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?
It’s sad that the crap show IZombie gets renewed but such a well thought out story with great actors gets scrapped. After the writers of Bones ticked me off and I boycotted that show after episode 4 of season 10 Forever became my go to crime show along with Castle. This really makes me want to be done with Castle too just to get back at ABC. It would be great if somewhere like SYFY could pick it up!
Wonderful program. Family and friends hope another network picks it up
I will not watch ABC again!
Why is it that just when you get to love a show they have to cancel. I am getting so sick of watching a new series get involved and for they t cancel it. Forever and Revenge are both cancelled NOT HAPPY AT ALL!! MAY I NEED TO CHANGE THE CHANEL AND START TO WATCH NBC OR CBS. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN ABC WATCHER BUT NOW I THINK MY MIND IS GOING TO CHANGE AND THIS NEW SHOW THE WHISPERS, I WILL NOT BE WATCHING THIS BECAUSE IT’S NOT MY KIND OF SHOW SEEMS A LITTLE WEIRD AND SCARY!!!!
I have never understood ratings………….I have never met anyone who is part of the ratings system………..so who do they ask. I also DVR most of the shows I watch……including Forever, so how do they take people recording shows into the “ratings” of TV shows. I know so many people who love the show…………So disappointed in the cancellation of my favorite show on television.
ABC should have given Forever one more season. It’s a good show with good interaction . More and more people where getting into the show. It would have been great.
This was a poor decision to cancel this show. We followed this every week along with other friends. ABC need to take a better look at their shows. Why don’t you give Henry Morgan another chance. Ridiculous. We are also getting tired of Once Upon a Time, Revenge, geez end it now. Talk about milking it. Why couldn’t you leave Forever on. Stupid decision if you ask me.
Why would you cancel the best show ever I liked to watch it on Friday after a long day at work.
We are just so very sad!!!! We love this show! It’s an ingenious idea! And likely it is too deep and thought provoking for today’s people……..so sad to see “Forever ” go……
Finally we had a show that both my wife and I enjoyed so much and it got cancelled. Whatta hell? It had everything, great story, excellent cast and more importantly a good plot to get us back for the second season. Somebody made a huge mistake and has to pay for this!
Someone posted on here about contacting NETFLIX and they have the right and PERFECT idea. I for one do not enjoy having to make calls about anything, but I love this show so much I am willing to call them to request that they consider picking Forever up as a Netflix Show. Go to the link below and click on “Chat” or “Call” and it will give you a specific code to use for your call: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/4976 PLEASE!! Let’s all do this – at least we can try and there are plenty of us on this site to call them… Read more »
My husband and I loved this show. We are very disappointed . We watched it on demand because we were recording other shows! That means you had to watch commercials and we thought it was worth it!
Great show just needed a better time slot.
It’s news like this that makes me want to quit watching television. I hope Netflix or Hulu will consider picking this one up.
I Agree. Diany
There aren’t enough guns blaring or fire fights on Forever for fans in the 18-49 age group
It is so nice to sit and watch a show without all that violence. I am so disappointed with ABC. They don’t have all that many decent shows worth watching anyway, so they are making it very easy for me to stop watching them. I hope that some other channel will pick up Forever and broadcast it.