The game is over for Coach Daniels (Ed Marinaro) and his team. There won’t be a fourth season for Blue Mountain State. The Spike TV series has been cancelled.
The comedy series revolves around the on and off-field antics of Pennsylvania college football powerhouse, Blue Mountain State. Coach Daniels has his hands full with the hijynx of his wife (Denise Richards) and students like team captain Thad (Alan Ritchson), quarterback Alex (Darin Brooks), and team mascot Sammy (Chris Romano).
The comedy performed decently for Spike in season one and realized significant gains in season two. The cable channel reported that the series saw a 33% increase with men 18-34, a 50% climb in men 18-24, and a 14% increase with men 18-49.
Total viewership dropped however in season three which kicked off this past September. While some episodes of season two had attracted 1.25 million viewers, at least one episode of season three garnered only half as many viewers. Spike TV aired the last two episodes of the season on November 30th. It turns out they’ll also be the last of the series as well.
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Lionsgate, the studio that produces Blue Mountain State, apparently considered shopping the series to other outlets but it didn’t work out. The cast and crew were recently told that season four wouldn’t be happening.
While it’s been reported that the show was cancelled due to a decline in ratings, producer Eric Falconer says differently. He tweeted, “BMS wasn’t cancelled because of a drop in ratings. Season 3 was actually up 20% + in all male demographics vs S2. It was a budget issue.”
As recently as last week, Falconer was still hoping to hear that the show had been picked up for season four. However, it seems that State was actually living on borrowed time with Spike — even during season three. Last August, Spike TV executive VP Sharon Levy told Variety that the cable channel would be focusing on only non-scripted programming for the immediate future.
Of the cancellation news, Ritchson wrote, “Sad day for #BMS fans.” He followed that up with, “I can’t thank the dedicated cast, crew, and fans enough for all the love and support. Portraying Thad was a dream come true. I’m grateful.”
Brooks thanked the cast and crew and “everyone who made this show possible…a HUGE thank you!! Love you guys!!”
What do you think? Are you sorry that Blue Mountain State has been cancelled? Would you follow the show to another channel? Would you be interested in a BMS movie?
Image courtesy Spike TV.
I have watched this show since the beginning and own both seasons on dvd. So I can not wait for season 3 on dvd. I can not believe they are not going to make another season. I think they should do one more season at least about everyones last year at BMS since season 4 would be about senior year. This is a extremely funny show. Thad is my favorite character. It will be missed, but hopefully they will shop the show around for one more season at least. Or they should film 13 episodes uncut and release it on… Read more »
Great idea!! i didnt think about that
I like how Spike cancels shows like this, while keeping 6-hr blocks for garbage programming like 1000 ways to die
This is very low blow at my college, I will be throwing a remembrance party sometime this semester. Today is a sad day for all BMS fans
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!
Of course they were gonna cancel it. They needed to make time for more repeats of shows that suck that I have already seen 50 billion freakin’ times. Wish Spike TV would get their stuff together, cuz for a “man’s network” they sure have been sucking a lot of d$#@.
DON’T CANCEL THEE GREATEST SHOW EVERRRRR 🙁
NO!!!!! BRING IT BACK! I WANT IT BACK WAHHAHHAHA!!!!
NOOOO!!!!!!
I am very dissappointed right noe, I was a huge follower of BMS and though it was hilarious. I know a lot of kids in college that follow BMS religously and would love to see another season or movie. I guess what im trying to say is that, Im real thad BMS is over, i Loved this show.
BMS needs to do whatever it can to stay around. I pray to God that it is put on another channel maybe comedy central or something like that. if not I think a BMS movie would be different but worth it. I will do anything to keep watching this show! It is my all time Favorite!!!!
every time I get into a show they end up canceling it
So STOP watching TV 😀
Wonderful show. It’s really popular with my hometown and college town. It’s sad to see it go. Someone needs to pick this up, with news of this, it’ll grow in demand from people who were just catching on and can now view on Netflix. To Thad Castle, you’ve been acknowledged. Great play
i’m gonna miss it but i believe most of the main characters were graduating so, they would of have to introduce new characters and it probably wouldnt of been as good
I’m gonna miss it, but Thad was graduating anyway so I wondered how they were gonna keep him around.
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