FOX drama Shots Fired won’t have a second season. The series creators have said they weren’t ruling out the possibility of a second season but it seems like there won’t be one.
The 10-part drama explores the tense aftermath of two racially charged shootings in a small North Carolina town. The cast includes Sanaa Lathan, Stephan James, Helen Hunt, Richard Dreyfuss, Will Patton, Aisha Hinds, Conor Leslie, and Stephen Moyer.
Not only was Shots Fired planned as a limited series, but the show’s ratings have been pretty poor. Season one, which wraps next Wednesday night, is averaging a 0.89 rating in the 18-49 demo and 3.56 million viewers. Still, the viewership numbers make the drama FOX‘s seventh most-watched scripted series for the 2016-2017 season.
Earlier, creators Gina Prince-Bythewood and Reggie Rock Bythewood said there’s always a chance for a second season down the line.
Word has been that the series wasn’t going to be coming back. Both a network spokesperson and Prince-Bythewood have confirmed that May 24th’s season finale will also be the show’s series finale.
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— Gina Prince-Bythewood (@GPBmadeit) May 12, 2017
What do you think? Did you watch Shots Fired? Would you have watched a second season of this FOX series?
please do not cancel “Shots Fired”. I love that show
I was into every episode I loved it I really wish there will be a season two I would watch it one of the best shows that came on TV and at the same time it will show you how the justice system works it showed the good and the bad of both sides we need more shows like that please bring back shots fired
I loved it. I binge watched it. I didn’t watch earlier because of all the real killing being televised. I was just tired of hearing or seeing that.
I’m really disappointed Shots Fired will not have a second season. I truly enjoyed watching the rather mostly via taped. Please reconsider!
I am disappointed to hear it will not be coming back! I was just telling co-workers about this show and they wanted to watch and now its ending.. I hope it will come back eventually .
Shots Fired was a great way to reverse the lives of Black & Whites / really gonna miss the series
I would have watched a second season of shots fired. I tuned in for every episode in Season 1. I hope their will be a season 2!!!
I want Shots Fire back why they don’t want to bring the series back?Whats the problem?
Shots Fired likely made many white people uncomfortable… you know they have a difficult time confronting their truths.
I really enjoyed this show and was thrilled to see the next season…
Shots Fired was a powerful and very informative hit series. My family, friends, and I enjoyed watching every week including.
I’m disappointed if the show is cancelled for the second season. Please reconsider not cancelling the show quite a few viewers on the East coast watch the show.
Boo! My husband and I really enjoyed this drama! We are disappointed. We were looking forward to a new season. “Shots Fired” was a very good drama. Please reconsider!!
What else is new! I’m very disappointed to hear “Shots Fired” won’t be returning for a second season. Who is rating TV programming? The statistics aren’t accurate. I know plenty of people that watched “Shot Fired”!faithfully each week, encluding myself. Poor decision FOXX executives!!!
Fox did the same thing back in the ’90s with the hit show South Central, about a Black mother who was divorced, recently laid off from her job, and whose eldest son and been murdered, and she and her two younger teenaged children, who had to move to a neighborhood not as nice as their previous one, were living in the aftermath of all that. It was a brutally honest depiction of an aspect of Black life into which we do not usually delve (the emotional trauma of having to deal with a son’s/sibling’s death, divorce/absent parent, un/underemployment due to… Read more »
I was looking forward to a second season!…my wife turned me on to the show and we watched the remaining episodes together….so sad to hear there is no more…first Longmire ends, and now this!..sad
Terrible…and I mean TERRIBLE show with terrible writing and just a terrible social justice serving premise. To be fair this show isn’t really any more terrible than most when it comes to the ludicrous writing/story…but it has the added horror of trying to be a socially conscious show..and just pandering. Terrible and gone. Good.
Great show. Was looking forward to the next season. Poor choice Fox. Sometimes the investment is worth it .
Please come back for a new season!!!!! This show keeps me on the edge of my seat!!!!