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 was very sorry to read that “Forever” was cancelled after only 1 year. I enjoyed the show and looked forward to watching each week. To my way of thinking there are not many interesting shows on tv today. I am hoping with enough reponse , they may re think and give us another year to wonder and watch.
Thank you for taking the time to read my email.
Claudia Navin
My heart is broken!
A lot of good series go down due to bad scheduling. Forever was well written and well acted and imaginative. Its too bad it didn’t get a good shot
Our favorite show Forever now is gone!!! All our favorite shows on ABC and we loose them all after one season. Forever, 666, Resurrection, secrets and lies, I can go on but Forever omg the plot Potential! Please renew Forever. We are very upset that it has been cancelled. I seriously question the people who made this decision about how to cancel these shows.especially Forever! The plot, story line, writers, back stories, the cast and the roles that they played.Maybe abc should consider online viewers choices, time slot issues, why cancel a great show, put hundreds of people out of… Read more »
I most definitely totally agree!!! I couldn’t believe when my fiancee told me about it! X(
NOOOOO…
The networks are having to fight to many cable shows & web shows – BUT, if they’d hold out longer on shows to endear characters (as they had done after 22 episodes) things can even out across all the mess (i.e. all those other cable shows are ultimately CBS, ABC, NBC/Uni, & FOX) and just leave some of the Broadcast shows to be, they’ve have better success. I’m tired of losing every show I like, and now they don’t even leave some shows on for more than ONE episode. Who knows what comes on when? Forever was one of my… Read more »
forever was getting so good i believe it should NOT be cancelled. why would abc decide to stop it. just because the ratings are low doesn’t mean that there is nobody watching it. they should at least make a final episode so they don’t leave fans -such as me- with unanswered questions. they could explain how it would end, or if they don’t care they could at least tell fans what happens. I am still just SHOCKED about it. Please give forever a season 2. Just give forever a second chance.
Forever is a great Family type show and with few GOOD shows to watch today, it should be given another year at a different time and day to see how it does. I do hope that ABC will reconsider and renew for another season. OR perhaps another network will????? Like TNT or FOX perhaps???? They seem to give shows more of a chance to survive.
RENEW FOREVER……PLEASE!
i think that the show “Forever” have to stay because i love the show and i want to know what happend. Has Hanry told Jo? and what is ther reletionship status ? i would say the show must go on.
Oh it just came to Denmark 🙁 I’ve watched the first episode and loved it!
I wish ABC would reconsider season 2 for “Forever”. I really love the show.
I’m very upset that you have cancelled Forever. I’m from Australia and my family and I always watch it week in and week out. But then they changed the timing after 11pm and we would or reconded it and watched the next day. Please bring it back for another season so we can continue to watch this show…
please give us forever season 2 …….
I like that TV series very much.
my friends wants to say that.
I’m not happy about this cancellation. It was one of the few shows I considered “appointment television”.
My roommate and I watched “Forever” religiously. We both have really busy lives, so the DVR would record it for us and we would catch up on a better night. I can’t believe ABC chose to drop it. The cast dynamic was fabulous which doesn’t always happen. I loved being transported into Henry’s history as well as living in his present. I really wish ABC would pay attention to quality work. Get rid of “Scandal,” “Celebrity Wife Swap,” or “SHIELD.” I tried watching “SHIELD” and was completely put off by it because it didn’t feel like a comic book. ABC,… Read more »
Agree, move a show that has a following to another night/slot and put Forever in a good slot, unlike 10pm. I’ve often wondered why this strategy is not pursued by TV channels! Give Forever a second season in a better slot.
And it CERTAINLY should have been on earlier in the evening. It was in a timeslot I consider reserved for violence and sex and hatefulness.