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.
The show’s fantastic. I’ve recently really gotten involved in it. I’ve always known it was around, but now that it’s on Netflix, I’ve been running my own little marathon. I really don’t think it was advertised enough. I think that if they had previews of the episodes more often through the week, I would’ve watched it. The show’s great, with a wonderful cast. Jennifer Love Hewitt’s always been one of the scream queens, it was nice to see her in the role. I’ve just read that it doesn’t look like ABC will pick it up, I just hope they change… Read more »
I just recently started getting into this show, I’m watching all the episodes on netflix, I was hoping the next season would be shown this year, and went online to find out when, then I saw it was cancelled =[ I think with the economy getting worse, people are working more. Getting more or longer shifts that interfere with being able to watch the show, so they are recording the show to watch it later. It’s a shame such a great show has to be cancelled and I think it would gain a LOT of views if they started it… Read more »
This was a Friday night staple. Even if we weren’t home to watch it when it was on we recorded it every week. I love and miss this show.
Bring back this wonderful show.
I miss ghost whisperer, and I really enjoyed watching it every friday night.
What a mistake cbs has made. They ‘ll probably replace it with one of those horrible reality shows where everyone is cruel to each other. Or perhaps ANOTHER cop show. Ghost Whisperer always left you with a good feeling inside and always made me cry. But it was tears of joy. Not too many good shows left on television anymore.
Keep it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please bring the show back, it was one of the best show I have ever watched. My Friday nihgts are just not the same
also people probably only stopped watching it because they dont have any time to because they have to work. and also i want to see Aiden grow up more hes only 5 years old.
yeah i want to see Aidan grow up his only 5 i would love to see Ghost Whisperer again 🙁
aman to that i would like to see it see how much he has grown
hey i may be in middle school but ghost whisperer was and always be one of my favorite shows i watch it every day when i come home from school and to find out that it was canceled was devastating and i could hardly handle it and was and still am very upset and are hoping that it will come back on T.V. to at least get a real season finale.
well that’s all i have to say for now bye 🙂
Hi , I just wanted to say that Ghost Whisperer has got to be one of my all time favorite shows. I cry and laugh when I watch the show. The show really gets me emotionally invested every episode. I love how Malinda In a sense is a caregiver and always taking the lost under her wing. I love the wardrobe for this show. It is very classy and tasteful. This program teaches our children and other how to be compassionate, understanding, to put others first, to be respectful, to have patience. The show also teaches our daughters that you… Read more »
It’s a shame that CBS in this day and age can’t tell the difference between ratings of live viewers and timeshifters like me that dvr the show and watch it when it’s convenient to our schedules…I’ve watched thsi show from day one and van’t believe they have cancelled it..I wanted to see Aiden grow up more….IDIOTS!!
I love the show!! Melinda is wonderful. I hope someone picks it up!!!
I love that show!! I hope it doesn’t end.
BEST SHOW EVER!!! GUTTED ITS BEEN CANCELLED!!! 🙁
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NOOOO!!!!!! ITS CANCELED WHY? WHY? IF ONLY THE CRATER OF GHOST WHISPERER CAN SEE US NOW I WILL NEVER BE HAPPY ALL THE MOVIES I LIKE DISAPPEARS LIKE THATS SO RAVEN LILO AND STITCH GOT CANCELED ITS NOT FARE I WILL NEVER BE THE SAME LIKE MY FAMILY WATCHES GHOST WHISPERER WE NEVER MISS IT AND THEN MY NEXT FAVORITE SHOW WILL BE CANCELED!!!!!!!!!!!! ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;( ;(… Read more »
please comment on jeanette and c and david if u agree 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 i still feel ANGRY AND SAD *sniff sniff*
You are so right!!!!!!!!!!!!Ghost Whisperer and Charmed were my favorite two shows. I love them. Now they are both gone but, you can see Ghost Whisperer on ION Channel if you have cable which is either channel 2 or 7. Also Charmed is on after Ghost Whisperer on the WE network channel 32 or 1214. I hope that you don’t mind reruns but I still enjoy it. Hope that this helps. Kath
I MISS WATCHING IT. SHE HAS NICE TITTIES AND DAVID IS HOT!