The Broadchurch TV show was a success in the UK so FOX decided to remake it here — with one of the same lead actors. Though Gracepoint is being promoted as a limited series, FOX will surely want to make a second season if it’s a hit (as is being done with Broadchurch). What do you think? Should it be renewed or cancelled?
Gracepoint begins when a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach in a small northern California town. The tragedy and media frenzy soon turns neighbor against neighbor as the police try to figure out what happened. The cast includes David Tennant, Anna Gunn, Michael Peña, Virginia Kull, Madalyn Horcher, Kendrick Sampson, Nick Nolte, Jacki Weaver, Kevin Rankin, Sarah-Jane Potts, , Stephen Louis Grush, Kevin Zegers, Jessica Lucas, and Nikolas Filipovic.
The show debuted on October 2nd to a 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.76 million viewers. It was a poor start to be sure and the series was in fourth place in its timeslot. The second episode dropped 25% in the demo to a 0.9 rating with just 3.8 million viewers. It seems likely that tonight’s episode will perform even worse.
Even though FOX is really struggling right now, these numbers are already terrible. There’s very little chance that they’ll consider bringing Gracepoint back for another season. Fortunately for the viewers who are watching, the season finale should wrap up the show.
Will the network cancel Gracepoint before all 10 episodes have aired? There’s a chance but it seems unlikely considering the state of the rest of their schedule. If they do drop it prematurely, they’d surely release the remaining episodes online.
But, what do you think? Are you enjoying Gracepoint? Will you watch until the end? Would you consider watching a second season with a new mystery or is 10 episodes enough?
To answer your questions, yes, yes, and yes.
Fox should change the night it’s on–ABC has a great Thursday line up, but there is nothing to watch the rest of the week on any station.
Yes definately Saturday is a great nite to view, nothing worth watching on that night, that how I got to see it in the first place channel hopping as nothing on!
Gracepoint is fantastic. It is by far the best written and produced show on network TV. The fact that no one is watching is more a testament to the awful taste of the average American TV viewer than the show itself. This show is easily on par with those you find on cable channels like FX or AMC. It’s a shame that it has performed so poorly as it surely means FOX and the other networks will be far more wary of picking up shows like it in the future.
Fox did not give Gracepoint a chance putting it on Thursday up against Scandal, Reign, not to mention football . The constant comparsion to Broadchurch is not fair to the show, alot of shows have got there start in England shows that became very popular on there own right. I really enjoy the mystery and suspense of Gracepoint and the actors are all very good, yes I am a major David Tennant fan and its sorta of funny he didn’t use his scottish accent on Doctor Who, He is an amazing actor and we can only hope he gets to… Read more »
I am really enjoying the show. I am a big fan of David Tennant going back to his Doctor Who days and I love his accent. I would really like to see the show be kept. I admit I have been taping to DVR and watching but I do all of my shows that way. I had no idea there was a UK version also with David Tennant and would really like to see that show too. With each episode I change my mind as to “who dun-it”. Look forward to each week. Please keep the show on!
If it doesn’t make the grade on Thurs night change to Sat night like having the 2 episodes last Sat back to back….nothing worth watching on any of the channels on either night. David Tennant’s American accent is superb especially for someone who has a thick Scottish accent, I’m from the UK now living in the US & usually know when the American accent is fake, but not this time! Please Please reconsider keeping the show on, just change the night’s, trying to compete with other good shows on the same time slot doesn’t work and never has! Not everyone… Read more »
I found this quite by accident and got involved with the plot really fast. Enjoyed it very much! Will find it to keep up…hoping it will still air on Thursday night, as nothing else is on worth watching!
I am loving Gracepoint!!! Please do not cancel the show!! I love David Tennant’s American accent.
I LOVE it!!! David Tennant is so brilliant!! I would watch anything that he was in. But the story of a murdered child is one that is so touching!! I loved Broadchurch, but I’m really loving Gracepoint because of all the differences. I can’t wait to see how things progress! If seeing David on tv weren’t enough to keep people watching, stay for the mystery!
I will watch it to the end, and I will buy it when it comes out on DVD so I can watch it again. I know of many people hating on Gracepoint because David Tennant “isn’t using his real accent”, or because they don’t like his appearance, and his character’s attitude and behavior. But these things demonstrate to me what a brilliant actor he is, he’s playing a similar character to Broadchurch, but definitely not a carbon copy.
You could be right, Iva! Nobody’s even looking at her…
It be terrible to cut Grace point without truly giving it a shot. I would like to see at least the 10 espiodes that there are. Come on…give it a chance.
I absolutely love Gracepoint and sincerely hope it won’t be cancelled! It has been promoted incorrectly, it is NOT a remake of Broadchurch, it is just BASED UPON Broadchurch! Gracepoint is its own story and needs to be given a chance. And why all the flack about David Tennant’s American accent? Since when is an actor’s accent the deciding factor whether to watch a show or not? I can understand folks not watching Broadchurch because his Scotish accent can be a bit hard to understand, but here they have an Americanised show and are STILL complaining about his accent? David… Read more »
I agree, especially with the promotion bit. I turned on Jimmy Kimmel the other night because Michael Pena was on, and not one word of Gracepoint was mentioned. The same with Anna Gunn: maybe one or two sentences. All one reads about the show is that it’s a remake of Broadchurch. Fox doesn’t realize what a real gem they have in David Tennant. He is so charming and witty on talk shows and interviews. If he can’t get to the US, Fox should go to the UK! However, they seem to be terrified by his Scottish accent for some strange… Read more »
Agree 100% with everything you said. I don’t know how many people have said they didn’t know it existed. I saw it promoted once during Project Runway, of all things, and twice during Doctor Who on BBCA–to an audience that presumably had already seen Broadchurch and is decidedly NOT the target audience. How can they go on a talk show and not talk about their current project? I keep seeing Anna Gunn talking about Breaking Bad. She has talked about this to print media but why didn’t they do the talk shows? I did see Virginia Kull on a local… Read more »
I just was flipping through the channels and started
Watching, love the show, I never saw any promotions
For the show either . I hope they DO NOT cancel.
Lots of the usual excuses why this is failing to attract audiences. It did get lots of publicity – just before launch Fox practically ran promos non-stop and it has as many breaks as anything else on Fox. The real reason it isn’t getting viewers is that it isn’t very good. It’s not atrocious, but it’s not very exciting either and the pacing is way too slow for a Fox 18 to 29 demo. David Tennant’s accent is distractingly offputting, Anna Gunn is dull and apart from Virginia Kull, the rest of the cast are very amateurish. It’s just Meh… Read more »
Love the show . Do not cancel it. I hope grandma didn’t do it.