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?
Why did ABC cancel this show? I’ve been watching this show since day one and has not missed any single episodes. Why? Please bring back this TV show!
Why do they always cancel the good shows and leave the looser one on?
Forever was one of the good ones and should have gone on for many more seasons.
Shame, shame on the net works again for ending another show that has millions of fans without an ending!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t begin to express how frustrated I am over networks and their cancellations. Even tho $$ are a facture, networks will let the stupidest shows stay for a 2nd season yet cancel shows with good and interesting story line. I found Forever a interesting show. I loved the actors and the story line that kept you guessing. Frankly I am tired of reality shows. Please consider giving Forever a 2nd chance.
Was a great show, something my kids could look at and learn.. history… Bring it back…
a clean show network takes off … how sad…. on wonder I go to the TCM TV and watch… clean TV.. Forever had a good cast members …..I am a follower of _”Forever”
thanks for the time with a good show….
I am terribly upset that such a well-written, skillfully-cast show is being cancelled after only one season. The show’s premise is fascinating, the characters’ connections are spot on and the acting is absolutely superb. I became invested after the first show and now it’s the highlight of my week. I generally watch the show on Hulu and I’m sure there are many others who watch it that way, too. Are we considered in the ratings? I noticed that one commenter gave the number to reach Netflix to ask that Forever to added to their lineup. Good advice. I’m going to… Read more »
Bring Forever back! You can’t just leave us hanging. I want to know what he tells Jo. What is wrong with ABC constantly canceling awesome programs?! And they wonder why ratings are low. No one wants to get addicted to a program that in all likelihood dumb*ss ABC will turn around and cancel. If you want higher ratings for new shows give us commitment that you won’t cancel during or after the 1st season.
My daughter and I loved this show! It was one of our regulars and am so sad to see that it got cancelled. Perhaps we can bring it back on Hulu!
No fair-I love this show-It was the show I was addicted to every week.
Please renew it!!!!
I can’t believe they cancelled this show!! We LOVED Forever and enjoyed watching it more than the shows they kept. I normally don’t watch ABC and don’t think they have anything else on that I’d waste my time on. I hope another network picks up this gem and continues it!!
Please don’ t cancel the show. It’s one of the better shows on TV. All the good shows are getting cancelled and it sucks!
Unbelievable!! One of the BEST!! shows ever. All the characters where wonderful and the storyline was one of a kind. We won’t be watching ABC in our home for a LOOOOOOOOONG time. We hope that this show will be picked up by another network soon.
I’m not one to leave comments either, but this is so wrong … Forever was a great show, it had drama, action, intrigue and lots of chemistry … it was one of the few shows I would watch religiously from Australia … please reconsider resigning Forever … it’s much better than the usual tripe they put on TV
I hate this. This was a feel good show, I watched it when I was having a not so good day. I love the chemistry between the actors. It had a good story line and I liked that they’d show history through Henry’s eyes. Boo.
It blew my mind when I heard that two of the best new shows, Forever (ABC) and Backstrom (FOX) were cancelled. So many quality shows seem to get cancelled before they are even given any chance to build up an audience. In place of these shows networks often go with very mediocre, very cheap reality shows. What I find laughable is that these reality shows are not “real” at all because the people in them know that they have cameras on them and in turn “act” they way they think they should when being filmed. Since few of them have… Read more »
Everyone please call 1-888-NETFLIX or 1-888-638-3549 NOW and request that they pick up Forever as a Netflix series!!! ******* You guys! We just got off the phone with Netflix customer service, and requested that they pick up the show, not just the current season but for future seasons. The woman we talked to said that she had heard about it, and that if enough people make requests for a show, it will go through to decision-makers at Netflix to be considered for them to pick it up!! This is our best shot right now at getting more of our beloved… Read more »