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 love this show, i have watched it from the very beginning, so, no don’t cancel it…..but, does it even matter what we (the viewers) want??? i highly doubt it!!!!
this is real dissapointing this was the best show on air this was so stupid to cancel this
Please don’t take this show away, it was so good. It was way better than al of these reality shows.
Please don’t cancel the show. Friday nights watching ghost whispers was relaxing for me. How can you just cancel and not let the viewer know the end. It was one of the best scfi programs on TV. Plus the viewers need to know what her sons does with his ghostly powers. Please … any network pickup the series…. lost in ATLANTA GA.
Please! Do not cancel it for good! Like others I too do not watch much tv. It was one of the only shows I watched!!!! It is awesome! It was always the thing I looked forward to on fridays! Nothing else good on fridays! Just can’t cancel it with no notice and leave us hanging! Not cool and very dissapointing!
I hope another network picks up ghost whisper. I love this show and hate to see it gone. This is one of the best shows! I record all the re-runs just so I can still watch it and just in case I missed one I didn’t know about. I hope someone brings it back.
Please bring back Ghost Whisper how can you not at least come back and answer all the unanswered questions… I’m sure there is so much more with the shinys and shadows
I’ll admit I didn’t get into Ghost Whisperer until much later, but I started watching and I am completely hooked!! I dont know how this show ever got cancelled!! Its PHENOMENAL!!!!! Please PLEASE PLEASE bring back Ghost Whisperer!!!!!
It’s really too bad that CBS has cancelled Ghost Whisperer. Like many other viewers, it is a show that I frequently looked forward to watching every week because nothing else that is on really does not interest me. Most of the time I just watch reruns of the programs that I do like because most of the programs out there have too much law or too much gang related violence in it and that sort of thing. Ghost Whisperer is more family oriented and there doesn’t seem to be much like that out there anymore.
i cant believe you cancelled my faveorite show..i am sodisappointed in cbs.i will never watch any shows that are on cbs anymore.it was the best show ever………i have never been so let down in my entire life..you all should be fired…..i hate cbs..bring back ghost whisperer…….
I agree whole heartedly. I know it was just a show but it feels like someone has knocked the wind out of me.
BRING BACK ‘GHOST WHISPERER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please being back Ghost Whisperer. My husband and Iwatch this show every Friday. We call it our date night. See my husband doesn’t like to many tv shows I like but this one. So every Friday we sit down a watch Ghost Whisperer. I miss our date night night. Please being it back.
Please bring melinda and Jim back into my living room I am lost without it I have watched every season on ION for months they just got to the last season and this show I lived for like medium NBC has axed great shows Like medium and cbs took it and scrubs was axed by nbc and abc got it . Now heros is axed to where is the good shows the new shows suck bring back my name is earl samatha who and stop with the office its boring some network pick up ghost wishper it was my fri… Read more »
Please bring Ghost Whisperer. That show was the only show that I watched on CBS besides Medium… But that show was the best show ever. Please CBS bring it back… Love the chemistry that they had on the show. Bring it back…
please bring back ghost whisperer. My youngest daughter and I watch this every friday and it is a great sow.