A staple of CBS’ Friday night schedule, ratings for Ghost Whisperer have dropped quite a bit over the season. Last week, the network surprised many viewers by cancelling the TV show after five seasons. The blow was softened when it was learned that the series might get a second chance on ABC. The alphabet network has now apparently passed.
Starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ghost Whisperer began in September 2005 and ran for 107 episodes. The series’ regular cast has also included David Conrad, Christoph Sanders, Jamie Kennedy, Camryn Manheim, Aisha Tyler, and Jay Mohr.
Things had been looking positive for the series to continue and some outlets actually had even reported that the show had been picked up. Unfortunately, the deal didn’t work out.
We may never know the details but Ghost Whisperer executive producers Kim Moses and Ian Sander issued a statement that said, “After five wonderful seasons and over 100 episodes, we are disappointed to announce Ghost Whisperer will not be returning for a sixth season. We’ve had an incredible experience and owe a debt of gratitude to everyone involved. We continue our relationship with ABC Studios and look forward to developing many more successful projects together in the future.”
While it looks like Heroes and Law & Order will get some closure, there’s been no word on any plans to go back into production and wrap up Ghost Whisperer.
What do you think? Sad to see it go? How would you have ended Melinda’s story?
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Ghost Whisper and Medium need to stay together. It’s the only reason I look forward to staying at home on Friday nights! I almost stopped watching when Jim was killed off but CBS was smart & put him back in the show… Come on CBS – be smart again and renew the show!!!
Its worth a try http://www.saveghostwhisperer.com/….sign the petition
I am upset that there is no “finale”…closure to the series after five years. I still remember watching the final episode of Mary Tyler Moore where she got to turn off the lights in the newsroom for the last time. (I was very young at the time.) : ) Or the final episode of Cheers where Sam walks into the back and it goes dark. Anyway…the loyal viewers for the last five years deserve a final ending! We were cheated out of endings on the TV shows “Angel” and “Quantum Leap”. Let’s not repeat that. We want to see what… Read more »
This always seems to happen to the good shows. As far as I’m concerned there are many others they can cancel. They can get rid of this so called reality television. There are way too many of them on. If ABC does pick it up, I’ll have to start watching ABC instead of CBS. I work second shift and have my DVR set to record CBS. I always told people who would ask me if I had seen such and such show. I always told them if it didn’t come on CBS than no I didn’t see it. CBS is… Read more »
I’m so tired of shows being cancelled without being given a proper chance ie. at least one season. I’m quiting watching net work TV and waiting for the shows to come out on DVD at least I’ll know how long it is. I won’t be getting interested in and wasting my time
on a show that cancels mid season and have no proper ending.
Don’t hold your breath. These stations never think of us viewer they just the of the bottom dollar and if by some mircale they happen to give us our ending at least then I will say thank you. But I have at least 5 shows that I needed an ending and hoping a praying that they would at least do a special considering that they ended the show without warning. I’ll name at least 2 Tru Calling and Dark Angel. These 2 shows were aired during hours that showed shows like Your fire with Donald Trump so no one was… Read more »
I’m so sad Ghost whisperer is over 🙁 my perfect ending episode would be something traumatic, not some “you were my hero tonight thing” that doesn’t sound like “the End” at all, maybe in the show had continued for one more season, you could have flashed back and seen Aiden as a baby “that” was there BIG! mistake, flashing forward. 5 years, 1: a lot of people probably wanted to see Melinda juggle, baby and ghost. 2: the “ghost whisperer” lost her touch, final episode, really shinies and shadows was the big finale people were looking for. 3: Family has… Read more »
Show started out great but was never the same after Aisha Tyler left. Never liked Camryn Manheim’s character. Jay Mohr was great.
Didn’t seem like a “chick flick” at first but after Jim died (?) it got too sappy. Even my wife who cried at the end of every episode couldn’t stand the sappy anymore. We stopped watching middle of season 4
I gotta totally agree with you on that point! Aisha Tyler made Ghost Whisperer back in the day. As much as I love Camryn Manheim, her character never fit well with the show at all. She just seemed so out of her element and always at odds with the Melinda character. Aisha and Jennifer had amazing chemistry on-screen as BFFs and I cried like a baby when they killed off her character. Oh, and as much as I love Jamie Kennedy, Jay Mohr was truly missed. And yea, the show got WAY WAY too sappy during season 4. It was… Read more »
Bring it back!!! PLEASE!!! Bring a sixth season !! try ION television, abc family, TNT, FX?? I AM A HUGE FAN !!
I just started watching the show- once it turned up on ION. It’s wonderful. the town, the people, the ghosts- each show takes us to a new and personal world. It appears that the more intricate and people oriented, the easier it is for the show to be cancelled. All the reality shows, are often just a way to save money- they don’t have to pay for actors or sets. It seems that the networks get more an more narrow in what they offer. I’ve turned to rented movies and shows instead of what is offered on most stations.
THEY HAVE TO BRING IT BACK….it happens all the time that one network drops it and another picks it up, just because ABC didn’t want it doesn’t mean someone else won’t. I know a lot of disappointed fans. Their ratings are hire than A LOT of shows running on TV, get rid of the Kardasians stupid show and other shows that people lose brain cells watching. No one cares that fo-celebs can’t match shoes to their bikinis. STOP DROPPING THE GOOD SHOWS!!!!
I am so upset about this! What happens? I hate when they cancel a show that I really get into! Maybe we’ll see something later on a special movie or something! Keep your fingers crossed!
CBS….I really hope you WILL reconcider your decision on canceling a GREAT FRIDAT NIGHT tv show GHOST WHISPERER!!!!! I looked forward to every single Friday night at 8:00 to watch my FAVORITE tv show GHOST WHISPERER. If you do let go of GHOST WHISPERER you WILL make all your viewer’s go to a different channel. If your dumb enough to cancel GHOST WHISPERER then i hope ABC is smart enough to pick GHOST WHISPERER…..and will pick up more viewr’s!!!!
@Rhea: I totally agree Ghost Whisperer not only jumped the shark last year but it did a 180 and beat the shark into the ground!!! The killing off Jim, then having him return but as a different man whose body is then taken over by Jim’s spirit (because he refuses to go into the light) but somehow looks like Jim to everyone when he should look like the other dude because Jim lost his body — was all too much nonsense. Lord, it’s so confusing I’m still trying to figure that disastrous storyline out. Then jumping ahead a few years… Read more »
I wish they would have informed the writers earlier so we could have had a proper ending, not that shoved on ‘season finale’ style ending that left us waiting for the next plot.
My perfect ending, Melinda going into the light, and finally getting her reward (she always looks so sad when she has to tell people she’s never experienced it…well, not fully, she’s only really seen it twice and never been ‘in’ it).