TNT recently wrapped the first season of Monday Mornings, their latest medical drama. Should it return for a second season or be cancelled instead?
Monday Mornings follows the lives of the talented yet flawed doctors at the Chelsea General Hospital in Portland, Oregon. The title refers to the tough peer review meetings that are run by the hospital’s sarcastic Chief of Staff. The cast includes Ving Rhames, Jamie Bamber, Jennifer Finnigan, Bill Irwin, Keong Sim, Sarayu Rao, Emily Swallow, and Alfred Molina.
The show started off the season with just 1.36 million viewers and a 0.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic. That was less than half of what the Dallas premiere lead-in drew with 2.98 million and a 0.8 demo rating.
The numbers for Monday Mornings didn’t get much better as the weeks wore on. The season ended up averaging just 1.39 million viewers and a 0.3 in the demo.
Given these numbers, it seems highly unlikely that Monday Mornings will be back for a second season.
But what do you think? Would you like to see the show return for a second season or do you think it should be cancelled? Why do you think the show didn’t catch on with a bigger audience? Was the title a problem? What would you have called it?
I am a Die-Hard Grey’s Anatomy fan and was very unsure of giving Monday Morning’s a shot… Extremely happy I did!! I now own every episode, all 10. I have shared this awesome show with others who have fallen in love with it as I have. I actually love the title and was educated by a retired RN who explained to me where the term comes from and why. It is a real exercise that is done and very intense at that. I especially enjoy that in the 10 episodes aired, each one had a unique way of not only… Read more »
renew this program and hype the hell out of it its a great show and deserves another season
Please renew this show, and promote it so more people will watch. This is an excellent show. I enjoy it very much and, as a nurse, I find it to be far more credible than a lot of the medical dramas out there! Give it a chance. It really is good quality viewing. It just needs to find its groove. Don’t rush to cancel it just yet!!
Keep Monday Mornings It is a great show!!!
Please, please renew this show. It is the best of all the medical shows they have had. A great loss if not renewed. Wished I had taped the first year series ! !
What a great show. It would be a shame to take it off. Just get the “powers” to promote Monday Mornings and I am sure you will be surprised by the ratings. It’s worth the watch!
Both my husband and I really enjoyed the show and were looking forward to a second season
Started out great and just got better. Much better than the mundane sitcoms that dominate the airwaves. My wife was a nurse and liked
it because it shows life in the medical world as it really is.
It was a great show. Maybe they should promote it more. I told everyone I know about it. Nobody had heard of it. They need to renew it!
Please keep this one ON. Very educational.
Love the show. Really hoping it’s renewed!
This is one of the best medical shows I have seen I am a nurse and it is good to see doctors as humans not heros. They make errors and need to be held accountable for their mistakes I really hope it returns.
Keep it! It’s a great show!
We only started watching the show half way through the season. It was wonderful. The problem was the network did not promote it. We only found it by accident. Dallas was horrible, but it got much promotion. Why do networks do that? The only good thing if it does not come back, it will not give the network or whoever a chance to ruin a good show like they did “Hawthorne”. It is better to die a honorable death like the show “A Gifted Man”, which also got no promotion.
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