A little over a week ago, NBC decided to cancel their new medical drama, Heartbeat. As a result of the cancellation, tonight’s episode is the TV show’s last. Was NBC justified in cancelling the series or should there be season two?
Set at the fictional St. Matthew’s Hospital, Heartbeat follows a cardio-thoracic surgeon, Dr. Alex Panttiere (Melissa George), as she tries to juggle her personal and professional lives. She eagerly fights authority, particularly when it comes to her patients’ health and well-being. The rest of the cast includes Dave Annable, Don Hany, Joshua Leonard, Jamie Kennedy, D.L. Hughley, Shelley Conn, Maya Erskine, and J. Louis Mills.
Heartbeat debuted on March 22nd. It followed an episode of NBC’s highly-rated series The Voice and drew a 1.39 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 6.30 million viewers.
Heartbeat moved to its regular Wednesday night timeslot the next evening and the ratings saw a dramatic dip, falling to a 0.89 rating with 5.16 million. The numbers have kept dwindling downward. Last week’s penultimate episode drew a 0.67 in the demo with just 3.86 million.
Those kinds of numbers are just too low for NBC to justify renewing the series so the cancellation certainly wasn’t a surprise. The peacock network is already busy promoting their new drama series for the fall. It remains to be seen if they will do any better.
But, what do you think? Did you like the Heartbeat TV show? Was NBC justified in cancelling it or should the network have given the series more time and a second season?
I loved this series my husband and I would set don’t and watch it together and if we were busy at the time or not home we recorded it on our cable and watched it as soon as we got home. I got my mom to love that show too. I couldn’t wait to see what they were going to do about here marrying both guys. I hate when great shows are cancelled.
I just found out about this show the other day when I was looking on demand sat down and watched the whole season 1 in 2 days I loved it I can’t believe you guys are cancelling it you guys should bring it back mostly with that ending has me wondering what’s going to happen next I hate that feeling so I really hope you guys can bring it back or somebody will pick it up…. Very upset…..
Bring the show back I really liked….. I didn’t know about it until I seen the previews on it about 2 weeks ago sat down and watched it all on demand in two days had me on the edge of my seat didn’t know it got cancelled until I got on to see when the next season was going to start really sad about this you guys should bring it back give it a chance I think it would be good once people start hearing about it… I really hope you guys bring it back… Can’t wait to see what… Read more »
I can’t believe they’re not doing a second season! I love this show! Please bring it back!!! Way better then most shows I watched! I love anything medical. I was hooked from the first episode, my husband wasn’t allowed to talk during this show because I didn’t want to miss anything! And if by chance I did miss it, I had to watch the following day on the nbc app! Love this show it can’t end like that!!!!!!!!!
WHAT AN AMAZING SHOW. why would they cancel it! Really hope someone else picks it up.
Canceled way to early, hoping someone else picks this show up, laughed, cried, did everything, just finished binge watching on Hulu, I didn’t even know that it existed until I watched the People’s Couch on Bravo and caught a piece of it and started watching, what a shame, I would have never sat through the whole 1st season and gotten hooked, if I had known it was not going to be renewed….Nice work NBC…smh…this is why I stick with ABC…lol
Loved this show, just heard it was canceled. Fingers crossed someone will pick it up.
I think the first season was great just watch it in two days and couldn’t put down my phone . Maybe more advertising of the show would had help or could help
Think it was definitely cancelled much too early. It was so new that maybe many were unaware of new show. Maybe more advertising for season two, and give it another shot. I LOVE this show!!!! Just found out tonight that it has been canceled and only cuz I looked it up to find out when it’s coming back on due to missing my show. I really hope you change your mind and bring g it back for at least one more reason!!! Please!!!???
Wtf!!! I loved this show and you only aired 1 season then cancelled. Look at the way you left it hanging. Nice NBC it was far better than greys anatomy. This show was actually shot on with the medical content with me being a medical student myself. It made me cry, laugh, hanging on the edge of my seat…then you talked it away! ********
Didn’t even know it existed until I found it today (July ’16) on Hulu. Nice work advertising NBC… Heartbeat is great. Far better than the last 6 years of Grey’s and plain lighthearted fun. Should’ve gotten a full run and at least one additional season. Hope it gets picked up somewhere else. NBC you are dumdumdummies.
This show made me laugh, cry and sit on the edge of my seat. I really enjoyed the light hearted humor but also the seriousness. I have loved every episode and it brings something different then your typical greys anatomy knock offs. I’m really really bummed it has been cancelled. I started watching this show after the series ended, I had all the episodes at my disposal on on demand. I found myself wanting to watch each episode back to back, non stop. I was hooked! I love all the characters and the plot line. Bring it back!
Very disappointed that heartbeat was cancelled. It was a great show with great acting. Cancel some of the other junk on television and bring our heartbeat back.
What a wonderful show.
I am very dissapointd
I hate hate hate that you r thinking of cancelling this series!!! It’s the one show my husband will watch with me!!!! Ugh!!