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 am so sorry to see this show end. I couldnt wait to watch what was happening to all the girls each week. Too bad.
i think the lead actress looked flaky. very hard to watch her act, if thats what you call it. to many medical shows. lets move on.
Exactly what medical shows are you talking about? Grey’s? and…… exactly! No great medical dramas. Mercy showed the heart of the hospital… THE NURSES! Who spend’s more time with the patients? Not the doctors. Mercy is portraying what WE nurses do day in and day out! It’s about time the people know what nurses are all about! BRING MERCY BACK! Not to NBC but anywhere else!
Mercy must stay! You need to at least wrap up the show. You left so many unanswered threads. I would love it if you stayed on though!!!
I really enjoyed this show (and Trauma for that matter) as a new alternative to ER! I am so upset it has been cancelled! However, it was probably difficult to get a fan-base because NBC continually changed the time it aired each week. Sometimes it wouldn’t be on for weeks in a row, then it came back on for a week and changed times the next week! I had to watch many episodes online because I missed them on T.V. I hope they change their minds about cancelling both medical shows!
NBC have already shown how stupid they are with the whole Jay Leno debacle this season. I’m a nurse and I am usually super critical of medical dramas and while mercy had some “reality” issues it was entertaining and well acted. Shame on NBC – do they seriously think viewers will prefer some claptrap about super heroes and a new spy comedy? We already have Chuck and lasy I checked most NBC viewers were not geeked out fan boys/fan girls
I am so mad they cancelled the show I dvr it ever wed. It was one of my fav shows they need to bring it back
I am so sad this show was cancelled!!! Mercy was a great show!!! I am so mad at NBC, and it makes me want to not watch there other shows!!!
I cant believe they actually canceled this show. It was one of the few shows I actually watched. What gives NBC? They totally ended the season ready for the next. I hope someone else picks it up.
This is exactly why I won’t ever watch an NBC show again… Every time that I get into a show, these idiots at NBC decide to can it. Studio 30 on the Sunset strip was my replacement for West Wing, and they can’d it.
Done, NBC. Done.
Agreed. I am so done with them too!
How very sad. I love this show! But then I knew from the very beginning that I (and others like me) don’t count with NBC or any other network. We are not 18-49 year old males so we are unimportant! I’m really tired of this treatment from the “major” networks, which is why I don’t watch most of it. Mercy was the one show I watched on “regular” TV, I should have known better than to trust the powers that be.
I do hope a cable network will pick this up –its a great show and I will miss it!+
I really hope that another network picks this show up. My husband and I loved it and watched it every week (though with a one-year-old we had to DVR it). I’m so upseI t that it has been canceled. I feel like this show is so much better than most of the shows on currently.
I am so upset that they cancelled Marcy! And to leave it hanging like they did is really poor judgement. If they knew they were cancelling it they should have at;east wrapped it up for us loyal watchers! Is this what we can expect from them in the future? If so why bother watching anything new they put on.
I LOVED MERCY!! I watched every wednesday! i am so sad to hear this!!
I’m so sad MERCY was cancelled. It should have been given a second season to prove itself. The characters were real. I am a nurse and felt it was a show that actually portrayed situations that nurses encounter and their emotions, not just focusing mainly on the doctors. The story lines were plausible (mostly) — me and my entire family really enjoyed it. Sometimes the better shows take awhile to catch on plus not everyone is hooked on ridiculous reality shows!