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 save the show ABC! It’s such a good show, I look so forward to watching it after I get home from work. Please save the show!
Please pick up this show and don’t let it stay gone! My 13 year old son and I watch this show faithfully…it’s one we can agree on and that can be hard with a teenage boy! We both love this one and are so disappointed that we may never be able to enjoy it again!
Please pick up Ghost Whisper. I will be there on fridays to watch. The Ghost Whisper is my favorite show and I always make sure I am there on Fridays to watch. I drop whatever I am doing just to watch never miss an episode.
What is CBS’s problem? Can anyone with any brains on that network get back to me. First, it cancels The Unit, and now it takes away The Ghost Whisperer. WTF? I think someone in the running of the CBS network has gotten slapped with a stupid stick. Oh please ABC pick up this show, I already watch all the daytime soaps from abc, i can go primetime with them as well. CBS sucks. and the really bad part, its sudden, no info that the shows are gonna be cancelled. It is wrong how they do this.
If ABC were looking to grab the ratings then they should really consider picking up the GHOST WHISPERER faithful and possibly gain some fresh viewers! I couldn’t tell you what is even on other networks on Fridays at 8pm! I’m sure you could stink it up for a few weeks with some “NEW HOT SHOW” just to watch it cost you out the A@S (money and viewers) or go with a fairly fresh hit! Please think about it hard! And by the way you might want to check out MERCY, I think it could really be something special! I loved… Read more »
Please don’t cancel or at least another show pick it up. Me and my mom watch it every Friday. I’m 15 and I’ve been watching it since it first aired!! It’s one of my favorite shows!!! Please don’t cancel/another station pick it up 🙂
If they do in fact follow through and cancel this show, I will no longer watch ANY show on their network!
Please pick up Ghost Whisperer. I have loved this show since it first aired. It is one of only a few shows on TV that I actually sit down to watch. Please don’t disappoint us…
Please ABC aire the show I just started watching and it’s REALLY good. Please I love watching this show.
Please Please Please keep this show! I love this show, as do many members of my family. I will follow it wherever it goes! This is the only show I make sure to watch every week!!! Please ABC, I’m a grown adult BEGGING you! I have seen every episode (some more than once or twice!).
PLEASE PICK UP THIS SHOW!!!! I look forward to seeing the show ever Friday night. If I have to be out, I make a point to DVR this wonderful show. CBS seems to cancel a good show before giving things a real chance to either pick up and/or progress. They did the same thing with Moonlight, RIGHT BEFORE Twilight came out and boy, they have been kicking themselves ever since! Please rethink this bad decision!! If you are foolish enough to follow through, then please let it be picked up by ABC, yet another reason for me to STOP watching… Read more »
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE pick this show back up!!!! I absolutely adore this show, and have followed it from the beginning.
I will do whatever need be… whether signing petitions, rallying, whatever!!!
JUST DO IT!!!! 🙂
PLEASE KEEP THIS SHOW. IT’S AWESOME. AND IS THE ONLY TV SHOW I LOOK FORWARD TO EVERY WEEK! PLEASE. PLEASE. PLEASE!
Please, Please, PLEASE! Keep this show. My cousins and I love it and never miss an episode. It has a great story and it is one of our favorites!
Please pick it up!!!! Ghost Whisperer is the only show i actually watch on a weekly basis! its not stupid like all the other shows on tv. i would hate for such a good thing to end so soon and suddenly! so please please please pick it up!