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 PUT A SIXTH SEASON UP! THIS SHOW WAS AMAZING.
Will no longer watch CBS, this was by far my favorite show. I had to find out that it was cancelled by googling this article. ;(
Yes it should pick it up! Its very intriguing!!! And I love it! Please don’t get rid of something so good!
I am tired of all of the good shows being cancelled. This show was getting so good and a must see every Friday. I would watch this show if it moved to a different network.
sorry but this is really no surprise to most..when they decided to kill jim that was a big mistake….then to put him in another persons body…that was another big mistake… then all this building up for the baby…only to have the show jet set five years into the future made no sense at all…it was stupid and hard to keep up because five years into the future was not being reflected in the show.. now with the child they brought into the show that did fit in…at all…that looked like he could barley say three lines and always looked like… Read more »
I devoted my friday nights to watch this show!!! I am so sad that it has been cancelled!!! It was definately worth watching, I can’t believe that it’s not on… it definately should be picked back up!
pleace i bag you to keep it going alot of people in the world love this show it can give them a peace of mind of what hard time there are in life and you have brought hope and love to the show and people love that you keep ghost whisper and numbers on it who make adults and little kids happy and one to come to see it build on with the love of the cast members.
It should not have a sixth season.
YES.. if any other reason … for the die hard fans to get closure…
the show ‘s story … in my option was getting interesting … with the GOOD and EVIL .. coming up to a head to head fight….
Grab the Series ABC…. DOPE Slap to CBS
This is a great show. Please pick it up!
omg.. really.. Ghost Whisperer was like a great lead into Medium and i loved watching it on whatever channel it came on. Really CBS like u dont even make series that are worth my looking at without the GW line up…ugh execs can be soo dumb when it comes down to paranormal primetime tv..just like when TNT canceled Charmed!
Okay !!! I was disappointed because the show isnt coming back on. My daughter and I watched this show every Friday night. Now we watch it on Ion every weekday . I sure hope that it will return to regular network.
How stupid!!!! This show was the bomb! I loved it! CBS you definately just went DOWN in my eyes!!!
Yes it should pick up ghost whisperer… This is one of my favorite shows and being watched on a friday night is not anything to brush off. Most people go out on friday nights. Come on pick up the show it is awesome.. Plus it gets people thinking in the a whole new direction. Becoming more away of life after death is a good eye opener for people. It’s a wonderful show… one of my favorites is when the people all gathered living and dead and they had the song Keep holding on… very moving… Must pick up the show… Read more »
I am so mad! This is the ONLY show I stay home to watch. CBS you suck.