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’m very disappointed it was one of the few good TV shows. ABC screws up everything. ABC has really stupid shows and once they get a good one they cancel it are these people stupid? The reason it wasn’t more popular is because they did a lousy job of advertising it you cant make a strong house out of sawdust.
I’m very disappointed it was one of the few good TV shows. ABC screws up everything.
I am so disappointed. I am getting sick of all of the reality garbage on tv. It was nice to enjoy a great original story line with likeable characters. I wish they would move it to another day and time slot. I know it is a business and its all about the numbers, but it would be great if they were able to see the value of attracting a large audience base for its network by incorporating various types of shows across different genres/topics. Maybe we will get lucky and another network (maybe cable?) will take a shot at it.… Read more »
My husband just told me of the cancellation. So very disappointed. Looked forward to this show every week. I wonder if you should cancel the person who dc’d this show, Big mistake!! Surprised (but considering your rankings) that you cancelled a show with such promise.
This show iis one of the best. ABC made a huge mistake canceling this show.
Both my wife & I are extremely disappointed that this show was cancelled. We both feel this show needed more than 1 season to establish itself. Compared with the themes of the upcoming season & the current rankings of this network, it makes more sense to keep program with a significant different entertainment approach.
Why does this always happen. A brilliant tv series axed yet still making and showing same old csi programmes,by the way I don’t watch any of those. Boring.
I loved this show. I have been waiting for it to return this fall. What a disappointment that it has been canceled.
I was really looking forward to the second season and was shocked to find out that it’s been cancelled. Such a quality, intelligent show. Henry is a great character! A shame that ABC had to let this one go. I too, hope it gets picked up by someone else.
My whole family and I loved this show.i don’t understand how on earth they keep done really stupid show on forever but a really good show the
They cancel it i’m very disappointed.
Bring the show back bring it back .
What a great show, we looked forward to every episode, please bring it back, this is unacceptable called for
I’m seriously so upset for at least10 million people. If they can keep the cheesy law and order and csi on tv (same old same old stories) why can’t we have a 2nd chance at forever with another season? What do I gotta do to make this happen!
This was an excellent show. Better than most on nowdays. Really disappointing that it was canceled. Maybe somebody can pick it up in syndication like Netflix.
It was a great show it had us on the edge we couldn’t wait for the new season ABC you need to put on a different night to many good shows on at once
I loved this show I was looking so forward to its return. Why was it canceled Because ABC you missed the boat most tv shows are crap people are simple minded