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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V sucked!… The only reason why V’s ratings declined less was because it only had half of the episodes that FlashForward had. If the V’s had 22 episodes to show their true colors that show would have died a quick and painful death. FlashForward was much better although the plot was dragged a little bit. This was definitely a mistake I doubt that there will be a third season of V (if they finish it). We should take the Jericho approach where fan sent tons of peanuts to the television network; which got them to reconsider another season. We could… Read more »
This show was smart, and it was interesting. One of the very few things I bothered to watch. It is a shame that they cancelled it. I shows that viewers prefer basic, non-intelligent scripts, full of stupid effects and nothing else. But that unfortunately is no surprise for American audiences.
Kept waiting on the season to start and just found out now that it was cancelled. So disappointed. It was getting good and sucking me in further. I feel so incomplete now! I’ll look forward to V. Hopefully ABC doesn’t cancel that! Grrrhhhhh!
I am so sad :(:(:(:( i was so excited to watch the show!! I think what happened was that the show LOST (don’t get me wrong, i love Lost, but it ended! Give another show a chance!!) became huge and the abc network didn’t give FLASHFORWARD the chance to shine. Bring it back please. I want PUSHING DAISIES back too!!! At least coㅕuple of episodes to give us the ending!
change the day or time slot HOLLYWOOD, give it second chance
This show was really good, I hate when they cancel a c good show They did’nt even shuffle the time or day on this show
They should of given this show a second chance…
I understand that shows have to have so many viewers and so many points on the scale… but my biggggest pet peeve is when a show is cancelled and we never get “an ending”.. How about you consider the 7.1 million viewers that DID watch the show. can you at lease give them some closure on the show they loved. The same thing happened to Heroes, The Nine, Windfall etc etc etc.. Don’t just leave us hanging!!!!!
~Outraged in Ohio
CRUSHED!
Like these other people I too am crushed to find out that this show will not be returning. ABC created their fair share of great new shows last year and THIS was one of them! This was going to be my one thing that got me through without LOST.
If any big wigs are getting reports back from the public via social media reports – this consumer thinks you are idots for pulling this one!
Disgruntled in Peoria.
Im really sad this show was cancelled. Is there anyway it can be brought back? Its really good. I just got my coworkers watching it and now its cancelled. Please bring it back!
AMAZING SHOW! YOU GUYS SUCK FOR TAKING IT OFF!
PLEASE PUT IT BACK ON! PEOPLE WERE STARTING TO WATCH IT…GOD GIVE YOUR SHOWS A CHANCE!
I have been waiting for this show. I can’t believe you cancelled it.
I am astounded that this was canceled. We have been waiting all summer to watch the new season. This needs to go syndicated on Sci-Fi. The best future fiction story I have ever watched. The issue was the way the season was split.
I may even write Congress to get this back on the air.
Are you serious?!!!!! I have been waiting on this show to come back this fall. This was the one show that brought me back to watching ABC Network. This was the one good show you guys had going for you. You had a great cast and a even better plot. I tuned in for every eposide and if I couldn’t make it I DVR’ed it. Then on top of that you saved V and got rid of FlashForward. I love V and everything but I was more looking forward to FlashForward. I looked forward to the new series. But now,… Read more »
So funny. True:)
Wow! With all the new shows starting up again I couldn’t wait to see Flash Forward. I watch next to no TV but this show caught my attention. I loved it, very upset we won’t get to find out what happens to Mark…or the rest of the world after the second flash forward.
Me too-watch next to nothing!:)
PUT THE SHOW BACK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS SHOW WAS AWESOME, There 100% would have been more viewers in ABC advertised for the show more!
If your not going to put it back on, at least send me the damn script so i can know what happens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved Flashforward. It was different, no one had ever done that before and the acting was good, couldn’t wait to find out what was going to happen next. It wasn’t the same old tired story. It had just enough “personal happening” to get you in touch with the characters and enough action to appeal to your athletic side. The action and relationships were believable also but with the twist of flashforward!!!!! The time slot was good too. ABC should give it another go…we have to find out what happens or better what happened!