Christopher Chance and company have been struggling in the ratings this season and FOX isn’t exactly helping them out. On Wednesday, the pair of scheduled Human Target episodes were pre-empted by President Obama’s speech from Tucson. Those episodes have been rescheduled for tonight, an evening when viewership is much lower and many fans of the show will probably miss them.
Now, FOX has decided to expand the Wednesday, January 26th edition of American Idol to two hours. As a result, the previously scheduled episode of Human Target will be bumped to Monday, January 31st. It’ll precede the final Lie to Me of the season (and possibly the series). The network hasn’t announced it yet but, if the two-hour Idol on the 26th is a success, FOX could certainly decide to expand the next couple episodes which would displace the last two episodes of Human Target’s season. While the series was once going to get a ratings boost from an Idol lead-in, it’s now getting shuffled around instead.
It would seem that FOX has all but given up on the series. At this point, it’s hard to blame them. The ratings certainly don’t warrant a third round of episodes. Season one averaged a 2.9 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 9.6 million viewers and it was almost cancelled with those numbers. Thus far, season two has averaged just a pitiful 1.6 rating and 6.04 million total viewers. Human Target is currently the lowest-rated scripted show on the network.
It seems that Human Target is already destined to be cancelled and these latest schedule changes will be the final blow.
What do you think? Will Human Target be renewed for season three or cancelled? What would you suggest doing to increase the ratings?
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I’m about ready to give up on fox. The network is the biggest problem with most of the shows. Long mid-season breaks, showing episodes out of order, never know when they’re going to be on., etc. A bunch of morons are running fox.
Come on already! every show Mark Valley is part of I watch, great actor, very funny and he doesn’t have a rough helmet…( good looking) why don’t you (FOX) stick to a day and time and stop giving 3 or 6 weeks breaks in between the season and watch the rating pick up..maybe the new partner he has is ok, I think I prefer it better the way the first season was, 24 did the same thing after 2 seasons they got rid of awesome characters and made CTU more flashy and not until the final season did I find… Read more »
My husband and I have watched Human Target since its beginning and we LOVE IT! We searched all over to find when and where the last two episodes would air after thy were preempted by the President’s speech from Tucson. Please don’t take it off the air! If Fox does drop it, maybe it could get picked up by USA where “characters are welcome”!
The acting is great, the scripts are really creative and it’s somewhat wholesome – which, in this day and age, is so welcome!
We LOVE Human Target. It has suspense, action, humor and fun. All the actors do amazing jobs. Plus, I so appreciate a show that I can watch with my family and not have to worry about blatent sex and stupid sexual innuendos. It is so refreshing. PLEASE, keep Chance out of the ladies beds. You will ruin it if he becomes just another action guy who beds all the ladies. There is not another show like it on TV. Do NOT cancel the show. I agree with all the other, you need to advertise it. People will become fans if… Read more »
I am so disappointed if Human Target goes off the air. My husband and I
enjoy watching it together. I would hope it could go to cable TV, instead
of network tv, which only has shows w/ the lowest common denominator
of the viewing public. Case in point, “Raising Hope”, nothing but trash on
the networks. No wonder most of my tv viewing in on the cable channels.
Human Target has become one of my favorite shows. I agree with most of the other comments. The reason the show has not had high ratings is because no one knows about it. There has been no decent advertising. And once someone finds the show and plans to watch it, it has moved, it is showing reruns, or suspended for a time, or pre-empted. My husband and I think it is a great show and we don’t want to see it cancelled.
Human Target is an amazing show. Maybe if FOX spent some effort promoting it,the show would do better. And moving it around without telling anyone where it is doesn’t help either. The show has everything; action, humor, drama, suspense. We haven’t had a show like this since The A-Team! Why do great shows always get cancelled, yet there’s a “Housewives” show for every major city?
Human Target is a show that brings families together. With all the “trials” in today’s world, it offers an escape to spend time just enjoying all that the show has to offer– humor, suspense, action, drama and all the wonderful chemistry the actors share together.
I would like to thank the cast personally for the fantastic job each one them do and hopefully can continue to do.
I hope FOX knows the show actually makes a difference and it would be a shame to have the show canceled.
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Adding the woman made Human Target even more in interesting. Please don’t cancel it. We have a season pass in Tiva and were anxiously awaitng the last 2 episodes. We are however, very angry the program was pre-empted and we were not told when it would be shown. Put the program on cable like the Closer.
Shows might actually develop a viewership if the networks would quit moving them around and running repeats in the middle of the season. I swear they do everything to keep a show from being a success! Wed, Fri, Mon….how is anyone supposed to know when it is on!
My boys and I watch this and we enjoy it. It’s one of the few shows that aren’t over the top on the adult language and situations. It’s nice to watch shows like this with my little guys. We certainly hope the show continues on for several more seasons.
I just discovered Human Target. Don’t take it off the air. It is wonderfully scripted, beautifully acted, and very exciting. I bought the whole first season and watched all the episodes I missed on season 2. Perhaps more advertising would help. It is a terrific show!
I’ve never been a fan of Human Target but I watched it faithfully for two seasons, just because it was still better than a lot of network television. If it gets cancelled, it’ll just be one less thing for me to watch.
DO NOT CANCEL HUMAN TARGET! It’s the best thing on TV.
Ya’ll moved it for the president’s speech and I spent 2days trying to find where you
moved it, AND I FOUND IT.. MOVE IT, I’LL FIND IT! BIG MISTAKE TO TAKE IT
OF THE AIR! It’s the ONLY show that FOX has that is worthwhile besides LIE TO ME,
since you took 24 off the air! LEAVE HUMAN TARGET ALONE!!!!!!
Human Target is one of the BEST shows on television!
It has humor and action with the added plus if great
actors. The only reason it isn’t receiving high viewership numbers is
because Fox hasn’t promoted it like it has some of it’s other shows. It needs a strong
lead in show plus advertisement in print (TV Guide, People) and
on air.
I hope Fox does right by this show and keeps it on air!!