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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Do not cancel!! Some one please pick up the show!! Love this, just started watching the reruns….I have to get the season prior, but absolutely love this show!
OMG! No more Ghost Whisperer? That’s total garbage! My daughter and I LOVE GHOST WHISPERER…my teenage daughter, who has Aspberger’s (high-functioning autism)! It’s the only show she will watch on TV. She knows every episode, word for word. OMG! What am I going to tell her? We’re definitely going to have a problem in my household. When ESPN took over Monday night football (making it viewable only to those who could afford cable) and my daughter found out ESPN was affiliated with the The Walt Disney Company…well, ANYTHING Disney or ESPN related was totally banned from our house! My daughter… Read more »
If Ms. Gordon and her cast is still willing, please bring back my show in the fall!
Sure can’t figure why the ratings would fall off…it was one of the best shows on!
Don’t cancel Ghost Whisperer! I look forward to it every week and am thoroughly depressed to not be watching it right now:(
DO NOT CANCEL!!!! PLEASE!!! It’s one good show the family watches together. I will be so sad. The kid didn’t help things Make him grow up like Ned did. Neds a cutie, make Aiden another little hottie and maybe that will pick up more viewers
i think they should pick it up again. it’s such a good show i kno all of the re-runs by heart and at first i didnt know the show was being aired on CBS im such a huge fan PLEASE I BEG KEEP IT ON!!
Please do not cancel Ghost Whisperer. Please ABC pick it up, it is a great show. Thank you.
OMG,OMG!!!!! NO THIS IS MY FAVORTIE SHOW I LOVE THIS SHOW
CMS DONT CANCLE IT GIVE IT ONE MORE SHOT
Hey guys, just to let you know:
ABC SAID NO!
E-mail CBS, complain, get friends to do the same. We won’t go down without a fight. E-mail,E-mail,E-mail. She CBS we mean business, and pray that someone picks it up.
No dont cancle the show …. Just find a different channel to have it on if CBS is canceling it …. Use it on like Abc Family , USA NETWORK , just do whatever it takes AND PLEASE ABC PICK IT UP ……. BRING IT BACK FROM THE DEAD…
BRING IT BACK FROM THE DEAD PLEASE DONT CANCEL IT BRING IT BACK ON FRIDAY AT 8/7C LIKE IT DOES EVERY FRIDAY
PLEASE PICK IT UP ABC!!!! THIS IS MY FAVORTIE SHOW AND I DONT KNOW WHAT ILL DO WITHOUT IT!!! I JUST RECENTLY BECAME INTERESTED IN IT AND I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! 🙂 PLEASE BRING IT BACK FROM THE DEAD!
please don’t cancel it! Love this show! Just got hooked and now it might be getting canceled…? Please no! Let ABC pick it up…!
OMG NOOOOO, I love this show. ABC pick it up.
PLEASE KEEP IT ON I LOVE THAT SHOW, YOU ALWAYS CANCEL THE DHOWS PEOPLE GET HOOKED ON WHY IS THAT???? I WATCH THE RERUNS EVERY NIGHT THE EPISODES NEVER GET OLD. J. LOVE ROCKS!!!
Reminder: Don’t just tell us on this site – get on the CBS.com site. They have a place for comments, complaints, etc., about specific CBS shows. Express your displeasure where it might actually get read because I don’t think anyone is listening to this site at CBS. I haven’t written to ABC yet, but plan to. I am just so sick of all of the reality shows…….and I always looked forward to the next episode of GW – even if the writers did mess up the story lines!