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?
I think the show was great and was wond ering when the next episode was airing. I don’t feel the network should be able to leave us hanging. PLEASE DON’T CANCEL..
I agree
Wow! I am just finding out about the mini series as it is now on Demand and I have reviewed all 10 episodes and is disappointed to read that NBC canceled the show. I would love to see the remaining episodes of this series because it was a good series and it left us on a cliffhanger.
I truly hope that NBC will reconsider their decision and give he opportunity to bounce back. The series SLAP NEED TO BE CANCEL.
PLEASE BRING BACK THE SERIES!!!
Thank you.
I agree!
I really enjoyed this show. Great suspense and intrigue without overt sex and violence. If the ratings on this show were bad in the 18-42 age bracket what in the world do they watch? Hope some other studio picks up the show.
I agree!
NOT FAIR-at ALL Best show along with the Blacklist… Please reconsider…. I cannot believe anyone watches the crap reality shows.
I too am tired of all the other programs that are on television. They are all crap and are depressing, except for very few! I can’t believe the taste that most people have. There is no class in America any more. I finally found a good program then the people without any class take it off the air.
MASH was going to be cancelled due to poor ratings its first season. what a shame that would have been. I dont think you have given it a fair chance. i like the show alot.
Please at least show the rest of the season, I LOVE THIS SHOW! I can not believe this has been cancelled, BUMMER!
I love watching Allegiance!!! I don’t know understand how they are keeping The Slap over Allegiance….very disappointed….
My husband and I loved Allegiance and hate to see it end.
I enjoyed the show Allegiance. I wish they didn’t cancel it.
I personally didn’t like it much as it got going, but I’ve gotten accustomed to not investing myself in some shows any longer. They pull the plug on them so fast these days. You just cannot count on any loyalty from the networks any more. I’m so sorry for you all who loved it and will miss it. It seems NBC is being softer with you than ABC was with The Assets. They really jerked everyone around with that one and it was a limited run to begin with! Fickle, fickle networks.
I really like this show and hope it will continue or at least have it end with closure!
Allegiance is a very good show especially after the airing of April 9 universally people who like that genre of a show where their spy games would definitely in my opinion want to see the ending of the show 4.98 million viewers may not be fantastic but I think it’s enough to let the show play out the last episode especially the multiple characters of Alex he plays casting crew are pretty good leave the show be for the season
I enjoyed the show, It’s sad that it was cancelled.
I enjoy Allegiance it did take about 6 episodes to feel for the characters, however now it is very engrossing I hope there is more the just the 10 episodes, this is definitely one for binge watching, they need to give it a chance and promote better
I loved watching Allegiance. I AM VERY DISSAPOINTED! BRING THE SHOW BACK!
I agree!