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.
Bring back BMS. Greatest show ever. It’s the only reason i have the slightest interest in football. Bring it back!!! Or just upload the episodes to netflix. 🙂
Man this is my favorite show I would watch this show every day but now theres no more episode I dont know what to watch so plz make more seasons I would love for more than just 3 plz make 4, 5 because i love this show
By far the best show ever, spike should have signed them up for several more seasons, cast was simply amazing, Darin Brooks and Alan Richardson are two extremely versatile actors, BRING IT BACK
I LOVE THIS SHOW MAKE MORE SEASONS
PLEASE MAKE A SEASON 4! BEST SHOW EVER
best show ever start it back up pls
BMS on another channel following a movie would be amazing i have never seen a funnier show in my life ….. this coming form a collage student !!!
This is a very funny and awesome show. America needs more shows like this. We need to laugh I’m very sad because they got cut and really wish this show would continue and yes I would follow it to another channel And I found all the episodes on Netflix
Bull shi* they canceled that show that was the funniest show ever
Bring back bus! Best show ever!
BRING BACK BMS!!!!! It was one of the most hilarious shows ever ,can’t get enough of it!
Please make another season it is the best tv show I have ever watched!
Bring back BMS this show is one of the funniest shows i have ever seen
Someone needs to pick it up. Alex, Coach, Sammy, Harmon & Thad were not through telling their story! At least give us a movie so the fans can see Alex graduate.
Blue Mountain State needs to come back it’s hilariously fun and brilliant. I personally think spike didn’t put enough effort in advertising this show in order to get the ratings it deserved. Blue Mountain State MUST come back. However research has shown ratings did go up, therefore bms deserves a second chance!!