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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Please pick it up ABC…..love this show watch it every Friday night and catch all the reruns on any any channel I can find it on…..PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
Please pick up Ghost Whisperer it’s the best!
Please pick up this show ABC–it’s so much better than most of the sitcoms on TV. Even if you only do a one year commitment at least the show could write an ending that could be awesome to wrap up the characters and show their lives in the future!
DO NOT CANCEL GHOST WHISPERER! IT IS MY FAVORITE SHOW!! CBS IS STUPID! DON’T CANCEL IT! ABC..PICK UP GHOST WHISPERER! PLEASE!!!
I can’t believe CBS cancelled it. Why?? It was on Friday nights, do you really have anything better to replace it?? Idiots! I’m already pissed about other shows I just heard got cancelled and now this one?? ABC, please pick up the show! Ghost Whisperer was the only show I watched on CBS and now with it gone, so am I! I am so upset right now thinking that it’s not even going to end properly being that when it was filmed as a season finale and not a series finale. ABC, again I ask, please bring it to your… Read more »
Please, please pick up Ghost Whisperer. Friday nights will not be the same without it. Even if it is on another night, I promise to watch it. The actors are awesome and the storylines are great. I beg you, please!!!!
I think the show really helps people who can’t deal with death and I believe it should not be cancelled. Please continue it.
we are deaf poeple . we allway watch on them for 5 years . we never missing on them . we real love this show .we are beliver in real ghost as my brother died on 1976 , he told me that big light from heaven and he saw person of ghost and touch him then he was gone then I am real cry very hard but I never see real ghost or sprit body . That why I saw this best show on 5 years .So please and please dont cancel this best show and I dont care of… Read more »
YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES, YES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOHOOOO GO ABC!!!!!!! COME ON ABC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep the show!!! It is one of the few shows I can truly enjoy without hearing profanity or see nudity. Hopefully another medical drama or reality show doesn’t fill the space – the world has enough of them.
Are they nuts??? This is a great show!! How could they cancel it??? I think ABC should
pick it up. I’ve become addicted to it. To cancel
it would be a huge mistake. PLEASE ABC pick
up the show.
Please pick up Ghost Whisperer! It is the best show ever and I can’t believe it’s going to be cancelled!
Their loss your gain. You’d be crazy to let this go! PLEASE ABC, PICK UP GHOST WHISPERER!
Again the scores must be wrong. But why didn’t they cast a wiggling 2-3 years old?
Absolutely. I think Ghost Whispeer is well acted, well written, and very entertaining. One of the few shows that makes you stop and think about life, your family, your friends, your neibors…you get the idea! I only began watching Ghost Whisperer about 2 years ago. Since then, I haven’t missed a show…and considering that I don’t watch much tv…that says it all! CBS is foolish.