The ABC TV show about what happens in the future apparently doesn’t have one. FlashForward has been cancelled after one season.
FlashForward begins as the world’s population blacks out for 137 seconds and they “flash forward” to see visions of their lives six months in the future. The series’ ensemble cast includes Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Jack Davenport, Zachary Knighton, Peyton List, Dominic Monaghan, Brian F. O’Byrne, Courtney B. Vance, Sonya Walger, and Christine Woods.
The series debuted in September and attracted a 4.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 12.47 million viewers. With a lot of buzz, it seemed like ABC had a hit. For week two, the ratings dropped to a still very respectable 3.7 and 10.73 million.
But then viewership just kept falling, hitting a low of a 2.1 in the key demo and just 7.1 million viewers. Then, ABC pulled the series for three months. The spin was that they would relaunch FlashForward after the Olympics.
The network gave the return a significant amount of promotion but it didn’t help. FlashForward’s ratings were even worse and they just kept dropping. They’ve gotten so bad that The CW has been beating them in the demo.
To no surprise, ABC has cancelled FlashForward after one season of 20 episodes. The series finale will air in two weeks, on May 27th.
What do you think? Did FlashForward deserve a second season? Could ABC have saved it? If given the chance, how would you wrap it up?
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I know it is too late to save the shows I liked that were canceled last year, but here is my opinion. I really enjoyed Flash Forward, it was different and and my husband and I felt as though it had the attraction of a great movie every week verses just a TV show! I also enjoyed Eastwick , just because it took you out of reality verses all the silly reality shows! I hope the reality TV trend ends soon!!
Bring it Back PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSEEE ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Was just checking to see when flash forward was starting again and am so upset to see it was cancelled. Consider a second season, this show was the best.
so frustrating! i loved this show and i have been waiting to see what happened to Mark! at least give us an ending!!!
Bring it back!!!!!!! It was the best Show on the ABC Line-up and you cancelled it! Are you crazy??????!!!!!! If you don’t bring it back I will never watch another ABC show again!
I like Flash Forward very very much, i’m so sory for stopping this interesting TV series.
please ,please ,continue this,tnx
Very upset about this. Flash Forward was the best show!
I don’t know why the ratings for Flashforward were so low. I started watching the show this summer on Hulu, and I got hooked. I was dying to see the next season. The only thing that annoyed me about the show was Mark’s character’s choices, like moving out of his house. That was never explained well, and the fatalistic events that followed for Olivia were annoying. I was really intriqued to find out more about the big picture though. Could low rating be related to the shift to people watching TV online or using DVR’s? That’s the only wayI watch… Read more »
Bring it back ! Just make a phone vote ! I have V , how can you kill one of the best tv shows !? There are so much crap on tv, it really stink
I had no idea it was cancelled!!! I was waiting for the new season to start. Oh well now I have nothing to look foreward to on the TV. I should probally just cancel cable.
It was exciting, suspenseful and diffecult to predict…I loved it!!!
I absolutely think it SHOULD come back! When is the second season starting? This is a very exciting series and I think it’s the right time for it to take root with us die-hard sci-fi fans.
Hello! Please bring it back! I pay twice to have the complete serie in 3 days because i live in holand and i can´t live if not exist the continuation….
Please…..
i just realized that with the new shows premiering this week, i have not seen any previews for flash forward. My wife and I crammed the episodes we missed into a couple of nights of TV. Please re-consider, it was a show that I would not miss!
Bring it back!!! I have been waiting to see what happens after the main character jumped off the building and then the explosion happened. uuuggghhh – don’t leave us hanging. ABC bring the show back – many of us loved it!
First Big Shots, then Dirty Sexy Money, now Flash Forward! Come on ABC any show that you come across that is even remotely good and you go and cancel it. WTF??? And then to just leave us hanging? You let that stupid show LOST go on and on and it sucked! You could at the very least give us an ending for Flash Forward!