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.
Absolutely Yes!! Someone needs to pick up the series!!!! They can’t just end it like this.
Please someone pick up Ghost whisperer. It is a great show. Every network has those reality shows that are cheap and are only about people behaving badly. We need Ghost whisperer back. Think about quality of your shows–ones that have a PLOT.
I love this show and I hope and pray that CBS does pick it up.
NO!!!! Why, they need to keep this show!… its what keeps me interested in watching TV all over. but i like the dramatic scenes alot.
It like what if you cant catch the actual showing ? so i would either go online to find episodes. or wait for a rerun of the show. like how i catch them on ion. =D
they should renew another season =(
now im sad
I can’t believe they are cancelling this show. My wife
And I watch it faithfully. We even order the
Shows we miss off netflix and record
Shows we can’t catch. We bond watching this show
Please don’t cancel it!
well that just sucks! bring back Ghost Whisperer!! Guess my TV is off on Friday nights, the new Friday night line up is very lame!
It was the hi-light of my week! Cancelling Ghost Whisperer has to be the STUPIDEST decision CBS could have made!!! Please ABC, please pick up Ghost Whisperer, and give me something to look forward to again!!!
pick it back up please i lovethis show!!!
what the hell??!!! of course ghost whisperer should come back that is my all time favorite show ever when i found out that it was cancelled i started crying!!!!! :'(
Hellllo! You guys are crazy if you don’t put this show back on! Ilove it I’ve watched every single one! And the fact their going to have a baby just makes it more exciting!
I love the show and look forward to seeing it every Friday night. My 5 year old Grandson and I watch it together when he is here. It is one of the only things that are on Friday nights that are worth watching. I really hope it is picked up.
Please pick up the show it is a wonderful show and our whole family and alot of friends watched it every week faithfully.
I really loved Ghost Whisper as well as my grandaughter but this season when you had them have a baby, he then as miracles go he was a young man. It just was not the show it originally was. You took something and changed it for the worst. We did not even watch much of this season because of it.
ABC should definitely pick up Ghost Whisperer. My husband and I watch it every Friday night. It would be very sad to loose a show this great.
This is the only TV show I watch. What are you thinking taking it off the air!