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?
Love this show! Bring it back for a second season!
Please bring it back for season two. I am a mother of a two year old and a six year old and they both love the singing and dancing. I love it too because reminds me of Monty Python and old musicals that I loved to watch plus it has comedy that the whole family can watch together at broadcast and we dvr it to rewatch again.
I really enjoy the show. It’s fun, entertaining and a refreshing change from all the detective & vampire shows. I hope they make a season 2.
This is one of the best and funny shows to come from ABC. And I want to encourage them to renew it asap, PLEASE.
Definitely need Season 2. Have to see Madeline get what she deserves. I love the king…even though he’s a bad guy.
Such a clever, entertaining and humerous show NEEDS to return. Loved it.
I love Galavant…bring it back…it’s what we need now…
The show was one of the best I’ve seen a real joy to watch please bring it back
Keep this show going! It is fresh, funny and really quite clever.
BRING IT BACK!!!!! LOVE IT!!!! SO CUTE, FUNNY AND JUST PLAIN AWESOME!!!!! AN ABSOLUTE WINNER!
Great fun! Renew it!
I love this show and my grandkids watch the show everyday (we have it taped) they know all the words to the songs it is a refreshing show please have a second season
best show
love the show season two please
bring it back the best show ever by ABC really awsome please season 2 real cool we need it