When The Event was being promoted last summer, the producers made a point of saying that the series would be different from ABC’s failed FlashForward series. It turns out there were more unintentional similarities than they would have liked. Like FlashForward, NBC’s The Event has been cancelled after one season on the air.
The Event follows Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) who’s investigating the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. He slowly begins to uncover a huge cover-up that’s beyond belief. Others in the cast include Sarah Roemer, Laura Innes, Ian Anthony Dale, Scott Patterson, Clifton Collins Jr., Taylor Cole, Lisa Vidal, Bill Smitrovich, Zeljko Ivanek, and Blair Underwood.
The serial drama started out with healthy numbers on September 20th, registering a 3.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 10.88 million viewers. Unfortunately those digits started to fall immediately. The series lost 19% of its demo viewers in week two and another 17% in week three. From there, things basically just got worse and worse.
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NBC announced that they were putting the TV series on hiatus over the holidays and indicated they would give it a relaunch in early 2011. That’s never a good sign and it certainly didn’t help the ratings. The Event lost more than 26% in the demo between its last episode in November 2010 and its first in March 2011. The ratings stabilized but not at an acceptable level.
The Event currently averages a 1.8 in the 18-49 demographic and 5.72 million viewers. As poor as that is, the average is only that high because of the early season numbers.
It’s no surprise that NBC has decided to pull the plug. There are two episodes remaining in the series and thankfully they’ll provide some sense of closure for the devoted fans that hung in there.
What do you think? Why didn’t The Event survive? Why did so many people bail on the series, even before the long hiatus?
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well im pretty pissed ,got to say i looked forwards to watching the show over hear in the uk,,,,loved the way it was always ending and leaving me wanting more after each episode,,just left with king of thrones on the atlantic channel to tune into now,,,,
I have to agree, with David and Jason, this is the last time I invest in an NBC show, it’s so disappointing to watch and give a show a chance, one that’s actually somewhat mentally stimulating be put out to pasture before the fans and people who took time out of their busy lives and schedules to watch the show not be given the tiniest amount of consideration of an ending to the series. We were left with a plethora of cliff hangers that were interesting and compelling, especially since everything is so dumbed down and mindless, and generally lacks… Read more »
The Event was one show I enjoyed this past season. The first problem was the time slot they were in, between Two and a Half Men & Mike and Molly on CBS and Dancing With The Stars on ABC. The second problem was preempting it during midseason. This show was never given a chance. As for the faithful viewers, many who have posted here before myself, we have been betrayed once again by NBC. The Event had a good continuing story line that kept us wanting the next show immediately, not the following week. In my opinion it was that… Read more »
i loved that show i found it sooooooo unfair for them to cancel it…i meannn it could get bettter as it goes along for real i am upset the very different
“””Jorge May 31, 2011 at 8:59 am
After all, these are the same stupids that cancelled Star Trek in the sixties. You cannot ask more from a bunch of monkeys.”””
you are so right !
I cannot believe the show was cancelled. I wasted all those evenings watching a show with no ending. very frustrating. I am so angry!
This is the first im hearing about the show being canceled. Honestly… Im very sad. My wife and I truly enjoyed the show. Sometimes its just nice to watch a show and not “critasize” every little detail. Im really disappointed in NBC! This is why network tv is so bad… Ill think twice before I “invest” my time into another show….
[…] after NBC cancelled The Event, it was reported that talks were underway to possibly find a new home for the drama. […]
There’s nothing realistic about Sean Walker’s accomplishments other than his computer skills and they do not teach how to be a Green Beret (Navy Seal, Army Ranger- pick your poison)…that’s what would have been required for Walker to have survived as long as he did…gee, I have an idea, if that’s the story (The Event) you want to tell then make Walker a Green Beret or the likes, gone AWOL for his girlfriend and then we can expect him to kick ass along the way…and one more thing cast someone else instead of a nerdy Ritter, like that “Aquaboy” from… Read more »
The last episode was another, like “V’ on another network, where earth people were not the winners. It was obvious from Carmela (President Elias wife) last comment that she was, as suspected, also an alien. The “home” planet, which we saw briefly, seemed a place of fire and destruction; like HELL. I began to wonder if there were biblical analogies here: — the Watchers of the Book of Enoch, the legend of the Sons of God taking the daughters of men, the Fall from heaven of the angels, the reputed longevity of men before the flood. That was never explored.… Read more »
David – This time around, it was just a TV show, nothing more…
This is why TV sucks. I can’t believe that after watching religiously all season, putting up with all the commercials and NBC pulls the plug and the viewers are screwed. How would the people at NBC like to watch a 21 hour movie without an ending. They would be pretty god damn angry. I’ m done watching any NBC series.
After all, these are the same stupids that cancelled Star Trek in the sixties. You cannot ask more from a bunch of monkeys.
I can’t believe you are cancelling this show! It is getting really good and was the only weekly series that I watch! I sometimes have to watch it on demand due to other obligations I currently have.. too bad you don’t count how many hits this show gets via on demand and include that in your ratings calculations…. Too bad mainstream networks are force feeding ‘reality based’ nonsense on us, we want entertainment that is not ‘reality’ which is the beauty of ‘fiction’ , in this case ‘science fiction’. I hope that you can reconsider and, if not, that another… Read more »
Makes me think really that this show was getting too close to the truth about a government conspiracy about what it knows about 2012 and that is why the show was canceled abruptly without a closure.?
I am getting to hate you NBC, this the second series that you cut out before the last 2 finials, you did the same with V,how can you do this, you could of finish at lease the 1st. season then cut it out,at lease the fans would appericat a ending, your board should have there head fixed.