Will the music play on for Sun Records? The CMT TV show recently finished its first season, but what about a second? If renewed, would you keep watching the series?
Based on real events, the music drama follows record producer Sam Phillips (Chad Michael Murray) as he shepherds young musicians Johnny Cash (Kevin Fonteyne), Elvis Presley (Drake Milligan), Carl Perkins (Dustin Ingram) and Jerry Lee Lewis (Christian Lees). The cast also includes Trevor Donovan, Keir O’Donnell, Jennifer Holland, Margaret Anne Florence, and Kerry D. Holliday.
The chances of a renewal for Sun Records are uncertain. The show premiered to a decent rating (for a CMT show) of 0.20 in the 18-49 demo and 971,000 viewers. However, the ratings fell considerably over the course of the eight episodes.
Overall, season one averaged a rating of 0.13 in the 18-49 demo and 585,000 viewers. That’s a considerable drop for a new series on a network that is new to scripted programming. Will CMT risk another season? For now, we’ll have to wait and see.
What do you think? Have you seen Sun Records? Do you think the show should be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Would you watch?
5/5 update: CMT has decided there won’t be a second season of Sun Records. Details here.
I was born, (1946) raised and still live In NW Alabama. Of course, I loved it, especially the history. We would spend our nights listening to WGN in Chicago. All the local AM stations would go off the air (good riddance) in the evenings. WGN would start coming in around 9pm and we would cruise or stand around someone’s car listening until it would fade away around daylight. To be 14 in 1960 and live 80 miles from Tupelo , , to me, the best of, oh well, I’ll just say this, how could anyone pick a better era to… Read more »
Loved it! Hope it’s renewed!
Yes I was hoping it would be renewed for many more seasons! Loved it!
Love the show. love the music. my favorite singer has been Johnny Cash since I was born. I’m only 15 and i really want to see a second season of the show and more after that. It’s the only show I looked forward to watching every week.
Loved it! Would love to see seasons 2, 3, 4….. Unfortunately, we are not within the desired demographic of 18-49, so it probably doesn’t matter 🙁
We loved It! I hope it will be renewed!!!
We absolutely loved the show!
I found this series a couple weeks ago. I loved it. What a shame there will not be a season two. I do not watch CMT that often I saw somewhere there was a show about Elvis , Jerry Lee Lewis and Sun records. I watched this show On Demand
It was very entertaining I was dissapointed there were only 8 episodes
Educational…love the music history….very entertaining and interesting… eagerly waiting for season two……TONY TIGER….ITS GGRREEAATTTTT
Terrible promotion of Sun Records by CMT!
I watched an episode online at CMT on my computer.
I liked it so much I had to purchase Season 1 on Amazon so I could watch on my tv. Had I known about the series, I would watch every week.
CMT don’t lose Elvis like Sun Records did!
This is a GREAT SHOW! KEEP IT GOING!
Great writing and acting. I love the Colonel!
Frank Heeg
Everyone on here that loves this show needs to go sign the petition #SaveSunRecords the petition is on change.org
I tried to find it ,but can’t find it. I want to sign the petition
https://www.change.org/p/cmt-save-sun-records-we-want-a-season-2
Let’s get to 2500 signatures!
Loved the show, please don’t cancel it.
Im so sad sun records has been cancelled. I looked forward to watching it every week. Pkease bring it back.
Sun Records is our favorite TV show. Hate to think that there will be no season 2….It’s great Rock ‘n Roll history.
Sun Records was a wonderful show. Please don’t let it go the way of HBO’s Vinyl, another inspired show about rock & roll.