Maybe Kiefer Sutherland will be available for that 24 movie now. FOX has cancelled Touch after two seasons on the air.
Though Touch’s ratings were on the decline last season, FOX renewed it for another round anyway. They slated it for Friday nights, likely figuring that it would improve on Fringe’s dismal ratings. It didn’t work out that way and Touch has been doing even worse.
The current season of Touch has been averaging just a 0.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.68 million total viewers. Those are terrible numbers, even for a Friday night show. Kitchen Nightmares, which also runs on that night, has averaged a 1.1 in the demo and 3.13 million.
This Friday’s episode, titled “Leviathan,” will be Touch’s 26th and final installment. Hopefully the producers have included some closure for the die-hard fans.
What do you think? Are you sorry that Touch has been cancelled and won’t get a third season?
The networks need to catch up to the world as it is…it no longer matters what night a show is aired. If people find a show worth watching they WILL watch– when it’s aired on the network’s site, on Hulu or DVR it–they will watch it at their leisure. Are these numbers being taken into account when deciding whether to cancel a show? They should be–that IS how Americans watch TV now and will continue to be in the future. That being said, Touch still may have been cancelled due to the fact that a viewer needs intelligence & insight… Read more »
I echo the sadness of the other fans of the show. However, historically, network TV has always opted to appealing to the lowest common denominator (reality TV). Most quality shows have been cancelled because they appeal to thinking, feeling, intelligent people or, in other words, the minority. Also, I have to admit that Kiefer sometimes annoyed me with his breathlessness and his whispering. In searching the internet, it seems that I was not the only annoyed fan. In summary, this was a excellent show with a strong first season, a weaker second season (where it lost most of its fans)… Read more »
The first season I was hooked on this great concept that someone that seemed autistic and non-verbal could make such a positive impact on people’s lives with his special abilities. It seemed somewhat realistic with the exceptional abilities that we underestimate in those around us that seem to be incapable. Jake was powerful; as was his father. Me and my daughter had a Thursday date every week it was on last season. This season got a little dark, but was still intriguing enough that my daughter and I had our date on Friday’s. I cannot believe more people did not… Read more »
It never ceases to amaze me. The collective American intellect has again plumbed the depths of crass stupidity by rejecting yet another show where they may have to reason a tiny bit . Reality shows are(not will be ) and should be the final death nil of Network TV. So many good shows have been passed over , pandering to the cretin in the American psyche. Yeah, It works in Politics too. Well, Goodbye touch,…goodbye Fringe.
Of course I am very mad and disappointed Touch was cancelled, it was my favorite shoe ever to watch on Friday, i looked forward to it every time, i hope they air it again, i love it too much to leave it hanging like this
I wish they could have found a way to keep the show alive. The show had meaning a purpose which left me with a desire to see more… So what’s next for Sutherland…
Bad Decision… This show is more enlightening and educational than your decision to cancel. I travel to Romania 3 x a year and I know of so many people that watch it there
Please reconsider your decision
The first season of Touch was much better than the second. It was more whimsical and hopeful, with subplots like the one with the Middle Eastern boy who got an oven for his family, the man who lost his phone with his dead child’s last photos, only to see them broadcast all over the square in Tokyo, and the darling Japanese girls who sent the cell phone around the world and wrote about it on their blog. Actually, a series could be made with intertwining stories like that and leave Kiefer out of it completely. Season 2 was more 24-esque,… Read more »
Touch is a great show and the ending left us wanting more. So many things left unexplained. Of course this is not the first time FOX has cut a show that it puts on a Friday night. I actually record the show and watch it later because (Thank God for DVR), Friday night is Date night–Family outing night–traveling night– the list could go on. Depending on whether or not you have children, their ages and so forth, Friday night has never been a sit down and watch TV night for us. I am sure one of the reasons for the… Read more »
I am so upset that you are cancelling “Touch”. Many of my friends look forward to Friday to watch this extremely interesting show or they PVR it. Please reconsider!!!!
🙁 i really Love That Show … But they !@#$ed it up
YES I AM REALLY Soryy For FOX , That Cancelled Tocuh , I Really Like That …. But … 😐
Why Did They Do That , That Was Really nice Serial , That was only Serial that i watch every week …. 😐
BULL ****! Fox sucks, I can only hope another network picks it up. Touch was a show of meaning and not mindless b.s.
I am really mad that Touch was canceled, it seems like every thing that is good get’s canceled. I hope that someone else will pick it up. I am starting to burn out with all the different cancellation’s of so many different series.
i am very disappointed to hear that the best show on TV is being canceled…..
Shame on you FOX ….. you give us a wonderful show just to yank it out from under us …
i agree with so many of the above comments, it gave people hope and insight , an inspiration to all……. why cancel the show? do a time slot shuffle and put it on a different night
( i would watch it any and every night to watch Touch)
i am so very disappointed…. i was so looking forward to a season 3 and more…