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?
My wife & I are very disappointed with NBC. Allegiance Is one of the better shows on TV but the “brains”? at NBC, in all their infinite wisdom failed to give the show a real chance & cancelled it. NBC again fails it viewers by pulling the plug to soon. Shame on you.
But I like it!
Can Believe this show is canceled. Television is going to the *******, no wonder people are getting rid of Cable and satellite TV and Just going with Netflix, Hulu etc.
Your just Pissing off Viewers, Please somebody give this Show a Chance, and start during Garbage shows Like Greys Anatomy, and any other Doctor /Hospital type shows they will never be another ER so quit it already.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you kidding me? Best show on TV but wrong network.. NBC you suckkkkkkkkkkkkkk How can you not give people a chance at least let them finish the season, you broke people’s hearts all the poor actors that worked so damn hard and you don’t give them a chance … All the actors are very talented, awesome show. Please return it to a different time or maybe another network will buy it, maybe Hulu or Netflix…Are we supposed to be left hanging with this? What happened with Michelle Prado and Alex ?? Who is the mole?? NBC you cannot to… Read more »
I was just getting in to the show. The story line had just begun to develop. It was given a chance. At this time, I’m a big fan of the shows on NBC. I’ve watched and enjoyed:
1 – State of Affairs
2 – Blacklist
3 – Chicago Fire
4 – Chicago PD
5- Allegiance
Only other channel I watch is TNT for:
1 – Major Crimes
2 – Transporter
3 – Franklin and Bash
4 – Transporter
5 – Librarians
Loved this show. Can’t believe it’s been cancelled.
Even though it was pretty fast paced and not in real time, this is TV its meant to entertain, i for one was enjoying the show. And why not put it at a different time slot? all that money in production and after only 5 shows puff gone??? WOW Who’s making these decisions?
I think NBC should give this show a chance, the show was nerve wracking and keep you in suspense. How about moving it to another day? Or at least since they already filmed more than 5 episodes, can they at least show the rest of the episodes????!!
My husband and I waited until we had 5 shows taped and watched them all and loved it, only to find out it was cancelled. We really liked it and are disappointed we will never know what happened.
This show was just a rip off of the much better scripted, acted and directed show The Ameicans on FX.
Why did you go and do a stupid thing like this cancel Allegiance.I was just beginning to really like this show. You have some very not so smart people up there.This show was better than a lot of the crap you air
Totally sucks that it was cancelled. Think it’s last time I’ll watch ANY NEW SERIES on NBC. Will wait until I know viewers won’t be left hanging. Can always catch up when it goes to Netflix or Amazon…… Time to check out ABC & CBS
I love this show. I was hooked immediately with the first episode. NBC please reconsider cancelling this show; move it to another time slot instead if necessary.
Did NBC really ever give this show a chance? How about trying a different night? I have seen all five episodes & was really enjoying this series.
loved the show…sorry to hear a great lead in like Black List could not develop a better audience flow. Would like to see the remaining episodes on NBC or a U cable network.