Late in the 2013-14 season, NBC and ABC launched three new Sunday night dramas — all with single word titles. NBC cancelled Crisis and Believe while ABC renewed Resurrection for a second season. In retrospect, was that a good decision for the alphabet network? Should Resurrection have been cancelled as well?
On Resurrection, a small town in Missouri is turned upside down when long-dead loved ones return after 30 years. The cast includes Omar Epps, Frances Fisher, Matt Craven, Devin Kelley, Mark Hildreth, Samaire Armstrong, Sam Hazeldine, Landon Gimenez, and Kurtwood Smith.
Debuting on March 9th, Resurrection had a great launch with a 3.8 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 13.9 million total viewers. (Those numbers are about the same as this season’s How to Get Away with Murder’s debut.)
Unfortunately, Resurrection’s ratings dropped about 19% in week two and they kept falling nearly every week of the eight episode season. The seventh installment hit a low of a 1.9 rating with 7.85 million — half of the premiere’s demo rating.
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Considering the poor luck that the alphabet network had last year launching new dramas, it wasn’t much of a surprise that ABC renewed Resurrection. They didn’t have much choice. However, the ratings slide was a terrible sign for the future.
Now, the show has been really struggling in season two. After a positive second season debut, the ratings quickly dropped, falling to new series lows week after week. The October 26th installment registered a mere 1.2 rating with 4.36 million.
ABC recently ordered full seasons and additional episodes of many of their new and older shows. It was a telling sign that the network is only producing 14 episodes of Resurrection this season.
Unless the ratings improve, it looks very likely that Resurrection will be cancelled by May. Hopefully, the writers will give viewers some degree of closure before the end.
What do you think? Did you stop watching Resurrection? Should it have been a mini-series? Is competition from The Walking Dead and football the cause of the low ratings? Do you think Resurrection should be cancelled or renewed for a third season?
I like this show a lot. My Dish system will record only 2 shows at a time and I had to miss a few episodes because of the competition with a few other shows I like, like Downton Abbey and The Good Wife. I hated missing episodes and plan to watch them on the internet to catch up. Please do not cancel but please DO play it on another night where the competition is not so stiff. It is a good show, with a good cast.
It love the show and watch it every week with my family when on. However i would like to see any TV show compete with Sunday night Football – especially here in Texas!
Love the show, keep up the good work!
Please do not cancel this show! Great cast and look forward to each episode!!
Plese don’t cancel this show..so look forward to see what happens next..lost interest in tv since so many reality shows took over..I would be upset to have this one cancelled..maybe try another night?
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I LOVE This show! It’s intrguing and an hour is too short. We don’t even know yet why all these people are coming back!!
Please don’t cancel the show, I love to watch it!
Love it! Keep it!
I thoroughly enjoyed the show, but it had direct competition with Downton Abbey when it returned after being off during December. I now have too many holes in the story line to continue watching. I wish ABC would stop its practice of having winter finales in late November for their regular shows.
DO NOT CANCEL !!!!!!!!! Move it from Sunday to another night. Football
is too important to some people. I do record it, but, my family will not
miss any game.
I really loved this show. I may not have been able to watch it every week but it was always on recording. I think that you have something in that it’s different then most shows. I found the show very good and spell binding. Please don’t cancel this show.
Please DO NOT Cancel Resurrection! Too many good shows have been or are being cancelled ! I’m disabled and don’t get out much so TV is one of my enjoyments! I may not watch it till the next day on On-Demand But I Do Watch It !!!
Please do not cancel this show. It is a good show. There is so much garbage on TV these days. All the reality shows, for example, are examples of a society quickly losing it’s moral compass. Let us, the public, have another choice. Keep Resurrection on the air. Thank you.
Plese don’t cancel. I love this show.
Please give us series finale, at lease. Im so tired of these series getting canceled and never knowing how or why this phenomena happened in the first place.
Please don’t cancel the show. My daughter and I are always excited to watch this show. She even finishes all her homework so that she can sit down with me and watch it. We love Resurrection!