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 am very dissappointed that Dark Blue is cancelled. I love that show especially with Omari Hardwick.
This was a great show. They keep the garbage and cacel the good ones
So very disappointed to learn that Dark Blue was cancelled……..we had been wondering why it wasn’t on. We loved the show and all the actors. Guess that’s one less reason for tuning into TNT.
Maybe if there was better promotion or a different time or season that it was on, the ratings would have been much better.
Too bad………back to the same old nonsense at the networks and reality tv.
I REALLY LIKED THE SHOW PLEASE TNT RECONSIDER, BECAUSE U GOT A GOOD STORY GOING, I LOVED THE CASTS,GIVE US SEASON THREE AND U WILL SEE CHANGES ON THE RATING .WE WANT TO SEE WHERE ‘S CARTER AND TY RELATIONSHIP IS GOING BECAUSE SHE GOT A PROMOTION SHE WAS GOING TO FLORIDA. AT LEAST GIVE US SEASON THREE TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS AT LEAST PLAY THE RE-RUNS MORE FREQUENTLY, I REALLY HOPE U GIVE IT ANOTHER CHANCE.
How very disappointing. I had just started watching the program and bacame hooked and now I find out it’s been canceled. Cable programming is becoming just like regular television and the ratings game or should we say PR game. A program is only as successful as the network wants to make it and an excellent program such as this was not given the appropriate amount of PR nor were re-runs aired over and over like other programs. Now we’re left to watch no-nonsense, mindless programming. Too bad the other networks couldn’t pick up Dark Blue.
We loved, loved, this show. Liked it best with out lady boss! TNT is not consistent so we were still waiting for it to come back. BIg Boo to TNT!
Damn I think they should show n the winter in the summer of course every1 is outside this was a helleva show! Love it! Please try one more time!
I not surprised it was canceled. Season 1 was a real success, but the series went in the wrong direction when they teamed up with the Feds. Nikki, a key player in the series, became overshadowed by an “outsider” and IMO ruined the series. It was a “plausible” portrayal of a small tight covert unit until the Feds were interjected. I think TNT thought another hot blond would save the ratings and were wrong.
There was show on CBS that was really good then one day they decided to cancel the show without notifying it’s followers. I started watching Dark Blue and really fell in love with the show. Watched 1 season and now it’s cancelled!! I thought TNT was different from the other networks but I guess I was wrong. My hope is that someone from TNT reads our concerns and know we are all disappointed and you guys suck!!
This is ridiculous another great show gone. Not to mention the fact that I was able to get my weekly dose of eye candy but they were all able to really act as well. The storylines were intriguing and really wanted to see where the characters (Carter and Ty’s) personal lives were headed. Not to knock another program but for crying out loud Men of a Certain Age is still on and Dark Blue is not….I really hope TNT will reconsider.
I am very disappointed that the show was canceled. I looked forward to it; perhaps if they had advertised it more and played the re-runs more frequently like they do everthing else more people would have been exposed to it and it would have done better….very disappointing!
You know it never fails, everytime there’s a good show on it get’s cancelled. has it every accured to these big wigs that maybe it’s not the show that needs to be cancelled, but the PR department. This was a really good show all the actors played well together and we looked forward to seeing Dark Blue every week. Now it’s gone like so many other great shows. Soon there won’t be any reason to even bother turning on the TV. Talk shows, reality shows, game shows and the like are not good TV. Action, comedy, drama, that’s the ticket… Read more »
I’m quite disappointed with this show’s cancellation. I really liked the chemistry that the group had, especially McDermott and Helfer. Would’ve been interesting to see the relationship between those two grow, and the development of the rest of the characters. I wish TNT would give it another shot, maybe with better promotion this time
This is very dissappointing I was so looking forward to season 3 ….
I really liked this show. It’s upsetting that it ended.