This evening, ABC aired the season finale of The River. What’s next? Will the TV show return for a second season or will it be cancelled instead?
For those who aren’t familiar with the ABC series, The River follows the search for beloved TV host and explorer (Bruce Greenwood) some six months after he and his team went missing down the Amazon. His wife, son, their crew and a documentary team go after them on what turns out to be a dangerous rescue mission. The cast includes Joe Anderson, Leslie Hope, Eloise Mumford, Paul Blackthorne, Thomas Kretschmann, Daniel Zacapa, Shaun Parkes, and Paulina Gaitan.
Sadly, it’s almost certain that The River will be cancelled. The thriller series debuted back in the February with a pair of episodes. The first hour attracted a 2.6 in the coveted 18-49 demographic with 8.35 million total viewers. By the second hour, 12% of the audience had bailed and the numbers dropped to a 2.3 rating with 6.83 million.
The ratings have been dropping ever since. Last week’s episode drew just a 1.3 rating in the demo with 4.09 million total viewers. Averaging a 1.67 demo and 4.82 million, The River is the lowest-rated drama on the network and has fallen even lower than sure-to-be-cancelled Pan Am. On our network report card, which compares ABC TV show demo ratings, The River gets a “D.”
With ratings like these, there’s just no chance that the alphabet network will order any more installments.
What do you think? Do you think The River should be cancelled? Are you satisfied with the way the story was left? How would you have ended it?
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I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!!!!! i will be more than upset if this show is canceled. it almost seems as if no one wants to watch tv unless its another stupid singing or dancing show. come on people, i finally found a good tv series with no singing, now don’t take it away
Petition ABC to keep it. Might not work, but if enough people sign a petition and send it to ABC, it might change their minds.
probably not…
I enjoyed the entire “The River” TV show series. I really hope they extend the series to a second season. One thing I did not like was the fact that they showed alot of the action in the commercials unlike the Paranormal Activity movies did. If they cancel the show it leaves us (fans) out in the dark. ABC please extend series!
ABC never promoted it after the premiere 🙁
I loved The River and I definitely want it to be renewed.
MORE Bruce Greenwood please!!
Great show, lousy Cliffhanger!!! bring it back.
If they cancel The River i will give up watching US tv shows. Had enough of getting into a show only for them to cancel without a proper ending! Deadwood started it. Not happy! Yet so many crap shows get years. Dont understand. Got my faith back after American Horror Story and Spartacus. Big network tv is not worth starting. Just a wind up and who knows if you will ever see an end to it. If anyone at ABC read this. Finish the show please!!!!!!! Give it an ending. Let us find out what happend!
I agree with you completely !
I feel your pain, but Deadwood was hardly the first show to finish without a proper ending. Carnival finished with a cliff hanger. Back in 1990-91, Twin Peaks famously was cancelled and the last episode was a cliffhanger with no closure. I’m sure there is a large list to be filled in here.
Chuck fans can thank NBC for allowing it to live just long enough to finish with some sort of ending even though it had been teetering on the edge of cancellation for years. That’s an exception. Not sure if ABC will be as generous.
This show stunk. Both the acting and writing were terrible. It should have been cancelled a long time ago.
Love the River!!! They need to do a season 2! Best show Tuesday nigth.
I loved the show, but the way the finale ended was pretty lame. Not really any closure, but not enough for another season.
Not enough for another season?? How’d you come to that conclusion? They’re stuck in the Amazon and have to find a way out. How? Maybe they can find the answer at The Source. And there’s your second season.
The River is an incredible show! Here’s hoping it gets renewed and we get to see just what The Source really is.
Cancel Pan Am and Keep The River
OOPS! That’s backwards! Keep “Pan Am” and lose “The River”.
Hahaha “I’m on an airplane, derda der” or “Holy crap! Demons, zombies and curses, oh my!”
The River is awesome!!! and Me and My Friends just love it and we all been waiting for season two…so i hope it doesn’t gets cancelled.And they release the season two. Hope for the best.
Great show. To bad veiwers did not give it more of a chance after 1st episodes. Found it very entertaining. But now we may all be left hanging if its cancelled. Any chance another
network may look at it?
I love The River. I hope it has a second season.
I really enjoyed every Tuesday night waiting for “The River” to air. It kept me on the edge of myy seat with each episode. It makes you wonder what actually could be out there deep in the Bouina. Either way I thought the show was great and was dissapointed how it ending, but hoping there will be another season to see how they get out. Aslong as it stays the same then I’ll keep watching. It was almost like “Prison Break” started off great but they should of never came out with the 3rd season.