We’ve received a few emails today from folks who are confused about the status of ABC’s The Deep End. It seems that several sites started reporting last week that the show had been cancelled. We reported yesterday that it hadn’t. What’s going on?
When ABC scheduled The Deep End, they only allowed for six Thursday night timeslots, from January 21st until February 25th. For whatever reason, the network didn’t schedule the seventh and last episode of the season. Perhaps, the sixth episode seemed like a more natural stopping point for the season.
The ratings have not been good for the series so, when ABC promoted that this week’s was the season finale, some sites jumped the gun and declared that it was being pulled prematurely and cancelled. (Interestingly, the same thing happened with Defying Gravity.) Whatever the reason, they were incorrect about Deep End.
An ABC representative confirmed to us today that the show has not been cancelled. Last night’s was the season finale and no decision has been made yet on a renewal. If the show does return, the extra episode will be part of season two.
While the show’s ratings have given viewers little reason to hope that the ABC series will be renewed, you never know. Many declared Dollhouse and Better Off Ted to be goners last Spring and both were miraculously picked up.
What do you think? Are you holding out hope that The Deep End will survive somehow or is it destined to be cancelled?
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This show is awesome!! Do not cancel
Please… Please… Please… DO NOT CANCEL The Deep End!!!!!! This is a wonderful show with wonderful characters. I am so sick of networks cancelling shows without really giving them a chance. Please bring this show back, perhaps in a better time slot to give it a fair chance.
Thanks
Keep Deep End!!
Please do NOT cancel The Deep End. It was just starting to get good, and it goes so well with Grey’s Anatomy…
I second the motion that they NOT cancel The Deep End. There is very little to watch that’s any good these days as it is. I enjoy the young lawyers and their trials and tribulations (whatever) and I think it’s also a lot of fun to watch. I tell you, if baseball season doesn’t hurry up and start, I will have to find something else to do at night. I’m sick of all those sickie murder/cop shows – NCIS, etc. Also, I don’t know what I would do without “Dancing With the Stars” and “The Bachelor” (which is a little… Read more »
I don’t have cable, but always looked forward watching this show on abc.com, and was severely dissappointed to hear that they would be canceling the show. Working for a law firm, I can relate all too well to the characters. I see the show gaining a Grey’s Anatomy type following, if they would only run more than 6 episodes for the season, and have a better marketing plan.
DO NOT CANCEL THIS SHOW ABC! PLEASE
WE ALL LOVE IT!
i love this show as well! do not cancel!
OMG THEY CANNOT CANCEL THIS SHOWW…. I WILL FOREVER LOSE HOPE IN ABC IF THE DO!
Keep the show. I was enjoying the developments! ABC bring it back! More episodes please.
I totally agree with anonymous. Why must we always watch what someone else would prefer that we watch? Why is it NOT OK to love a drama like the deep end that defies anything else on TV today? The Deep End is a tasteful, well done, artistic and stellar drama and ABC should by rallying to make sure it stays on the air, not vice versa. Please do not cancel this show. With the Deep End, TV is alive again. Sincerely, SJP
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not cancel the show… I love the love interests, the thought provoking banter, the fights, the story… It’s beautiful and what I LOVE the most that it’s not like a soap opera at the end of the show…. The show finishes and the following week a new one starts… I mean it still has a cliff hanger, but not an annoying one! PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL!
i realy enjoyed this show, I am a big fan of Clancy Brown,he is from my hometown. The show is one of the best I have seen. it is the only prime time show that I watch on a loval channel
I really hope that the deep end is NOT canceled. It was such a fun show to watch and I love the characters. It’s refreshing to have a show like this that isn’t all about sex, drugs, or crime solving. I love that they keep winning all of their cases and I feel the chemistry on screen with the characters is great. It’s almost realistic with the amount of drama/comedy that happens in their office to what happens in real life. It’s just so easy to watch and I know quite a few people, including myself, that will be really… Read more »
Please bring back The Deep End, I love this show. Why do we always have to watch what someone else wants us to watch? I WANT TO WATCH THE DEEP END!!!!!! PLEASE DO NOT CANCEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!