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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I’ve recently began watching Ghost Whisperer and love it! I’ve followed on CBS, ION, and WE and am now prepared to follow where ever it may continue on. Please don’t cancel, it’s definitely a family show worth watching!
Please bring it back!! My family loves the and everyone I know loves it. It’s one of the few good shows on TV.
please abc pick ghost whisperer up i love this show and i know i may not be important in this world but i believe that this show is and always will be and i watch cbs but i would be happy to switch and watch abc so please i am begging you abc just pick up ghost whisperer and when i found out it was canceled i was heart broken and speachless i love this show please im begging just pick it up please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wish you had not cancelled Ghost Whiaper. My daughter and I Loved the show. If we were not here to watch it, we had it set to record. The cast was great and I am so glad you did not change the actor Jim. I was so devistated when I thought he had been killed off. Jennifer and him were so great together. When you added the son that was a great twist, although I would have liked to see some shows when during her pregnacy and when Jim became a doctor. Please rethink cancelling Ghost Whisper. It was one… Read more »
Switch Networks! Whatever you need to do! Please bring back Ghost Whisperer!!! It is one of my favorite shows!!!!!
Please bring Ghost Whisperer back!! My family and I love to watch it!!! I think the rating people messed up their information!! I dont think their ratings dropped at all!!!
Ok.. you SERIOUSLY can’t cancel Ghost Whisperer. It is my FAVORITE show!!
i looove this show … you can’t cancel it. i record it and i watch it every week, religiously. i’ve always loved it since day 1. i really don’t like to watch anything else and i looked forward to it every week. this isn’t good. it’s kinda weird it’s not there in my t.v. schedule anymore. it’s actually really sad. come on! you seriously need to bring it back! and my son even likes that show and he’s 9.
I don’t follow tabloid articles on actors and shows..so thought it was only a stupid rumor that the show production was being cancelled for Ghost Whisperer. But it wasn’t a rumor and the show was replaced by something not worth viewing. It was bad enough during the season when the show’s time slot was too often taken by something else that someone at the network had deemed more important…this usually resulting in switching channels to see something else or just turning off the tv set. I wonder what else was happening those nights when the ratings supposedly dropped. All I… Read more »
My family and I all love the Ghost Whisperer show. My wife and I get together with our teenage boys to watch every time the show is on. If we forget to turn the television on, the boys remind us. Since the station we watch Ghost Whisperer on has been switching to other programs and not playing Ghost Whisperer, we usually just end up turning the television off. Not many other programs on worth watching. Ghost Whisperer is a descent program. Its good entertainment, and generally has a good moral message. I wish the networks would recognize the audience they… Read more »
Enough of ghosts and tears and same old scripts!
This show has lasted long enough!
Let it go into the light and make room for a new form of life.
LET IT REST IN PEACE! ASHES TO ASHES, DUST TO DUST!
please abc you really need to pick ghost wisperer up alot of people agree i lllllllllloooooooovvvvvvveeeeeeeee ghost whisperer!!!!! yeah the rating fell down hill but that is because tou need to put more paza/excitment in it then more people might tune in to see it all im saying is please pick up ghost whisperer i love it
Please do NOT cancel. I have been watching it since the beginning. All my friends also watch it. We all love that show. It will be a tragic loss to the television viewing public to lose a popular show!
I love Ghost Whisper …. please don’t cancel it. Bring the show back
ME AND MY FAMILY LOVE GHOST WHISPERER, PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THE SHOW.