After two seasons on the air, TNT has cancelled Dark Blue. No season three for Carter Shaw and his LAPD team.
Dark Blue stars Dylan McDermott as the leader of an undercover unit whose members are so covert that some of the members of the department don’t even know they’re involved. The rest of the cast includes Omari Hardwick, Logan Marshall-Green, Nicki Aycox, and Tricia Helfer.
The cancellation of the cop drama doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Despite a decline in ratings, the series was renewed for a second season last December. The second round of 10 episodes began airing in August and the numbers were worse than they’d been in year one.
Season two averaged a 0.6 rating in the key 18-49 demographic and 2.25 million total viewers. Those figures make the series the worst performer of TNT’s summer season and ripe for cancellation.
Dark Blue ended its run with two episodes on September 15th.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that the TV show has been cancelled? How would you have ended the series?
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Stupid decision……..I was sooo looking forward for season three…..not cool at all
That is a major bummer! Dark Blue was the best show on TV!
What is wrong with television executives these days? This is a case of a show with a stellar cast who sold their characters to the audience every show and a great action-filled plot let go all because some fickle, brain-dead viewers would rather watch staged “reality” tv rather than a great show. I am upset to say the least. Since when did “reality” tv because the force behind great tv?
I am very sorry to hear that there will be no SEASON 3! I was really looking forward to seeing season 3, 4 , 5 and so on. I really thought it was a great show. I hope you will find a way to bring it back on. The cast was great! I thought there was chemistry and they(cast) played their parts great. Maybe the writers can come up with something that will make it more interested to other veiwers so it can re-air; but for me it was very interested. I will surely miss Dark Blue…please bring it back!
All the tacky rubbish series on TV – bad and old repeats, why didn’t this series get better ratings? It’s easily as good than all the other US police programmes which repeat series after series. Shame the ratings were not higher – I so enjoyed the characters. The 2-parter has ended a really good show – I will miss it.
BRING IT BACK!! I hate when the good shows get cancelled!
It amazes me how they cancel the good shows and leave some of the ones that are just plain stupid and boring. maybe they should think twice about leaving dark blue on.
I can’t believe they cancelled one of the best shows on TV. The original 4 characters – minus the FBI lady – were stunning in their believability. I blame the demise on the new FBI lady Alex- too sexy for her own good, and not very believable in her role. These guys – Carter, Ty, Dean and Jamie – showed the seedy side of LA, the real undercover work that no one else showed. Very believable. This has to be one of the first Bruckheimer productions not to make it. My wife’s and my summer will not be complete without… Read more »
So sorry. I kept looking for the show to come on. It was very thrilling. It reminds of Homicide, in that it is another show that probably didn’t get the PR and time slot that it deserved. To all involved in the show. You did a great job. To those involved in cancelling it, Did you really give this show the chance it deserved? If the answer is no, then pick it back up and do the right thing!
I liked this show so much, especially because of Omari Hardwick’s fine self…but it was a really good show. Maybe if they moved it to a different day and time it’d get more views. Bring it back please.
dark glue should not have been cancelled. It is a good show, I was looking forward to season 3.
I was waiting all year for season three I thought this show was so good you were going to air in the fall. I feel the same as the first comment. Leverage…..stupid stupid stupid. You had the perfect cast and my summer is ruined since I waited all year for season three. What are you thinking. Please bring the show and the cast back
I LOVED that show!! It is a blower that it was cancelled. I can’t beleive a show that good didn’t make it. So sorry to hear that.
I am also very disappointed. I couldn’t wait for season 3, as this was one of my absolute favorite shows!!
I am soooooooo hurt and disappointed!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you know how much I was looking to catch Season 3??????? How could you cancel this show which was so thrilling, live action and intense story lines and keep “Leverage”???????????? STUPID STUPID STUPID. HOW COULD YOU????????? PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE RECONSIDER AND BRING THE SHOW BACK. I loved all the characters on the show and they were all soooooooooo Good Looking and so much better than Leverage. I think too much effort in Leverage and NOT ENOUGH EFFORT AND PROMOTION INTO DARK BLUE!!!!!! MY FAVORITE SHOW NEXT TO MAD MAN! DUMB DUMB… Read more »
gosh ! tell me why im feeling the same darn way lol great comment, i very much enjoyed this show too (: