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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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!!!!!!!!
Gossip Girl is a great show in my opinion…you can’t name a show that has had that much impact on CW, yes ratings are low but if the actors are contracted for one more season, give it it’s full last final season, no ******** 13 episodes go out with the full 22-25 episodes, The CW messed up with Melrose Place, cutting it after one season, so give Gossip Girl it’s final due and let it go out with a bang, I hate that the ratings are down I love the show, one of my favorite Josh Schwartz shows since The… Read more »
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.
Let’s see, of their non-cancelled scripted series, here are the shows I’d rather have than Gossip Girl: The Vampire Diaries – the best thing on the CW and its highest rated show for good reason Supernatural – long past its expiration date, but I still love it Nikita – constantly feels fresh and exciting, more people should watch this Ringer – really entertaining in the way Gossip Girl used to be Shows I’d like to see cancelled instead of Gossip Girl: The Secret Circle – I watch it, but it’s so gosh darn “meh” that I wouldn’t miss it 90210… Read more »
I really hope they give Gossip Girl a final season, even if it’s just 13 episodes. The thing I find strange is how the ratings dropped to the “danger-zone” once the show actually got interesting again last season when it went back to the origins of what happened with Serena pre-season 1. A guess for the ratings drop is that it has never remained in a regular timeslot for more than a season; I remember it even moved several times during season three. Another reason is probably because some of the storylines have been dragged out a bit, but One… Read more »
PS: I only said Nikita because its ratings are lower than Gossip Girl. However, I would rather Hart of Dixie (boring), Ringer (interesting, but too intricate of a plot for a TV series to last long) and I guess even Supernatural (much better this season, but extremely tired and past its expiration date) be cancelled before Gossip Girl and Nikita.
IT GOTTA HAVE ANOTHER SEASON!!!!!