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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Flash Forward is the best show of the season, bar none. Please don’t cancel the series so early. Many things attributed to the decline in viewership, including the writer’s break over the winter, the World Series, and competing shows. Give Flash Forward some prime real estate and see it thrive!
Please don’t take FlashForward off!!!! Give it at least a second season! You can’t end a show that has been planned out like it has so quickly! IT just won’t work and the ending will suck! I don’t understand why there was the big break…that was a HUGE mistake. Why can’t the tv stations just run at normal times with no breaks? I looed forward to FlashForward every week and I’m wondering if the use of TiVo or DVRS changes the amount of views. I don’t have time to watch tv throughout the week so I only watch two tv… Read more »
Don’t take off flashforward. I don’t get to watch it ever thursday. It’s one of those shows that i love, but can’t watch cause thursday’s arn’t good for me. That’s why i watch it on hulu, just as i know a lot of my friends do. I really like this show and wish for it to remain on the air please.
God Bless
What I want to know is why the MORONS at ABC had “V” (a SCI-FI show) running after LOST (a mystery-intrigue-fantasy-sci-fi-ish show)? Had they put FlashForward AFTER LOST, they would likely have enjoyed HUGE carryover from the 9:00 slot to the 10:00 slot! It’s only common-freakin-sense! They should have run their sci-fi on Thursday nights! Look at how “Fringe” does, even running against Grey’s Anatomy! Besides that, there’s been mostly NOTHING on at 7:00 on Thursdays other than “Bones,” which I also like, but the beauty of having a DVR is I get to watch them BOTH! I’m just so… Read more »
shows can’t survive when you show a handful of episodes, then postpone them for 3 months and then bring it back- i swear when i was younger the tv season was longer and none of the crappy breaks, interuptions we have today- oh that was back in the day when battle of the network stars was great friday night tv!!!!!
FF is a good show, however taking it off for a couple of months and bringing it back didn’t help much…If the show is being cancelled at least give the viewers the a decent finale!
It is a great concept for a show but very badly written. It is a shame it is so poorly constructed because it had great potential..
DON’T TAKE OFF FLASHFORWARD!!!!!!! I am off on the thusday and that is the one thing I look forward to. It is as good as lost, Please leave it on
I really like the show, but with all the mid-season breaks that they do now, I really don’t care if I catch it again or not. It make’s the show’s too hard to keep up with. They should just run the entire season at once and keep people’s interest. Same thing with Lost, when there is a big break I am not going to waste my time trying to keep up with when it is going to come on again.
which ever network, all these series going away.. you don’t feel like a bunch of thieves? what about moving the show (flash forward” to a different time slot..
the crap jokers on show sg1 hung around for awhile, jeez how did they do it? oh yea, the different time slot thing.
abc.. bunch of bravo-alpha-sierra-tango-alpha-romeo-delta-sierra’s
just move the dam show to saturday noon’s you idiot’s
I am a big flashforward fan and i hope ABC doesn’t take it off. I really enjoy watching it every Thursday, its like something to look forward to. I hope more and more people start to watch the show because it really is a wonderful show.
I’m a Flash Forward fan, This is the next best thing on TV since The Unit was canceled. Too bad there’s are more people into reality shows that don’t allow you to use your imagination. Flash forward is entertaining and allows you to step away from reality for one hour out of the week. hoping for more time to allow other people to get a feel for it.
I love Flash Forward. I look forward to every thursday on ABC…starting with FF then leading thru all the way to PP…ABC please keep this show going
I also love FF and look forward watching it every thursday. My sister, daughter and friends watch the show as well and when we get together, usually on Saturdays we talk about the show. Please don’t take the show away…
Thank goodness! One less piece of crap.
IT WAS GREAT TO WATCH BUT NOW IT IS UP AGAINST OTHER PROGRAMS.(SURVIVOR)