Tonight marks the end of The Astronaut Wives Club TV show on ABC — at least for now. The network has yet to officially cancel or renew the series for a second season. How’s the show done in the ratings? Should it come back or did tonight’s finale properly end the series?
Based on the book by Lily Koppel, The Astronaut Wives Club focuses on seven women who were key players behind some of the biggest events in American history. As America’s astronauts were launched on death-defying missions, the lives of their young wives were transformed — seemingly overnight — from military spouses to American royalty. The cast includes Yvonne Strahovski, Dominique McElligott, Odette Annable, Joanna García, Erin Cummings, Azure Parsons, Zoe Boyle, Bret Harrison, Aaron McCusker, Wilson Bethel, Kenneth Mitchell, and Desmond Harrington.
The show debuted in mid-June to a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 5.51 million viewers. That was a mediocre start. The demo was pretty low but total viewership wasn’t bad for a summer series.
Unfortunately, both the demo and general viewership took a big tumble in week two — and the numbers fell much lower as the season progressed. Last week’s installment matched a series low in the demo (a 0.6 rating) and hit a new low in viewership with 3.2 million.
Looking at the network’s summer ratings, Astronaut Wives Club has been performing about the same as their other scripted fare — The Whispers, Mistresses, and Rookie Blue. None of them have been doing very well but the network needs some scripted shows to air during the summer months.
Based on the ratings, it seems like ABC should cancel Astronaut Wives Club and let the story end with tonight’s finale. However, they certainly could decide that it’s worth give a second round next summer.
But, what do you think? Do you like The Astronaut Wives Club TV show on ABC? If you ran the network, would you cancel it or renew it for a second season? Was tonight’s finale a satisfying conclusion to the series?
PLEASE KEEP THIS SHOW! EXCELLENT
Great show! Last night’s finale was done well. I don’t foresee them continuing this series. In fact, the networks should do lots of mini-series of historical events. No need for more than one season in most cases.
I enjoyed this show very much because of the History behind it. Unfortunately, last night was the Series Finale so it won’t be coming back. It is finished.
Love this show-please renew!
it’s the end of the book. how do you renew? this was about the first astronaut wives. the story ended. nothing more to do.
I have really enjoyed The Astronaut Wives Club this summer. Love the time frame and how they show real clips from “back then”. I think the show did a really nice job of wrapping it up in case it doesn’t come back. Showing what happened to them and where they are now really was great. I hope it comes back, but if it doesn’t nice job!
Please bring back Astronaut Wives Club Love the characters and their fashions back then.
Finally had a program on with no violence and crime..
I LOVE THIS SHOW. I WATCHED OR RECORDED EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT. DID’NT MISS A SINGLE EPISODE.
I have enjoyed the episodes of this summer. Thursday night had something to look forward to, for a change! I would like to see their stories continue, but as the book pretty much ended after Apollo 13, I’m not sure what new episodes a writer could come up with. I was 14 when space flight became big news, yet I honestly cannot remember hearing anything about the wives. Maybe some about Annie Glenn, once John Glenn went in to politics. Of course all this was a LONG time ago, and as they say, “the memory is the first to go.”… Read more »
i likes the show. done very well. but it ain’t coming back. that was a series ending if i ever saw one. they wrapped it up in a nice bow.
If I had to choose, I would choose Forever. But I really enjoy both of them. Please bring them both back 🙂
Yes, bring back FOREVER. You can get rid of the astronauts wives though… no one cared about them then and I don’t care about them now. ; )
I completely agree with you. While I have enjoyed “The Astronauts Wives Club”, “Forever” was one of my all-time favorites and I was sincerely disappointed by its cancellation!
I really like the show. It is great seeing the old news clips interspliced with the show. The wives are interesting and so are the astronauts and what was behind the scenes. Keep the show and lets see more of our national history.
Enough after one season, want to learn more about it read wikipedia. I don’t think another season is possible and if they try will probably fail miserably.
I never watched it as I had no interest in it. That being said, I, and thousands/millions of fans around the world would dearly love to see ABC bring back Forever. We have been begging, blogging, petitioning and grouping to show our interest in it. If ABC won’t listen to us, and bring back a show that has such a following, why should the public continue to view anything on ABC?
Bring it back I looked forward I it every Thursday.
Love this show, we need more like it! There’s already so little to watch in the summer.