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?
Great series we never missed an episode, real shame that TV of this quality is passed up for
more reality TV because it cost less and doesn’t require any real effort. More trash TV appeals to a generation with the attention span of a Goldfish and less intelligence than their parents. Cancelling Forever is a real shame and shows that TV executives are missing something between their ears.
As a British viewer myself and my husband loved this show and are gutted it’s been cancelled.it has so much more to explain if given the chance
please dont cancel forever, its just so good
Abc good series of forever but disgusted with your selves leaving everyone looking forward to series 2?? We shall never watch any programs you make in the future as a second series was more then needed to follow the first very very disappointed?? Not a Abc fan anymore
Ray and TONI UK
Absolute shame! One of the best tv shows on the box at present! Why for the love of god would you cancel? Probably he same thinking that allowed original Star Trek series to slide or allowed Rush to fail to be inducted in the RnR Hall of Fame for so many years. Un -enlightened!!!
This show is brilliant, My wife and I love the story, it has great characters, it’s not brainless reality TV, it’s real entertainment short 40 minute adventures. I guess if you are clueless you can only cater for the clueless… we are over 18 and under 49, they just won’t care cause it’s not in their country.
Is there anyway to save “Forever” for another season? This was a wonderful show with a great premise. The concept is great and the acting is good. I also agree with the fellow above about being tired of the lousy reality crap on tv. Please reconcider your decision ABC and keep “Forever.
the time slot was a problem so most record for viewing later. Older people (after 50) don’t stay up late but loved the show. You are so concerned with age 18 to 49 and they don’t watch near the TV as older people do. This show was a very interesting premise. The movie out now, The Age of Adaline, is also about an unaging woman, so somebody thought the concept would be worth making a movie about and I watched it, probably because I loved Forever. Yes young people like reality progrAms but people over 50 like shows like Forever.… Read more »
Forever is a fantastic show.. a show with substance and a feeling of ongoing hope and love, a show that shows the good and the love of life we all want.. expressing human goodness out weighs the bad….. please bring on season 2… and forget reality TV. FOREVER FOREVER
I wish the power brokers in the industry would see the real worth of this great series and run it for one more year. The real success is found not only in short run rating review but real shoot.
Sign this for ABC to bring Forever back:
https://www.change.org/p/abc-renew-forever-2
I love this show it can’t be cancelled!!!!
I can not believe there wont be a season 2. I agree with previous comments about age. Why not think about viewers over 49 like me. I enjoyed the show very much. Far better than reality crap that we are force fed in Australia and most likely the US. It’s cheaper to pay people off the street in reality shows than pay proper actors. More profit in reality TV.
My husband and I are so disappointed at the cancellation of what became our favourite show during the year. I agree with points raised earlier – with programming it so late to begin with networks surely cannot expect great numbers. We record all our tv shows, as I am sure most others do too. This is clearly not taken into account. Would be great if someone else would pick up Forever. The show was great! Such a loss 🙁
As an Australian viewer I never miss an episode and am very dissappointed to hear it has been cancelled. There are too many crap shows (reality shows!!) and this show has been so interesting and refreshing. A second season must be made, please