Next week marks the season finale of Rising Star and the winner of the singing competition will be named. Has this show been a ratings winner for ABC? Will it be renewed for a second season or will it be cancelled instead?
Rising Star allows the home audience to vote for singers and help determine who will move on in the competition. Brad Paisley, Kesha, and Ludacris are the show’s “experts” while Josh Groban is the series’ host.
The series debuted in late June to a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.2 million viewers. That wasn’t a great start for a new show but, considering it’s summer, the ratings weren’t awful either.
Unfortunately, the ratings started falling in week two and they’ve gotten much worse as the weeks have progressed. Last week’s installment drew just a 0.7 demo rating with 3.17 million viewers. Those are very poor numbers — even by summer standards.
Though many ABC shows have been struggling this summer, it’s highly unlikely that they would risk renewing Rising Star for a second season.
But, what do you think? Have you been enjoying Rising Star on ABC? If you ran the network, would you cancel it or renew for season two?
I loved to watch rising star because i was able to vote for my favorite singers but if the show is tweaked a little then it would be better but i just loved the show a lot and hope the series is renewed
If you didn’t like the show, fine, everyone is entitled to their opinions, but please don’t ruin it for the rest of us that actually enjoyed it! Keep your negative comments to yourselves.
On another note, I’m really hoping and looking forward to a season 2. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!!!
I agree but needs tweaking and earlier time slot
Only music talent show I enjoyed
We really enjoyed the talent and voting!
PLEASE PLEASE RENEW. Its a very modern and awesome way to watch and vote for artist. The stage was amazing and the singers they got this season were all AMAZING. Jesse i knew would win from the very start. I think with more advertising they could really get in alot of veiwers. Rising star could be the next big thing. Because the show is very 2014. Its what people are looking for as far as new technoligy and talent. The experts they chose were also a very good choice. They got a little bit of hip hop, country, and rap.… Read more »
Totally agree, Brad and Luda!
“ABC has not yet announced if Rising Star will be picked up for a second season, but the experts shared their suggestions on how the show could be improved. “I would love for the experts to have a hand in picking who’s in it,” said Paisley. “I think it would be really neat if we went around America — me, Kesha, Luda, Josh walk in a club and say, ‘You’re coming.'” Ludacris also wants to focus on the talent next season. “Even better competition — hell yeah.””
-Billboard (http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6229324/how-jesse-kinch-won-rising-star?utm_source=twitter) Last paragraph
MUSICALLY Speaking, I loved Josh Groban’s previous albums. As a host, a resounding NO. As I was watching the show, it became so annoying. The judges seem quite phony and as some of the previous users on here mentioned, you can have a great sob story and be a bad singer…. It was not a fair match because OF COURSE Jesse can sing… That is a no brainer… Austin had no shot and is in denial… The overall concept of the show was poorly done and I truly doubt the show will air for a second season… I would rather… Read more »
Incompatible lead in
Earlier start time slot would have been better 8 PM
Not certain about the hosts other than Brad
Liked the show and talent was ok
Needs time and tweaking but the hosts didn’t being
The audience in like Adam does The Voice
I love the show but I am disappointed with the voting. We should be able to vote on line. I think more people would have been more interested.
I really love Rising Star. I have heard several different opinionated views regarding the series from friends and family and each of the views were not very pleasant. I believe it’s based on the fact that they didn’t understand the way that the contestants was judged. The west coast or the rest coast. It was confusing to them, so they stopped keeping up with it. I lived the show and hope that it will continue on to future seasons.
This show is pure garbage! Jesse has ben tthe only good singer! Austin is a midget who thinks he’s a ladies man as well as a good singer! He has no sex appeal or voice! Audrey has a whining cartoon voice that is horribe, better suited for the circus! Kesha would vote yes for a singing cockroach! She will vote yes for anyone! The judges are all unethical with the dumbest reasons for voting yes or no, at times nothing to do with their singing! The judges actually have voted for a person no so their favorite would go through… Read more »
I 100% agree with you Jill. Jesse is the only good singer on the show. It is not a shocker he won… That is a no brainer.. It did not seem like a family show due to some of the stuff that was going on… I did not like that. I am an avid listener of classical music and have a lot of Josh Groban’s albums. After his “Awake” album, it went downhill and I noticed a different quality in the newer albums… I never liked Brad and never will. Having them being called “experts” is a total farse. If… Read more »
I love this show and Josh Groban is a fantastic host
they have a lot of talented singers
I hated it from the start. Each contestant gets to tell sob stories that make people vote for them whether they can sing or not. Most can not sing anyway. It should be blind auditions with the viewers knowing nothing about contestants prior to listening to them sing. Then they are judged on the basis of their talent only. When you hear that their mother died of cancer, their father is in prison, they have survived feared and dreaded disease etc. you tend to vote even if they are horrible. Also too slow, too many commercials
I enjoyed this season very much. I’ve been a grobanite for 10 years, so I may be biased. The judging by Brad and Luda was good and instructive. Kesha, not so much. Besides, the numerous commercial breaks, the show needs something else. Not sure, but that is why I vote to have it renewed for a season 2. Maybe they will figure it out.
Here is what I think. Yes, the commercials and marketing were not the best, as I did not think it would work out and it looked stupid, but they proved me wrong. And yes, the talent was mediocre, but that is what you get from every show like this in the first season. The producers don’t really know what they are looking for. The 1st season of American Idol and even America’s Got talent stunk, but look where they are now (although american Idol now is worse than the 1st season), and AI just got a ‘reboot’ this past season… Read more »
Are you a comedian…..you like this crap better than the other shows you mentioned? Even X FACTOR was superior to this terrible fare!
No. AGT is FAR better than this. I did, however, get bored of ‘The X Factor’ after one and a half seasons, and American Idol after 9 seasons. Yes, X Factor did have Simon Cowell as a judge and it had slightly better talent, but Fox renewed on the conditions that they ‘Reboot’ it (The following season had no host for the first half as well as new judges- then LA Reid left in season 3 making it REALLY bad). The viewership was bad for that show, but Fox tried to make it work, and it didn’t work out for… Read more »
I love Jesse he is destined for greatness I can’t wait to watch every week