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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please I love this show and was crushed when her husband died. They were a perfect couple and you have to keep the show and bring him back. PLEASE!!!There is so much junk out there and yet you want to remove a great show. Leave the show on and let them be a happy couple again. I hated it when he died don’t ruin a good thing Please keep the show and let him back with her. I never miss it and love them both.
I truly have tried to never miss ghost whisperer and would greatly enjoy it’s continuation, please do not, i repeat DO NOT cancel this show i know plenty if people who enjoy this show including myself. If it is cancelled i would like for it to be picked up on another network
I’m so disappointed that The Ghost Whisperer has been cancelled. It’s my favorite and number #1 show on TV. I don’t watch much TV because the topics don’t interest me. I really LOVE this show. It’s different and more interesting than all the lawyer and cop shows, not to mention all the dumb reality tv shows. The Ghost Whisperer is about love and helping people. That’s what life’s all about. ABC should seriously consider picking up the series. I’m really gona miss Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) solving the ghost/spiritual mysteries every Friday night. It was the best show on… Read more »
I would love for ABC to pick up this show…it really upsets me that I get into a show to the point where I have seen every episode and then they cancel it. Please ABC pick it up…
i live in Ireland and the only way we get to see Ghost Whisperer is on our satellite services, i got into GW when i was off work ill and i managed to get all 5 seasons, and spent an entire week watching them all again, you cant leave it how it ended in Season 5…. I would so love a new season, im an avid fan and have my 10 year old daughter watching and loving the show also.
I just love, LOVE this show! I would be devistated if it was taken off the air. I hope that ABC picks up the show and doesn’t cancel it. It just wouldn’t be the same with the characters changing either. SO please don’t take Jim off the show just keep everything the same.!
Ghost NEEDS to stay on I don’t care who airs it! It just can’t leave the screen!
i love ghost whisper and i want it back i have not missed one episode……. please bring it back it is a mommy daughter show for my daughters and i
I heard that ratings and the future eps were pending on the rumor-turned-true broken romance of Hewitt and co-star Kennedy. If that par was the case, then very sad indeed. GW was my reason for watching Friday PT. And I don’t agree with a few that removing Delia, Jim, and Ned, is a solution. Before the end of S5 I do agree that occurrences became slightly stale to some degree, but that’s a Writer or Producer issue. Hopefully CBS can work something out or at least let another network take in, and keep the show going for its fans. You… Read more »
i love this show! please dont stop it just yet..i need to know the reasons for everything
i absolutly love ghost whisper!!! its a great show that takes you on a journey through the whole series. my friends and i watch it every friday and havent missed an episode. I would love to have ghost whisper come back.
i think that they should keep ghost whisperer going. and i think the cast members should stay the same. and they should keep making new episodes. my son and i sit down every friday night to watch the episode together. and its very disappointing that the only thing that i watch on tv, is being canceled. i dont ever watch tv because i work sooo much. but i make the time to watch ghost whisperer! put it back on the air people!
I really love not like but love ghost wisper and I know millons of people how do to so that’s gust my opinon I don’t think any thing or any one should
Ilove Ghost Whisper. I haven’t missed 1 episode.
ABC should pick up the show and give it a major retooling of cast changes-the husband needs to go because the show will work better with her being single he just gets in the way and is 1 dimentional and get rid of her BFF and the son too she is just too old to be friends with Melinda i hate Ayisha Tyler’s departure that was when it went downhill