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 really enjoyed the first season. Very disappointed that there won’t be any more! The person who decided to cancel this show should be fired!!!
I really love allegiance I was hoping for season two. I love you to bring it back
I really looked forward the continuous of this show, feeling disappointed!
Loved Allegiance !!!!!!!!! should not cancel the show, I did not even see the TV commercials for this series, so I think it was more of a poor ad campaign than a bad production. I think it is entertaining and interesting. Good drama
I really enjoyed this series and completed season one on Hulu. The show left with a cliffhanger and thought one of the Streaming video channels would pick it up. I agree, this was a great plot line for a program.
Allegiance…was a super drama my family all like it we rated 4 srars plus. NBC cancelled it because they are “mass murderers” they do not know what they are marketing to say the least This their “creation” but I think they have poor judgement on what to show or not. They think mass viewing get more sponsors.but the reality is that people with the highest income are the more educated audience and this show is for this kind of audience and if they got 3 o 4 mill….thats equivalent to 8 millions of illeterate people purchasing power. More can be… Read more »
Have to say, I am very disappointed. Good main characters and they all survived the first season (besides michelle)…I was so excited to see them in another. BUMMER!!
Of course they would cancel this show! If it doesn’t have ghetto stuff in it, people don’t like to watch it! It is a wonderful. Action packed, exciting show, we are very sad that it won’t be coming back! Why do
Nt they cancel that scandal junk?! Or, the bunch of other crappy, trashy series that are scheduled for a new season to air? Come on. Bring it back!
Will NBC wrap up the series by the final episode.
Really like the show look forward to seeing it sorry to hear it’s been canceled do you know how to see it online?.
Just found this series on Hulu…I’m hooked and now find out its been cancelled. Hoping it’ll be picked back up.
Best show ever, was looking forward to season 2. Ratings will go up, this show is very interesting and action packed what more could viewers want…..
I was so looking forward to season My daughter asked me about a great show to watch; saying she couldn’t find anything. I told her about Allegiance. She was catching up in anticipation of the next season. Stared she loved it and couldn’t wait for new season. Then she contacts me last night to tell me there will be no new season. Boy was I floored. It’s so hard to find dynamic edge of your seat television. Great cast! Great writing and production! Sorry that people don’t recognize excellence. I would have watched for 10 seasons.
NBC – are idiots for canceling the show. I’ve watched every episode. You have a winner. Promotion was poor.
my wife and I really enjoyed this series.. just another cancelled show that was good while so much other crap left on…
I know how come they did this smh