Tonight’s sixth season finale of Royal Pains ends with a cliffhanger. How’s it been doing in the ratings? Will the USA series return for a seventh season or will it be cancelled instead?
Royal Pains follows the continuing adventures of a former ER doctor (Mark Feuerstein) from New York who, along with his younger brother (Paulo Costanzo), runs a concierge doctor business in The Hamptons. The show’s cast includes Reshma Shetty, Brooke D’Orsay, Campbell Scott, and Ben Shenkman.
Year-to-year, Royal Pains is way down in the ratings. Compared to season five’s numbers, season six is down by a whopping 43% in viewership (averaging 2.03 million) and is down 35% in the 18-49 demographic (registering a 0.5 rating).
While those numbers are disturbing — and could certainly lead to the show being cancelled — all of USA Network’s scripted series are struggling and the cable channel theoretically can’t cancel everything.
Of the show’s chances for a renewal, co-creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski told TV Guide, “We’re optimists at heart and we think that the storytelling that we’ve done and the way the show has performed hopefully will earn us a Season 7. We really tried very hard not to let that uncertainty dictate how we wrapped up our stories this season. We really just wanted to tell the best stories we could with the most satisfying conclusions that we could and at the same time, make sure that we left room for new stories to be told if we do get the opportunity to continue.”
What do you think? Are you hoping that Royal Pains returns for season seven — or is it time for the series to be cancelled?
Please keep this show going! It’s my favorite TV show and pretty much there only thing I watch besides the news and Jimmy fallon. The stories are GREAT, characters are lovable, and the show is addictive!
Another fan of royal pains,
My wife and I found royal pains about three months ago and we just finished the last episode on netflix today. We have really enjoyed it and would hate to see it get canceled. If we would have known about it while it was going, we sincerely would have been watching every week. We love the show and it MUST go on! 🙂
PLEASE KEEP ROYAL PAINS GOING!! SO LOOKING FORWARD TO SEASON 7! ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE GREAT AND THE STORY IS WELL WRITTEN WITH LOTS OF HUMOR AND INTERESTING MEDICAL TRAUMAS WHICH ARE RESOLVED BY THE AMAZING HANKMED TEAM. THE SCENERY IS SO BEAUTIFUL ON THE SHOW. IF YOU WATCH JUST ONE EPISODE YOU’LL BE HOOKED!! I HAVE ALL 5 SEASONS ON DVD AND ENJOY WATCHING THEM A LOT!!! OBVIOUSLY ITS MY FAVORITE SHOW!
I hope it returns. It is a show the whole family can watch.
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL ROYAL PAINS
PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL I EVEN INJOY WATCHING RERUNS ON MY DVR. IT’S
ONE OF MY FAVORIT SHOWS. ROYAL PAINS MUST RETURN!!!
I sincerely hope that sanity reigns and Royal Pains is renewed.
Please renew Royal Pains. It is one of the few programs I look forward to each week.
this is about the greatest show I ever watched. It has that sweetness and not so dark I am sick of. I hope all the characters stay and you will continue on with this delightful show. Please continue forward☺️☺️☺️love it love it love it!!
I have watched every episode of this program and loved it pretty much until this season, my family hated Emma and any episode with her as part of the plot (and that seemed to be most of them) we might watch or might find another channel. We like the parts where Hank is actually a doctor, we love Boris, we love Jeremiah, we like Evan and Paige but we kinda hate Emma. I think they forgot what made this show popular and more Boris would be a quick fix IMHO
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just discovered Royal Pains – and catching up on netflix…hope it continues – love this show!
Like the first few seasons, but now it’s getting whiny, and Hang has turned into a real *****. Tie up the loose ends and cancel it
the later seasons get much better i wont spoil anything but the grind of the earlier seasons is worth it in the long run
Don’t cancel Royal Pains. Its one of the few really good, well scripted and well-casted shows with compelling stories that lend to characters that are 3 dimensional and who are growing. If there is a problem with ratings, it is because cable companies, like Comcast, who only look at the financial bottom line, are not publicizing shows it decides it wants to get rid of to save overhead and promote worthless so-called “reality shows” and wrestling. Please! Bring back Royal Pains for several more, longer seasons. Its really fun entertainment.
Yes, renew it for the 7th season, cool show, love it in many different ways, please, go on with it. Thanks!
I’m not sure if I like every episode but RP has been a quite good TVShow for several seasons. I hope it will continue a 7 season but I guess there’s some kind of fatigue in the story…some characters have grown up but some important others (ie Boris) have not a clear scope. I think if 7th season is to be made that RP centers the story…too many stories opened right now…love this series!
Please don’t cancel Royal Pains. I’ve been watching it since its inception and would love to see how everything get resolved in all the characters lives. It’s one of the better shows on USA