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?
Was areally good show sorry to see it end may e it would have done better in another time slot
They can’t cancel Forever. It is a great show. I hate it when the networks do this. They never give shows a chance. I wish they would move cancelled shows to Netflix or let them be picked up by other networks like A&E did with Unforgettable. I think that Forever would be perfect for SciFy. Or I wish Networks would get together and and do trades like they do in sports. We need to petition to save this show.
Again, I should know better than trust a network like abc. So long…. There is much more interesting choices to choose from than the old networks and all us 18-49ers have figured it out. Forever was changing my mind. I won’t try another series on abc in the future. I sincerely hope Forever might be picked up by someone else.
I am very sad that “Forever” is being cancelled. I love the “Quincy/Highlander” storyline At least the network can have a 2 hour TV movie to wrap things up.
I loved Forever! Great plots, good characters, and a pretty clean show. All characteristics that are almost unheard of in television these days. I could not stay up late to watch it, but was devoted to seeing each new episode on HuluPlus. Why we are bombarded with trash TV and good shows cannot stay on I will never understand.
Why on earth would ABC cancel a show like Forever, but leave us with drivel like The Bachelor?? Why is Secrets and Lies getting another season? What more could they possibly do with the show? I do not understand why networks do not listen to or care about the viewers. I really hope that Netflix will pick up the series because it will give those of us who actually enjoy quality shows yet another reason to ignore network television.
my entire Family Love this Show. I’d like to see it picked up again by the network or other station. Not Netflix as don’t have access. But there are othet networks TNT, LIVETIME, MY 20, Bravo, Eswuire, Fox, FXX, TBS, USA, just to name a few. Please someone PICK UP FOREVER. YOU will have a good audience.
They took a great concept and show but put it in a bad time slot. My husband and I love the show but do to having to be up early we watch it on replay the next day. There are very few shows that we actually like and will watch, Forever is one of them, but now we will not be watching anything on the ABC channel.
Totally agree with you. My husband have few shows we both watch together and Forever is one of then, but we have to record it and watch it the next day too due to time slot being too late. Please ABC put it back on during an early time and see if ratings increase.
There’s a petition to restart the show on another network https://www.change.org/p/abc-s-forever-to-continue-for-another-season
I finally returned to ABC after a several year hiatus due to the likes of a fine, well-written, entertaining show like this. Now it seems I will be leaving again. Can’t believe they would cancel this and keep all the garbage on. Hopefully someone else will pick this gem up.
Disappointed in ABC. I guess it is unlikely that shows like this will stay on the air. This one was somewhat clean in nature. I guess people these days want to see everyone jumping in bed and cussing a blue streak. Shows with less morals seem to stay on the air. Not many shows left I can let my kids watch. Thanks a lot ABC.
Super disappointed this show was cancelled. It was intelligent with interesting story lines and well developed characters. Why didn’t ABC just change the times lot instead of axe a great show. Bad decision making regarding an awesome show.
So very sadden about the Forever show being cancelled. I sure wish It could be reversed and put back on Now! Please reconsider! I’m rethinking ever watching shows from ABC again. Miss Body of Proof and many others they have canceled. Forever may have just put ABC out of my mind now 🙁
I normally don’t post on these sites but felt compelled to do so after learning of the cancellation of Forever. This is an excellent television show, which is entertaining, and devoid of smut, smack talk, or idiocy. Many of the shows now on TV revolve around reality tv, sexual themes and garbage. All in the name of RATINGS… I’ll never understand how these drones who make these decisions snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
ABC is utterly stupid to cancel this show. Yes, Mr. Fat-Cat Executive, there is competition. Terrible competition. All without storylines and flagship television acting that make you go to bed feeling good. Uh-huh. Take that other new series, iZombie, about a woman coroner who is a real zombie working together with her living co-workers, which sports a similar “Who done it?” storyline as Forever but with a dead-but-living main character. It’s like the T.V. producers just used an old copy machine and, full of wonderfully huge ideas, enlarged the main characters image beyond the pages borders — and what you… Read more »
Great characters. Much better than tons of other series. Really sad to not be able to watch Dr. Morgan in a second season. Hope maybe someone else might “pick” this series up and give it another go.
I LOVE this show. When you show low level humor like gallivant or ridiculous reality shows, I turn off the TV and go to Netflix. Please stay relevant and show interesting Mistry stories with characters that make us think!
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