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?
We really liked Allegiance! It was different and exciting. Please bring it back!!!!!
Can’t believe you canceled such a great show. You left us high and dry!! Shame on you!
They definitely need to keep allagience going !!!!! I loved it I was a little late to start watching but I watched Them all on demand . I totally loved it I need more episodes for sure!!!¡!
Very upset liked this show very much. Would like have seen it thru.
Thursday nights are tough, but I would DVR it. Please bring it back
Don’t cancel it. We started watching Allegiance on demand and love it. Not enough people have watched the show and they just don’t know how good it is. We tried to find it on T.V. and can’t find it.
I loved watching allegiance. Was very disappointed when they did not show more of the series. Thought it was very captivating and kept my interest. If the networks keep only showing 4-6 of the total episodes, people like me are going to quit watching because in our minds it’s totally unfinished, and why invest our time and effort if they are not going to finish the story line or continue it on. It’s kind of like reading a novel were you get cut short and the story never gets finished. Why waste our time and effort on something like that.
Loved this show; I’m an espionage junkie. Couldn’t believe it was pulled from the line-up after five episodes; totally dumbfounded Looked at demand under networks only 5 episodes. Luck would have it happen to go to Genres on demand and clicked Dramas scrolled down and found 11 episodes of Allegiance by chance. My husband and I acted like kids in a candy story; binged for two days and finished. We thought it was one of the best shows of this genre right up there with a The Americans. Please bring it Back!!! Need to see how the O’Connors deal with… Read more »
I love Allegiance.
Was disheartening when I heard Allegence was to be discontinued. I like all the charaters, the story line and the suspense. Please reinstate this show and let us all start to enjoy Allegiance once again.
Very disappointed. I thought the premise was great and very interesting.
what a shame you already make the shows, why not finish them, rather than leaving people up in the air.
this series should continue…. it’s a good one…
Love the show. Will miss it
Love the show
Have been looking for the next episode of Allegiance on demand for days! Just googled to see when the next episode would be on because, like some of these posts, I caught it on demand and have never known when it aired on network tv.
As for comparing it with The Blacklist……I’m a Blacklist devotee and will be very upset if it is also cancelled! I also watch Scandal, but I catch one or the other on demand since they air at the same time.
My 19 year old daughter and I watch this show together every week. We both love it. The characters are wonderfully developed; the acting is superb. We find ourselves sitting at the edge of our seats during each episode. We don’t dare miss even a second for fear of missing an important clue.
We believe NBC should air the remaining series and we hope another venue will be smart enough to continue the series.
I loved allegiance and wish you hadn’t canceled it and I agree why Air the shows and then cancel them before we can even finish them. I have to go on demand to watch the episodes. I’m sick of seeing shows like Scandal with all the promiscuity. I love Blacklist, I thought slap was boring it was too drawn out.