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?
Image courtesy NBC.
Je veux une deuxiéme saison. C’est telement bien.
Je veux que ça continue, c’est tellement bien ! :O ♥
I agree with you all completely. Mercy was the one show that we actually looked forward to seeing every week. Instead, the morons in charge go for even more moronic un-reality programming, and just for the ratings. I can’t believe that people falling into water is more interesting to some people than an actual drama. If this show was too smart for networks to continue airing, I also feel that one of the non-network groups should pick it up.
All i can say is REALITY shows are mindless and a large part of the DUMBING DOWN of our society. This is what the general public wants.
je suis super degouté pour une fois qu’il y avait quelque chose de bien sur m6 voila q’il enleve plus de saison 2 je vais peter un cable le samedi soir car j’ai des petits je ne sort plus et c’était mon moment de plus veronica et dijoncté j’adore et nike et sonia sont de plus en plus beaux ‘en suis sure que la fille de camilla et en realite la fille d’angel et sonia va t’elle aller en prison et paul va t’il la laisse tranquille de plus veronica va se trouver toutes seul vu que mike et cris… Read more »
Are we just moaning to each other or do you think anyone on NBC knows we are all up in arms about them cancelling Mercy? I wonder if we could set up a petition like Wooster said.
I Loved that show. It figures. Put some more Reality junk on. Anything good they take off the air.
im sad to hear that there wont be another season of mercy. i love that show i think it’s one of the medical shows out there…..they should atleast do one more season with a great finale. an end to all the drama that was left behind.
I am so mad this program has been cancelled I LOVED it. I am getting to the point I will no longer watch any new shows ever again, as the ones I get invested get cancelled!!!!!
For God’s sake ! There are thousands of people in this country (France) waiting desperately for Season 2 of Mercy Hospital .If those folks at NBC had somthing between their ears they’d be a bit more patient and not only consider the American ratings but check at the same time how people from the other parts of the world and especially Europe welcomed this series ! For once , that’d be an intelligent thing to do ! If there were more people to make some more din about getting Season two maybe there’d be some reaction from NBC ! Why… Read more »
nooooooo!
i reckon a more popular channel should pick it up, this was such a funny show 🙂
bringg mercy backk! 🙁
if people watched this show they would fall in love with it immediately its soo
funny and loveable 🙂
pk a chaque fois qu il ia une serie tro bien il l arrete je voudrais de tt mon coeur la saison 2 de mercy hospital
en plus au dernier episode sa reste sur le suspense on ses pa si chris meurt et si mike va mourir il i tt se suspense c nul
LA SAISON 2 LA SAISON 2 SSSVVVVPPPP
I love this season of Mercy Hospital, and i dont understand why there is no season 2 !
ANNULEEE!!! non mais c’est une blague!!! on ne peu pas laisser les auditeurs comme sa sur leur fin c’est quoi cette merde!!!!! inadmissible, je veux la suite !!!! je suis dégouté!!!!
Moi aussi , Miss !!!! Une pétition ?
I can’t believe that they canceled this show! I don’t watch much network TV, and this is why…whenever I get interested in a program, it gets canceled. You wonder why we are watching more cable shows….bring MERCY back,,,,it had loyal viewers
I’m with you on that Jen! I’m sick of getting into a show only to have them cancelled—-Mercy (which I LOVED), the new scrubs, the listener, heroes, the philanthropist…..sigh. I’m sick of stupid sitcoms and would like a new drama to watch (that’s different than law and order, csi, and other court/detective shows)—bring mercy back!