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?
Well… The 18-49 year olds don’t like Allegiance! Why? They have to pay attention? It does seem that Allegiance appeals more to the 50+ crowd. Did it ever occur to NBC to check in with us? We have supported NBC since their inception. Before these other guys were born. Why don’t we count?
I L.O. V. E. this show!
Also, they do have additional episodes on Hulu!! There are 7 episodes currently on Hulu.
Yea!
I am so sad to see this show go. I thought it had a great storyline and the acting was fairly good. I would much rather NBC kept this show and cancelled The Slap. Very dissappointed.
very disapointed Allegience has been cancelled. If there are more completed episodes, show them!
I really really love this show.. I don’t know why they canceling it.. pls. Put it back.
I love this show and I’m very sad it’s cancelled. I could only watch on Hulu (no cable). Hope this didn’t effect the ratings.
Yes! My Husband and I both liked the show. Disappointed it has been cancelled.
Seems like every show that’s bloody good gets cancelled and the crappy drivel gets to hit 3+ seasons at the least. Says a lot about the majority of people.
I loved this show, but im way too old for the ideal demographics. It was well written, well cast.
I was also very disappointed when NBC cancelled this show after only 5 airings but what most everyone has failed to realize and only because NBC has not advertised this fact is that each Thursday they have been airing/adding a new episode free On Demand/ I have since watched episodes 6, 7, and 8 since its initial cancellation. I’d prefer for it not to be cancelled at all but at least we may get to see the whole season and maybe they will wrap it up to everyone’s satisfaction.
Unfortunately, not all of us have that option. Fortunately however, I am able to watch online as I am in the habit since working the night shift.
Very disappointed with the news of the cancellation. I love this show.
I liked this show and the inherent paradox of son in CIA, parents Russian spies. Please show remaining episodes!
Allegiance showed promise. The actors were good, and the plot was relevant today with Russia in the news. I would like to see more episodes. Th e show was better than so many of the shows on television which are so trivial and boring.
I think that Allegiance should not be cancelled. Having been in the intelligence community, I found it to be very plausible and an excellent companion piece to the Blacklist. Please keep it on and produce a Season 2.
I think they should show the remaining episodes of allegiance to the loyal fans.
I was binge watching all
5 episodes
Couldn’t wait til the next when I noticed the date was March 5th. Couldn’t find it scheduled and googled to find out they stopped airing. Omg thats awful how they just stop showing a show so many do watch. Sorry the neilsen ratings are wrong.