The alphabet is cutting the first season of Combat Hospital short by one episode, moving up the season (likely series) finale. ABC is cutting the 11th episode, “Brothers in Arms,” next Tuesday and will instead run the 12th installment, “Triage.” The 13th episode, “Do No Harm,” will wrap the season on September 6th.
The network hasn’t announced any plans to run the missing episode at a later date but that isn’t a surprise. Combat Hospital has been a disappointment ratings-wise and has been averaging a low 1.0 in the 18-49 demographic and 3.94 million viewers. Aside from Karaoke Battle USA, it’s the lowest-rated original series currently on the network.
The series is supposedly doing much better however in Canada, where it’s produced. While it’s hard to imagine that ABC would renew the show for a second season, Combat Hospital could continue airing north of the border. If it does, fans here in the states will likely have to wait until the episodes are released on DVD or watch/download them online.
What do you think? Does Combat Hospital deserve a second season or cancellation? Why do you think it’s doing better in Canada than the US?
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I am Australian & love the show. It is not shown here but I was told about it & downloaded it. I will buy it when it comes out on on DVD. I hope they continue to make it as I can always get hold of it on the net to buy that way. I think those execs in the US need their heads read however maybe its a bit too close to the truth for them with how many kids they are losing in the war on terror?
I believe that we should start a campaign for ABC to at the very least show the missing episode. They owe it to the millions who tuned in every week.
I think it should be renewed. In my opinion, the show started off a little slow, but the last few episodes have been great. People in Canada are probably smarter than we are and enjoy more than just ridiculous reality TV!
I would like to see this show continue. The build up took a little bit but now
It is worth it. My son and I look forward to it every week.
I really enjoy the show and can relate to it in many ways from past service to a son serving there now. It depicts life there in a presentable manner, it is not like M A S H was 20 years ago.
I would hate to see the show go away.
I would really hate to see this show cancelled. Although I go to bed early, I watch it on-line faithfully.
Why am I not surprised that this show will not be back?? Let’s keep all the junk on the air (amazing race, survior, all these stupid so called reality shows). Finally get a good show and then they go and cancel it. I realize a lot of people watch the stupid shows, but the intelligent people DO NOT
I speculate that Americans don’t want to think about the war and thus run from a program like Combat Hospital. I think the show is actually quite good, with interesting and relevant
story lines each week. But the title and Americans’ head in the sand attitude about the war
may be a deeper cause behind cancellation. I wish I lived in Canada now!
summer tv series are hard to judge. seriously do NOT watch NETWORK (abc, nbc & cbs) thry have such crap reality shows
It got off to a slow start but after that it picked up and right now I think it’s the best of the network summer dramas.
I can’t believe ABC renew the trite and soapy Rookie Blues after only a couple of episodes, but cancel this much better show.
Hopefully it will continue in Canada because it deserves a longer run.
It’s clear that Canadian viewers have more intelligence than US. This show should get a second season as it is very good but ABC doesn’t have any excutives with enough brains to figure it out. These networks are to busy listening to the wrong group of people to figure aut they are distroying themselves.
Cancel it. It was a good idea for a series, but poorly executed. The characters are all two dimensional cardboard, none of them are interesting. It tries so hard to not be M*A*S*H that every drop of potential humor is drained dry.
I watch this show every week, I’d hate to see it get cancelled already.
agreed!
ABC, NBC, FOX all have idiots for excutives. This year they have dumped great shows like Combat Hospital, Chicago Code, Chase, Human Target, and kept trash. I now watch more original programing from TNT, Lifetime HD, Like Against The Wall, Rizzoli and Isles, Leaverage, Franklin and Bash, The Closer, and Protector. Which are far better programming than what the so called major networks listed above have kept on their networks. My family will chose not to watch anything new from either of these networks for the up coming season as, as soon as we find somthing good they cancel them.… Read more »
I agree with the majority of the statements above and again a network bites the dust!
I am in Canada and I am happy to hear it may continue up here.