Last week, CBS renewed 11 TV shows for the 2016-17 season. Supergirl was not among them. With declining ratings, should the Monday night series be renewed for a second season on CBS? Should it be cancelled instead? Moved to The CW?
Supergirl revolves around Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist). As a girl, she survived Krypton’s destruction by being sent to Earth where she was raised as a human. She kept her powers a secret and now, as an adult, works as an assistant at a big city media conglomerate. Kara’s existence becomes known to the world and she is enlisted by a super-secret agency to help protect the citizens from evil forces as Supergirl. The rest of the cast includes Calista Flockhart, Chyler Leigh, Mehcad Brooks, David Harewood, and Jeremy Jordan.
The ratings for this freshman series have not exactly been “super”. After a positive start back in October, the latest ratings are less than half of the premiere’s. It’s currently averaging a 1.73 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.9 million viewers. Last week’s episode hit a new low with a 1.29 in the demo with 6.0 million. Those are poor numbers for a CBS show.
CBS head Les Moonves recently said that he expected several of the new CBS shows to be renewed for second seasons. Still, they haven’t been renewed yet and things can change quickly in the TV industry, particularly as the network execs review pilots for next season.
Tonight’s crossover with CW’s The Flash should bring a bump in the ratings but that’s not expected to help the next week’s new installment’s numbers and there are only two more episodes in this season.
Given the ratings, Supergirl probably shouldn’t be renewed for a second season on CBS. The series could work well on The CW but that might mean that the show’s budget would have to be downsized and production moved to Vancouver, British Columbia — where Arrow, The Flash, and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow are produced.
What do you think? Do you think Supergirl should be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Should it move to The CW or stay on CBS?
Please renew Supergirl,give the show another chance. Like the people did in the show.
I quit watching after the first 5-6 episodes but watched tonight because the The Flash was on there. The show still has the same problems. The lead is good and there’s a good show hiding somewhere in there but the writing is really bad. The romance storylines are way too overdone and it’s like they just copied and pasted Supergirl into a cookie cutter version of a Superman TV show. Feels like they put together a 80s version of a show that some network suits thought would pander to a female audience. The special effects are cheesy too….the special effects… Read more »
Supergirl is really great there is nothing wrong with it a perfect give the show another chance
I love this show do not cancel please
The biggest problem with the series is Jim my Olsen is a hot black guy. If he was geeky black guy no big deal, if they would have kept it original where Jimmy was a pastie red headed nerd it would have been cool. See these shows are what fans want to see come to life. You can’t change a character. It would like making George Washington an Asian man. You just can’t do it. Jimmy is a beloved character in the superman universe, currently it’s like Jimmy doesn’t exsist. It has nothing to do with race if he were… Read more »
I think the big problem is James is just boring. If he had a personality like Hank Henshaw he would be more interesting.
They should renew Supergirl,give her another chance.
They should movie it to a different night/time. Putting it up against Gotham is splitting the DC comics audience. That move was horrendously dumb.
This man is absolutely right. The question shouldn’t be what do I watch it 8 o’clock. The question should be what do I watch at 9 o’clock. Because I Dvr supergirl if it came on at seven I believe it would help it out big time. I know I’m a grown-up but kids watch it
Love Supergirl…..should be renewed!!!
We haven’t missed a single episode, even when using our DVR. Please don’t turn Supergirl into another Forever!
I loved Forever! Too bad it got cancelled
YAWN!!! It’s just not very interesting…..let it go.
Problem I see right a way with the Show…it’s too focused on the Female Audience. Every seen has 2 or three Lead female alpha-female characters. It’s slow talks too much on feelings , (sorry for male audiences that’s BORING change channel time) doesn’t follow the Flash or Arrow type of show formats that works to get ratings.
Love Supergirl….. Love all the characters….please renew it…
Please renew Supergirl – it is so much fun!
My daughter will be seriously bummed out if this is not renewed.
Like to see Supergirl renewed for another season.
Code Black and Criminal Minds Beyond Borders are the only new show’s I’ve been watching from CBS. I couldn’t care less about Limitless, I hated the movie; Even stopped watching it after 10 minutes. Supergirl is not my thing, so… – Still pissed they’re not renewing Person of Interest… I won’t be watching any of the new shows they air in the fall. Once the rest of my favs from CBS are cancelled, that’s it for CBS.