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 want to see season 6 & 7. ABC SI-FI or any network.
I really love this show and I would love to see it continue viewing so my answer would have to be PLEASE DO! Lol that is all thank you!
The story line wasn’t as great last season which likely affected the number of viewers. Have a better story line but don’t cancel the show itself.
KEEEP THIS SHOW , i watched one episode & fell in love ive watched jst about all episodes on netflix & i loooove it ! Please keep this show & make my friday nights ! (:
This show taught me about life and i love to see it to move ahead to season 6. From 2009 to present (freshman to junior year of high school), though, i wasn’t able to watch it because of my schedule at school -my mother had a similar situation. i wish i had time to watch this show.
Oh, do I miss this show. I watch reruns and can’t figure out why they would cancel such a great show. I am sick to death of vapid sitcoms. I wish someone would pick this up and resurrect it. The questions is, are the actors willing?
I absolutely love Ghost Whisperer! It was the only thing on Friday nights that I did watch, now there’s nothing. I think ABC would gain many viewers by picking it up. I think the thing that threw people off of it was when they brought Jim back in someone elses body, maybe not too believable as just her seeing and being able to talk to ghosts, but it was still a very good show and I would love to see it come back, I would definately watch it religiously, I still watch the reruns on ION but its just not… Read more »
THEY SHOULD DEFINITELY SHOULD CONTINUE “GHOST WHISPERER” IT WAS SUCH A GREAT SERIES!!! PLEASE CONTINUE IT!!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT!! KEEP GOING!!
Hope it comes back and they pick it up
I LOVE THIS SHOW!! THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER SERIES!! EHMEHGAWD!!!! SERIOUSLY, HOW COULD THEY CANCEL IT LIKE THIS. . .SO SAD:(
I mean abcs channel not CBS srry
I Loved the show.. I still watch the old episodes.. Even though this show is old it is sti awesome. I think CBS should bring it back. But I watch this show on ion television.. (:
God i seriously cried my eyes out when i heard the show was cancelled. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!! I HAVE BEEN WATCHING IT SINCE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL CAUSE I ALWAYS WATCHED IT WITH MY GRANDMA AND IT REALLY BROUGHT US CLOSE. I WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SAD WHEN THEY CANCELLED IT. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this show! I missed it because of my job but I have watched all of the episodes on Netflix!! It really draws you in..LOVE Jennifer, And the rest of the cast.. why is it you throw something out so fast….I know a lot of ppl who love it and want it back…Please bring it back!!