As you may know, ABC recently debuted a new series for Sunday nights called Scoundrels. Will it survive long enough to see season two?
Scoundrels follows the legally-challenged West family. The patriarch has been sent to prison and his wife is determined that she and the rest of her family not follow him. The TV show’s cast includes Virginia Madsen, David James Elliott, Leven Rambin, Vanessa Marano, Carlos Bernard, and Patrick Flueger (in a dual role).
The dramedy kicked off on Sunday, June 20th, with a poor 1.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic and only 5.23 million viewers. For the timeslot, that put the premiere in third place in the demo and second in total viewers. Not a good start.
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In week two, viewership for Scoundrels took a significant dive. The demo fell to a 1.0 rating and total viewership came down to just 3.66 million. That put the dramedy in last place in the demo and in last place for viewers.
Unless more people start watching, it’s hard to imagine that Scoundrels will be back for season two. ABC has lower expectations for summer TV shows but these numbers are terrible no matter how you look at them.
A total of eight episodes of Scoundrels have already been produced for season one. Hopefully the network will let the viewers see all of them and not pull the series off the air early. Right now, it looks episode eight will air on August 15th.
What do you think? Is Scoundrels worth watching or would you just cancel it already? (Want to know how The Gates is doing? Go here.)
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76 Comments on "Scoundrels: New ABC Dramedy; Cancel or Keep It?"
Scoundrels always kept me entertained! Please don’t cancel the show!
KEEP SCOUNDRELS!!! I will ALWAYS watch ANYTHING Virginia Madsen does. She is one of the very best actresses of her generation, and anything she does is brilliant, empathetic, relatable and totally worth taking time with.
She is not seen nearly enough – LET HER KEEP WORKING, IN SCOUNDRELS!!!
P.S. Everyone else in the hardworking cast is terrific as well.
Keep scoundrels
Keep Scoundrels.
I love this show i think it was just bad timing i hope to decide to give us some more
Great, fun actors, cute premise.
ABC, anything worth having is worth working for… try harder, put a little effort into it. Not all of us have untreated ADD and demand immediate gratification, the show’s fans will wait to see if you figure it out.
Loved the show and want to see what happens. Just got caught up after dvrl-ing the show all summer. We were pleasntly surprised.
I love watching scoundrels. I watch it with seven other family members and if you cancel it we will boycot all abc shows.
love this show!!!
Keep it !!! 😀
This show is a true original – like Eastwick was. As such, it takes time for us to wake up to something that breaks the mold and makes us think. I look forward to how mom will be able to continue to go straight in the face of so much easy money her kids can steal. Please let us see the next 3 episodes at least!!!!
In this case, Eight is definitely enough! Scoundrels will never live up to New Zealand’s Outrageous Fortune. The show is a disasterpiece. Just let it go.
Keep it! ABC can’t leave the viewers hanging right after Wolf caught Mack and Cheryl together. It will be interesting to see two of my favorite actors, David James Elliott and Carlos Bernard playing against each other.
I GET SICK OF WATCHING HOUSES BEING BUILT. SCOUNDELS WAS CUTE AND ENTERTAINING (WITH DAVID OUT OF JAIL NOW THE SHOW WILL PICK UP) ESPECIALLY HIM WALKING IN ON HIS WIFE AND THE DETECTIVE , I HAVE BEEN EACH WEEK WAITING FOR SUNDAY AND WITH NO NOTICE THE SHOW IS OFF THE AIR.