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?
It was a great show!!! Please bring it back!!! Me and my 17 years old son loved it! We saw the whole season in one day. We live in Uruguay and a friend of mine lent us the whole season 1 and we could not stop watching it!!! Please bring it back.
This was a great show ! Just because you couldn’t position it with a good lead-in and a good time slot is no reason to make the show and viewers suffer! Bring it back!
Allegiance was excellent. As far as the genre of international espionage goes, this tv show was the best. The production values and exceptional acting was top draw. NBC should allow a show of this caliber to continue as viewer interest and loyalty will eventually increase and flourish if they stay the course in the long run. Are you just going to always play the ratings number crunch game!? That is shameful to be short sighted. but to be expected from big network executives.
Sad that Allegiance would be cancelled, while some other cruddy shows are kept. Allegiance had intrigue. The characters were like able. Please bring it back and continue the story.
My family and I absolutely love allegiance! I don’t get why they canceled it so fast!?!
I feel so sad for NBC they should’ve really continued the series I mean all the good amazing series get cancelled and the bad ones are left
I too checked to see when the new season starts and am so disappointed it has been cancelled. Are you only good for news? I dislike the majority of the reality shows on the major networks. Truly bummed.
I’m crushed!!! My father in law and I have been patiently waiting on the new season of allegiance and now this.. I’m so sad and upset..I’m totally boycotting NBC for this failure
I love this show. All the good ones get cancelled and the crap remains.
I loved the series downloaded from Apple. I watched it a second time with my husband who thoroughly enjoyed it as well, smart, well conceived, exciting. Ended with a perfect Segway for episode 2!! Poor nbc – what a bad decision to cancel. .
Are you freaking kidding, they canceled Allegiance? I really don’t understand why tv networks insist on airing such ridiculous shows, then when a show worth watching airs, boom, they take it off. They didn’t even give it a chance to get the ratings they are looking for!?
I really enjoyed it, it wasn’t the same old crap that seems to make it.
They should Air
The show was one of the best drama’s on T.V. I wish it had never been cancelled. So much for good T.V.
I cannot believe this show has been cancelled!!! It is brilliant. We have it in South Africa and everyone I have spoken to says how good it is. I’m shocked and upset how will we ever know what happens you have to finish the show. The amount of rubbish on TV and this great show gets cancelled. 🙁
I love the show because it had twists and turns in it and I am hoping that NBC will pick up again