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?
Image courtesy CBS.
I am so upset they take off all good shows and leave us with the dumb s*** like Jersy Shore really who makes this stuff up
Ghost Whisperer was our favorite Friday family show. My family misses it dearly. Maybe now that Medium has been cancelled they will bring back Ghost Whisperer. Hmm, now that’s a thought.
I just realized it was cancelled, I was waiting for spring for new episodes. I have watched every episode. What a waste good scripts, great show someone pick it up. I am very disappointed.
Someone really needs to pick this show up and continue. One of my top favorite programs, and looked forward to watching on friday nights. Bad mistake to cancel such a great family show. 🙁 Very disappointed
As per the norm, CBS falls flat. What a disappointment that they choose to cancel a series that was so enjoyed by so many people. Suffice it to say there are many of us who will not be tuning into CBS on fridays.
Please pick Ghost Whisperer up! I love that show!!!
It would really be great if ABC would pick this up. These reality shows need to stop they are getting out of control. Bring this show back so the ones who dont have a lame brain can watch something besides reality show’s. Some people watch Ghost Wisperer to not deal with reality for at least an hour and CBS took that away. So please ABC pick this up for a 6th season.
This was my favorite show. I would really like it if another channel would bring it bsck on.
Every Friday night I looked forward to watching this special TV show. I had felt that I was
a part of it, as I can also see things happening. It is a shame that it was taken off the air, but hopefully, it will be on again, perhaps another night and on another channel, but it should be on a channel that is well known to all.
I hope that you will take my comments into consideration and the show will be on once again. Thank you – have a good day and all the very best
I am so very dissipointed of this dicision of taking this kick ass show off the air. you big dum dumbs. i hope abc picks it up righ away. jenniffer u rock:]
YES PICK IT UP PICK IT UP!!!! I miss this show so much my daughter & I were faithful watchers of Ghost Whisper every Friday @ 8pm. Just the other day my daughter was asking when the new season was starting so I looked it up & found out that it was CANCELED …. very upset about this I do hope ABC picks up the show. We miss our Friday night show!!!!
i cannt beilve this was cancelled me and my kids loves it.. they should bring it back to season 6.. pls
I am so pissed that no one has picked up Ghost Whisperer. I loved this show and have watched every episode. I even got them from Netflix to watch again. I would be happy even if they continued it in movie form and had several sequels like Harry Potter, Narnia, Star Wars and Saw. I love it like I said and I hope they figure out some way to keep it alive.
I am really shocked that the series was canceled! It was a great Friday night delight, the scripts were great and the cast members believeable and sexy. You could have at least written them out, maybe the town collapsing into the town that they covered over years ago. How about a major earthquake?
Please bring back the cast and crew and more wonderful episodes!
PICK UP PICK UP PICK UP!!!! If not by ABC but by any channel, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! All my other shows that I watched for so long is canceled and replaced by stupid realty shows, PLEASE don’t take this one away also, PLEASE!!!!
I cannot believe they cancelled this show!! I will no longer watch anything on that network. I did not even hear they were cancelling it. But Jersery Shore lives on!? That just goes to show you that America is losing their taste and intellegence. I loved this show and everyone of my friends and family new not to call me at 8pm on Fridays. They need to let us know what the hell happens with her son and they just left off with no endeing to it. I hate networks!!!!!
i totally agree with u.. i just found out today.. this is so uncalled for