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 one of the few shows I watch, please bring it back.
Please, please, please bring Ghost Whisperer back. There is so much unfinished business with the show. Ayden hasn’t had a real chance to grow in stature and powers. There is so much more for Melinda to do. Love the development of the characters and their relationships.
Can’t believe it was cancelled. Would love ABC to pick it up. Friday nights aren’t the same.
I love that show and I am very disappointed it was cancelled. Please give it another try!
Please put the show back on ABC but not on a Friday night
That’s not a good time slot. Put it on during the week at 8 or 9 on a Tuesday or Wednesday
Then they would get more viewers .
The show represents a different kind of good and we need more of that .
Thank you
please allow ghost whisperer to come back , i love the show and miss it.
please bring it back.
i love this show… we watch alot of the reruns over and over. I would love to see it
come back. i would love it if you would consider it..
thanks
PLEASE BRING IT BACK, BRING IT BACK, BRING IT BACK I LOVE THE SHOW. WE NEED SEASON 6,7,8,9,10,11 ………ETC
I am a little upset that Ghost Whisperer is not running anymore. I found it to be a terrific show. I think it should be started back up.
please allow this to come back on i love this show its such a great show… i enjoy all of it…i miss it and im upset that it was cancelled
I’m glad it’s cancelled. Started out loving it – great subject and great concept. However, the lead actress became a role model for young girls – and she is such a bad role model, it’s better the whole thing go away, for the sake of the next generation. She always dressed like a **** on the show – showing off her implants and everything else fake – and then she began to act just as much like a **** on the talk show circuit, discussing her “privates” and so forth. Bad role model. Sends the wrong message to young girls.… Read more »
She wasnt fake, and shes a great role model for kids…you dont hear about her partying it up, and all that!! How rude are you!?!?!?!
I didn’t start watching Ghost Whisperer until reruns came out on satellite and I’ve enjoyed watching the series grow in talent and substance. What a disappointment to let the series “die” now. We need more variety, not more of the same ole dippy reality and talent shows.
Please bring Ghost whisperer back I worked my schedule around the show so I could watch it. Friday’s just isn’t the same with out the show. Please bring it back!!!!!!!!!!
CBS is really ******** up. Ghost Whisperer was a Friday Night staple and will be really missed. I predict CSI: NY and CSI: Miami to be the next casualties. No Sunday night series seems to survive as the last hour of primetime. Without a Trace, The Unit and Cold Case, all great series gone because CBS caters to sporting events like football and golf. Why can’t CBS run all sports on a second digital station and leave their Sunday night schedule untouched?
PLEASE BRING IT BACK ME AND MY DAUGHTER LOVE IT!!!!! ITS A VERY VERY GOOD SHOW.YOU GUYS NEED TO BRING IT BACK. TO MANY PEOPLE IT!!!!!!!
Please bring ghost whisperer back.It is a very good show and alot people watch it.Friday nights won’t be the same. My entire famly watches it.