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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Loved the show! Bring it back!
With all of the fall line up shows off to the start of their new seasons I eagerly scanned my cable line up every week hoping Mercy would start soon. How annoying. I loved Trauma and Mercy was my favorite show to watch last season. What’s worse is the way they ended the season. Now we’ll never know what happened!
LOVED MERCY!!! Loved the actors. Loved the storyline. I’m a Grey’s Anatomy watched and I liked Mercy much more. Seemed more realistic.
i loved this show .What are the stars going to do now. denise
I absolutely love that show why do all the good shows gets cancelled that really sucks. i am so tired of all these reality shows PUT MERCY BACK ON
Great actors… good story lines. Why do the viewers and actors have to suffer for poor planning on the part of the network. Reschedule and take out that trashy reality crap. I think we have all seen enough of that!!
Every time I get a show (s) that I really like they are always cancelled for some stupid reality tv show , or game show. I really LOVED watching TRAUMA AND MERCY!!!! This really bites!!
I loved mercy i would love to see it come back awsome show!!!
Please bring Mercy back – that was a really great show!! My daughter who is 5 even watched it because she liked to see what doctors and nurses do at a hospital. Plus there was great looking eye candy to keep me interested in watching Mercy… ha ha.
My wife and I watched every episode together. Please bring Mercy back!
NOOO!!!! Please bring back Mercy!! It was a great show but nobody seemed to know about the show. It wasn’t advertised enough. We loved it!
Please bring back Mercy it was one of the better show I seen in a long time.
I was so looking forward to another season of Mercy. It was an excellent show. I can think of some other shows that they need to cancel already this season! Hope another network picks it up.
Nooooo!! I’m SO sad to see Mercy cancelled! 🙁
I agree with other comments…. pick a better time and BRING IT BACK!
I loved the show!!!
I loved this show! Please get someone to pick it up or bring it back!!!