The alphabet network has decided they don’t need quite as many episodes of No Ordinary Family. This is just another indication that the show will be cancelled in May. The freshman series may revolve around a family with special powers but the ratings have been anything but super.
Starring Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz, No Ordinary Family debuted on September 28th to a 3.2 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic and 10.69 million viewers. That was a good start but the numbers dropped by 16% by episode two and have essentially kept falling ever since. The latest installment hit a new low with a 1.4 rating in the demo and 4.77 million viewers, making it the lowest-rated scripted show on the network.
Back in late October, despite the falling numbers, ABC ordered nine additional episodes, bringing No Ordinary Family’s season total to 22 installments. ABC execs have now decided to cut the order down to 20 episodes.
According to The Futon Critic, this week’s episode will be an original, number 17. The next two weeks will be filled by repeats and then the final three episodes of the season (and likely the series) will air after that. The finale will air on April 5th.
What do you think? Are you disappointed by the news? Is No Ordinary Family worth saving?
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Keep this Show it’s one of the best ones I consistently watch Every Week and it keeps getting better and better. There are more people than I who would want this show to keep going…. Keep this show going! …..
My family sits down, laughing, enjoying our dinner…waiting…just waiting for this show to come on for the family to be drawn to it.
My wife and I have two boys and this show really makes us feel good. It teaches us how a family will behave under the hardest of circumstances and we relate to them, we laugh with them, and are held in suspense almost every episode.
It would be a poor decision to eliminate that from other families that have similar ties to this imaginative Powell family.
Keep it. please.
i think the show is great. i have wathed every episode.
Keep the show! Keep the show! Keep the show! ABC need to stop care about the rating, a clean good show not just about the rating!
PLEASE dont cancel the show, give it one more season and if it dosent get good rtings then end that season on no CLIFFHANGERS
This is the only TV show that I watch on a weekly basis! Only SOA is better, please ABC do not cancel this show!
please keep the show!! I would be sol lost without it. One of the 3 shows that I watch. AND IT IS MY FAVORITE!! Please reconsider. Please keep it up. I am begging, here.
I look forward to this show. We all need this show, please return it.
My family LOVES this show! My kids and I watch it together every week and are always dying to see the next episode! We will be SO disappointed if the show doesn’t return!
This show was finally getting interesting and than they cancel it! Why don’t they cancel Brothers and Sisters that is very much done by now.
PLEASE DON’T CANCEL THE SHOW!!.. It’s one of the few (if only) shows we can watch in the evening with the kids…
The 4 of us really love this show the best of all and watch it every night we can. I have talked to my friends and their parents, & they say they missed the first couple shows and now there are not enough replays and ads so that’s why they didn’t know it was on. I think you should put up lots of ads saying that you will replay the series on a certain night and then more people will start watching. This show is by far the best of all so please don’t cancel it and besides you just… Read more »
THIS show is great i cant stop watching it ive been addicted since the first episode please dont stop im really interested to know whats going to happen after the last episode
thanks
My son and I LOVE this show and look forward to watching it EVERY week!! Please keep it in your lineup!!!!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!! please dont cancel the show! i really look forward to it on tuesdays! i think its great and it really puts you in suspense i love it!