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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it’s an incredible show – bring it back – i’m actually begging
Bring it back – please, please, please !!!!!
BRING THE SHOW BACK!!! I watch re runs everyday. Once they come on i get excited, i miss the show and i really want to see more and more each week. So PLEASE bring back Ghost Whisperer. I guarantee that ABC will get mass viewers and money from it. People stop watching because they change the days and times it is shown so just bring it back PLEASE!!!!!!! 🙂
JUST STARTED WATCHING THE SHOW AND LOVE IT…….
Ghost Whisperer is a wonderful show.I enjoy it more than Medium.
Jennifer Love Hewitt is a beautiful young actress. Please bring it back if she wants to continue playing the part. It won’t be the same with out her.
Stay cancelled. Once they started messing with the huband it started being confusing.
Jennifer clothing is just awful. For it to be a family show she shows alot of skin which is
very disgusting.
Bring Ghost Whisperer back PLEASE
CBS is terrible about cancelling shows at the drop of a hat. Why don’t they at least find a way to wind the show up before just dropping it. I also wonder how the rating system works. Everyone I asked said that they watched the show and this was a fairly small demographic.
yes!! pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee bring back ghost whisper… I love that show so much with a passion…. You can’t get rid of a show that is such a classic and especially get rid of a face that is so pure and beautiful like Melinda’s… Please just bring that show back…. what good is TV without GW….
I loved this show! I am so sad its over, its always been my favorite 🙁
please bring it back. this is a good show get rid of the bad shows and give us back the shows that we love.
PLEASE bring back the show!!!! The final show from the final season was just NOT enough!!! I’d like to see how Aiden grows to a young man helping his mom. What about Ned? Does he go back to being a “normal” college student and forget all about the “shinys” and everything else???? OBVIOUSLY Melinda and Jim are going to have another baby!!!!
Please, someone bring back the show!!!
Ghost whisperer is the best!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please bring it back!!!!!!
I really love the show, please bring it back.
My hope is that ABC will pick up a new season. This is one show that my 16-year-old daughter and I watch together every week. Puh-leeeaze, ABC, don’t kill the best dead talk show on TV. Medium pulled in a new audience when it changed networks, and my guess is that Ghost Whisperer will be the same.
I LOVE Ghost Whisperer, i have all of the seasons and was very upset when the show got cancelled. i would relly love for the show to come back on the air. I dont care what station picks it up for season 6 i just want it back on. I feel like I can relate to the show, a a little girl I saw spirits too…………..i just never had to cross any over. PLEASE bring the show back………….can someone hear my cry?!?