A woman playing professional baseball is an unusual story but FOX was betting that the new Pitch TV series would help them attract an audience to Thursday nights — a highly competitive evening for television. Has this “big swing” been successful? Is Pitch worth watching? Cancel or keep it?
The Pitch TV show follows the inspirational story of a young pitcher (Kylie Bunbury) who becomes the first woman to play Major League Baseball. Although she’s been groomed for this moment for much of her life, she’s embarking on a baseball career under the glare of the white-hot media spotlight. The rest of the cast includes Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Ali Larter, Mark Consuelo, Dan Lauria, Mo McRae, Meagan Holder, and Tim Jo.
The series launched on September 22nd to a 1.06 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 4.23 million viewers. It was a disappointing start in the ratings for sure, especially since the series had garnered a lot of positive reviews.
Unfortunately, the numbers haven’t gotten any better and the numbers have fallen each week. The fourth installment, which aired October 13th, attracted a dismal 0.76 in the demo with 2.91 million viewers.
It’s important to remember that CBS has been airing highly-rated NFL football games for the first four weeks of the season. Some of that audience might otherwise watch Pitch. Though NFL football won’t be airing on CBS on October 27th, a game will be airing on NFLN. Unless FOX moves Pitch to another night, the series will be airing opposite football for awhile.
Though the ratings are very poor, FOX probably won’t cancel Pitch just yet. Most of the network’s programming is struggling in the ratings right now so they have many timeslot problems to solve. But, will Pitch survive to see a second season? That seems highly unlikely unless they can figure out a way to improve the ratings.
But, what do you think? Do you like watching the Pitch TV series on FOX? Should it be cancelled? Is it worth watch? Cancel or keep it?
THIS IS OF MY TOP 4 FAVORITE TV SHOW ON FOX. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A SECOND SEASON OF PITCH.
Please renew pitch. This has been my favorite show by far and I do not watch TV often. It is also a very inspirational show for women. Honestly, I would not watch another FOX show if they cancel pitch because it is that good of a show. Change the day it is on and that will likely raise the ratings. Pitch is competing with Grey’s Anatomy and the NFL, of course their ratings are low.
This is a great show that I can watch with my two daughters. They dvr it and watch multiple times thru the week.
The show should be cancelled. The ratings are awful. Political Correctness is over. FOX isn’t moving Lethal Weapon to put Pitch there. There is no other timeslot that it can hope to do better. There are plenty of young women out there that have great arms from pitching Softball. Any of them in the majors? So this is a Fantasy show?
I love the show, and hope it continues for many seasons.
I love this show I do not want to see it canceled my son watches the show we talk about it it’s not just about baseball it lets girls know that they can enter into sports and play just as well as a guy it’s not a mentor anymore you know we’re making strides to hit the areas that we haven’t always been known to apply
I love this show my son also watches the show. If I miss it I catch up on demand. it’s not just about baseball but it shows girls that they can get into areas of sports the world anything that they can put their minds to that we are not and so it’s mostly guys but it just get that just tells us the sky’s the limit
It’s a keeper. I love this show!
Me and my boyfriend love the tv series pitch we cuddle up and watch it on ever Friday we have to record it on our pvr. We hope you will continue with this amazing tv series please .
Please do not cancel this show it is terrific!!!
Have to keep pitch and definitely have another season. This is a great show that I love to watch every week. I watch this show with my husband because it’s the only sports I love to watch. This show is different from any other show that I watch and love that about it because it’s not like all the other shows out there or based on the same type of shows that are out there. So please continue with another season of pitch and another one after that. It would be a shame if this show is not returned for… Read more »
Please keep this show. It’s literally one of the only family shows my family can watch together (me, wife, and 10 year old daughter).
This show is more than about ratings. It’s shows girls can go anything!!
That has to mean something! Right???
What you just showed us is the you don’t understand how punctuation and grammar work. This is a business, and ratings are part of the business. Wake up.
Keep Pitch. These networks really baffle me when they call giving a show a chance 12 episodes. That’s laughable. Thursday nights are tough. I’m guilty of watching Thursday night Football and recording Pitch or catching up with it on Hulu. Either way, it’s a great show that will get better if given a chance. Keep Pitch!!
Yes please do another season i loved it
I love watching Pitch I always look forward week to week watching. I love watching sports. I skip watching NFL Thursday night football just to watch Pitch. I’m disappointed to hear they are canceling pitch.