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 HOPE THEY BRING MERCY BACK AND AT LEAST SHOW AN ENDING.MAYBE USA COULD PICK IT UP.SOMETIMES OTHER CABLE NETWORKS PICK UPCANCELED SHOW .IAM STILL HOPING FOR WITHOUT A TRACE TO COME BACK IT NEVER ENDED EITHER.
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I loved Mercy. I am a student nurse and really enjoyed the show. There are 2 shows that I really enjoy watching, Law and Order, SVU and Mercy, which makes me sad to know that Mercy is cancelled. I found myself glued to the TV every week and couldn’t wait to see what would happen the following week. I think there has been a HUGE mistake cancelling this show….BRING MERCY BACK!
Why????? No I love this show!!! Bring it back. ugh
they cancel MERCY and the leave shows the dumbest shows on TV like THE OFFICE
thats a bummer, really liked that series. out of all the hospital dramas this was the one I would have kept watching.
Thats wrong.. I really liked the 1st season and the finale was def a clif hanger.. I also watched it on Netflix and was glued… I think that they should DEF bring it back because it was very good and I would like to know what happen to sands if he is dead now with the explosion if mike gets beat to hell by that guy and if Veronica can get her self back together and her and Mike get remarried… I am very disappointed.
j’ai suivi toute la saison 1, et j’ai adorer sa! Je suis venu sur ce site pour voir quand la saison 2 passer, mais je vien d’apprendre la nouvel, et je suis degouter! jaurais aimer connaitre la suite, cette serie ete vraiment bien. Ce qui l’aurait fallu faire cest de faire plus de pub pour faire connaitre au gens, car cette serie est vraiment formidable et je suis sur que si il y aurait plus de pub et plus de moyens de faire connaitre au gens, cette serie donnerais des millions au producteur!
plz bring back
plz bring mercy beck. in israel first season ended last week! very curiuos about what happens!
I don’t watch TV often, but I started watching Mercy on netflix and I love it! Of course a great show gets cancelled while reality shows full of trash stay on. They definitely should bring Mercy back for another season!
they need to bring mercy back for the second season. all the reallity crap shows on tv and they have to take off something good. TNT, FX, and USA are making decent shows maybe ABC and NBC should follow suit.
Cancel Mercy and keep Medium? What are they thinking???????
I CANT BELIEVE THE SHOW IS OVER. i can`t believe there is no way to find out what happened to all the charicters.
That blows! I just watched the first season on netflix…I don’t watch much while it’s going on…I catch up when I have time. Now…I’m left hanging no idea what happens!
I agree. With all that happens in life I tend to watch TV on my time. That’s why I love Netflix and Hulu. I really enjoyed this show which I started watching not too long ago. How sad that we’ll never find out what happens next.
I totally agree with you both. I just watched the last episode. I had never heard of it until recently, and I was instantly addicted. I want to know what happens!!!
I agree a total hanger!!!!!!!!! it will be cool if they put
it back on!
MORE MERCY MORE MERCY MORE MERCY!!! I need to know what happens!!!!