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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Another unhappy customer here. Mercy and Trauma had such potential. Great story lines, great acting, great character development. I’m tired of the same old stories and lousy shows getting all the attention.
Mercy and Trauma should never have been cancelled!
I cant believe they cancelled the show i love mercy! i dont watch tv much but mercy had me hooked its more realistic then the joke of medical drama greys anatomy and house..they should bring it back!
Mercy was a good show. I enjoyed watching it. They had some really good characters that you could have had a lot of stories on. I was kinda getting tired of Veronica going back and forth, but the last show left you wondering now what! I’ll miss it.
ARE YOU GUYS SERIOUS? So, there is finally a show i enjoy and you cut it. i could not watch it when it came on but i tivo the hell out of this show. i am very dissapointed.
Wow, My all time favorite show, an they go an cancel it, UGH so angry, we need more season it was just getting good
I am so sad. We go through the summer with our daily busy lives. It dawned on me that I’ve watched countless previews of The Event. What happened to MERCY? !! How dare you.
I am watching the series at this time on netflix only because I was unable to watch the complete series while it was on TV due to my work schedule. I am very disappointed that the show has been cancelled. Unfortunatley, in this present time employment as important as it is takes most of our time. Jobs today don’t consist of the 9-5 anymore. They consist of 10 hour days at all hours of the night. Needless to say the show was wonderful and I truely enjoyed it. The characters were absolutly funny and sincier. I fell in love with… Read more »
NOOOOOO Im way bummed I was adicted to MERCY.. My favorite show ever!!!!!!!!!!! Why does this happen? Ever show I like winds up cancelled.. Can you at least tell me what happened to Mike and DR sands??????
I was so upset how it ended. It was a really awesome show. I really hope they change their minds and make season 2
I am sooooo mad! My Mom and I watched that show faithfully every Wed! It was so good! I can’t believe some of the god-awful shows they have on now a days. Just goes to show you the mentality of over half this country!!!! That is so sad!
Do not cancel MERCY or TRAUMA or MIAMI MEDICAL!!!! These shows are better than Grey’s! They are exciting and NEW! Give them a chance…PLEASE!
Mercy HAS to have Season 2! This is my all time favorite show. I even pre-ordered the Season 1 DVDs before it came out – and have watched them over and over again. I really hope you change your mind about cancelling this show – it would be a real shame 🙁
I’ve been trying to figure out when this show would air again, and now I am pretty annoyed to find out that the show has been canceled. It was my favorite show, and now I’ll never know who veronica would truly end up with.
This sucks!
Oh my god!! This was my favorite tv show, it aired on a day i wasn’t busy. The show was reallly good, and I was awaiting thr second season! The show being cancelled actually was a shock, I had no idea it didn’t have good ratings!
I can’t beleive they canceled Mercy! I loved that show, and it was just starting to get really interesting. I’ve been waiting for the last few monthes for it to come back. Now, I don’t get to see any more. I’m so so so so sad!