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?
My dad and I watched season 1 of Allegiance together and we LOVED it!!! I am seriously soo upset that there won’t be a season 2! We got soo into it! GIVE IT ANOTHER CHANCE I BEG YOU!
we love this move, so sad to hear it was canceled. 🙁
the series got my attention,save me the anxiety and air the remaing episodes
meen this allegiance is thwme best no fiction ….when sammin is cool itxwill always face hate
We really liked this show and would like the network to bring it back so we can at least see the remaining episodes.
This movie series really caught my attention and I believe it would be fine to continue airing the remaining episodes
Thank you
I love this show…I didn’t understand that I was seeing the final episodes. I get tired of investing time in shows only to have them cancelled…I want a box in my home to get my vote!!
We liked Allegiance. It got better with time. Initial problem was that unlike in “The Americans”, where they decided that illegals speak only English and when not – they spoke perfect Russian; in Allegiance we hear some totally broken Russian, which makes it unreal. And therefore it is unattractive. Seriously, who is watching these – Russian emigre. They should make half of audience. But with Russian like this, it is hard to attract them.
too sad for the cancellation,ths show been thrilling all along. Dont cancel
I looked forward to seeing it every week. Sorry to see it go.
I’m so irritated at the cancelation of This show. It only got 3. Something million viewers. Give me a break. Why should we suffer because of other people choosing what I should like. It sucks! Being the show back. It was interesting, it had great acting, it was well plotted…. I guess there wasn’t enough sex, nudity or or the token gay in it.
Loved the show wish they had not canceled hope to see more episodes ;, *(
We love this show . . . do not cancel!!
I have watched the Americans and allegence and have found that the allegence was a better show. Sad to see it go.
At least have the decency to air the remaining episodes to the few loyal viewers who have been watching since the beginning.