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?
Bring allegiance back please
I really enjoyed the show and want it to return. There MUST BE a SECOND SEASON!!!
I LOVE THIS SHOW! BRING IT BACK!!! I didn’t even know that it was canceled, I thought there was another season. I googled to see when it would come back and saw that it was gone 🙁 🙁
I liked it
The allegiance was the best show of 2015. Will be able to watch the rest of the episodes I would pay
I loved it aaaalllooottt!#
I am so sorry that I had not seen or heard anything about Allegiance. Since most television shows are on hiatus, I decided to check out the shows on Video on Demand, and fell over American Odyssey and Alligiance. Both shows were wonderful, and both would do well on USA. Allegiance is sort of a cross between The Americans, and an adult version of Mom and Dad Save the World, except with Russian spies. Not that I watch much of NBC anymore, but when I did, I do not remember seiing Allegiance being advertised. The acting ensemble were formed by… Read more »
Thanks for the info
Loved Allegiance! Had me on the edge of my seat every episode!
Please return the show! it was one of your best! At the very least finish the final 3 episodes. I cannot tell you how much I looked forward to Thursday evenings.
Think this is interesting for those of us on this thread…
http://happynicetimepeople.com/allegiance-the-unexpected-pleasures-of-a-failed-series/
Nice to see a critic follow up on a misread..
Thanks for the link. Nice review.
I wish Marion Stein has some influence with NBC and they decide to replay series this summer.
I loved this show. I didn’t even know it was cancelled after only five episodes because I watch new things on Hulu. It totally sucks that it’s over, but at least viewers on Hulu got to see the whole first season. Shame there won’t be a second.
I LIKE THE SHOW, I WANT IT BACK , I CANT WAIT TO WATCHED THE REMAINING SERIES. SEASION 2 will be very famous to watched.
I like this serial , season 2 should be back without Katya she dosent fit this movie .
Please bring Allegiance back. Loved it,
bring it back, it was starting to click and have a good twist. Bring it back .
yes, they should put an end to this series before they terminate the show. They owe it to their viewing public. I LIKE THE SHOW