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 agree with Wilfred Owne. The addition of the kid ruined the show. I loved seeing the romance between Melinda and Jim but as soon as they added the kid it just….ended. AND he doesnt say his lines very well and asks too many questions, no offence. But id love for the show to come back on air. PLEASE?!
I absolutely love Ghost Whisperer! I am sooo disappointed its over! It was my favorite show, me and my family watched it every friday night! I wish it would be picked up again for at least one last shot!
Omg. I love watching Ghost Whisperer with my children we enjoyed it, even look forward to watch its very sad that it has been cancelled wish it wasn’t. Gonna miss it.
I love this show. I find Ghost Whisperer on several different channels and record it so I can sit and watch with my daughter. We enjoy it so much. This is a great storyline. I wish someone would pick this show back up. It’s scary but has funny and emotional times too. I believe a different network could bring this show back.
I think the show went downhill and lost viewership for the same reason I stopped watching it: the addition of the child actor. Sorry to say it, but he was an annoying kid, and the episodes got even less adult with him on it. It started out as a sexy show (with Jennifer in revealing costumes!) that both of the spouses could find “interesting.” Add the kid, and it got too clean. He didn’t read his lines very well, either. Sorry kid.
Really!! OMG! This is one of the very few Grown-up shows that is clean enough for my son to watch… He was 8 (now 13) when he found it. He thought it was a show like Ghost Hunters. I would watch it first & record it. Then on Saturdays we would watch it together… Kind of our own “Prime Time In The Day Time Mommy & Me Moment”. As he got older, he got to stay up late and when it aired on Fridays he thought he was the coolest kid on the block!! This a very SAD day. I… Read more »
I actually discovered Ghost Whisperer a couple of months ago… I absolutely LOVE it and was dissapointed to find out it had been cancelled… 🙁 … I would Love to see it come back on the air!!!!!! There’s too many things left unfinished to just drop it like that… I will be buying the whole season to play catch-up…. 🙂
I really love this show and am now watching the reruns over and over. I really would love to see the show come back on. There are limited amount of shows on anymore that are any good and definately not as good as Ghost Whisperer. Please bring it back on. Thanks!:)
Please please please bring back Ghost Whisperer. So many unanswered questions, where is Gabrielle, what will happen to all those lost souls under ground and further more what else can Aiden do!?
I love Ghost Whisperer!! I like watching the shows after I get off. I really wished a new seaon would start again, it’s very interesting. PLEASE!!!!!
I think Ghost Whisperer is AWESOME!!! The reason the ratings went down toward the end was because that was when they started adding things like the shineys and the shadows and it wasn’t needed. Everyone I know that loved the show says the same thing, they stopped watching because all the new things that were being added to enhance the show when the show didn’t need it. I strongly believe that it they started a new season and did away with the shineys and shadows or made them dwindle out somehow the ratings would go back up and there would… Read more »
Are you serious!?!? No! I loved this show!! Create a season six!! PLEASE!!!
i think the show should come back on the air. it was very good show bring it back on the air this year.
Are you exec Brain dead or something taking a popular show
I love ghost whsperer ABC shoul bring seaso six because everybody wants to known what’s going to happen with melinda’s son if he going to have the same ability as her or more and what going to happen with all the spirit down on the ground in granville are they going to stay there for ever or they are going to the light. we as a viewer want to know what is going to happen.