After a disappointing run, ABC has decided to prematurely end the forgotten’s freshman season. Is the Christian Slater TV show being cancelled?
Airing on ABC, the forgotten follows a group of talented civilians who work together to find missing persons once the police have reached a dead end. The series features the talents of Slater, Michelle Borth, Heather Stephens, Bob Stephenson, Rochelle Aytes, Anthony Carrigan, Judith Hoag, and Lily Rains.
The show debuted on September 22nd and attracted a 2.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 9.54 million viewers. It lost a large percentage of its lead-in and 12% tuned out before the episode was over. The second installment of the forgotten fell significantly and the rest of the season has been averaging just a 1.7 rating 6.49 million viewers.
Last week, ABC announced that they were preempting the March 16th installment of the forgotten in favor of a FlashForward recap show. Now, they’re pulling the March 23rd episode as well. Next week’s installment, “Donovan Doe,” is the episode that was originally scheduled for the 23rd and may well wrap up the season.
Considering the poor ratings, the series is very likely to be cancelled and won’t be back for season two. It also doesn’t seem likely that they’ll get around to airing the remaining two episodes anytime soon, if at all.
What do you think? Should ABC find a way to air the remaining two episodes? Should the series be cancelled? Where did the forgotten go wrong?
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Why would you be so stupid ! Jerry Bruckheimer is amazing! He knows what is great why don1t you trust him. Check out his credits. No wonder ABC is number #4 Even Fox out does them.
Wow, Christian Slater just can’t catch a break. Luckily for him, there’s a support group meeting at Alex O’Loughlin’s house.
This series is intelligent and interesting. I am very sad that it will be cancelled and reality shows take over. This show should be given a chance? I watch this show every week and the cast is amazing!
Please air the remaining two episodes for the loyal fans of the show. After all, ABC, it is the least that you can do for us. How long do you expect us to invest our time, attention and loyalty to new programming when you continuously cancel the shows that we love? I mean, think about it, and consider your viewers for a change. Please?
This series is great. It’s different than everything on TV these days. Networks these days don’t even give a show a chance to catch on with an audience. Please let this show live and grow…
What a mistake to cancel this show…Really brought to light how many “forgotten” people are out there. Lets focus on getting rid of the reality shows out there and leave the good shows alone..
This show is awesome!! I look forward to it each week. I love the cast especially Christain Slater!! Forgotten makes you think about all the individuals out there who need our help. It not all about sex like pretty much every show is these days. Leave this show on the air and give it a second chance.
Please don’t cancel this show..I love it so much…
ABC should definitely keep this show. So much of TV programming is reality tv nowadays, and most the other dramas you can find on focus on the doctors or the cops or the lawyers. It’s nice to have a show that puts the focus on the victims of crimes, where it belongs.
I wondered if the show was being cancelled after this weeks show. What a shame. It was really good and Christian Slater was awesome. Re-think the cancelling notion ABC. There are at least 6 million of us viewers that are sick of reality shows.
This is an excellent show! Why do they cancel all the good shows and leave the stupid ones?
This show should not be canceled. It’s great television and excellent writing, and it deserves a chance to get noticed by a larger audience trying to surf through all the reality tv show crud that currently keeps getting in the way of tv time slots.
This show is great!!! It’s definitely better than those reality shows that are running rampant on our weekly tv watching schedule. The cast is great and I love that Elisha Cuthbert is on for some of the episodes. PLEASE KEEP IT ON AIR!!
i think u should give christan slater a chance this show was as good as the other show he had on on channel 4 and they didnt give him a chance then either he is jus a grea actor they put on garbage with reality shows and the bachelor shows that so wrong to be on tv give the veiwers the remaining two edipodes or give ut another chance it badder enough u took off the witches of erast which an dthta was cute funny show an dthis show help with the missing an dthe dead i think u making… Read more »
Please bring this show back its sooo much diff then the other shows that i watch! and im sure others can say the same we have enough shows about dr’s and lawyers and cops this was one of my fav’s please bring this back!! PLEASE~