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.
This is a show that my teenage daughters would watch with me. There are not many shows that I can enjoy with my daughter now days. We are truely disappointed not being able to watch new episodes this fall.
Please bring back “The Ghost Whisperer”….This last season was
an experiment gone horribly wrong…..but it’s been put right.
We love it and want it back, please!
I hope they pick up the show because I am completely addicted to Ghost Whisperer!
Please bring back ghost whisper I love that show and want it back and upset that it will not be on anymore.
im watching this show for last few years. i have all series on dvds and even then anytime its on tv i watch them again:) please ABC pick it up, its the best show in tv!!! greetings from Poland:)
i think ABC should pick it up it is such a great show …. hate to see it be cancelled
Please bring back Ghost Whisperer. This has been my favorite show. I have loved this show ever sense it came on the air. Hate to see it canceled.
I was disappointed when the fall lineup came out a GHOST WHISPER was nowhere to be found. I was sorry to here that it had been cancelled. I loved this show and watched it faithfully. this is a new post. todays date is 9-15-10 .
I was upset when i found out that they cancelled this show. I watched the show every night that it was on. They should have cancelled another show and left this one on.
I hope that ABC would pick it up. Hopefully they can change the script a bit to where the son is also helping people. It’s a good show and I too get my favorite snack to watch it. I still watch the re-runs, but now they are showing the re-runs of the re-runs. I hope that ABC chooses this show.
Please bring Ghost Whisper back! We need more shows like this. I love this show and I buy the dvd’s to send to my sis in Georgia and she has all her friends hooked. I would like to know when a person records the show does this show up on the ratings? everyone I know has to use the dvr service to be able to watch later when we get home from work or when there is quiet time.
I CANNOT BELIVE THEY CANCELLED IT! We would always go out on Fridays but I would sacrifice it all just to watch the show! I only missed one episode cuz i was forced to go out 🙁 Fridays were my “good days” cuz school was done for the weekend and i celebrated eating my fave food and watching Ghost Whisperer! I told a bunch of my friends to watch it too i hope they bring it back…
I am dissapointed that the show has been cancelled. I loved it. I hope somone picks it up. I am watching reruns on SciFi.
I am highly dissapointed that they cancelled this show! I have Dish Network so we DVRD every single show! Never missed one!! I think they could change some things like bring the Professor back I loved him! But please please somebody pick up this show!
I would rather have had Medium canceled. I am very disappointed that Ghost Whisperer has been canceled. Please ABC pick it up!!