Doctor Henry Morgan may be immortal but his TV show isn’t. ABC has cancelled the Forever TV series after one season of 22 episodes.
On the Forever TV show, New York City’s star medical examiner (Ioan Gruffudd) can ascertain things that most can not because of his vast experience — he’s been alive for 200 years but can’t figure out the how or the why. The rest of the cast includes Alana de la Garza, Lorraine Toussaint, Donnie Keshawarz, Joel David Moore, and Judd Hirsch.
The series debuted last September to a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 8.26 million viewers. The ratings grew for episode two but they started falling after that.
Though the Forever series had some very passionate fans, that devotion didn’t translate into positive ratings. The numbers were pretty poor for much of the season and the show ended up averaging a 1.12 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.93 million viewers.
As a result, ABC has decided against ordering a second season of Forever. The last episode aired earlier this week and unfortunately left viewers with lots of unanswered questions.
What do you think? Did you like the Forever TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season? Why do you think it didn’t catch on with a larger audience?
I just discovered this on Hulu. It is the best series out there. Why didn’t they work a little at promoting it and get a bigger audience? Silly ABC. One less reason to bother watching that network.
I really liked watching Forever. Very disappointed it was cancelled!
I’m italian and since i started watching this series i loved it. Please don’t cancel the series i really enjoy watching it.
I’m so upset Forever is cancelled. I loved this show, the actors, the story lines. It made a great change from the usual cops and robbers and drug dealers and reality shows. Is there any way it can be saved? It’s sad when a quality show is dropped and so many other trashy shows stay on. Shame on ABC
It’s a shame you didn’t give it another year. My husband and I enjoyed the show. I doubt if anyone cares enough to read this.
I read your note and agree with it.
I care and I am very sadden with this out come
I looked forward to this show the same as I look forward to Castle!
I’m absolutely gutted about FOREVER not returning to our British screens. I only started watching by chance and fell in love with the program. I would love to see more of this programme and now i find out its been cancelled. Someone should carry on making the show. Good luck to the actors. May you find happiness in the knowledge that i loved the show.
My husband and I enjoyed watching this show. We are very disappointed that it is being cancelled and that the networks do not give these shows a chance! We thought it was actually a very interesting premise and enjoyed the characters very much. What a shame.
I blame it on the scheduling executives.
I absolutely loved the show. …. so sad is not getting renewed. I wanted more, the officer and the doc barely are getting together. My 14year old loved it also and is equally sad it ended without closure.
I loved the show. It was written well and loved the actors. Will greatly miss this. My parents watched it too and gave us something to talk about the following day after it aired. Disappointed in ABC once again for cancelling a lovely show.
I loved the show, “Forever.” It was cleverly written and acted. A great balance of serious and comedy. The flashbacks let the viewer know what caused the future reaction.
I am very sad that ABC decided to cancel it. All the major networks have so messed up the lineup that it was hard to keep up with when shows would be on. Don’t blame the viewers, instead the network execs.
Don Baker
The serie rly need to restart, people need to make it come back.This is one of the best serie” ever.I didnt heard of it before 2 days ago otherwise i would have ben in front of my creeen everyday to watch it play.It is realy sad that theres no season 2, i realy hope enough people will ask for an second season.
I am very disappointed that this show cancelled and was one of the reasons I decided to keep watching TV, and have decided that if this show is not coming back, I’m not coming back to ABC
Why was is canceled! Me and my hubby watched it every week. We are very disappointed with abc’s decision.
I own a restaurant so I always had to record it. I am disappointed that it won’t be back for another season. What can the public do to bring it back? Nothing is impossible!