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?
This is rediculous. You people cancel all programs that are clean family programs. This is my favorite. Why??
I can`t believe “FOREVER” was cancelled I loved this show. There is so much CRAP on TV .”FOREVER” was worth watching
ABC you really screwed up this time. You need to bring it back!!!!!!
Forever had a larger than most non news program have today. Including one in particular.
South Park changed everything in broadcasting when it debuted, has been renewed for five more seasons, and will likely never go off air, until the creators die. Now this has pertinence because the DVR viewership brings the total viewership of Forever as extremely high, in fact, higher than that of South Park. In addition, the total viewership, at 8 million an episode is 2.49% of the U.S population, that is a huge percentage of a country with 321 million people.
same here, its a shame i love this show (not in that way)……
We loved the creativeness of the story line and the relationship between father and son. It was done so well. We have been anxious for the season to start up again this fall. When we weren’t seeing previews we became concerned and by searching the Internet found out it was cancelled. So very disappointing 🙁 I am truly sorry to see it go.
Looks like everyone should just let this show go. Alana De La Garza (played police detective Jo) has been cast as a regular on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders with Gary Sinise. She also has a recurring role on the CBS Monday night drama Scorpion. The actress Lorraine Toussaint (who played Jo’s boss) has been cast as a regular on the Fox medical drama Rosewood. The main actor Ioan Gruffudd (played Dr. Henry Morgan) and Judd Hirsch (played Morgan’s father) have not appeared on any new series yet.
Clarification: Judd Hirsch played the son of Dr. Henry Morgan.
Forever was a really entertaining program. Bring it back!
I can never understand How a good show, with a great cast and trama cannot make the current!
The ratings system is deceiving for those who appreciate. Good prime time TV
-there is nothing but crap of reality shows on TV – that is the reason we walk away from Network TV into Netflix, Hulu and Prime…
I was just searching for the season premiere of Forever and was very disappointed to discover it has been cancelled. My sister and niece asked me today about it and I did not find it on the tv guide. We really enjoyed this show. It is a shame that something so good should be cancelled
See how good she is? She’s already on another show. ABC, offer her more $$ and bring back Forever!
Bad news guys….saw detective Jo on Scorpion as the head of Homeland Security.
I loved this show and would love for it to return.
Really enjoyed the show and the story line – a lot better than most other series with repetitive and predictable plots – was looking forward to season 2 🙁
I can’t believe the show was canceled!!! I looked forward to watching it every week. The cast was wonderful. Would love to see it come back.
I miss that show!!!!! I wish it could come back!!!!!