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?
Of course Forever got cancelled; no raw sex or filthy language or near nudity that the demographic 18-49 year olds seem to need in order to watch a show!!!! The networks don’t seem to care about those of us older than 50 who believe in “old fashion” values (or ANY values for that matter) and only need good story-lines to carry a show through and keep us watching! This show was terrific with great actors and had a refreshing and interesting story concept. I don’t think ABC gave Forever a fair chance; they could have tried it in another time… Read more »
Why do the Americans always do this? A great series but no follow on. They did the same with Secret Circle. I bet the viewing figures were much higher in the UK!
I loved this show. I’m devasted. It’s one of my favorite show. I can’t believe it’s been cancelled. I was looking for the new episodes and that’s I found out it was cancelled. It had a great story line, it was interesting, action, and great characters. Please reconsider or air the show on another network.
How about the 50 to 70 demographic, there are more of them and they have more money?
I have been hooked on this show since the beginning, even my husband, To get him hooked on a show is hard. He was been hound to find out why it wasn’t come on yet.
I want to KNOW why ABC CANCEL it and don’t tell me it was about rating, specially seen it was in it season one. It seem to me they judge to quickly and wrong. If they sat and took a long hard look they see shows that NEEDS to goes go and ones to stay.
I am sad to see you cancelled this program. This show was very good – don’t agree with your “ratings”. Maybe the time slot you had it in was the reason. Every time a decent show comes on it’s cancelled for some lame reality show like the bachelor .. We are looking for better entertainment. Please return it
I am outraged that Forever had such an awe full time slot and the it gets cancelled. Ugh!!!
They do this a lot like Pan Am, Off the Map, !!!!
I’m starting not to like this station.
I loved it. I do not think it was fair to just leave the fans of the show hanging. There are so many stupid shows on and they cancel a good show.It had great story lines. So sick of all those housewife shows.
My husband and I loved watching Forever and was waiting for it’s return. Very disappointed it didn’t make the cut. Maybe another night would have worked better. It was up against another favorite of ours “Person of Interest”.
I loved this show and looked forward to it every week. Loved the actors, the story line, and all that was involved with this show. I think it was too complex for a lot of TV watchers who did not stick with it and “get the story”. Anyway, I am very sorry for no renewal and shall miss it. One of the very best and challenging TV shows, with little violence and great details.
Enjoyed the series, altho I’m not surprised that it was cancelled. However, I always think that for the sake of network credibility and support, they should plan a TV movie or at least a final episode to bring a series to closure.
why are u not suprised? it was a fabulous show, horrible time slot. there were so msny other shows that were worse. ABC does have reputation for keeping crap over a good show.
I thought for sure the show would be back… that’s how GREAT it was. I loved it! I was so upset when I saw the cancellation the other day. I loved the characters and the storylines. When Henry went back in the past, it gave you such a realistic scene of how it was back then in old New York. Shame on ABC.
Why can’t they go to a different net work. TNT would be perfect. They love cop shows and they show the same program over and over. They have the room. Please think about that..thanks
Forever was an excellent show but as usual all the good shows get axed ABC should be CANCELLED!!!!!!!
You get a great show a great storyline and great characters and then you cancel it!! so much better than reality TV seriously not happy. You need to finalize the show somehow.