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 love Allegiance– Slap is stupid— They should continue Allegiance
I love that show…of course they would cancel. I have been watching the episodes that were not shown on tv… ON DEMAND. And it only got better. I hated the American and watched one and done. What is it about the worst show getting more viewers? If NBC does not have a good ending to this series ON DEMAND, I will not watch another new series until it has been renewed in year two.
I was also watching it the ending was a terrible cliff hanger and it would have been for a great season 2
Shame on NBC for cancelling a show as fine as Allegiance. Great ensemble of actors and you couldn’t wait for the next show to air.
Maybe they should reevaluate their stupid decision……
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I don’t watch a lot of TV, but Allegiance is one of my favorites. It’s a shame that the few good programs are always opposite each other and the ratings suffer as a result. Oftentimes I will watch a TV show on demand or on my computer as opposed to when it is aired. Guess this hurts the ratings; maybe the solution is to turn on both of my televisions to different networks at the same time to help out the ratings.
Just saw 13th & season ending episode & it was all on edge of seat, though predictable outcome from 12th episode. Obviously Gas explosion is stopped in last seconds, but wounded Black Dagger operative escapes after long confrontation with Alex. As suspected, Sam is alive (although we don’t see him), Victor becomes the new Rezident, but Alex’s parents must stay on the run. They set up for Season #2, which is interesting, since they filmed episode after public was told that show would no longer be shown at its NBC time slot. In Season #2, they plan to use Alex… Read more »
So silly ! seriously!? I love the show! Why cancel it!!?????
I love the show, please show all of the episodes. Your show was not on on the night you think. There was a mix up on Comcast menu which had Dateline as the show but Alleigance was showing. The same with Alleigance on the menu but Datline was showing. Please give the show another chance and bring it to conclusion. You are on to something good.
Tomorrow, 4/30 the 13th and season ending episode will be available to watch, just not on the regular NBC network. If you have Comcast you can watch all of it “on demand”.
I expect someone (maybe NBC this summer) to show all 13 Episodes. They have to know it was too good to waste.
I love this show. I can’t believe they cancelled it and kept “The Slap”. I am disappointed in NBC.
Are you kidding???? Why???? Me and my father love this show every Friday afternoon we’d watch the Recorded episodes that we couldn’t watch the night before. It drew us in and had us on the edge of our seats with each episode. BRING BACK ALLEGIANCE PLEASEEEE
Allegiance just continues to draw you in. I am very disappointed that NBC had the poor taste to replace this program with The Slap. Also the thought of the Blacklist being moved again is unkind to your viewers. Give programs some more time for people to become absorbed in the story line then do your study before making rash decisions.
We thought Alliance was really good!! Watched 10 episodes on line and THEN heard it was cancelled!! It was alot better than many shows on TV. Why cancel???
I cannot believe Allegiance has been cancelled.! My word! There is soooo much drivel out there…..Undateable, really?? I guess we just keep dumbing down. Bring it back, please!
This is a great show. I’m very disappointed!
I am very disappointed for the SHUT DOWN . Allegiance was an excellent tv series. watch it on streaming in Italy. sad it has no future.
I loved, loved , loved this show! I have watched Americans, but Allegiance is way better. I am really disappointed !!