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?
So very sorry to see this show go away. I was addicted after the first episode. They should at the very least air the entire season – better yet, bring it back. So much better than some of the stupid, stupid stuff they do put out for intelligent people to try and watch.
Not surprised. This was a terrible show attempting to capitalize on the success of the Americans – the story was inverted and obviously a poor imitation.
I can’t believe they canceled Alegence and are showing the slap instead, which is a Slap in the face to fans!!!
Are you kidding me? I am sick of getting sucked into these programs only to have them canceled whenever the network feels like it. This was a great show…at least give us and ending.
I am very disappointed, Allegiance was one of the best shows this year. Very smart and great cast in it. Well may be they will make a show full of homosexuals and none sense instead. That seems to pll in the ratings. Shame that its going off air.
NBC continues to disappoint. This was one of their better shows. Who watches Dateline NBC ? If you can’t compete, then you’re not in the business. Why not try a night when there’s no competition? Maybe you could win there.
Just another show NBC starts you on and then cancels
So Disappointed that the show is not on!! It was one of the best shows they have had!
I liked the show and am quite surprised that it had such poor ratings. I think the remaining episodes should be aired.
I liked the show and they should air the remaining episode.
I loved this show. Thursday was my favorite night of the week because of the trio of shows. Blacklist being my favorite by far. However Allegiance was awesome. Very disappointed. If any of them needed to be canceled it should have been The Slap. It’s alright but not as good as Allegiance. I’m ticked I ever started watching if your not going to at least finish the season.
Please bring it back I enjoyed the show
Bring the show back, I really enjoyed it
We watch this show every week! I am so disappointed the show was cancelled. You just left us hanging…. It’s SOOO much better than the slap. I hope you’ll give it the chance it deserves. Superb acting, great story-line and suspense….what more could you ask for? Love it!!!
My famiy waits for this show every week! Sad