Tonight, USA Network will air the final episode of season three of the Shooter TV show. The cable channel cancelled the series last month but, do you think this should be the end of the road? Would you watch a fourth season Shooter on another channel?
An action drama, Shooter stars Ryan Phillippe, Omar Epps, Shantel VanSanten, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, and Jesse Bradford. Based on Stephen Hunter’s novel, Point of Impact, and the 2007 Mark Wahlberg film, Shooter centers on expert marksman Bob Lee Swagger (Phillippe). Despite being retired and living in exile, Swagger is coaxed back into action for the most important mission of his lifetime. In the third season, he discovers details surrounding his father’s death, which lead to uncovering a shocking conspiracy.
Back in November 2016, the series premiered to a 0.50 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 1.44 million viewers. The first season of 10 episodes remained pretty consistent and averaged a 0.48 in the demo with 1.45 million. That was a solid performance for a USA Network series.
Season two of Shooter, which launched in July 2017 and had eight installments, lost a good portion of the audience. It averaged a 0.35 in the demo and 1.25 million. Compared to the first season, that was down by 28% and 14%. Season two finished airing in September 2017 and a renewal wouldn’t be announced until December. Interestingly, USA decided to order 13 episodes this time around — the show’s longest season.
Season three debuted in June 2018 and the ratings were way down, right from the start. The numbers dwindled lower and lower. It’s currently averaging a 0.19 demo rating with 726,000 viewers. That’s down by 47% in the demo and down by 42% in viewers.
In August, it was revealed that USA had cancelled the Shooter TV series and wouldn’t be ordering a fourth season. Word was that Paramount Television, which produces the series, planned to try to find a new home for the show. Given the decline in ratings, that doesn’t seem very likely but they could decide to move it to the Paramount Network (formerly SpikeTV).
What do you think? Should Shooter be saved and renewed for a fourth season? Would you watch season four on another channel like Paramount Network? Or, should season three end the series?
Love the show only good show on Being Back Dumb to cancel l it
Another one of my shows cancelled. I hate this. Bring this show back. We weren’t done with it!
Bring the show back! Just started watching on Netflix….you can’t end it there!
Bring this show back ! I’m ex military ,& I feel a connection with the shooter.
I really enjoyed the show. I am not sure what direction the show can continue going in.
Absolutely loved the show and watched each episode faithfully. It isn’t rocket science to know why Season 1 was the best rated season. It’s entire story line was written based on the movie, and people were going to watch. It’s also no wonder why the ratings dropped. Some people were simply not going to continue watching once the “movie” story line was completed. Next, these short season shows often drain the energy from a show. The viewers wait all year for a fantastic show to air, and poof, it’s over in just a few weeks. Two months of shows, then… Read more »
Loved the show
Loved it, binge watched it and would love for it to come back
Watched it faithfully, love the show!! Would love to keep watching.
I love this show my husband and I watched it faithfully very addicted please bring it back they don’t make shows this good anymore it keeps me on the edge of my seat I’ve even downloaded so I can repeat it season 4 is needed please …….
Definitely
Not a good show. I watched it all but I’m done. This turkey can only be baked so many times. If Ryan actually was given some training on how to shoot a real gun, it might have looked more realistic. Tired of John Wayne no kick pop guns on TV. Ryan also was just not convincing in this show for the character he played. His acting was the worse of all the other actors in this series. They all carried him.
Horrible show and horrible acting. Keep it off tv!
Great Show
Would definitely keep on watching.
I enjoyed the show.