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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Flash Forward certainly deserves a 2nd season. It’s intelligent, well written and has a great cast. It’s much easier to follow than Lost. The time slot up against Survivor needs more time to hook the audience. I think “V” is a terrible mistake. Give us “baby boomers” something to watch!
I highly enjoy flash forward, although i am not able to watch it at the time slot aired..I put it on my dvr as most of my friends do and watch it later..I havent missed a episode..They should consider the people who watch it at a later time..SAVE FLASH FORWARD!
I love FlashForward. I can’t wait to watch it every week. ABC should renew it for a second season. I’ll even buy something from one of the sponsors if they do 🙂
Steve in San Diego
Ya know something ABC? You guys don’t have a f’in clue what we like to watch. You guys keep out spinning out these same old boring ass reality shows and all this other garbage with the same old tired ass story lines. WTH is wrong with ya’ll? What I can say is I will watch very very little of ABC if none at all.
It’s no big loss, at least it got to be seen by people like us. The actors will move on to other projects, at least in reruns they’ll make money. It might get a bigger following this way, look what happened with Star Trek. It lasted three seasons and then in reruns got a lot more fans.
Lost on the other hand should have ended when they moved the island, I stopped watching it when they did that. I didn’t mind everything else, but moving an island was the worst idea ever.
Another quality series by broadcast TV( with no gutts) bites the dust. Back to CW ,USA and SCFI networks where the programs I like stay on
Seriously, ABC you screw everything up! I may as well not waste my time watching “Happy Town” cause you will likely cancel that one too.
ABC sucks. After Lost ends, I am done with this network.
It’s getting to the point that it isnt even worth committing to a TV show anymore unless it makes it to season two. Problem is, if you hold out until then, it will never make it to season two. Many shows, (including a show called MASH) would have never made it past the first season under the new criteria for renewal. Flash Forward was complex but entertaining. I will miss it. I guess we have to be thankful LOST lasted as long as it did. If ABC thinks however that it will win viewers like myself with shows like Grey’s… Read more »
oh god don’t say its true it can’t b !! Its a great show why isn’t anybody watchin ?! Plz plz ABC bring it back b the good guys 4 once plz
It have been my first news today. And so sad!!! NO! Nowadays I watch on TV only this show and “Lost”. I know the ratings’s down. But here all my friends love it. Thinking only about ratings we forget about us who’s already watched “FFwd”. And if you open voting in internet you’ll understand how many people love this show! I’ll vote the first.
PLEASE, GIVE IT ANOTHER CHANCE!
wt d hell is ABC network upto??
they r out f their minds
this show is loved in india so much
they should renew d second show!!!!
its amazing………
BEST SHOW ON TELEVISION.
THE ONLY SHOW THAT I WATCH.
SAVE FLASH FORWARD!!!!
This makes me so angry. I never get into TV shows but for some reason I loved FlashForward and because of this I won’t wanna get into any other shows. This show is so amazing and I love watching every second of it. If they would have waited to debut the show after the Winter Olympics when the show took a long hiatus there is a great possibility that it would have been very successful. I hate ABC so much now. I will never watch another tv show made by ABC.
ABC is making a huge mistake. If the only viewers to be counted are the 8pm in front of the tv crowd, of course there isn’t going to be a lot to see because we watch the show just not when they want us to. Someone should bring back the show. With all the save flashforward talk going around, if they save the show people may tune in to see what the commotion was about and see if it was worth saving, to which I think a majority would say yes. They should have tried changing the time slot before… Read more »
Flash Forward has been entertaining, but I think the basic concept is best suited to a limited series. Probably would have been great if done in a mini series. Still wondering if the asian girl will ever meet the young doctor.