NBC isn’t staying friends with The Enemy Within. The network has cancelled the freshman drama series so there won’t be a second season coming for 2019-20.
A psychological thriller, The Enemy Within stars Jennifer Carpenter, Morris Chestnut, Raza Jaffrey, Kelli Garner, Cassandra Freeman, and Noah Mills. The character-based drama centers on former CIA operative and now infamous traitor Erica Shepherd (Carpenter) and FBI Agent Will Keaton (Chestnut). In order to apprehend a looming threat, Keaton must tap Shepherd’s expertise, even though she’s serving a life sentence in a supermax prison.
The first season of The Enemy Within averaged a 0.74 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 4.40 million viewers. The defacto series finale aired on May 20th.
Compared to the other scripted NBC TV shows of the 2018-19 season, the series ranks 10th in the demo and seventh in total viewers. Based on the rankings, it would seem like the series would be renewed but the ratings trended downward as the season progressed. Considering that The Enemy Within had The Voice as a lead-in, NBC execs were likely not satisfied with the show’s low retention rate either.
Today, the Peacock Network also cancelled The Village and Abby’s TV shows.
What do you think? Do you like The Enemy Within TV show? Are you sorry that it’s been cancelled and not returning for a second season?
The Enemy Within was one of my favorite shows. I looked forward to watching it every week. I am so disappointed that isn’t returning this season. But yet other lame shows are returning.
I loved both “The Village” and “The Enemy Within!” How can networks just end a TV series without any regard to the viewers. We have invested our time, week after week, and the shows for the season do end, but they leave so much undone and unsaid! Babies on their way, spy’s wanting to get their life back, and we are just supposed to do what with these cancellations! We never get to find out how the characters all end up! “The Game of Silence” last year also left us hanging, terribly bad! That was horrific how season one ended…… Read more »
Please bring it back!! It was my favorite show!
Awesome show, bring it back!!! The good shows are always cancelled!! VERY BAD DECISION BY NBC!!
The worse thing NBC did was cancel this show. Maybe Netflix or Hulu can takeover. Again a very bad decision.
Bring it back!!!!!!! I want to see what happens!!!!
It was a great show. It challenged the mind and kept you engaged, not like some of the shows on now that are really simple minded. Sad same and poor decision on NBC’S part…
I looked forward to watching the show each week to find out what new twist was going to happen. I would talk with a Marine/retired law enforcement friend of mine to figure out what was going on. He was very interested in the show and made an effort to watch it. There’s only one other show on ABC that I watch, and am waiting to see if it will be renewed or not. Tuesday and Friday nights I watch CBS. Wednesday and Thursday are NBC. Monday, Saturday and Sunday are nights of recordings from upper channels, live upper channels or… Read more »
Just like bionic woman get you into something to take it away classic NBC
Bring the show back. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This fiction show is so much better than these ‘reality’ shows that are on the various networks.
The reality shows are a joke. Boring.
Bring it back!!! I loved it!
I love that show- was the best one on TV. Typically dumb decision by NBC Programming and Management.
Netflix! Pick it up. It will have a following, including me
Maybe another network will pick it up. That happened with another show I used to watch.
I am sorry that Enemy Within was cancelled but NBC has a bad habit of killing great shows. Too bad another network isn’t picking it up.
Leave it to NBC to get rid of quality…only show I looked forward to all week. Hopefully somebody picks it up
The show was great! Some other network or platform should pick it up.
We really enjoyed this one. Sorry to see it go.