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?
Bring back royal pains great show
Bring it back, please!
I love the show! Can’t wait to watch season 7!
Bring it back. It is a refreshing show but very i teresting about what is happening next. It is just nice to have something just nice to watch with not a lot of violence.
Bring it Back!!!!
I still love the show! Ready for the 7th season.
I would be sad to see it go – it’s one of the few shows our 13 year old daughter will watch with us. Fun summer show! Love the cast too!
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Royal Pains……….. Please bring it back for another season it’s getting better each year…..
It’s tired and needs to go.
Bring the show back! Love this show, characters, and stories….keep it going, we plan our night around it…..
Love Royal Pains and have been watching it from the start. Its a great family show. I hope it returns next season! Please dont cancell it!!!!
I just watched the last episode. I hope Royal Pains comes back for another season! I love the show and always look forward to watching it.
I was so disappointed to hear Royal Pains is probably getting canceled. There’s nothing left on TV other than trashy reality shows where everybody’s cursing & fighting, explicit sex scenes (borderline pornographic), or glorified violence & demonic spiritism. This was one if the few shows left that I could have on with my son in the room. It’s so frustrating to pay for satellite TV & have nothing to watch. I love the story line. It was so unique & fun. The characters were lovable & enjoyable to watch. With all the terrible things going on in the world, why… Read more »
Please do not cancel Royal Pains! With all the ‘reality’ shows clogging up television arteries, it’s a pleasure to watch a well written, cleanly scripted and wonderfully acted show like Royal Pains. Kudos to the actors and writers with such great talent. Looking forward to another season, or more.
One of my favorite shows…. just right mix of drama with the humor — don’t know why this show has never won an Emmy Award — it is far superior to comedies that have won over past six years. Wish they would do a slightly longer season.