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.
Ghost Whisperer is the most amazing show my family and i sit and watch E! And Then watch ghost whisperer. ABC should pick it up for a 6th season JenniferLove does A wonderful job with this show.
It is a good show for one reason….JLH…she is attractive..but the plot is very repetitive. She’ll get another show soon enough. Overall it was not that great a show, and the ratings proved that.
I refuse to watch anything on CBS! How dare they cancel my favorite show! And ABC! What fools they are for not picking up Ghost Whisperer. I agree with the person who suggested boycotting CBS. Consider it done by this Ghost Whisperer lover!
BOYCOTT CBS! GHOST WHISPERER LOVERS UNITE!
I THINK THEY SHOULD NOT CANCLE THE SHOW BECAUSE IT IS A GREAT SHOW THAT WE ENJOY WATCHING. EVERYTIME A GOOD SHOW COMES AROUND IT GETS CUT..THAT MAKES ME SO MAD…PLEASE BRING IT BACK…
I think that ABC should pick up ghost whisperer show and give them a new chance to them and to us as fans of the show. This has been a shock for us. Please save ghost whisperer! Debora
Exactly, if your going to end it you have to end it with a lot of questions answered you cant end the whole series like this.it will be a shame that it ends i love ghost whisperer and i hope abc takes it, but you have to explain a lot and and it nicely like adain gets older and thanks melinda for giving him his powers and they work together to help the ghosts or something like that.
http://www.saveghostwhisperer.com Come on guys and gals please get involved and sign the petition. Posting comments on numerous sites is good but its not getting us anywhere and we need to hurry up whilst this is all still fresh in the minds of viewers,fans,and the networks who may be interested in taking over Ghost Whisperer. Please do not sit back and think “there will be plenty of other fans who will sign the petition so my 1 signature won’t matter so much so I don’t need to sign” – if everyone thinks this then we will get nowhere and the networks… Read more »
Do not cancel Ghost Whisperer!! There are too many unanswered questions to end things this way. If Ghost Whisperer is going to end, it needs to end with a grand finale. The fans who have been loyal all these years deserve at least that much respect. Better yet, they deserve to not have one of their favorite programs ripped away from them. Additionally, the networks need to realize that ratings may have been down to due to the economy. I’m sure with such a large unemployment rate this past year many homes opted to do without cable or satellite because… Read more »
CBS has decimated Friday nights by losing both Numbers and Ghost Whisperer. Hopefully ABC or some network with thinking entities in their programming dept picks up Ghost Whisperer. While it did lack some plot line consistency and the addition of the adding the older child was not an asset, the show still provided some great stories.
Please pick up Ghost Whisperer! This show is the only reason I watch T.V. It certainly hasn’t run its course. I really love this show and would be a loyal viewer to ABC if they put it on their lineup.
I stop everything I am doing on Fri. nites at 8pm for Ghost Whisperer, come on guys all the drama and CSI garbage please let us other side of the spectrum have our show. You don’t cancel sports when their rating is low.
I do hope that ABC will pick up Ghost whisperer, it is my favorite show and it has lots of fans. it is so different to other shows of its kind, everything about it is great and there is so much more to explore with the characters. please please please abc , pick it up. It is a must have.
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Why did you put the question mark after “No Season Six” on this and Old Christine cancelled?
@Pikachu: Because, as the articles state, there was a chance that ABC might pick them up for season six. They have now decided not to do that.
DONT CANCELL THE SHOW GHOST WHISPERER IS A FRIDAY NIGHT CLASSIC!!
I will say this again so folks can see it I hope. We need to be writing to the sponsors AND CBS, telling them how unhappy we are. I recorded the last episode so can make a list of the sponsors – I’m sure we all have friends who could do that for us. THEY need to know that their product will suffer too. And I’m all for the Friday night CBS boycott – especially ANYTHING in GW’s timeslot.
cbs will be moving medium to ghost whisperers old time slot. medium is my favorite show, so i can’t boycott it. but i am DEVESTATED by the cancellation of GW, it and medium were what made friday night tv sacred.