After five seasons on the air, CBS has killed a staple of the Friday night schedule. Ghost Whisperer won’t be back next fall on the Tiffany network. Not unless it can come back from the dead…
Ghost Whisperer tells the tale of Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt), a young woman with the ability to see and talk to dead people. Regular castmembers over the past five seasons have included David Conrad, Camryn Manheim, Jay Mohr, Aisha Tyler, Christoph Sanders, Jamie Kennedy, and Kenneth Mitchell.
The TV show debuted in September 2005 and the season attracted an average of a 2.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 10.2 million viewers. In seasons two and three, the demo rose to a 3.0 rating with 9.9 and 8.6 million viewers respectively. For season four, the ratings went up again, to a 3.7 rating and 10.6 million viewers.
Unfortunately this year, the ratings fell — a lot. The season kicked off with a 2.3 rating and 8.7 million viewers. Things went further downhill from there. Last month, they hit a series low with a 1.3 rating in the demo and 5.96 million viewers. Though Ghost Whisperer was once a hit show for the network, those times are clearly over.
To little surprise, CBS has decided to cancel Ghost Whisperer. The series finale is set to air this Friday, May 21st.
However, because ABC Studios co-produces the series (with CBS), there have been discussions that it could switch networks. Medium ran for years on NBC before being cancelled and picked up by CBS.
ABC’s entertainment president, Stephen McPherson, has said that he’d be interested in picking up Ghost Whisperer if the series became available. ABC scheduler Jeff Bader told Variety today that they’ve toyed with the idea. He said, “We talked a lot about it. It could make a good lead-in to Body of Proof.”
To keep costs down, ABC has been committed to running only one scripted series on Friday nights but the execs will supposedly look at the possibility of picking up Ghost Whisperer in the next few days.
What do you think? Should ABC pick up Ghost Whisperer for season six or should it stay cancelled?
Image courtesy CBS.
Yes do the shop ABC,it will maybe rectify the fact you cancelled Men In Trees and Ugly Betty on me,why do U people keep cancelling family shows,and keep on the crap,do U really think we care about the Bachelor,get this show pronto,CBS lost,your gain!
PLEASE, PLEASE DON’T LET THIS SHOW GET CANCELED. I HAVE FOLLOWED THE SHOW FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, AND I LOVE ALL THE CHARACTERS. I AM VERY UPSET AND DISAPPOINTED, AND SURPRISED YOU HAVE CANCELED THIS SHOW. PLEASE GET IT BACK ON THE AIR FOR SEASON 6 IN SEPTEMBER.
THE ONLY SHOW I WATCH ON YOUR NETWORK A IS GHOST WHISPERER.
THERE ARE A LOT OF US FOLLOWERS OF THE SHOW, AND I’M SURE OTHERS WILL WRITE IN.
THANK YOU!
Yes, ABC should pick up Ghost Whisperer. Please pick it up and continue the series.
Ghost Whisperer is a horrible show. I don’t know how it made it beyond 2 episodes.
I think that ABC should pick up Ghost Whisperer.
ABC should save Ghost Whisperer but get rid of the Shadows and Shinys. Go back to just helping ghosts and their families move on.
I don’t think that Ghost Whisperer should be canceled because I recently got interested in the show and I have become hooked. I love it and want the show to come back next season because there is so much suspense that the can’t possibly cram into next week. I would leave all of the addicted viewers like myself without any show to love. Without any characters to love and watch grow answer old questions and pose new ones. That is why I think that the show should return next season.
ABC would be my network of choice if they picked up Ghost Whisperer. Here again another good show gets canceled without an official ending….I’m getting so tired of watching a show after many years to just be canceled. I think a network should have a contract they need to abide by that if a show makes it over 2 years, that a series finally has to be done…This way more people will watch knowing that their favorite show will have an ending…..PLEASE ABC PICK UP GHOST WHISPERER. Personally I do not know why CBS keeps How I met Your Mother….That… Read more »
Please Abc renew the show, give it a proper ending.
Ghost Whisperer has been so good over the last 5 years and deserves a proper ending. Who knows if the ratings may increase if moved to the best network ever ABC!
ABC – pick it up – you dumped Eastwick – which I loved – please pick up Ghost Whisperer.
Yes, of course! Pick up Ghost Whisperer! I mean, it’s no “reality” show (ugh), but it is entertaining. It would be nice to put some new writers (or maybe the old writers), on the job.
I absolutely do think ABC should pick up Ghost Whisperer for a 6th season. It’s such an amazing show, and everyone is going to miss it so much if ABC doesn’t pick it up. In my opinion, Ghost Whisperer is the only show on TV anymore that is even watchable, let alone amazing. The other shows that were cancelled, I can do without, but Ghost Whisperer, I cannot.
please abc save my fav show, it has so many cliff hangers that need tieing up, its such a good show with brillient actors please pick it up x
yes they should i love gw
I would be a loyal viewer if ABC picks up this series as I have for the past 5 years, this show is worth saving and should get another chance.