think it’s got low ratings because there wasn’t enough advertisement. I had to hear about it from someone else. This is so disappointing
This was a DAMN GOOD show!! It’s a shame that NBC cancelled this show. Thursday night was my favorite night of TV. Please bring this show back and if you want to take something off air try that horrid “The Slap”. My gosh, I couldn’t even bring myself to try to watch a show with such a premise. I couldn’t even get past the name of the show. I’m getting off topic…PLEASE BRING BACK ALLEGIANCE!!!!! ……..please???
Bummer. Another good NBC show gone by the wayside because of some network executive’s decision. Good cast and good acting flushed by NBC. You would think after all these years they would get one part of the TV schedule right. News, sports, prime time. The only good thing about the network was the peacock and they even messed that up.
I love this show, big mistake to cancel. I’m so tired of shows being cancelled with no ending, it’s frustrating.
Really?! This was one of 2 shows I was watching faithfully. I hate most of the junk on prime-time TV, but loved this show. I guess I’m down to watching 1 show now. Please bring this back!
Alligiance is an awesome show, u have to watch every episode to know what’s going on, couldn’t wait to see next show . Put it back on
My Husband and I loved this show/ sad to see a GOOD program get the boot, when lesser shows stay on…
I’m not surprised. Every time I find a good show, it’s cancelled. The networks are getting too big for their britches. I’m getting so very tired of shows being put on hiatus, just to bring another in in it’s place. Then they bring it back at a different time and you miss it. Then they wonder why the ratings have dropped. Now they are starting new shows mid-season and in the summer. I can’t keep up!! I think it’s time to turn the tv off and show them all who is boss!
I was more upset with the day and time change for Blacklist, but leaving the tv on got me hooked on Allegiance. I thought it started slow, but by the end of the second week, I was committed. I’m very disappointed! (Now put Blacklist back on the later hour)
nbc needs to stick with this show a while longer or move it to a different time slot
One of the few shows we watch on NBC and they cancel it. Really a mistake
Another Blunder by NBC.
Sad. I loved it. We watched every episode. Another big disappointment NBC.
I loved it… It will be missed and just s Russia is gaining it’s notorious reputation back.
NBC decision making prowess is obviously poor. Dateline… Really? How much more news can a person watch…I’ll go to Fox News anyway… Now NBC is driving me there.
I think this is not good that you have cancelled this show. For once, a really good series, well acted, with great characters and actors hits the network and you cancel it?!!! Seriously! And then, I finally get to watch the last two episodes on ON DEMAND and find out you are cutting me out just when it gets really good! This is inhumane!!!! I want to know what happens. I love this show and I love the cast! Please, bring this back. I, for one, promise to watch every episode and will enjoy every suspenseful showing. Have a heart,… Read more »