Network: ABC
Episodes: 22 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: September 22, 2014 — May 5, 2015
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: Ioan Gruffudd, Alana de la Garza, Lorraine Toussaint, Donnie Keshawarz, Joel David Moore, and Judd Hirsch.
TV show description:
A fantasy crime drama, this TV series follows New York City’s star medical examiner — Doctor Henry Morgan (Ioan Gruffudd), handsome man with a secret past. No matter how hard he tries, Henry can’t age even a single day — he’s immortal. He doesn’t know much about what happens when he “dies” except that everything on him disappears and he reemerges in a body of water, naked.
Henry doesn’t just study the dead to solve criminal cases however. He does it to try to solve the mystery that has eluded him for 200 years — the reason for his own inexplicable immortality.
Henry’s long life has given him remarkable observation skills which impresses his new partner, Detective Jo Martinez (Alana De La Garza). This piques her curiosity about who he is. Each new case and their budding friendship reveal layers of Henry’s long and colorful past. Jo’s sharp, no-nonsense instincts and her ability to close difficult cases have given her a tough-as-nails reputation on the force, despite also dealing with the untimely loss of her husband.
Lucas Wan (Joel David Moore) is a twenty-something self-proclaimed “artisan of death” and Henry’s worshipful assistant. He considers mortuary science an art, and Henry its Picasso. After transplanting to New York City from rural Ohio, Lucas worked up the courage to introduce himself to the star medical examiner at a crime scene.
A Brooklyn native, Detective Hanson (Donnie Keshawarz) works alongside Jo and has worked his way up to the NYPD’s elite squad of homicide detectives. He’s a family man who lives with his wife and two children in Queens. Unafraid of bending the rules to get the job done, Hanson is sometimes skeptical of Henry’s talent but often admires its effectiveness.
No one knows Henry better than his best friend and confidant, an antique shop owner named Abe (Judd Hirsch). The keeper of Henry’s immortality secret, Abe’s “carpe diem” philosophy inspires Henry to get more in touch with the beauty of living. Abe is not immortal but he is determined to make the most out of every moment of life.
Episode #22 — The Last Death of Henry Morgan
Henry and Adam have been on a long, unrelenting collision course, which is about to come to a head – possibly bringing about one man’s death – with only Jo standing in the way. Henry and Jo’s murder investigation into a museum worker’s death centers on a priceless missing ancient dagger, which not only ended the life of Julius Caesar, but also killed Adam the first time.
Meanwhile, Adam knows that there is something that Henry fears more than death – that Jo might discover his mystery. The two men tangle in a tumultuous game-changing confrontation.
First aired: May 5, 2015.
What do you think? Do you like the Forever TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Please bring it back. It was such a great show.
Please bring it back! It is a great show…
ABC is crazy! They are cancelling the only show they had that was worth watching. I watched no other ABC shows, so I guess they’ve lost a viewer.
You can see that they don’t care, as well as that they don’t know what they’re dong.
Please don’t cancel this it’s one of my favorite shows.
No – bring it back!!! please – can we start a petition and find another station or Netflix to run this show
I love the show such a good job done by all the actors. Much better then so much of the shows that are renewed
I also sent a feedback message to ABC. It was a little hard to find, but here is the link:
http://abc.go.com/feedback
You can then pick programming and Forever and leave a message. Maybe they will get the “message” that we want this shoe SAVED!!
I just can’t believe they would take this amazing show off the air ! It didn’t even have a real ending ! I am really upset …especially when I think of all the stupid inane shows that they renew year after year !
This is one of my favorite shows. I wish they wouldn’t cancel it.
I wish that the network would reconsider canceling this show. It had a different plot and story line. It was well acted and the characters worked well together. Oh well I guess they can always put another racist comedy like,”Fresh off the boat”.
I loved this show. I wish they wouldn’t have canceled this show.
This was the best show on the air!!!! Talk about disappointed!!! One of the few shows I look forward to watching every week. The plot, actors are incredible! Please please can another Net Work air this show next Season. You have a lot of disappointed viewers. I can tell you for sure I will not be watching ABC on Tuesday night at 10. U NEED TO RECONSIDER AND RENEW FOREVER!!!!!
I can’t believe they re cancelling Forever!! It was a great show and interesting too, one of my favorites. I also love all the actors, they really it their parts too. Please give it one more season!!!!
Nooooo! My favorite show canceled? Forever has been the favorite show for my entire family (ages 14-71). It was one of the few network shows I watched, since most of your shows are poor quality. Please re evaluate this show and give it another try. Do the right thing for those in the TV audience who have some intelligence.
Very sad to hear Forever has been canceled. I always watched it on Thursday nights because it was highly entertaining and engrossing. I am gradually moving away from watching any shows on ABC. After the poor writing on Grey’s Anatomy as of late and now this, I see no reason to bother with ABC again.
This is such crap! I love this show and now that Jo is going to find out, it gets axed?!?! Guess they need to make room for some more craptastic reality shows. At least they could have made it a summer series, what jerks!
I could not believe this!! Forever is one of my top 3 shows. The actors are so good and the storyline is interesting. If people knew about it they would also watch. At least give it a chance.