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?
Love the show! Why cancel a suspenseful show with a good story line for the crap they put on? Please have season 2. On DirecTV I downloaded up to the 11th show, but there may be more! The network aired 5 episodes and said there were 8 more unaired episodes, that leaves 2 not even available for download. It’s not fair for the many fans who followed the show!
I downloaded all the shows and am watching them right now. this was a great show. NBC has its head up.. I certainly do not like Reality shows and so much network and cable programming is crap. Television is going the way of the dinosaur imo.
NBC is stupid. After being taken over by Comcast, I question any decisions that they make. They had a good line up of shows that they have sabataged themselves.Don’t think they can expect to compete with other networks and Netflix by taking good shows like Allegiance of and replacing with dumb stuff like Dateline. Boo NBC. Boo Comcast. Hire new people with better decision making ability.
LOVED Allegiance! Only found it ONDEMAND, and I looked forward to watching the new one every week after my kids were in bed. It was GREAT! Why cancel? I wanted to watch the next season to find out what happens with the O’conner family!
The only show I found riveting enough to watch the past couple months! So looking forward to season 2, please bring back!
What a shame. The only show I watch on NBC is gone. I guess I have no reason to continue watching this channel.
Just loved the show. I couldn’t believe it was cancelled. So happy to watch all the episodes “on demand”. Can’t say enough about the show. I have always been an ABC watcher and now I turned to NBC because of Allegiance, Blacklist, Chicago Fire, American Odyssey, State of Affairs and Chicago PD. Maybe ABC will get smart and pick it up.
Thought show was great. Hope it gets renewed. Family and friends talked about the show after each episode.
Just finished the season finally, I’m so upset the show had been cancelled. I really wanted to see what’s nexus for the O’Connor family. NBC bring back Allegiance!
Brilliant show!!!!! WHY WHY WHY cancel it????????????
This is an outstanding series. Very distressed that it was cancelled.
This show is fantastic and brilliant!! The plot is thicker and thicker and it kept me staying late to watch it. How come the rating is so low?? I don’t get it.
Isn’t it because of the wrong time aired? I hope to see more, I really do
Please continue the season 2 , considering from lots of fans’ opinion, you’ll see that you’re making a mistake cancelling this show NBC!!
loved the series Allegice. Watched the final episodes ON DEMAND. Sorry that itwas cancelled.
I loved this show and just watched the last episode. NBC is stupid.
Love this show. However, it never once showed up in the listings guide. We set this up on DVR and it never recorded. We searched and it would not show up. We could only find ONdemand. I guarantee that is why the ratings were low. It did not show up as a show on Thursday night. Wish it renewed, we really enjoyed it.
I had a similar issue on direct tv, set it to record the series, got the first 3 episodes and then I never saw it again, and it did not record. DTV had most of the episodes in the on demand where I watched the rest of the season except I never got to see E4 because DTV often does not have consecutive listings, like they will only have every other episode which is kind of stupid considering most people want to watch them in order. I have a couple others I just did not watch because Im want to… Read more »