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 got hooked by accident and now my guilty pleasure once the kids are in bed and the hubby is asleep is to go online and watch the River! Please don’t listen to all the reality show BS. We need this unique show to make us jump, look around corners more carefully, and most of all think of the magic out there! If I was speaking in real life this is the part I would start the chant “Keep it, keep it, keep it!!”
Everyone who watches this show should boycot ABC if they don’t renew for a second season. Then they will see that losing a lot of viewers was the reason they should have reaired the show. I just don’t understand how a show this good can be canceled but somehow they can find morons to watch the Kardashians, Modern Family, Glee, Jersey Shore, and all the other garbage on TV.
The River is such a unique & amazing show! I absolutely love it & dont think it should be canceled at all! It is very upsetting to cancel shows without an ending to them! You cant just leave it like that at least make one more episode to end it all! Please please dont cancel The River!
I watched every episode…next season focus more on the magic and let Emmett do the leading. Obviously you have to bring in some characters we give a crap about: Relationship between Lincoln and Leena…don’t care. Relationship between Mrs. Cole and Producer…don’t care. Mrs. Cole…man, I really don’t care for her.
Give us more walking on water, creating fire orbs, spirits traveling through fireflies…focus on the magic and the conflict in getting there because so far your writers haven’t done a compelling job setting up interesting dynamics between characters.
I love this show. It is amazing. So please bring it back.
I love The River!
I love The River!!! The season finale was great when Lincoln got shot and got possessed by the Demon and the crew wanted to get out but the Demon closed the islands together! It was FASCINATING! I could not believe that Lincoln was still alive! The other episodes were great also! Please do not end the show.
Me and my wife watched it every tuesday along with a c0-worker of mine and loved it. All we could talk about for 2hrs was the episode and what might happen in the next one. Keep it up
I really enjoyed The River and was hooked on the pilot. I don’t have time to watch TV consistently but I like the first few episodes so much I bought the season pass on iTunes. Please bring this show back for a second season. There is nothing else like this on TV.
I look forward to watching every week! Haven’t seen a show this suspenseful and wierd that’s on prime time tv since the x files! They can’t cancel it! Come on abc!
Please please bring this action ,thriller, mix with drama back for a second season im dying to see whats going to happen to all the river cast i understand that yall said these are the tapes that they left behind so im very curious did they make it or did they dissapear like the others cant wait to season what this tv series has in store
please bring it back mY number is 229 529 7184 waiting for kurt to spill the beans on what he knows about the RIVER
this show is AMAZING! all of my friends watch it and we NEED another season! please make more episodes and dont cancel it!!!! <|3
keep the river!!!!!! I think it is an amazing series….different from most of the others but
keeps you waiting for tuesday to hurry up and get here so you can see what happens to the cast next. I love the mystery and suspence. Don’t end it this way : (
The way the season ended BLEW I watched every Tuesday this show must go on do not cancel THE RIVER.
I freaking love this show!!! I think the time and money put into
It will be worth time. This show is a COLT CLASSIC, IF ABC WILL TAKE THE
CHANCE FOR A SECOND SEASON TO CATCH FIRE!!
PLEASE ABCCCC. YOU Can dooooo itttttt! Me
And my wife’s marriage rests in ABC’s hands, lol we love this show!!