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 can’t believe Ghost Whisperer was cancelled! Why are the best shows always cancelled and more reality shows and really stupid sitcoms are put back on? Everyone I know likes Ghost Whisperer! If ratings are down don’t put it at the same time as another hit show! HELLO! This show was a good family show and not full of sex like so many that I can’t let my kids watch! I hope the other network picks it up because we will definitely be watching it !!
My mom and i loved this show i think it should be brought bk for season 6. it shouldnt have been cancelled in the first place… my mother and i have been waiting for the season premier and it never came so PLEASE bring it back
Did not matter if there repeats, I always watched, and waiting for new episodes. Our best programs are disappearing without warning. I not only loves this, so does my husband.
Come on, there are programs not wearth watching…and still they come on.
This is a new era yes, but this program makes you think, what could be..Come on someone needs to pick this up…Think positive is my motto….Think about this…
hye I’m from Belgium, and I love Ghost Whisperer! I can never watch it on tv because they ‘re playing it too late for me when I have school. But I always record it and watch it the next day. I can’t believe they cancelled it. I WANT a next season of Ghost Whisperer!
It’s a Ghostly Mistake ~ Please Put Ghost Whiperer Back On ~ I Love The Show, The Cast ~ The Show Is Never Boring
I THINK ABC SHOULD PICK UP GHOST WHISPERER U AND DO A 6,7,8,9 SEASON I DONT CARE I JUST WONT GHOST WHISPERER TO GO FOR ANOTHER TWO YEAR, AND I SPEAK FOR MOST GHOST WHISPERER FANS WEN I SAY THIS!!
WE LOVE GHOST WHISPERER!
Im so mad that it has been canceled. Im tired of watching the reruns. Can there please be a season six omg.
I love GhostWhisperer.Its my favorite show.I have watched since the first one, never miss.I still watch the old episodes when they come on.Please bring it back, don’t kill my show.I have always looked forward to watching and wondering what was going to happen on the next episode and now I have nothing to look forward to watching.
I cannot believe you guys cancelled this show! It was amazing! My children and I looked forward to this show afterschool. I got them to watch it from the first episode to the last one! Its like when you cancelled Buffy and Charmed! Please bring it Back!
it would be dreadful if they never made another ghost whisperer it has been one of the best shows on tv in years always something new never boring
BRING IT BACK PLEASE!!!!!!!!
Ghost Whisperer was a great show, and really original. I mean, I get so tired of seeing the same kind of plots and same linear story lines in every show on TV, and this show was great and refreshing. It was incredibly interesting to me. It needs to be brought back, I don’t care how, or by whom. But it needs to happen.
Ghost Whisperer must go on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(A dutch fan from Holland)
Put the show back on. It was about the only thing I truly loved watching. I dislike, along with many, many others I’ve spoken to, reality shows. I want to be entertained, not see a bunch of people challenging and/or hurting each other…. Also, if you have a winner in these reality shows, how does that make the loosers feel. Not worth the time…let’s have some entertainment for a change, like it used to be!!!!!!!
this was such a great show, my family would all sit and watch this show, This should be brought back, it would do great.
I love ghost whisperer and it should not be canceled. It is my favorit show.
I really think its disappointing that they canceled the show but yet put some of the stupidist shows. I have faithfully watched the show since the beginning. I would love for the show to come back on, I never knew it was canceled. Kept watching for the series premier. And CBS rescheduled Ghost Whisperer about the same time as some of the other networks good shows, if you didnt have a DVR yea people went to the other channel to watch that show like CSI…the show would probably boost back up if they would put it on a time slot… Read more »