ABC won’t be making its official announcement until tomorrow but the axe has already fallen for midseason’s The Unusuals.
The dramady revolves around a dysfunctional but effective group of New York City cops. The series features the talents of Amber Tamblyn, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Joshua Close, Monique Gabriela Curnen, Kai Lennox, Terry Kinney, Adam Goldberg, Ryan O’Nan, Ian Kahn, Kat Foster, Heather Burns, Robert Funaro, and George Aloi.
The ABC show debuted on April 8th to a disappointing 6.83 million viewers and a 2.1/6 rating/share of the 18-49 demographic. The following week, the numbers fell to 6.01 million and a 1.8/5. The network tried a different timeslot but the numbers were worse and subsequently fell to a terrible 4.74 million and a 1.4/4.
Though ABC really wanted to find a new cop drama, it became pretty clear that this one wasn’t going to be it. The network has opted to cancel The Unusuals rather than order a second year.
Their official schedule will be announced tomorrow but show creator Noah Hawley has already been informed that the show is dead.
He twittered, “Friends, just heard The Unusuals will not be back for a second season. Thanks for all your amazing support.” He later wrote, “It’s a tough loss.”
There are four episodes left in season one and ABC will begin airing them next week, on May 27th.
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ABC is ******* stupid they finally air with a great show and then they cancel it for the reason that it dropped more then a million views. What the hell? THATS NOT EVEN THE MAJORITY? God they must be all on crack and having too much sex with their trophy wives.
What a shame!!! How could this great dramady be cancelled when it hasn’t even been given a fair chance…started at the wrong time of year and hardly any advertising prior to its start. Personally felt it was the best cop show ever made!!
I HATE this decision, I LOVE this show. What is going on here!
That does it!!!!!!! No more ABC!!
i just hate when they pull the plug, we will never know the ending, will the cop die of his brain tumer, or will the other one live to be 43??? same thing happened when i was watching journey man, i got hooked and then pow, no more, what can we do, money talks, no ratings, no money, nextime a new series comes on air i will wait a few years to be sure it will last and buy the dvd’s of the first few seasons before continuing watching it on tv, thanks,
O M G whoever pulled the plug on this wonderful series should be fired
with a dearth of CRAP on network tv ,. this show was a godsend
Why!? I loved this show! I do not even remember ABC promo’ing the heck out of it like it does other shows. Did they set it up to fail? I just happened to stumble upon the show through the abc website and was hooked from the first episode.
Just lame.
what the heck?? first my fiancee and i got hooked on “life on mars” then, when they idiotically canceled that we decided “the unusuals” might be sufficient to make up for it, then as soon as we were hooked on that they canceled it too! what is abc doing?? i’m fairly certain that convincing people to watch their shows only to cancel after airing less than an entire season is not really good p.r.!! i am very nearly DONE with watching anything put out by abc!!
COME ON!!! I LOVED THIS SHOWW!! HOW CAN YOU CANCEL SOMETHING THAT WAS ONLY STARTING!! ABC REALLY SUCKS!!!
ABC sucks. The brass must be smoking crack…they keep f**king up by airing great shows and then for no good reason cancelling them…what’s up the lead actors weren’t sleeping with you????? As I said ABC sucksssssss -wind.
its really starting to get on my nerves that any decent show that comes on has a life span of 1 season.. or half of a season. and like others have said.. shows like Jerry Springer or Desperate Housewifes or Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order Special Victims Unit, Law and Order Trial by Jury, Law and Order Conviction, CSI, CSI Miami, CSI New York… Im hoping some people see where Im going with this… these shows just wont die.. and have been going on and on and on.. and the good shows.. the ones… Read more »
i cant believe this. The unusuals was my fav show. I don’t watch much tv but i saw this every week. This is thge second show that abc has canceled that i liked. abc just lost yet another fan!
This makes me sad that they canceled this show. I loved it. They keep canceling all the shows I really start to like. This was funny and entertaining and I didn’t miss an episode I set it to record on my DVR every week. THey should have givien it more time.
I loved this show. I can’t believe they didn’t give it more time to catch on. It was late and there are other shows competing for that time slot, but given enough time, I am sure it would have caught on. Too bad, I very rarely watch network T.V. but this was one program I set my DVR for and loved to watch.
That really is a disappointment. I had been trying to find it on my tv schedule and now know why I couldn’t. This was one of the better cop shows in years. ABC made a poor decision and this was enhanced by choosing to do so after only 3 shows. Come on. Give it another try.