Fans of Pitch and The Exorcist have reason to be optimistic. FOX boss Dana Walden recently discussed the season two chances for the TV series, Deadline reports.
Both shows ended their freshman seasons this past December, earning lower-than-expected ratings. Pitch, which stars Kylie Bunbury as the first female player for Major League Baseball, averaged a .83 rating in the 18-49 demo with a total of 3.032 million viewers. The Exorcist, which is based on the classic 1973 horror movie, brought in even lower ratings, with an average rating of .68 in the 18-49 demo and only 1.914 million viewers.
However, the low ratings don’t necessarily mean FOX will cancel the series. At a recent conference, Walden said second seasons for both shows are “in the conversation”:
Both are very much in the conversation. Not sure. Exorcist actually improved our time period on Friday night by about 35% and it’s an interesting opportunity. It’s never going to be a big ratings winner because of the serialized nature but I thought the show was really good and it was very consistent. Pitch? Bigger conversation.”
And what is that conversation for Pitch? Walden says the network has a tough decision to make:
It’s a female-skewing idea, but it’s about baseball and men watch baseball. So we’ve tried and the delayed-viewing is excellent. Now we have to make a tough decision which is in this environment is it possible to grow Pitch to 6 or 7 million viewers on a seven-day metric?”
What do you think? Are you a fan of Pitch and/or The Exorcist? Do you want a second season?
Late to the party for PITCH. But I Benge watched the whole season. Please renew this show! This show is the epitome of storytelling at its finest. Few shows do this.
So agree with this. We always try to guess what will happen next and are always pleasantly surprised to be wrong. Keeps us on our toes!
Renew Pitch. Baseball, girl power, fabulous cast and writing
My husband and I both love Pitch and are hoping it gets renewed. We’ve talked it up to lots of our friends who would like to see it now as well.
We really enjoyed Pitch. Hope that it returns this season!
I believe it was an awesome season, I enjoyed watching the season and I’m in suspense as to what will happen to tthe character Ginny. Great storyline. Looking forward to season 2.
Pitch is an awesom tv show but I just think it was on a bad night and with the play offs going on people had other priorities. Plus I don’t think it had a lot of advertising before it came out. My father and I are really hoping FOX gives it a second season!!
Pitch should be renewed for its excellent ensemble cast and compelling storyline in addition of course to the fact that we love baseball and women’s empowerment!
I love Pitch! My boys are baseball players and all of the parents look forward to the show every week !!! Looking forward to seeing what happens to everybody. And I love the flashbacks … Awesome show!
I would keep Pitch and make it a summer series. show 13 episodes from June – September. Make the exorcist stay on Friday nights with its established audience. problem solved!
The Exorcist was easily the biggest surprise of all the new major-network TV shows I’ve caught this season (not to mention, quality-wise, the one outlier in this strange new movie-to-TV-adaptation trend that’s generated so many unnecessary reboots – what the showrunners did here reinventing The Exorcist is right on par with what Noah Hawley did adapting Fargo for FX). Plus, and I guess this could be seen as a negative – but I don’t mean it as a criticism – it definitely doesn’t look or feel like a FOX network show. When compared with things like Bones, Sleepy Hollow or… Read more »
Please DON’T CANCEL Exorcist. Its a excellent show! I was hooked and started to put the word out on the show. It needs more advertising so people know about the show.
I love Pitch, not only for its great cast, writing, production values re: baseball realism, but also for the positive message it sends to young girls in having such a strong and empowering female lead. Please keep the show!!
Please please please keep The Exorcist going! It is a fantastic show with great acting and very artistically done. Please keep good shows like this going. The ratings will be there if you keep it on.
I am truly hoping FOX renews The Exorcist. I love horror and this show was packed with it. It’s a shame most horror fans never discovered it. FOX is partly to blame for not publicizing it enough. Next season Grimm is going to be missing on Friday nights. Maybe we can get some of their viewers.
Of course I want a 2nd season; but I’m a 57-yr-old woman so my demographic doesn’t “count.” I made two other ppl fans of the show, but one is a 55-yr-old woman & her husband, who’s a few years younger. WHY DON’T PEOPLE OLDER THAN 49 “COUNT” IN THE TV RATINGS? I’m sure it has something to do with money & ads. Well, the Big Three legacy networks’ news programs all have their STRONGEST viewership over age 49, and you don’t see NBC Nightly News or 60 Minutes being yanked off the air. Can anyone tell me why we don’t… Read more »
P.S. I was referring to the show, “Pitch.”