With Revolution taking a break, NBC decided to try a new Monday night drama, Deception. Has it been a ratings success for the network or will it end up being cancelled like so many of their other Monday night dramas?
On Deception, a wealthy party girl has been mysteriously murdered. Her childhood friend, now a San Francisco narcotics detective, is convinced by her former partner to go undercover into the wealthy world she thought she’d left behind. The cast includes Laz Alonso, Meagan Good, Victor Garber, Katherine LaNasa, Tate Donovan, Wes Brown, and Ella Rae Peck.
The series debuted in January to a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.66 million total viewers. Those were hardly impressive numbers and were less than half of what Revolution’s premiere drew a few months earlier. Year-to-year however, it was a big improvement over the ratings NBC was getting for Rock Center with Brian Williams.
In week two, Deception’s ratings dropped more than 20% to a 1.6 demo rating and 4.14 million. That was not positive — and the ratings kept falling. As we now near the end of Deception’s 11 episode run, the ratings seem to have stabilized at a 1.1 demo rating with about 3.3 million viewers.
Those numbers are terrible and certainly there’s no ratings justification for NBC to renew Deception for a second season. They cancelled shows like Chase and The Playboy Club and they had better numbers than Deception.
On the positive side, at least NBC aired all of the episodes. Unfortunately, viewers are unlikely to ever get their storyline questions answered.
But, what do you think? Should NBC stick with Deception and give it another shot next year or should they cancel it instead? Why do you think it didn’t catch on with a bigger audience?
I love the show, hope we get our questions answered next season on Deception!
I lie this show! I have watched from the very beginning. I will be disappointed if this how gets cancelled.
Keep the show!!! I absolutely adore it!! Worth a second season! Give it a chance 😀
I love this show its the best tv series in years!
Have to keep it going next yr. Suspense is a killereven my husband is in to it
Please keep, viewers don’t know about it or how good it is
Or what they are mssing!! Best mystery show there is!!!!
Deception is just the bomb! Please give it another shot. I have watched it faithfully since the first episode was aired. It just keeps me glued to my seat and I just love it that I even feel the 43mins are not sufficient. NBC, if you choose to cancel this show, please let me know how I can get DVDS or Blu Rays for continuation purposes. Of course cancelling it, would be a big mistake.
Don’t cancel this show! It’s amazing. All the good shows this season have been canceled don’t follow the trend 🙁
Fantastic show, similar in style to Revenge. It’s a cross between a soap and a crime drama. I really love this show. The acting and storylines are all good. If NBC must cancel something, let it be Days of Our Lives. I used to love the show, but now it is very boring and has terrible ratings. I would rather see Deception in it’s timeslot. I think it would get better ratings.
Deception is worth another season. Please. I love the story line and the actors are so fitting for their roles. Renew!!!
I love this show as well!! I hope that it get’s picked up 4 another season.I mean we all wanna know what is going 2 happen next. Do Robert get caught or get away with it and why did he do it in the first place. I did not watch it when it first aired but I went back and watched from the beginning and has been watchin it all til the season finale. 3/18/13. I really and truely hope NBC give it another shot and see how the ratings go.
No to cancellation. I’ve watched every episode and enjoy this show very much.
While I personally don’t believe Deception is quite on the level of Scandal on ABC, this show is thoroughly engaging with a storyline that’s sensible enough to keep the plot out of the realm of the totally ridiculous. Good TV, unfairly panned by critics. Needs to be brought back.
It took too long to pull the audience into the show. I watched the first episode and was not intrigued to watch the second. BUT as the episodes kept going I became more interested. The season finale should just be that and not be renewed. It has a lot of things the show could focus on but the season finale seemed rushed and could very well bring a new season, but I don’t think it should. nice story and good effort however
Don’t cancel it! We would like to finish what we started and so should NBC. 1.1 million viewers should count for something.
This is a great show please do not cancel this!!
Renew Deception. The show is great!