What looked to be one of the biggest hits of the new season, FlashForward, isn’t looking like such a hit any longer. Will the series make it to year two?
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 on September 24th on ABC. The premiere attracted a 4.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 12.47 million viewers. The following week, the number dropped to a very respectable 3.7 and 10.73 million.
For week three, the ratings dropped again to a 3.0 and nine million. Total viewership rose for weeks four and five but the demo remained essentially the same with a 3.1 rating.
On October 29th, FlashForward dropped to a series low of a 2.7 rating and 8.92 million viewers. The sudden drop was understandable because it aired opposite the World Series on FOX. Unfortunately, baseball fans didn’t return last Thursday when there wasn’t a big game. FlashForward’s ratings sank even further to a 2.6 and 8.47 million, barely beating FOX’s Bones for second place.
ABC has already committed to a full season of FlashForward so it’s relatively safe for now. However, if these numbers don’t start going up, the series is far from guaranteed a second season.
What do you think? Do you think the ratings will go back up or will the show burn out in one season? Are you still watching? If so, what could be done better?
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Don’t cancel Flash Forward! I love this show! I record this show when i can’t watch it live cause i dont want to miss even one episode! Air it again!!! There is so much this show can do and so much that it left unknown they have to let us see what happen!
Dont’t cancel flashforward!!!!!
why did you Cancelled the best show over you guys suck..
my and my friends love’d it….
air a Second Season you have to it’s so good.
Dude Flashforward is awsome….although I dont watch it on thursday…i go on Hulu when i can to watch the episodes i miss….I love the show so much, and now the last episode makes me want to see more seasons to come by. Please do not cancel, i want to see everything develope. PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL, im positive more viewers will come throught.
What the F***. This show is so much better that V or LOST put together. I’ve been watching Lost all these years just because every season I hoping it will get better and it sucked at the end. Flashforward is a different story. I absolutely LOVE this show and all of the characters. This is one of the few shows I actually watch. ABC needs to take a second look at some of the other stupid shows that are taking over who no one cares for!!!!!
I loved the show. Give it a second chance. The storyline was wicked and the characters were interesting.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. . . BRING BACK FLASHFORWARD! It is the ONLY show I watch and look forward to EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
I NEED MORE!!!
I agree this is one of the few show we watch consistently. I can’t believe what TV is coming to what with all the mindless reality shows. I think it is a crime to cancel this show V, yes I could not get in to it at all. please do not cancel Flash Forward.
yea, you can check the wikipedia for Flashforward and Read that there is not going to be a season 2 which sucks. The Sad thing is all the people who torrent stuff are to blame for shows getting the Axe. When People just wait for the torrents to come out so they don’t have to sit through or fastforward through commercials it hurts the entertainment industry cause the people that don’t tune in on tv and watch with other means are counted as actually watching the show through ABC’s Eyes. All the companies also do things so that people don’t… Read more »
You could tell that the writers were told to back off, the last episode did have holes and tried to cram in some last minute closure. It became apparent when Binford was trying to stop Dimitri from getting shot by a gun rigged in an apparatus which would jam a piston into the trigger to fire…ever heard of clicking on the safety? Which effectively blocks the trigger? (doh!) would have saved his fingers from bleeding! I love the show, too bad ABC for looking at ratings! Typical bean counter move! Now that you’ve taken it off the air, guess… Read more »
I really liked Flash Forward and was wondering what the future was going to bring. How can you do this? Especially by keeping a stupid show like V. Unreal!
we should write a petition to abc.go to bring back flashforward!
deedee.. if you start it I’ll sign it!!!
My family & I love Flashfoward !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! please DO NOT take if off !!!!!!!!!!
this is the best show ever it better not be cancelled im not tunning in on abc ever again this is some bs
Now that I have seen the end of Lost, I expect the same of FlashForward. While I thoroughly enjoyed Lost, including the feel good ending, it side stepped the unanswered questions and seeming inconsistencies by saying they were actually dead and their world only existed in their minds. In the end the island and it’s events didn’t matter, the relationships endured.
I expect that FlashFoward would have ended with a message like “The path a person takes in life is insignificant compared to the relationships experienced.”
An awesome show that keeps us coming back for more. It brings out so many emotions each week; I loved Olivia in the beginning and now I want to wring her neck for blindly following her flash forward and not standing by her man. Please give it at least another season to develop viewer interest; let the devotees convince others to start watching and build up audience viewership. Where are the followers of LOST going to go now without their show. Flash Forward is their kind of show. Where I live, groups of people are talking about each episode and… Read more »