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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Bring it back like now please!!!!
please bring back ghost whisper, I watch reruns every sunday
I Love Ghost Whisperer, and I want to see more of it! It would make many People happy if they just make a season 6 !!
Please bring the show ghost whisperer back for a 6 season I loved this show so please bring it back on the air this fall go to Facebook ghost whisperer page over millions of likes and over a million of comments so please thank you
Please make season six please I love this show so much
To whom it may concern, I think you made a mistake Ending Ghost Whisper There was room for many more season’s. To end it where you did with the shinies.It wasn’t a great ending.So please bring the cast back Melinda Gordon ( Jennifer Love Hewitt) .All my friends watched it an there friends. I watch it whenever it came on TV. I have all the DVD’s an watch them with my Daughter. We have a marathon we watch them all.Just can’t get enough of it. What do we have to do make a petition to bring it back.Bring Ghost Whisper’s… Read more »
Please please bring it back i have seen all the episodes and they are cool i love it so please keep on doing more episodes♡♡♡♢♢♢
they should bring ghost whisperer back its the only show that accurately shows soul midwifery
I have all the episodes on DVD I miss the show, besides you never told us what became of Dr Paine after that, he said he’d come back.
I want a season 6
Pkease bring GW back! It’s a great show and great actors! Season 6 is a must! You ever think the reason the ratings went down because people didn’t have cable anymore or it came on at the wrong times? However if Netflix or hulu picked it up the ratings would skyrocket and more people would watch it!! Js
please any network bring this great show back miss the show so much. I love the characters and actors that play them so please bring it back.
please any network bring this great show back miss the show so much
I think the show should be renewed I LOVED the show and was sad to see it go, please bring it back.
Yes it should because even though its kind of creepy sad and adventurous it is one of the best shows ever and even though i’m on season 2 still I was hoping to see what lies after season 5. please bring it back P.S. I don’t know why people have to cancel a show for, what I mean to say is that there was this show back in 2013 called under the dome, what ever tv channel produced that show only did 3 seasons they then cancelled the show cause they said they were done with the show but they… Read more »
i remember under the dome it was a good show, hate it how they cancel a show and you never get closer of what happend, ghost whisperer was awesome wish they would revive it