At the start of the season, we wondered which new NBC medical drama had the best chance at survival — Mercy or Trauma. It was hard to decide but now, they’ve both been cancelled anyway.
Mercy follows the lives of three very different nurses at Mercy Hospital in Jersey City. The cast includes Taylor Schilling, Jaime Lee Kirchner, Michelle Trachtenberg, James Tupper, Diego Klattenhoff, Guillermo Diaz, James LeGros, James Van Der Beek, and Delroy Lindo.
The medical drama got off to a pretty poor start last September, attracting a 2.3 rating in the all-important 18-49 demographic and 8.25 million total viewers. Unfortunately, viewership fell even lower from there.
Despite the ratings, NBC ordered a full season of episodes, likely because the network needed the original programming. Though NBC’s Primetime Entertainment President Angela Bromstad said she liked the show creatively, she noted that the show’s ratings had to improve for it to survive.
The ratings didn’t improve. The most recent episode attracted only a 1.1 rating in the demo and 4.01 million viewers.
To no surprise, the Mercy TV show’s now been cancelled. The 22nd and final episode aired last Wednesday, May 12th. Unfortunately, it wasn’t intended to be a series finale and didn’t wrap up the show.
What do you think? Are you sorry to hear that Mercy won’t be back for season two? What would you have liked to have seen happen?
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It really sucks that this show was cancelled. I knew a lot of people who watched and i really enjoyed. The way the season ended left those who did watch in suspense; the least they could have done was wrapped up the series in a two hour or two part series finale, instead of just throwing it out the window. There are several shows that are wll in to thier third and fourth seasons and they were and are really poorly made shows with stupid plots. They should bring it back, if for nothing else but to give it and… Read more »
NBC would have had better rating with this show if they would have advertised it better. I believe this show is pretty amazing but I had no idea it even existed until i seen it on netflix and hulu. Thanks alot NBC! Two thumbs down!
I just watched this show on Hulu, I didn’t watch it when it was on NBC. As Hulu intros it I see the time slot and think to myself this show didn’t stand a chance… It was an amazing show and I’m really upset that it didn’t last all because of the crappy time slot it got crammed into! I’ve never thought about being a nurse but this show makes you love everything about them. It should get another shot, in a better slot! It brings back the love of “ER”!!! Put it in that time slot, not that shotty… Read more »
I Loved Mercy! Very upset to see it canceled!
Awesome, fantastic show – why can’t the networks give good programs a time to find their audience? I just watched the entire first season again on Netflix and am so incredibly disappointed that it was cancelled. Please NBC bring it back!!! Great characters, great acting, great storylines – AND we were left not knowing what happened after the season finale.
I loved the show!!! Any chance it’ll be back? Acting was good, story lines interesting…
Would love to see it back!
this was such a goooooood show! I’m so upset it’s done :(.
Oh no!!! I loved this show!! Totally disappointed, they jumped too prematurely on this one!! Bring it back, this show had many possibilities and I loved the characters. I’m in the “demographics” so listen to Mercy’s fans
they should do like a two hour long showing to finsh everything cuz chis lefted then they say it airport got boomed and everything is lefted unfished in this tv show I was hoping their were going to be one more……..
i love the show. i would love for it to come back if they wouldn’t have air shows at the time as mercy their rating would have been better. when i go to sit and watch the new episodes something else was on and said that it would be on next week and then it wasn’t, so it is their own faults that the show didn’t do so well as if they would have left the show alone i bet there would be a season 2
I really liked Mercy I think there should be a season two. If they kept grey’s anatomy on then mercy should have made it too. they keep crap on like jersey shore or bachelorette on but not the really good shows would really like to see if veronica and mike make it after all
Bring it back!!! I love love love this show it made me want to be a nurse! It was so incredible, and i seriously need to know what the hell is going to happed!
I Loved the show Mercy!I want him back!
This show was awesome. Ive seen shows that stink last longer this. Wow..
i loved the show mercy and should be brought back i didnt like it at first but then got into it and loved it