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?
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I did not know that Ghost Whisper was cancelled until just now.. I loved the show and will miss it.. There was always a message to be taken from it.. I have been watching to see if the show had moved to another time slot and now I see that is not the case. Hopefully the other station will give the show a chance.. I always got something to think about when I watched it..
I do have Hope.
Why would you cancel a show that has reruns playing on other networks 3 & 4 times a day? Ghost Whisperer is a GREAT show unfortunately as with many other shows the constant throwing in an old episode every other week distracts from the over all appeal of a show. Are they even taking into account how many of us now record everything to watch at our convenience? I also feel the change in the over all “type” of show may have hurt the ratings, in the last season you had to see every episode to follow the plot more… Read more »
i’m actually new to the show but i have watched every one of them now and really would like to see a season six come soon the show is such an addictive show to watch it sucks you in and keeps you wanting more so please bring back Ghost Whisperer for another season i mean come on i rank it with my top shows i watch all the time Smallville, Supernatural,
Haven, Pretty Little Liars, and Eurica. and i tell you what i only watch the best so please here the fans please bring back Ghost Whisperer please
i hate it that ghost whisperer will not be coming on agai. i really wish that they would bring it back! it was getting so good. i hated to see jim die, but then i was happy when he regained his memory. oh and aiden is so cute! all i have to say is BRING GHOST WHISPERER BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We always set out schedule to watch GW. We have been looking for it not knowing it had been cancelled.. Somebody pick it up and carry on….. Altho We do watch medium, the last one they showed was completely silly with mother and child interchanged. It that is the way it is going to go, we will cancel that one. But, we have faithfully watched GW since it’s beginning, if it ain’t broke, don’t try to fix it. There has never been anyone in our area (Texas) called us for a survey on what we watch….Never, so who gets called… Read more »
i cant believe that it got cancelled!
i didnt know anything about this until now. I’ve been waiting for it to come on, but now i know that it is cancelled……which really sucks!
i loved that show and spent my money on the seasons!
I loved this show I want it back on TV…please
I always looked forward to friday night to watch GW. I thought the last season was one of the best and the possibility that she might get pregnant again! PLEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEE BRING GW BACK !!!! I MISS MY FRIDAY NIGHTS!!!!
Yes it should definately come back I LOVE THAT SHOW and I have watched it from the beginning. I think it is great and is definately one of my favorite shows
I’m not at all surprised that Ghost Whisperer was cancelled.Let’s get real,they “jumped the shark” when they killed Jim and put him in Sam’s body.Not to mention that last season opened with Melinda giving birth and jumping forward 5 years.WTH? So are we to assume that Jim magically got his own body back or is he still running around in the “Sam suit”? Although I did notice that Jim’s hospital badge is in fact a picture of Jim,not Sam.As much as I loved GW,I’m not sure how it can recover.
If Ghost Whisperer is to end, at least give us a proper finale. Free all the ghosts still in the old city underneath Grandview. Let us see a future for Aiden as an adult.
I miss the show. It was good to see something good on TV. It was a comforting show. Jenifer Love Hewitt was good. I wasn’t pleased to see Jim die on the show and I think the shows after were a little strange. And especially how she was pregnant and had the baby and it aged 6 years in one show? What’s that about? Please someone pick up this show and run with it and show CBS what fools they are for canceling it and ******** up their line up. Beginning to look like a cable search for reruns of… Read more »
i loved the show and i wished you all would bring it back because it is a better show than mudium is. i think medium stinks and i dont watgh medium beccause i dont like it. i like ghost whisper better. and i always rush home to watch it . medium it not a very good show and i can not get interesting in it at all so i dont even turn it on. so i go to another channel until my csi shows come on. i watch tv a lot. and some show that come on are good and… Read more »
CBS needs to brings Ghost Whispers back. I looked forward to my Fridays to watch it. I fought with the kids to watch it and it was the only show I watched all week. They should of at least showed the final season. They replaced it with another show and I can not even think of the name so if that tells you anything. ABC should pick up Ghost Whispers or CBS should bring it back.
It was hard to follow the new shows of GW in the last season because of the scheduling. When the last season started every few weeks they would air an old episode…so sometimes we missed the new ones. It was very frustrating to get settled in for our Friday night viewing of GW, only to find it was an episode we had already see. Maybe that had something to do with the drop in viewers. The show was great…BRING IT BACK PLEASE 🙂
I totally agree with the strange scheduling last season! Not just on Ghost Whisperer, but on many other shows as well! I have NO idea what their reasoning was intermixing old, repeat shows in with the new, but I finally got so fed up, I quit watching many of the network shows and decided to wait to see all the new ones together on disc through Netflix when available. I’m really sorry to see GW go. This last season was a good one, especially since they finally quit with Jim’s reflections in mirrors or glass showing that other guy whose… Read more »