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 can’t believe that this show was cancelled! I have this program set to DVR & have been anxiously awaiting it’s return, as are all my friends that I got hooked on it! Thanks a lot ABC!! What a disappointment!
I cant believe u cancelled my show! i watch reality shows also but i loved this show! such a loss.
you got to be kidding….best thing on TV. I agree with jim above about the Neilson ratings they suck. ABC sucks too.
My boyfriend and I also loved this show – it was one of a select few that we enjoyed watching together! I am very disappointed to hear that it’s canceled. Not cool, ABC.
Is very sad to find out that Flash forward its cancel, I really loved every episode of this show, and i couldn’t wait wait to the next season. what now?
The problem is the way they get the ratings . They still use the old Nielson ratings which doesn’t account for the amount of people using DVR’s. I would put a fair guess that this show had 14 million viewers not 7. I agree with everyone else. This show was awesome. What a shame. I think they canceled Happy Town as well…..another good show.
ABC sucks I loved “Flash Forward” and I loved “V” ABC because they want to put all these teeny bopper premiscuous shows on TV now. Teeny bobers don’t pay the cable bill or electric bill the parents do.
In The Netherlands this serie was a succes among the sci-fi fans.
I loved this first season, please air the rest of the serie as well. Keep viewers and happy fans.
I have been waiting all summer for the NEW season and NOTHING! I think that ABC could have done a second season. This is a crucifixion….!!!!
ABC could have said SOMETHING instead of just keeping the fans on hold!
I bet SyFy picks it up and it gets awesome ratings. That’s what happened with Stargate and other shows like that. It will come back in some form or another.
This is extremely dissapointing!!! Since when does everyone in the world have to watch one show!! There are so many shows on now a days, that people can’t keep up! But the great ones like Flash Forward get lost in the mix! The actors were so great, I always looked so forward to this show, and couldn’t wait to see what was coming next. Like someone else pointed out, this was one of the few shows that was intelligent and actually made you think! I truly hope ABC will reconsider and bring it back so the fans can enjoy a… Read more »
Like so many other shows before it, FlashForward is the latest in a series of intelligent, challenging, and suspenseful shows that are canceled before the dedicated audience has a chance to see how the story develops. It’s like starting a movie and finding out that the last reel is missing or sitting down with a book and discovering that some idiot has torn out the last few chapters. The more that this trend continues, the more guarded audiences will become, and the less likely it is that they will want to invest their time, lest they be frustrated yet again.… Read more »
I only watch 2 shows on TV at all – Survivor and Flash Forward. I can’t believe it’s been canceled!!! It was the bomb! There is so much crap on tv, this show had substance. Oh well. Very disappointed. The only other show I used to really like was The Unit on CBS, but of c0urse, it was canceled too. BRING BACK FLASH FORWARD!
I absolutely LOVED this show!! I cannot believe ABC cancelled it. Like everyone else, this was the only show my husband and I would watch together and we were hooked! We looked forward to it every week and had it set on our DVR. It was the most interesting concept of a TV show I have ever seen. I am very dissappointed by ABC for cancelling a TV show at such a suspenseful part of the show leaving so many things unanswered. They really need to think about the viewers they do have and not worry about the viewers they… Read more »
We kept wondering when the new season was going to start of Flash Forward and then we find out it has been canceled! That really sucks ABC! Our whole family was hooked on this show and really enjoyed the premise of the show and the characters. It seems like quite a few others feel similar judging by the comments on this post. Too bad the marketing research persons are trying to market the ignorant viewers that would rather watch reality TV trash!