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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I love this show. I watch every week, but usually record it to watch later. I hope it gets picked back up!
I can’t believe that NBC would cancel Mercy after just 1 season. It seems that with the way technology is, they need to figure out a better way to analyize ratings! It sounds like an awful lot of people (including me) were recording this show, and looked forward to watching it each week! I sure hope that they will get the message somehow, there are not many shows that I really enjoy anymore.
Please don’t cancel Mercy!!! I look forward to this show every Wednesday!!!
stupid NBC. I LOVED Mercy too!
I loved both Mercy and Trauma, there is very little today that is of good taste to watch and these shows were things that happen in every day situations. Most people can relate to something that is not really so far fetched and sit down for an hour and let themselves get totally into the show. The reality shows are for the younger generation for ages 6 to 25, they are the ones that the reality shows capture. After 25 most people are starting families and are not into the reality shows as when they were younger. But that’s my… Read more »
I am so sorry that Mercy is being cancelled. I was very interested in the lives of our three ladies. I would love to have seen Veronica get her life in order.
PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I MISS IT AND IT WAS AN AMAZING SHOW!!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m not sure how ratings are scored but I know that not always do most people watch a show on the night that it airs. I know that many times I have to view it later either on the internet or on demand. This was a good show that my daughter and I would watch and talk about later. Now with the way it ended there is so many questions about what would have happened. I think that it is a shame that NBC did this and they really should at least reconsider bringing it back to at least wrap… Read more »
Please bring it back.
We have been watching the show through Comcast on Demand.
Trauma also.
Great shows
LOVED MERCY..AS AN RN..ONE OF THE FEW PROGRAMS THAT SHOWS OUR POTENTIAL
I agree with the other comments. If Mercy is cancelled, at least give the true and sincere fans, a real ending.
Please bring it back! Love Mercy you at least owe viewers a proper wrap up.
please bring back Mercy i loved it i’m very disappointed that it was cancelled i don’t get it
please bring it back! I love it!!
Mercy was a good show. how can you cancel a show and not give an ending that sucks. Please bring it back….