Poor ratings have claimed another victim. It’s been learned that NBC has cancelled their Midnight, Texas TV show. While there won’t be a third season of the supernatural drama on the peacock network, Universal Television is reportedly shopping the series to other outlets.
Based on the book series of the same name, from True Blood author Charlaine Harris, Midnight, Texas stars François Arnaud, Dylan Bruce, Parisa Fitz-Henley, Arielle Kebbel, Jason Lewis, and Peter Mensah. Guest stars in the second season on NBC include Michael Harney, Mindy Sterling, Adam Langdon, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Jaime Murray, and Nick Lee. The supernatural drama unfolds in the remote Texas town of Midnight, a haven for those hiding out from the world. There, only outsiders belong, while normality is just plain weird. The townies come together to form a sort of chosen family. Together they fend off external pressures from nosy police officers, vicious biker gangs, and their own dark pasts.
While Midnight, Texas has some devoted fans, the cancellation hardly comes as a surprise when you look a the ratings. The first season averaged a meager 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.99 million viewers.
Despite the low ratings, NBC renewed the summer series and opted to air the show as part of the regular broadcast season. The network chose to program it on Friday nights, the same evening that NBC once aired their supernatural Grimm series.
The ratings for season two have been much lower and the eight installments have averaged a very low 0.40 demo rating with 2.08 million viewers. Unless Universal is able to find a new home for Midnight, the defacto series finale is set to air on Friday, December 28th.
What do you think? Do you like the Midnight, Texas TV show? Would you watch a third season of this supernatural series?
My husband, my friends, and I would gather with bowls of popcorn to see Midnight, Texas. It was clever and had nice twists, something that the author has been known to do in her writing. NBC dropped it for some financial reason and when another station picks it up, NBC will rue the day it let the show go.
An awesome show. Better adverts would have helped as well as better time. E eryn good show seems to get cancelled if it doesn’t fit the mold of literally everything else that is on TV I am saddened
love this show. It was not well advertised so I don’t think many even knew about it. Please don’t cancel or at least have a finale for some closure instead of leaving it hanging.
Omg ur so right I love this show always on my toes but sad if they canceled it
I agree there was not enough advertising. Love the show. Hopefully it will get picked up. Especially since I don’t agree that there was a finale. If it’s not coming back you could at least have a real finale.
I LOVE THIS SHOW, I was so happy when it returned. please don’t cancel this show its just starting to get good.
Do not cancel…you did not advertise this enough…didn’t know it existed, loved the last season, which I found by accident.
I’m really disappointed in the cancellation of “Midnight Texas”. I really hope it gets picked up by Netflix like it did “Lucifer”. Looked forward to it every week now, nada! I’m from New Mexico where it’s filmed AND where Netflix has come. Come on, Season 3 please!!
NBC, you suck. First you took away Grimm, now Midnight, Texas!! You never gave it a chance & it was terrible of you to leave everything up in the air. So disappointed in you
Please save this great show!
How can this show be cancelled? It was a good escape from real life… One of the few shows our whole family watched. It was always interesting. You got invested in the characters. We cheered and jeered, rooted and booed, smiled and cried. We looked forward to it every week. Yes, we actually watched it on cable tv the night it aired.
Please keep the show!
I really love this show it’s one of the few series I watch!! Along with shadowhunters which got canceled also come on at least keep something magical on television everyone is wrapped up in these reality shows!! I love that the show introduces magical characters good and evil, your imagination can run wild with this show it’s amazing!! Whatever happened to watching t.v. to see things that doesn’t happen everyday mythical creatures and the odd cool heroes! No now society wants to watch reality t.v. shows that is just another soap opera no one cares if Joey cheated on sue… Read more »
DON’T cancel the show . we will lose a great show
please keep the show
Love this show. Please bring it back!!