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?
no one care about The slap I think if they give Allegiance one more chance NBC won’t regret it
My while family and most relative watched Allegiance. We are so upset by this. Just realized it too because we’ve been waiting a d wondering when it was coming on.
Exactly! I searched the web today to find out when it was coming back on!!! I thought it was a good show..
Bad bad decision NBC! I’m logging on to see when it will air again and find out its cancelled. Don’t understand why the good shows keep getting cancelled. NBC, get it together.
ONE of The best series, no doubt about it, please make season 2
NBC needs to decide whether its allegiance is to substance or glitz. It is sad that garbagevision sells. This was superb on so many levels. The public needs truthful fictions. This is the essence of the Allegiance (TV series).
I LOVE ALLEGIANCE!!! NBC should have know that it would struggle with ratings as it aired with ABC Thursday BIG DOGS!! However, for me, Allegiance rated right up there with them. I always recorded the shows so I wouldn’t miss one. I was hooked from the first episode (which I watched 4 times back-to-back). Don’t leave us hanging….find a better time slot. The show is awesome!!
My daughter and I found allegiance on Hulu. We really liked the show and would like to see the remaining shows. Hulu is not even carrying it anymore.. Please bring it back.
I am so very sorry that Allegiance was cancelled without even airing already completed shows. Why can’t NBC at least offer the entire packaged as a DVD?
Not only NBC is not releasing the DVD. HULU isn’t showing Allegiance anymore. I think there is more than rating with the amazing show.
I JUST FOUND THIS ARTICLE!! No NBC!!! Alligance is an AWESOME show!!! I can’t believe you guys cancelled it!! I was just looking it up to see when it would return and saw that it’s been cancelled!! Very very disappointing! I was hooked from the 1st episode!! The actors are awesome!! Bummer!! Bring it back please!!!
I think the series should be aired once again its a nice series so far
I LOVED the show!!! What a shame they cancelled it!!!! NBC should definitely make the last episodes available to those of us who loved the show.
I found this after it was cancelled. NBC
SHOULD SHOW IT AND CONTINUE WRITING
They should try it on A& E, CBS or ABC or even TNT, Netflix or Huluplus. It’s a very very Good show. Critics are stupid. Just because a show doesn’t have “10 million” viewers, doesn’t mean it is not a A+ show or “5 Star” show. I want to see what happens to Esposito; because I know Alex messed with the bomb in his getaway car & Calculated the explosion to Blow him up at a safe distance away from populated areas!! Esposito assassinated his pregnant girlfriend!! Payback episodes PLEASE on another Network
As per usual shows get cancelled on ratings everyone can’t watch the same shows at the same time some shows are watched and probably get good ratings at a letter date I am in my sixties and was a huge fan of dark angel tv series and watched it with my granddaughter and she was devastated that it ended like it did because over the summer break someone decided to cancel it no one listens to the fans those few of us that often are extremely loyal and would continue to spread the word so a bigger following would entail… Read more »
My wife and I really enjoyed the episodes of Allegiance that were aired and thought the actors were terrific. We are sorry to hear it has been canceled and we will not even get to see the remaining episodes of this season. It is our hope that it will be picked up by another network and shown at an earlier time.
Would love to see the remaining episodes! I really enjoyed the show and thought it was very well done. Anything airing opposite Greys, Scandal and HTGAWM is going to struggle for ratings.
NBC is notorious for cancelling, mis-scheduling the decent shows….remember Star Trek?
1st Constantine, now this. At least let it run online….Why was it denied a net presence?
I was catching up!!!!!!
NBC had all 12 episodes on it’s web site until the new season started. They were great. Now, hard to find. Too bad CBS did not pick it up. No doubt cast and crew are working elsewhere now. A loss.