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 have been waiting for the new season…an now I find out there will not be one. Are you serious? This show was the best show we have seen in a long time. I will just change to another network. Very disappointed with ABC.
I am hoping the makers of the show love their story enough try to keep it alive and take it to another network. Flash Forward had the imagination that most of today’s TV lacks. It was a great program, a great story, and very well done. Hopefully another network will recognize this and give it the opportunity to play out. We need more TV like Flash Forward, not less. But if Lost was considered great, is that speaking poorly of the state of TV programming or the state of the majority audiences of TV. Flash Forward was ten times…no, a… Read more »
I want it back!!!
Im from the netherlands i watched all of the with the whole family
WE WANT IT BACK!!!
RIGHT NOW!!!
all of th episodes with the whole family.
To angry for typing it completly
Different and great show, that deserves a second chance, please bring it back.
plz bring back flashforward i loved that show
Flash forward was the only show I actually was excited about to sit down and watch. We want it back. Other shows suck.
This absolutely SUCKS!! I was waiting and waiting for it to come back on with the fall lineup and wondered why I wasn’t seeing any promos for it….. I really really liked this show — it was getting me through my LOST withdrawl. I give up on new TV shows. It’s just too heartbreaking when you get into something and they cancel it. Maybe I’ll just read books from now on….
My wife and I aren’t big tv viewers BUT, “Flash Forward” was one of the VERY few shows that we would make time ( even canceling other plans or refusing to make other plans for Thursday night ) to watch. There are WAY TOO MANY ridiculous shows on tv now ( Hell’s Kitchen, Iron Chef, WipeOut, “Judge” shows … Joe, Alex, Judy, etc, and a dozen or so “Home” shows just to name a few ). So, what was viewer ratings down to ? 5 million ? Five million viewers isn’t enough to keep a show alive ? Not everyone… Read more »
i miss flashforward. bring flash forward back!!!!!!!!!
BRING FLASHFORWARD BACK!!!!
Wish I could be surprised with the cancellation, programers don’t seem to have much of an imagination. Bottom line is about the only word in their vocab.
This was one of the more interesting Programs on the tube. Silly me I thought ABC was just giving us a long break until they started it up again?!
Oh well I guess it’s back to my name is Earl, wow!
Flashforward absolutely deserves a 2nd season. I loved the show and looked forward to watching it on Friday nights. I could not believe that they cancelled the show. I never missed an episode. Pleae bring it back.
BRING FLASH FORWARD BACK FOR 1 MORE SEASON!!! I loved this show too… I worked most nights this show was on TV, so I recorded the episodes to watch later which I loved because I could skip commercials and there was no slow-down between the action. I love the tie-in with theoretical physics and the fact this show MAKES YOU THINK… It stirs some really interesting conversation while you’re watching it too… Flash Forward was an amazing show and completely blows away garbage like Jersey Shore or The Hills, etc… But America is too stupid to enjoy well written scripts… Read more »
bring it back, please bring it back. My husband and I also recorded and friday nights was our night for Flash forward
I would love to see another episode. Networks keep canceling good shows! CBS canceled Jericho a while back, I loved that one. Now ABC canceled Flash Forward. So we are left with a lot of not so great shows. I do not watch a lot of television but those shows I definitely would set aside time to actually watch. I definitely would like another season.