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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I’m really sad to learn this great show was cancelled. It was my favorite and I loved the characters and looked forward to watching this great police drama every week. It’s a shame there wasn’t much promotion of the show. If people knew about it maybe it would have been viewed more. I hope another network will pick up and please no more reality shows!!!!!
I guess it pay to have reality made up **** i dont know how can people actually pay so much money just to watch a lot bull crap instead of good shows. I’m sorry to know that so maany tv series have to be cancelled so they have space to compete against each for reality tv shows which from any angle you see it is the same **** different name but all come down to the same thing people getting paid to reveal some made up dark secret the person they choose is not in love with them or there’s… Read more »
I hate to see that this show was cancelled. Maybe a different time slot or different network would have done the show and its characters justice, but we’ll never know. What I do know is how sad it is that we’ve gotten to the point where compelling shows like this don’t last but so called reality shows end up at the top of the list along with pointless humor. I guess that’s where we stand today, sad to see this show go.
MY HUSBAND AND I LOVED WATCHING DARK BLUE. WHY WHY WHY CANCEL IT?
They should have put it on HBO or somewhere, where they could have gotten more air time. They were competing against a lot of other factors. Maybe even regular TV like ABC or Fox. It’s too good of a show to cancel.
I’m missing Dark Blue so much. It was my favorite show – can’t imagine what it wasn’t more popular. I think Tricia Helfer ruined the whole vibe. I didn’t like her character at all – and messing around with Dillon – that shudda been me…)
This is crap! I love DB and is one the only shows I look forward to watching with my husband weekly! All of the actors were great (especially Omari Hardwick). Dylan was a pleasure to see on t.v. once again. I think it’s unfair that you guys get us hooked on a show, then cancel it once we are all hooked.
i really liked that show. maybe someone will change his or her mind and try one more season!
I am really mad mad mad I loved Dark Blue . I was always glad when Wednesday came so I could watch Dark Blue. I really loved all the actors in the show. I wish TNT had not cancelled Dark Blue. A real mistake.
I am really upset that dark blue has been cancelled my husband and I loved it and it was one of our favorite shows second to Hawthorne. This is a tragedy.
This was probably my 2nd favorite show on TV behind Sons Of Anarchy. Very sad to see it go.
I knew this would happen once they brought Niki into the mix! She totally disrupted the dynamic of the show.
It’s too bad that they messed up a great show. Poor Dylan can’t catch a break!
This was a great show I didn’t expect it to be canceled I was waiting for the new season!
Hey let put a reality show on in its place.
This is VERY disappointing…it was fantastic, loved all the characters. I can NOT believe this show is cancelled. They are making a mistake. I would love to see this get picked up by another station or TNT to listen to the fans…I think one of the problems was the marketing. I never really saw any commercials. I had to look for it because I wanted to watch it….very disappointed!
Damn shame it was a great show, but then all the good ones get cancelled and we wind up with unreality shows and unfunny situation comedies. Guess that’s what they think right wing wackos, the majority of this country needs to watch. Damn shame TG for the internet.
I can’t believe they ended the show. It was a great show, I loved the characters and I was so damn interested in seeing where Jamie and Deans relationship went and it looked like Carter was going to propose to Alex. Man this so sucks. They definitly made a mistake in canceling the show. They left alot of things unanswered and everything.
I soooooo agree with you. This show had me on the edge of my seat every episode. If they weren’t getting ratings it’s because it wasn’t advertised properly. I just so happened to stumble across this season cause all of my fall shows were on break. But there is no way anyone could watch this show and not get hooked.
Oh well. What can we really do about it?