The CW’s Gossip Girl TV series has been having its worst year ratings-wise in its five season history. Does this mean that the drama will be cancelled or is it safe for a sixth season?
The show started this season with a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.37 million total viewers. Year-to-year, Gossip Girl was down by 30% in the demo and 26% in viewership. The ratings have fallen as low as a 0.5 rating this season and have dropped to fewer than a million viewers. Aside from Friday night’s Nikita, it’s the lowest-rated scripted series on the network.
The producers say that they’ve been assured however that they won’t be cancelled this season and, as a result, didn’t wrap up the series in May 14th finale. Co-creator and executive producer Stephanie Savage told The Hollywood Reporter, “We have no plans to wrap things up this season. The actors’ contracts expire at the end of next season, so that feels like probably an organic ending point.”
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Peter Roth, Warner Bros. TV President, added, “I certainly hope we get at least one more season. We’re contracted for another one. The show has had an extraordinary impact on all of us, and I’d be thrilled to be able to appropriately say farewell after six remarkable seasons.”
With The CW deriving a portion of its income from deals with Hulu and Netflix (in addition to traditional advertising) it would seem to make sense to keep the show going for a sixth season. However, that will come at a cost to CW viewers.
The CW has just 10 hours of primetime to program each week. If they hold onto Gossip Girl, that means a more-popular series will get the ax instead. Since fewer people than ever seem to care what happens to Serena, Blair, and their friends, would you rather see Gossip Girl cancelled to save another show?
What do you think? Is it time for Gossip Girl to be cancelled? If not, which shows would you cancel instead?
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18 Comments on "Gossip Girl: Should the Show be Cancelled or Renewed for Season Six?"
Gossip Girls GOTTA HAVE ANOTHER SEASON!!!!!and a full season 7
Leave GG for another season, but put chuck and blair together for good. The show is not as good as when it first started. They played more tricks on each other. I could not wait to see what they were going to do to each other next! The sexy Ed Westwick is oh my my my! If they cancel it I hope he gets something very quickly. I would truly miss him. Give them a full season. Please
it depends because if they plan to make the fans happy by having Chuck & Blair and Dan & Serena back together in the season 5 finale(although I’d also hope for Nate & Ivy as well),I say quit while they’re ahead.but if they plan on making another season to before it happens,then I say have it go for one more season especially if Georgina becomes a main character in it.
ihate what they have done to this season of gossip girl!!! Blaire and dan….They dont make sense…We need chuck and blaire together. they are made for eachother and I think the reason the shows ratings have gone down is because chuck and blaire are not together… Dan and blaire = YUCK!!!!!!!!
There needs to be a sixth season! I agree, chuck and Blair need to be back together. As long as they end up with eachother, all is well. Please keep it going long enough to get them back together. And if you have to cancel a bigger show, don’t cancel vampire diaries.
gossip girl needs to go this year also a whole lot of sleuth of shows on the cw network like 90210,nitika,supernatural,ringer,hart of dixie and save vampire dairies and secert circle and america’s top next model.
No we want season 7!! there’s no point in hurrying things up and ruining a still very popular series!!
No we want season 6!! there’s no point in hurrying things up and ruining a still very popular series!!
Gotta have gossip girls season 7
Gossip girls actors and actress must renew those contracts for another season there should be a gossip girls season 7
Ringer and Nikita are the lowest rated in demo and the two episodes before the finale Ringer got only a little over a million viewers. Ringer and Nikita will be cancelled, GG will most Likley get a shortened 13 ep final season.I want closure not the biggest cliffhanger in GG history( according to a producer). I actually love seasons four and five. GG hasn’t had 0.4 in demo like Ringer &Nikita.
GG is safe for a final season even if it is for 13 episodes.
Check the link below to see why the more established shows help the network.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/483265-NAB_Warner_Bros_Rosenblum_We_Are_in_the_Golden_Age_of_TV_Again_.php
I don’t know they drag everything out too long the story line sucks, blair and dan? doesn’t make sense and nobody that has been watching the show from the beginning thinks it does either, get back to a good storyline and not like a soapie and people will watch it again and bring back chuck and blair and no more dan and blair they aren’t cute.