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 vote to bring the Ghost Whisperer back to Friday nights.
BRING IT BACK!!!!!! there r to many things unanswered someone needs to bring it back its to good of a show to cancell it!
Please bring this back! It was a great show and I love the actors! Jamie Kennedy is so great in it. Plus I love Jennifer, I think she is a great actress. This show was a good show for husbands and wives. There is action, suspense, and heartwarming. So its perfect for guys and girls. I think they should look at the ratings when they were high and look at the episodes and keep them that way. Thats when the ratings were high. Please bring this back!!!!!
Someone needs to bring this show back i dont care witch network but i has to come back it was for the last five years my time spent with my elderly father every friday night we would watch the show together and really enjoyed it as well as our time together. I mean im a 30 and singel with a great social life and would always make it a point to watch this show with my dad before i would go out for the evening. since it has been gone i havent been over my dads as much and thier… Read more »
Bring it back. I have been waiting for the return and now they say it’s cancelled. Why doesn’t NBC take it over.
I love this show and it needs to come back! The only thing I that I noticed a lot was that they always used the same creepy house for everything. This is just an observation and I really enjoy this show.
DEFINATELY bring back Jennifer Love Hewitt and the rest of the crew….I absolutely love this show…I was looking forward to the new season and VERY disappointed it had been cancelled…soo sad =(
Please bring back Ghost Whisper!!! It was one of the only night time tv showes that I ever watched. I am verry disappointed that it is not on this season!!!! Bring it back!!!!!
Please bring Ghost Whisperer back! It was my favorite show on television. It also reaches through all generations. My grandmother of 88 likes to watch it. My mother of 56 likes to watch it and I am in my late 20s and I love it! It is one of the best shows that has been on tv in years!
me and my mom always watch this but it sucks now
Abc must pick ghost whisperer up because their still a lot of missing things like the underground city we still don’t know what happened to those spirits and about his half-brother Gabriel so many of us still think that this show still has much more to show us.
Please bring back Ghost Whisper! It was one of the only night time tv showes that I ever watched. I am verry disappointed that it is not on this season!
Bring it back!!!!!
My daughters and I love Ghost Whisperer. It is one of the only shows that I can even let them watch on prime time television. I was very sad to learn that CBS had cancelled it and would love to see another network pick it up!
Please bring Ghost Whisperer back! I do not watch alot of regular televison but I always tuned in on Friday night to watch my favorite show – this show. I am hopeful that another network will pick this up.