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?
Please please please bring it back!!!
It was too late when I discover this but I hope they bring it back to Season 2!
Pls
Bring back alkegiance. It was awesome!!!
WE DEFINITELY NEED TO SIGN A PETITION!!!
Allegiance was really great!!!
The show I’ve ever seen very upset with the cancellation of the show
Just when something good comes on they end the season.. I loved this programme. this prigramme was different. Not the normal crap thats on tv which is like every other programme. Its a shame programmes like allegiance and person of interest has finished.
And so this one goes the same way as so many shows where one might actually use their mind instead of turning it off. Was it Gallagher who said he tried turning up the brightness on TV and it didn’t do any good?
I AM SAD THIS HOW WAS CANCELED BUT I GUESS THE LACK OF SEXUAL SCENES GOT IT CANCELLED SINCE NO AMERICAN SHOW CAN BE DONE WITHOUT SEX, THAT SHOW WAS REALLY GOOD.
I have been waiting for it to come back on. This sucks. It was a great show
I really enjoyed that show. At least something different. Would be happy to wath it forward.
Best show in a long time! please bring it back!
Show was great, so sorry it was cancelled. Please bring it back.
Great show. Very surprised it was canceled. It was getting good.
This show was so good
great show