Last year, fans of the Timeless TV show took a big ride on the cancellation/renewal roller coaster. First, NBC cancelled the time travel drama, but after a big outcry, quickly reversed their decision and renewed it for a second season. Can Eric Kripke, Shawn Ryan, and crew get that lucky again? Will Timeless be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned. **Status updates below.
An NBC action-adventure series, Timeless stars Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter, Malcolm Barrett, Goran Višnjić, Paterson Joseph, Sakina Jaffrey, and Claudia Doumit. Season two picks up right after the events of last season and follows Rufus (Barrett), Wyatt (Lanter), and Lucy (Spencer) on their quest to prevent the destruction of our world as we know it. This season they’ll find an unlikely ally in their mission to destroy Rittenhouse, a deadly organization Lucy’s family has been a part of, for centuries. As they try not to change the past, they will visit 1692, 1917, 1941, 1981 and more, and encounter Marie Curie, Hedy Lamarr, William Randolph Hearst, and other influential historical figures.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s likelihood of staying on the air. The higher the ratings (particularly the 18-49 demo), the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available — usually the next day, around 11:30am EST/8:30am PST. Refresh to see the latest.
12/21 update: You can see the latest night’s ratings in context.
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Note: These are the Live + Same Day Ratings which include “live” viewing plus delayed DVR viewing, up until 3am local time that same night. Ratings marked with an “*” are the fast affiliate ratings and will be updated with the Live+SD numbers when they are made available. Typically, networks get paid for C+3 ratings which includes DVR viewing within three days of the original airing when commercials are watched. Those numbers are rarely released to the press.
For comparisons: The first season of Timeless on NBC averaged a 1.10 rating in the 18-49 year old demo and 4.624 million average total viewers.
What do you think? Do you like the Timeless TV series? Should it have been cancelled or renewed for a third season on NBC?
**7/31/2018 Status Update: NBC has ordered a two-part Timeless TV series finale movie. Details here.
**6/22/2018 Status Update: Timeless has been cancelled by NBC. While there will be no season three, there is some hope for fans. Details here.
My wife and I absolutely love this show. It seems to be getting better with each episode.
I like Timeless a lot, although the “history” in it makes me roll my eyes and the plots don’t really hold water. But, it’s fun, and reminds me of the old Time Tunnel series of my youth. I will continue to enjoy it (while rolling my eyes) as long as it is on! 🙂
I think Timeless is one of the best shows on tv. I love the action, humor, romance, love all of the cast. They really do compliment each other. Everyweek is a new fun adventure, I cant say enough how much i love this show, it definately deserves a season 3,4,5. The only thing i dont like is the timeslot. I have to get up early monday mornings and cant stay up until 10 to watch. I record on dvr to watch next day. Hoping for a better timeslot. Im so tired of reality shows taking up early timeslots.
Season 2 has not lived up to Season 1. It is really hard to do a show like this due to them changing time alot yet the impacts on the future are extremely limited.
Dear NBC.. PLEASE put Timless on at a time that it will have a chance! Sunday night at 9pm central is too late. Give it Tuesday night at 8pm central to give it a fighting chance. It is a very entertaining show, but the way the ratings are calculated it will never have a chance for renewal. I watch it faithfully every week, as do many of my family and friends, and I bet none of our households are counted. change the way viewers are counted and give quality entertainment a chance. PLEASE!
Please renew, it’s been a while since being excited about a new show.
I just found this show and have been binge-watching season 1. Please don’t cancel it. It’s great! I love the concept! Maybe NBC should advertise it more. I’m surprised at the lower ratings, though, considering it’s an Eric Kripke produced show.
Renew, renew, renew!! LOVE watching this show the day after on Hulu
TIMELESS Season 2 is great so far, if you want more, let the sponsors know – they’ll appreciate the positive response. Actually, the sponsors should be quite happy as ‘Live + 3’ ratings of the superior (though sadly truncated) Season 2 of TIMELESS are very strong (“Live + 35” ratings are outstanding – up 156% [not a typo!] from 1.28 to 3.27) and the show continues to generate a strong upscale audience (last season TIMELESS indexed a 124 among adults 18 – 49 living in homes with $100K+ incomes – note: an index of 100 represents an average concentration of… Read more »
PLEASE RENEW!!! This is the best show on tv. My son enjoys his history class because of Timeless! It is such a unique show I am trying to spred the word, everyone should give Timeless a try. It is definitely worth it!
I really hope this show doesn’t get cancelled again!!!
Please please please renew for another season
Renew renew for a another season please!!!
It’s been a while since I’ve been excited about a show. I enjoy this show, definitely want a 3rd season.
Best show on television. The ratings are a direct reflection of an old audience who are just grounded in their roots and refuse to turn the channel to something good. When the show is canceled by NBC this year we should picket the Syfy channel to pick it up. I’d like to see how it performs if the timeslot was behind something on NBC that was actually good. Who schedules this nonsense?
I turn my channel to Masterpiece on Sunday night which is good programming. Unfortunately Masterpiece doesn’t end until halfway through Timeless. If I have time later, I stream it. But I am not grounded to the TV either.
As typical network television they Renew a show that the fans screamed about being great, see (Jericho) And say they are behind it and then don’t bring it back for a year on a limited schedule in a bad time slot and the ratings go down, not because of the story line which has been great but because they basically want to get rid of it from the start.and I’m sure many people want it to continue but the only way is that they move it to Another channell like space or hbo or wb network, network channels still think… Read more »