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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pick the show up i and many others love gw
Save Ghost Whisperer – come and sign the petition , click on my name !
Please – figure out a way to keep this show. We watch it as a family. We have even recorded early older episodes that we may have missed before we started watching it faithfully. Please please find a way to keep it on air.
I hope Melinda is around to help CBS and now ABC cross into the light because I for one, and several of my friends, are going to stop viewing any shows on those networks. You can go into the light CBS and ABC…..no need of staying earth-bound! I”m sure you have lost than just a view Ghost Whisperer fans!
yes abc should pick up ghost whisperer!!!!!!!!i love the show and was very upset to hear that it had been cancelled!!!!!please abc
Its clearly a no brainer!!!! Ghost Whisperer is my favorite show!!!! and is for many other people. Why drop it!!??? Droping it will be a big mastake (i suck at spelling) please keep showing the show for at least one more season!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES !! MOST DEFINETLY !!!!
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please ABC pick up Ghost Whisperer. It is the best show on tv. I love it and many of my friends love it . I am in a book club and all of our books are based on supernatural powers and this show always comes up in our discussions. Ever since GW came on I have watched every episode and every season has gotten better and better! Ghost Whisperer is the only show that actually keeps me going through the week. Thanks to ION I can still watch it. Please ABC we are all begging you, and I really… Read more »
YESS!!! Pick it up !!!! I recently just found out about that show; It really is a good one! One of my favorite yet. I cannot beleive it would already be cancelled. It does have great potentiel to pursuit seasons..Please ABC!
I absolutely love Ghost Whisperer and so does everyone else I know! Cancelling it would be a tremendous mistake! Please keep it on the air!
I too just started watching and not missing a single one of the GW shows on the Ion channel! The show is such a good show, everything from the cozy feel that the town has, to the spookiness you get when watching it with the lights off, to just having something to look foward to watching when I get home! I will say there are no good tv shows anymore, the kind of tv I watch now are just reality tv shows, it’s been such a long time that a truly good tv show came about. GW is one of… Read more »
I just started watching reruns of Ghost Whisperer on the ION channel on Direct TV. I love it. Please ABC … pick up this show. There is nothing good to watch on Friday nights – except Ghost Whisperer!
Definitely, ABC should pick up ghost whisperer, it is the best show I’ve ever had the privilege of knowing and being able to watch! I feel I am a part of the family on the show, I love Melinda! My sisters, and my son, and even my husband always watch Ghost Whisperer! I am devastated of the possibility of it being cancelled! Please Please Please pick it up and continue this great great family show!!!!
what is wrong with you cbs always cancelling good show for pilot show that want last pst a year. first it was Without a trace know ghost whisperer that is one of my favorite shows.I hope cbs decide to keep it or another network picks it up
i just want to say toyou guys about ghost whispers, you’ll a fool because that show was one of the things that keept me from bars on friday nights, and drinking , what i’m I going to do now , there’s nothing else that can catch my attention like ghost whispers. what was you guys problem canceling that show, who ever pick it up will get all us non TV people. hope someone pick it up soon, please let me no so I’ll be the first onme there to watch it. because it is so real, I can idealfic with… Read more »
Ghost Whisperer is a great show! It needs to be picked up and fast.