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 loved Allegiance from the moment I started watching, it’s just too bad that I didn’t find out about it until it had been “canceled”. If you weren’t able to catch episode 13 of season 1, Hulu has the entire first season on their website. I hope this show makes a comeback and as soon as possible. I would definitely watch and bring along many others with me who liked the show as well. Just a word of advice, try not to conflict with any of ABC’s Thursday night line-ups lol
Totally loved Allegiance! Why are all normal shows cancelled?? Less reality (who cares about Geordy Shore and The Kardashians) more great series!!
please give us some closure. We were just getting many of our friends interested. At least let a final few episodes show on another media or network. This ending mid crisis really sucks.
My husband and I were really intrigued and faithful followers of allegiance. I’m extremely upset and irritated that it was cancelld! However, this now explains the odd schedule of episodes on On Demand and why we’ve not heard of its return. In searching for a return date I saw this report of cancellation. Please bring it back!! You can’t leave us hanging, especially after such an emotional turn!
Allegiance was amazing – intelligent – edge of your seat – great characters – somehow the good shows get nixed! 🙁
Trish…good shows get nixed because they aren’t getting enough eye-balls for advertisers, due to too many reality shows around.
Please bring this show back!!! great acting, loved the characters and dynamics. Why do vampire/horror/sci-fi shows so much attention and air time? Grow up America and look at real life for a new experience.
I was hooked to Allegiance. It’s so disappointed to see it’s gone.
The Big Guys are always getting things wrong. This show was awesome. The time it aired just was not great. I loved the show and watched it online and couldn’t for season 2. But with a google search I find that it has been canceled. Just my luck. I pray they change there mind the public needs a show like this.
Bring it back! It was one of the best series I have seen recently. It had suspense and excitement. It held my interest from beginning to end.
Loved allegiance show, great acting! Nbc should not have cancelled!
The show was smart, the cast was great and the writing kept you interested. This is a great series. I liked the show and am very disappointed the network canceled it.
Bring the show allegiance back
Ratings are an illusion! On demand and recording options gives the illusion of low ratings. Bring the show back!
I loved the allegiance! ! It was awesome to watch a family kick so much butt!!! And save our nation! It brought to light a lot of history and great characters! I was excited for the next season to see how alex and Victor worked together! !
BRING IT BACK!!
Show was great should air all episodes