Time travel seems to be a very popular concept with the TV execs and three time travel shows have launched this season. Unfortunately, the public seems to be less interested. Timeless looks likely to be cancelled by NBC and Making History is performing poorly for FOX. What about Time After Time on ABC? How’s it doing in the ratings? Will there be a second season?
An hourlong drama, Time After Time stars Freddie Stroma, Josh Bowman, Génesis Rodríguez, Nicole Ari Parker, Will Chase, Jordan Sparks, and Jennifer Ferrin. The ABC series follows the young H.G. Wells (Stroma) and his journey via his incredible time machine. Wells is in hot pursuit of the brilliant and engaging surgeon, Dr. John Stevenson (Bowman), a.k.a. “Jack the Ripper.” It is in present-day New York City that he meets philanthropist Vanessa Anders. She is the current owner of Wells’ time machine and may also be his great-granddaughter. Assistant museum curator Jane Walker (Rodríguez) joins Wells on his dangerous search for the man now known as “The Key Killer.”
The series launched on March 5th with a pair of episodes and attracted a 0.65 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 2.54 million viewers. Those are very poor ratings for a network series. Unfortunately, they next episodes performed even worse.
Last Sunday’s installment drew a 0.44 in the demo with 1.79 million viewers. Those are CW-like ratings and the series is one of the network’s lowest-rated shows.
ABC will surely cancel Time After Time and, with horrific numbers like these, I also suspect they’ll pull it off the schedule.
Hopefully, the network will release the remaining installments online so the viewers who do like the series can see them.
3/29 update: ABC has essentially cancelled the Sunday night series. Details here.
What do you think? Do you think that ABC should cancel Time After Time? Should they pull the series or let all of the episodes air on Sunday nights?
Great show!!! Keep it going!!
It’s competing with March Madness! We record and watch it later. Geeez, give it a chance. Good acting, fun story lines, still want to know why HG Wells refers to John as “my friend” when he knows he is Jack the Ripper… PULEEEZE do not cancel!
From what i remember of the first episode HG invited friends round to his house (John being one of them so it was before HG knew he was Jack the Ripper). The police knocked on the door because there had been a murder and John used the time machine to escape capture.
While it is a bit interesting, I’m finding there are too many mysterious people showing up who know EVERYTHING. Yet when Jack goes back to save his son they say he can’t change history as it will cause problems. Clearly history has been massively altered if so many people know of the time machine. It’s just a bit messy and too all over the place to work long term.
But I’m curious, why does he even allow the time machine to work at all without the key?
Sorry but those people who think a person from the 1800 could not adjust is sadly mistaken. First H.G Wells saw the future before most people conceived it. He was a futurist and if you are and observant person then taking the knowledge you have already and forwarding it a a 100 to 200 years later isn’t that hard. The same issues they had back then we have now just bigger. As far as the Ripper goes he is a doctor, he hung out with H. G, and women love him. He is actually more suited for this time than… Read more »
Just watched all five episodes. This show is pretty good. This show needs better advertising. You have all these people of color on the show and you don’t see them in the advertisements. We I was a kid I had to imagine people of color in movies I watched a lot of times they would be excluded our have just a minor role. These days their are lot more options to choose from. So unless you like the BBC are you watch shows such as Dr. Who are Downtown Abbey and you actually know who H.G. wells is. The average… Read more »
SO spot on with your comments! Hope they listen!
No! Don’t cancel Time after Time please!
Love the show! But it’s on the wrong night!
No way! Are you crazy? This show is classic.
No don’t cancel it! I really like the show and have now gotten my daughter to watch it. She is picking up the early episodes on Demand. Every time a show I think is worth watching, the networks pull it before it has a chance.
No do not cancel. I like this show. If they change the night I will still watch it. I have to find out what Utopia was about. Della
Unfortunately I am in full support of cancelling this show. My wife and I love sci-fi shows and enjoy Timeless. But watching the pilot episode of this show had too many inconsistencies and was just plain stupid. How many times can the H.G. Wells character have his new girlfriend held hostage for they “key” .. it lost us after the first episode because people from 1880’s wouldn’t know about getting an apartment, new hip clothing, a disposable burner “smart phone” in just a couple days. Especially in New York. Too ridiculous for us to follow.
I’ll chime in with the sentiment that “Timeless” is excellent and needs to be kept. The others are rather feeble “elevator pitches” that are just trying to jump on the bandwagon, or time machine.
As to “Time After Time”, I loved the original movie, but that is all this story-concept should be; a movie. How anyone can think it could be expanded to an ongoing series needs to go back to Program & Development School.
I love this show. BUT I record and watch on weekends. My weeks are too full to watch tv. Most people do that now, so the ratings and viewers will automatically be down. They have cancelled so many of my shows the past couple of years because of that. It makes me SO mad!!!
I was excited to begin this series, as I love Timeless and hoped this might fill that hole. I was disappointed almost immediately. The acting is wooden and colorless, the plot is ridiculous, and the dialogue is cliche, stilted, and unbelievable to the point of stupidity. Freddie Stroma is awful, and Genesis Rodriguez is as interesting as oatmeal. As of last night’s episode, I’ve given it up. Oh well, one less show clogging up my DVR on Sunday night.
I actually really enjoy watching the show and I find it very interesting. I’d actually be disappointed if they cancelled this show.