Fans of Quantico are in for some good news. ABC has renewed the TV show for a third season but there will be just 13 episodes this time around.
The drama follows Alex Parrish (Priyanka Chopra), a former FBI agent who now works for the CIA. The cast also includes Jake McLaughlin, Aunjanue Ellis, Yasmine Al Massri, Johanna Braddy, Russell Tovey, and Blair Underwood.
After a breakout first season, Quantico dropped considerably in the ratings for season two. Overall, the season averaged a 0.68 rating in the 18-49 demo and 2.80 million viewers. For comparison, season one earned an average rating of 1.24 in the 18-49 demo and 4.34 million viewers. That’s a near 50% dip in the ratings from season one to two.
Nevertheless, ABC has decided to give Quantico another chance, possibly due to lucrative streaming and international deals and the fact that lead Priyanka Chopra is a global star.
Meanwhile, Quantico creator and executive producer Josh Safran will step down as showrunner on the series. A search is underway for a new showrunner and Safran will remain with the show as a consultant.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Quantico? Are you glad it’s been renewed? Will you watch season three?
1/8/18 update: Season three of Quantico will debut on ABC on April 26, 2018. Details here.
YES YES and YES!!!!!!!!!!
Watched every episode and enjoyed then all. However, the show did start to go downhill, and I think that the season 2 finale would make an excellent series finale, allowing the show to go out on, if not a high, then at least before it fades into obscurity by slowly losing viewers and getting cancelled due to loss of interest.
Watched every episode and enjoyed then all. However, the show did start to go downhill, and I think that the season 2 finale would make an excellent series finale, allowing the show to go out on, if not a high, then at least before it fades into obscurity by slowly losing viewers and getting cancelled due to lots of interest.
ABC will Renew this but not their 3rd highest rated show Last Man Standing?
ABC No More for me! https://www.change.org/p/abc-network-save-tim-allen-s-show-last-man-standing
The first season started off well enough, then the ending ruined it for me. Seems like the female viewers keep this alive. Watched a little of second season and found it got worse. Please cancel this and put something on that is just not a soap opera with government agents. You can do better ABC
So Glad to see this coming back! Love the cast and characters. Hope they cleanup the story telling tho. I almost felt like it was Quantum Leap or some time travel show for awhile, never really could keep pace with all the time frames jumping back and forth each episode. Don’t they know we have to check our phones, respond to our text messages and facebook while we are watching the show, quit trying to confuse us with storylines! Seriously it was the 2-3 month hiatus in the middle of the season that thru the viewers, theres too many other… Read more »
in total agreement about the current trend of mid-season hiatuses being the real reason these shows are seeing declining numbers. The Feb/March hiatus for this show really did it for me. I was in total confusion by the time I figured out the show was even back. Tried to watch what I thought was the next “new” episode and was totally lost. I might give this season another chance when the whole thing is on Netflix, but they really are shooting themselves in the foot when they put these shows on extended vacation. Better to have two different 13-week series… Read more »
Much agreed! The current day network mentality is somewhat to blame as you mentioned shooting themselves in the foot. Networks seem to be ordering 13 episodes and then if the ratings are good they’ll give the go ahead for more. I think you’ll remember the shift in the first season of Quantico where it shifted gears. The same thing this season when the came back in spring – alot of the characters were being written off and an entirely new adventure was under way. The good news is the storytelling was alot cleaner the second half of the season in… Read more »
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I love this show and the lead star makes this show. The ratings went down when the show moved from Sunday night’s to Monday night’s. It keeps you on the edge of you seat.
Great show hope it stays around for several more seasons glad to see there will be a season three but hate that it will be abbreviated
Yes we definitely will watch. It reminds us of the original “24”. Awesome drama and great actors.
Love this show!!! Looking forward to Season Three!!!
I love Quantico. Glad it is coming back for Season 3.
Why? please let she comes back home, her greencard needs to be cancel too.
I like the show. I thought the 1st season was simply fantastic. I haven’t been that excited with the 2nd season which I have found very confusing. Maybe that was the whole idea. Regardless, I look forward to a 3rd season and hopefully a less convoluted plot line.
Love Quantico, so happy to see it coming back
A little hard to follow,but I am glad they renewed it.!