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A crime drama, Reef Break stars Poppy Montgomery, Ray Stevenson, Desmond Chiam, Melissa Bonne, and Tamala Shelton. The series centers on Cat Chambers (Montgomery), a former thief. These days, she works as the fixer for the governor of a beautiful Pacific Island paradise — “The Reef.” Thanks to her checkered past, Cat has a deep understanding of criminals and the crimes they commit. As a real risk-taker, she runs toward adventure, not from it.
The first season of Reef Break averaged a mere 0.31 rating in the 18-49 demographic and just 1.96 million viewers. It was ABC’s lowest-rated summer series, ranking 14th of 14 series. Of the 57 summer network TV shows, Reef Break ranked 39th out of 57 shows. It only beat out a bunch of CW shows, What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage on FOX and season one of The Good Fight on CBS (which had already been released on CBS All Access).
While ABC has cancelled Reef Break and Grand Hotel, the network has already renewed numerous reality and game shows. Those expected back for Summer 2020 include The $100,000 Pyramid, Bachelor in Paradise, The Bachelorette, Card Sharks, Celebrity Family Feud, Holey Moley, Match Game, Press Your Luck, and To Tell the Truth. The fate of low-rated Family Food Fight is still up in the air. Season seven of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD will be that show’s end and the network is expected to run it next summer as well.
What do you think? Did you enjoy the Reef Break TV show on ABC? Are you sorry to hear that it’s been cancelled? Would you have watched season two?
LOVE this show! Love the actors, too! I have re-watced the first episode several times, because I love the intro of our main character. Poppy is awesome!
Beautiful to watch, as well!
I’m so bummed another favorite show of mine is lost to the ratings game!
Maybe Prime will pick up????
Loved it, loved the scenery and loved Poppy. She’s so fun to watch. Please get something else for her
Can not understand why the show was cancelled it was good TV and not a boring reality show like bachelor in paradise cancel that instead
I loved reef break..you guys always take off shows that we enjoy watching. Grand Hotel was another that I loved. Not everyone likes game shows, etc. Wow, I can’t believe you always cancel the good shows. Shame on ya
I watch so few shows on the regular channels anymore, so I really wish they had left this alone! Such a tongue in cheek show! Give the viewing public a ‘break’!
We just binge watched the entire season. GREAT show never new it was on. I would love to see it come back.
I loved reef break and Jane thevirgin. Too bad
Loved this show…please bring it BACK
Reef Break was a good drama series and a good way to end the day. The open-ended finale left a good opening for a second season.
agreed with bill and patrick not into game shows and NO REALITY! it was a series for a summer evening and the island was beautiful
would love to have it back for the summer
No surprise-she basically played the same character as in Unforgettable-but instead of a “detective” she was a thief. She still managed to remember a lot of things all the time.
Reef break was a great TV series for a first season but was not promoted well enough. Bring it back for those of us who do not like reality shows.
Please bring it back!
Liked Reef Break a lot. Even tho it was pretending to be an American territory, I liked the location shots of Australia’s Gold Coast. I enjoyed the characters and would have liked to see where season 2 took them. Adieu, Poppy et al.
Maybe give Reef break a 2 nd chance? We need alternatives to the gazillion game shows already on.
I enjoyed the show. Don’t think it was promoted enough. Maybe the time slot was wrong? It was a nice change from game shows.