Tonight, NBC’s Timeless TV show finishes its first season. While the writers clearly have plans for a second season, NBC may not. The peacock network has yet to renew the series for season two but, they haven’t cancelled Timeless either. Will it be back for the 2017-18 season? Should NBC renew it? Would you watch?
An action-adventure series, Timeless begins as a mysterious criminal (Goran Visnjic) steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America by changing the past. The country’s only hope is an unexpected team of a history professor (Abigail Spencer), a soldier (Matt Lanter), and a scientist (Malcolm Barrett) as they embark on the adventure of a lifetime to stop the villain. The rest of the cast includes Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey and Claudia Doumit.
Airing on Monday nights, NBC gave Timeless a solid timeslot, following their biggest TV series, The Voice. The series premiered on October 3, 2016 and drew a 1.83 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 7.60 million viewers. While those are good numbers, the network was likely disappointed that they weren’t higher — especially when the trailer attracted nearly 300 million views.
In week two, Timeless’ ratings dropped 22% in the demo and 18% in viewers. The numbers have been up and down since then but they’ve been trending downward. Recent episodes have dipped below a 0.70 demo rating and have drawn fewer than three million viewers. That’s not a good sign for an expensive drama that’s airing on a major network.
NBC may renew Timeless for a second season but it seems far more likely that they’ll cancel it and hope that their next post-Voice series brings in big ratings like The Blacklist once did.
But, what do you think? Should Timeless be cancelled or renewed for a second season? Would you watch season two or, are 16 episodes enough?
I do hope that NBC does the smart thing a renew this show…its great entertainment and it teaches history too!!!
I am sure there are many more points to be explored in this TV Show. I would certainly be a shame to stop the trama at this point without essencial answers to be revealed. I look forward to watch the second season as soon as possible.
Renew it PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!!
Renew, renew,renew!
Absolutely LOVE this show! I look forward to each episode. It is intriguing and suspenseful and very entertaining! I enjoy the characters and the history lessons. Please renew! I see a real future for several seasons!!
Yes, i would definitely watch season 2 and more seasons of Timeless. Love the storylines and the actors just click. Absolutely obsessed with this show! PLEASE RENEW! This is just not mindless tv, it can be actually educational.
Please RENEW!!! I actually read up on each episode’s history stories, they are all awesome! And the fact that they also did a story on Kathrine Johnson before Hidden Figures came out was EPIC!!! <3 PLEASE keep this show going, my niece & nephew who are teenagers absolutely love this show & its very entertaining but amazingly enough….educational!
Great show, Please keep it.
Renew it!! This is the only show I watch on NBC. I work shift work so I don’t always get to watch live. I don’t know if that goes into the “viewing numbers” or not, but how many other people are doing the same thing.
I LOVE Scorpion, but I switched to watching Timeless instead. It’s the only show I would do that for. Please renew it. And maybe move it. Monday nights are too bloated with great TV shows; give it a chance elsewhere (but not opposite This Is Us.) I’m sure, once people find it, it can last 10 years.
Please don’t cancel. My husband hates everything I watch except this show. In fact we watch it together. I can’t wait for the time it gets on!!! Don’t take away the good shows. This show is interesting, educational, funny and romantic at the same time. Please give it a chance.
I LOVE THIS SHOW! Please do not cancel Timeless. I have always liked time travel and this show is different from everything else. We have law and medical shows so we need something like this. I love the characters, the storylines and the actors are great too.
It’s the only network show I have watched in years, since Blacklist began, and my wife and I do not miss an episode. It’s intelligent, thoughtful, entertaining, well-written and well-acted. That probably spells doom for it given the quality of network television, but one can hope. RENEW “TIMELESS”!
I don’t understand: you DO watch Blacklist, or you don’t? Personally, I watch both Blacklist and Timeless. And you’re right, Monday does have some great shows…I DVR all of them so I don’t have to miss any of them. (But, as for that great “lead-in” show, the only time I ever watched the Voice was with my sweetheart, and he passed away in 2014.) But, since this is the never-been-clever network, which has a history of cancelling my favorite shows, I wouldn’t count on Timeless being renewed. I was SHOCKED that Blacklist came back!!
RENEW TIMELESS. Really hooked on the show since the beginning and it became TV’s biggest roller coaster ride. Hope it gets move to a new night.
I hope they renew for a second season!! It’s a great show and there’s a lot more they could do with the show if they’d continue it!!!FB4I2