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.
Please don’t stop the show.
We all like it and never miss a show even if we work late we recorded
and we see all the reruns.
So leave it where it is or please have some other network pick it up.
please save ghost whisperer/it is my family’s favorive show/if the show is cancelled it will leave us wanting more/if another network picks it up we will follow/we are couch potatoes/we watch tv at least fourteen hours a day/don’t disappoint viewers llike us/this year the show has such a great cliff hanger/give the writers a chance to give the show some colsure.WE WANT MORE/ABC be smart/CBS GOODBYE/thank you
Please pick it up! We love this show!
ABC must pickup ghost whisperer. i love this series. im brazilian and i whatched ghost whisperer every week.
I love Ghost Whisperer. Please save the show ABC. It’s the only hope-filled show on TV. I never NOT cry at the end of every episode.
ABC, Please pick up Ghost Whisperer!!!! I have been hooked on this show since it first aired in 2005. It is the best show on television and I can’t believe that the episode that aired yesterday was the finale. There has to be more…
Ghost whisperer was a great show ! I was a faithful viewer and watched every show since the beginning. Please ABC I will definately follow the show if you pick it up. It was a huge shock to everyone that followed the show. Is there any where that we can plead our case?? If so please let us know …I know the viewers will respond if given a chance.
GHOST WIPSPERE SHOULD NOT BE CANCELED AT ALL THE STORY LINE IS NOT FINISHED
My Family & I are really upset that Our favorite show, “Ghost Whisperer” is canceled. It’s one of the few shows that we watch as a family. It has down to earth characters, & great story lines, that have kept all four of us on the edge of our seats! Our teen aged Sons always make sure they are home on Friday nights to watch with us, and sometimes they bring friends, and we make it Pizza night also. Please let me know who I can E-mail so that ABC will pick this wonderful series up, as we also watch… Read more »
I rarely watch tv but I always watch Ghost Whisperer. As of now I will NEVER watch CBS again. This isn’t the first time they have axed a great show. I wish I could see things CBS’s way but I can’t shove my head that far up my @#$
PLEASE PICK UP GHOST WHISPERER ABC!!! THIS SHOW IS THE BEST. MY FAMILY AND I ARE ALWAYS EXCITED FOR GHOST WHISPERER ON FRIDAY NIGHTS! PLEASE PLEASE ABC PICK UP GHOST WHISPERER.
Please don’t let ”Ghost Whisper” dissappear from our TV screens, ABC, you have the oppourtunity to keep the best program on Friday nights on the air. I urge ABC to pick up this uplifting and thought provoking program and let it’s excellent stories continue. Thank You.
I love the show. Please bring it back. Melinda and Jim are great together. Please, please,
please bring back. but at 10:00 pm. I will be happest camper.
ABC please pick this up. This is one of the few shows that me and my daughter enjoy. No i wasn’t to crazy about the Jim thing a few seasons back, but never less we enjoy the un violent emotional show. Very few are like this and promote good feelings and adventure with out all the sex and violence, so ABC if you are listening the fan following is great. You would be crazy not to pick this one up.
Please, someone pick up Ghost Whisperer. I really enjoy this show and will jump ship to whatever network picks it up!