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 can’t believe that ghost whisper was taken off the air but it has. good shows are hard to find and i believe this show was a show that we all need to believe in. it’s wanting to know that there is a better place when we leave this earth and know that there is a better place. i have come to love this show. my kids 10,12,&13 have started watching this show of reruns after it was taken off the air and we love the shows. there is no reason for us to loose a show that is full… Read more »
Put it back on the air. It was a good show.
Ghost whisper was a wondeful show and cbs was ofcourse retarted for cancling abs chould pick it up the hsow is anwesome and after all it eneded making everyone guess what was gonna happen next please please please be smart for once and bring ot back
I have been checking every Friday to see if this show is coming back. My family knew not to interrupt my Friday night of Ghost Whisperer. The writing seemed to change alot the last season. I like the stories from earlier seasons that had a clear beginning and end. I really miss the show please bring it back!!!!!!
I’m shocked to hear of it being cancelled as well. May the Executives be haunted until in comes back on the air! I love this show. We really need it.
This is a great show and should not end. I DVR it and set down on the weekend and watch it. I just don’t want it to end. This show gives you a chance to escape from life a little bit.
I agree wholeheartedly! Since I started watching Ghost Whisperer a couple of years ago, I couldn’t get enough. I caught up with the old episodes on another station and now CBS decided to cancel another good show? What is their problem? I really hope another network decides to pick up that show because I love it and I enjoy watching Jennifer Love Hewitt. It’s a shame that CBS keeps dumping these good shows. It never fails though, everytime they bring in something and we get hooked, they cancel. They keep this up and they’ll be the next to be cancelled.… Read more »
I look forward to Friday night TV when it includes Ghost Whisperer. Please reconsider canceling the show. The past lineup was awesome. BRING BACK GHOST WHISPERER!
Bring ghost whisperer back on the air please!!!! My grandma and I always bonded by watching that show, that was our way of bonding please bring it back on air
Seriously CBS, pick it up…clean up ABC’s mistakes…they should have never let go Medium…so go for it and pick up another awesome show….GHOST Whisperer!!!
I am so tired of networks cancelling and ending the best shows on TV…Whats the point is trying anything new when they pull it off within a year anyways? Please stop taking our shows off and replacing them with garbage that noone wants to watch.
Thanks!
I love this show so much that i DVR it every friday so i can see it when i got home. NEED to BRING this SHOW BACK PLEASE…!!!!!!
The normal timing of Ghost Whisperer was so toyed with at the end that it threw viewers off. I couldn’t find it and then just got busy with other things. It was one of the very few shows that I tried to watch. The last few episodes that I saw were macbre. However, if the show were to air again on any network I would follow it. We really don’t watch “network t.v.” much anyhow .
are u crazy this is awesome show.. i have been goin crazy looking for it.. it needs to come back, its not over..please another network pick it up.. i need to no
what happens to melinda & her family !!
Hi, My daughter and I really loved watching Ghost Whisperer! I am so surprised it is canceled. There is so many unanswered questions. We really hope it comes back for another season. We are very truly upset that it is canceled. I kepted looking for it every Friday night and was disappointed not to find it. Please, Please, Please bring Ghost Whisperer Back. Take care, Tricia
This is my favorite show put it back on. Why take it off? go pull another show if you want too but put it back on the air please thank you.