The Powells may have super powers but they weren’t strong enough to save their TV series. No Ordinary Family has been cancelled after one season on the air.
No Ordinary Family revolves around suburban family who, while on vacation, crash into Amazon River and gain special abilities. The cast includes Michael Chiklis, Julie Benz, Autumn Reeser, Jimmy Bennett, Kay Panabaker, Tate Donovan, Christina Chang, and Romany Malco.
The drama had a decent debut last September with a 3.2 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 10.69 million total viewers. Unfortunately, the ratings didn’t stay at that level and dropped by 16% in week two and then 15% in week three. The numbers kept declining and went as low as a 1.2 demo rating and just 4.26 million viewers in March.
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The network cut the episode order but it was already clear by that point that the show was finished. ABC pre-empted one installment and bumped the penultimate episode to Saturday nights, an evening when few are watching. The first season of No Ordinary Family ended up averaging a 1.8 in the demo and 6.4 million viewers, making it one of the lowest dramas of the ABC season.
ABC has now officially cancelled No Ordinary Family. All 20 episodes have aired. Hopefully, at some point, the producers will share what they had planned for the future of the series.
What do you think? Are you disappointed that there won’t be a second season for No Ordinary Family? Why do you think the series didn’t catch on?
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Might as well stop watching at ABC family. They make good shows like the 9 lives of Chloe king and cancel it! like seriously!
are you kidding.I love no ordinary family.I want season 2 and I am not giving up trying to save no ordinary family.I am getting season 2 one way or another.Canceling this cool and super awsome show was the worst thing anyone could have done.I am 13 and I would be happy to be one of the cast in no ordinary family.My number is 0715499930.So please give me a call if you think this stupid that no ordinary family season 2 is canceling.
Que pena que cancelaran esta serie tan interesante, me encanto la serie y no se en realidad porque decidieron cancelarla, parece que esa es la modalidad hoy dia. Espero que por lo menos hagan una segunda temporada y la culminen con todo el respeto que se merece…Vamos animence y continuen.
I thought the series was brilliant. Its such a shame that its being cancelled after just one series. I live in the UK and it seemed like a hit here, please do consider bringing it back
Thanks for the consideration
Hey, I’m from the philippines and i,d like to say, abc you blow big time. What kind of survey did you come up with for that kind of series? I’m not buying that whole 1.2% ratings, stuff. Actually there are a lot of viewers and fans that are watching no ordinary family, so please would you kindly start creating the sequel and add more seasons, and please give the characters george and kate superpowers and kindly enhance jim’s and jj’ powers too. So please do it for the fans. Thank you
plz why do you cancel, I want to watch the season 2, please ABC we want no ordinary family S-2 plzzzz smone read there comment 🙁
It was a good show I thought. A Disney version of NBC’s HERO’s meets Good Luck Charlie. I enjoyed it and thought it got better as the season progressed. The acting was fairly good and it looked like they stepped up the SFX budget for the last few shows. It wrapped up pretty well, gave me some closer and didn’t leave me hanging. It would be nice to see another network pick it up, like USA. It might fit their niche market with Royal Pains and Burn Notice, or maybe they could do some editing to go from PG to… Read more »
oops! I meant Closure, not Closer. don’t want to sound like a dummy.
I am at a loss. I don’t watch cable tv, or tv at all. I watch Netflix because I can pause, rewind, whatever. There have been a LOT of television shows that I thought were very entertaining that have been cancelled. Kyle XY, Prison Break, Heroes (the story line did get a little tired at the end), and most of them get cancelled without a conclusion. The Networks are going to have to realize that people do not watch television the way they used to 10, 20 years ago. Who plans their day around a tv show airing at a… Read more »
I watched the show in the beginning, but I stopped because of lack of money to afford cable. Maybe the whole darn cable service is stupid. ABC included. Just cause someone doesn’t watch it, doesn’t mean the veiwers aren’t going to by the seasons on DVD. Dumb*** people. RATINGS AREN’T EVERYTHING!
Personally the season was great, however, ABC just as many other channells are too “obsessed with numbers” and of course ratings…i believe the ratings dropped because it tend to be a lil predictable… in my opinion… new characters should have been brought in and more of our favorite characters should have been through a more damatic trauma.. as iin something way more life threating than a kiss making mr. powell lose his power. it would add suspense and “hook the audience more” and provide a second season…. anyways.. season one was an excellent on.. in fact a GREAT start to… Read more »
I loved this show they acting wasn’t great at first but by the middle and definitely the end the show rocked. What was abc thinking or maby they weren’t is the point this show had better average ratings than heroes. first seasonand that show lasted fro 4 years
i have 2 things to say about this. 1- i agree with everything Masbro76 said. 2- plz bring it back i also watched this with my kids and we all loved it.
I just finished the Netflix crash course on season 1 and I’ve got to say that ABC is relying too much on numbers and not enough on creative shows. I’ve seen shows go from great to crap faster than a speeding bullet. I admit that NOF had a mid season that felt a little misdirected, but my god, right there at the end it seemed to finally have fleshed itself out. Then to have ABC cancel it?? What the hell did they expect by putting a family oriented show in a 10pm slot? The way networks throw up shows and… Read more »
It was a good show, a good family show. Me, my 3 kids all enjoined it, even my wife. ABC was crazy to cancelle this. A good family show with no cussing, no sex, nothing bad, do they realize what a rare gem they had? This show was a nice break from the reality TV crap thats all over TV. ABC made such a bad call cancelling this one, and from what im reading, a lot of people fell the same, hope someone at ABC reads these and comes to there senses.
I really think if the show would have been promoted more than ratings would have went up. My teenage daughter liked it a lot, but how I knew about it before her baffles me and she watches more TV than I do. We really liked the show. Too bad.