ABC recently unveiled something a bit different — a fairy-tale style musical comedy called Galavant. How’s it been doing in the ratings? Is the series a big success or is it hitting sour notes? Will it be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
On Galavant, a dashing hero (Joshua Sasse) once lost the love of his life (Mallory Jansen) to an evil king (Timothy Omundson). It’s now time for him to exact his revenge and restore his “happily ever after” — while singing. The rest of the cast includes Vinnie Jones, Karen David, Luke Youngblood, Ben Presley, Daniel Evans, Stanley Townsend, and Genevieve Allenbury.
The network decided to air the Galavant’s eight half-hour episodes over the course of four weeks, to help fill the gap left by Once Upon a Time while that fairy tale show is on hiatus.
The first pair of episodes of Galavant debuted on January 4th and drew a 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.42 million viewers. It was an okay debut in terms of the ratings. It wasn’t a hit but the numbers were on par with Once’s more recent ratings — and they were certainly far better than anything else ABC was airing that night.
In week two, the ratings took a big tumble, falling to a 1.3 in the demo and 4.11 million viewers — likely in part due to the fact that NBC was airing the Golden Globes. The numbers for tonight’s episodes will probably be as bad or worse since they’re airing opposite the AFC Championship game on CBS.
Galavant’s ratings certainly haven’t been anything to crow about but ABC entertainment chief Paul Lee reportedly really likes the program. It’s a compatible time-slot filler for Once, the show was featured at the TCA winter press tour, and Lee noted that, “If Galavant does well over time, you can imagine how much fun the company can have with that.”
Still, while ABC could order a second season of Galavant (series creator Dan Fogelman has teased that the first season ends with cliffhangers), it doesn’t seem very likely based on the ratings.
But, what do you think? Would you like to see Galavant return for a second season or do you think this musical comedy should be cancelled instead?
Keep It! The lyrics Are Wonderfully Addictive And Very Useful In Life & The workplace. How Nice To Have SomethinG Funny And Different From Other ProgramminG!
A delight–neither my husband or I are big TV fans–why watch the same thing with different characters over and over–but we do schedule our time to watch this. So different and funny and mostly fast paced–difficult to catch all the jokes as they fly past. Hope it reruns this summer.
Keep it! I adore this show. I love the Monty Python-ish humour! I look forward to season 2!
Keep it! After the first two episodes aired, I watched it again and again on Hulu for the next week.
Definitely keep. It’s ver entertaining.
My husband and I LOVE it. Keep it! It’s creative and very witty.
I watched all of the Galavant shows yesterday on Demand and found it quite enjoyable.
I am looking forward to the episode next week. I enjoy the humor and it reminds me of Once Upon A Matress in many ways in its quirkiness. I hope it returns.
This is really fun to watch. Definitely Monty Pythonish 😀 Although I think one season is more then enough.
Keep it!!!!! 100% times better than anything out there right now….
Just watched it for the first time last night with my husband (car shows are much more his thing) and we both giggled and enjoyed it. It really needed MUCH better advertising, I only saw the one commercial for it, and that single ad was strong enough to make me set an autotune on the pvr.
I love it!
Wife and I enjoying the show very much. The humor is good and so are the songs.
Keep it on the air! Surprisingly I really like it and find myself laughing while watching the show. The comedy is very clever and subtle at times and is worth giving the show more air time.
I really hope they renew it. If one of the big bosses is indeed a fan, I’m hoping that’ll be possible.
Keep it. I’m still singing last weeks songs in my head.