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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Seriously, a very good and compelling show. ABC has the most ridiculous hair-trigger in TV history. Grays Sexnatomy (yeah, all doctors do at work is screw in the on-call lounge) and the loser following it keep getting renewed but their good series (Eli Stone, Forgotten, Life on Mars, etc.) are cancelled. Screw reality TV, Americans are just plain dumb to watch that scripted, unscripted trash.
There are so many shows out there that deserve cancelling – this is NOT one of them. ABC needs to reconsider this move. Quality shows are hard to come by these days!!
I’ve posted before but I wanted to ask, should ABC just change their name to the “already been cancelled” network? I went through my DVR last night. Out of all the networks I record I only have 1 show left on ABC, which is Castle. I LOVE Castle, and hope that ABC doesn’t decide to cancel it as well. The Forgotten is such a though provoking show that shows real emotion. Someone posted earlier that reality shows are cheaper to produce because they don’t have writers. There is no way there isn’t some kind of scripting, because I have a… Read more »
Please don’t take this show away! I love how you have everyday people taking over cases that the police gave up on. These people volunteer their own time to help give a name to jane and john does. These people could be anyone’s loved ones who’s missing cases were never solved.
I feel this show eye opening and incredibly touching, and would hate to see it be taken off.
Look, this is the 2nd series in which Slater has been fantastic. The issue is that TV shows for the most part are complicated when they have to filmed at different locations and constantly require new actors for each episode. I don’t know why any actor worth their salt would agree to do a new “Drama” on TV. Unless there is an established deep pocket and viewer draw (CSI, Lost, 24 and the like), you will not get a show that last no matter how good it is because the companies cannot afford to pay for good actors, good writing… Read more »
The Forgotten was a different type of show and very good. This show brought you into the life of a deceased victim. I looked forward to watching this show every week and wondered WHY it was not on. I am very disappointed and hope that maybe another network will run with this show or try ABC try another time slot. It would be a shame to cancel this show just when the story was getting so interesting. He just found his daughter and I was so interested to see how it worked out. This show just needs a chance to… Read more »
I love the forgotten. It was a great show, plus what a wonderful way to help with missing people. Please don’t get rid of it. Please bring it back even if it is to give the show one more try.
Looking forward to seeing more episodes.
Cacelling the forgotten is a big mistake… The cast was persfect together and great. The sory lines were perfct drama. The heads of the network really need to get together and stop cancelling invigorating drama shows
I really like this show. It’s got good story lines. Try to keep something on ABC that’s worth watching for crying out loud. I’m sick to death of so called reality shows. There’s is nothing real about them.
Ugh, why don’t people watch the good shows instead of watching all the reality crap?! I really liked this show and the subject matter.
I hate watching shows on ABC everytime I get hooked on one they cancell it after a season or two. A couple of examples are Women Murder Club and now The Forgotten. They poorly adverties new shows and put them in poor time slot and wonder why the have bad ratings. The only show I watch on Abc is Castle which is not my most favorite show but it’s good. I hope Castle doesn’t get cancelled. I hate when t.v stations do not give new series a chance.
the forgotten was different and that’s what made it so good. Christian Slater did a wonderful job along with the others on a show that brought you into the life of a deceased victim. I looked forward to watching this show every week and have wondered for weeks WHY it was not on….now I know and I’m very disappointed. I hope that maybe another network will run with this show or try out another time slot. It would be a shame to NOT bring this show back. There are so many shows that are alike and this show brought something… Read more »
i agree that was and is a good show and a foolish move by the network if you ask me they just need to find the right time slot for it is all then people would watch it is truly sad to see such a good show go to waste so lets have those new episodes and hell why not a season 2 they should sell the show to a network that knows what they are doing so we can continue to enjoy it
Seriously? People would actually prefer to watch, “Dancing with the Stars”, than a gripping series about lost brothers and sisters, mother and fathers; children? For anyone who hasn’t had the pleasure of seeing this fantastic series, (which brings Christian Slater to prime time tv, huba, huba), this is the 1st series, that I am aware of, to tell the story from the perspective of the victim/deceased. It’s truly a work of art! I would be very sad to see this gem go.
Please don’t take it of