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 thought the show was good. Please bring it back. Give it a chance
I’ve just finished watching the 13 episodes of allegiance on Hulu. I absolutely loved it. What’s amazing to me is that a show like this gets cancelled, when absolute junk like “real housewives”, “Kendra on top”, and other such gutter TV go on and on. Kinda tells you the makeup of the populace of the country.
Actually it doesn’t tell you the makeup of anything. It tells you their ROI is better on “reality” tv. If Allegience costs 10x as much to make, and earns 3x the revenue of a reality show, then it’s far better for the network’s bottom line to go with the reality show instead. It’s simple business economics. TV shows are created to make money, that’s all. They cost money to produce and have to create a positive return for the network that backs them. Reality shows cost a fraction of the amount to create, and yet can still generate enough ad… Read more »
please bring it back…..
I lived this show. Excited that I found the unaired episodes to complete season 1. However I am truly disappointed that there will not be a season 2,3,4…… Not sure why TV networks continue to cancel series so early and not play them our an give them a chance.
I am extremely disappointed!! My husband and I thought this would definitely be a keeper – we LOVED it!! As, it seems, a lot of other people, we found it On Demand as well, so perhaps it wasn’t marketed well enough. This is truly a loss – there is not enough good programming anymore and we thought we’d found a show to enjoy for a while. PLEASE RECONSIDER!!!!
Also enjoyed the show. Watch all 13 episodes. On demand too. No closure… Really?
Unbelievable! How could this show be cancelled? My whole family stayed glued to this show! What are the odds it was on against another top rated show on another station? How can we get this back on the air?
I agree… Enjoyed the show too!
HOW ON EARTH WILL THIS BE CANCEL…….OMG…I HATE THIS…PLEASE BRING IT BACK
Don’t cancel the series is was SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!
We in Kenya love the show… sad that its cancelled.
I thought Allegiance was very good. I love these type of stories that are highly believable. I liked it much better than Scandal which I found unbelievable.
I got acquainted with Allegiance through On Demand over the summer. I’ve binge-watched all 13 episodes and love it! How I wish it was coming back for a season 2!
I like the show a lot, I surprise that it is cancelled. Same here, I found it on demand and love it. PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THIS SHOW. 🙁
This is an incredibly suspenseful TV show, blessed with excellent acting and well-written scripts. I don’t believe it received enough trailer advertisements, and that’s why it couldn’t find an audience. I accidentally found it “On Demand” while I was browsing through the channels. Once I watched the first episode, I was hooked. PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THIS SHOW.
I loved the show, Allegiance. I’m sad to see it go.