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?
renew for season two
My whole family loves this show and we watxh live and vote every single week. Please bring it back!
Make a 2nd season please its one of my favorite shows
I thought Rising Star was an excellent show. I enjoyed watching it. It is muchbetter than all those reality shows.
Please make a Season 2 this kind of show is what people what to see it in courages us to watch because we can actually interact with the show. Tons of people loves this show and wish you would not cancel it. Give it another try maybe try a different season. You had it in summer, people are busy during this season. Putting it on television in a different season like winter you might actually have the numbers you want.
This is literally my favorite show! Renew it please!! Don’t cancel it!
cancelling this show only goes to prove that the people in charge of ABC’s line up haven’t a clue as to what people want to see…if any of the networks did, they would know better than to schedule all the good series on monday and tuesday…leaving wednesday wide open …all your events get sceduled on sunday, monday, and or tuesday. Rising Star didn’t stand a chance against football and sunday meetings…Clearly they need to hire people that watch TV and not spreadsheets….
I absolutely loved the show. Please make a season 2!!!
Leave it on!
Renew the show I love it
I would love to see rising star return it was a great experience with my family
Rising Star needs to stay on tv it was my favorite TV show.
I would like to see riseing stars back so renew it
I would like to see riseing stars back
Thats Sad.. i love the talent show..