Bad news for fans of Underground. Variety reports WGN America has cancelled the TV series after two seasons.
The historical drama follows the heroes of the Underground Railroad who harnessed every bit of their wits, strength, and grit in order to escape slavery and live as free men and women. The cast includes Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Aldis Hodge, Jessica De Gouw, Alano Miller, Christopher Meloni, Marc Blucas, and Reed Diamond.
The cancellation is not a huge surprise. Earlier, we reported that WGN America was moving away from original series and shifting towards cheaper programming and reruns. Not to mention, the ratings for Underground‘s second season marked a significant drop from season one.
Overall, season two averaged a .19 rating in the 18-49 demo and 567,000 viewers. That’s decent for a small cable network like WGN America. However, those numbers show a nearly 40% decrease in the ratings from season one, which averaged a .32 rating in the 18-49 demo and 993,000 viewers. It seems a large portion of the fan base didn’t continue watching beyond season one.
However, the show still has fans. Recently, we asked viewers if there should be a third season of Underground and 92% said “yes.” Sadly, it looks like WGN America went in another direction.
What do you think? Are you a fan of Underground? Do you think the show should’ve been renewed?
I loved this Prime time show, please reconsider in renewing it. Watch it every Wednesday and rewatch ththe recorded show as well.
Holy cr*p people! Do you understand all networks are business oriented? If people don’t watch, that’s not good. Many saw this coming when WGN took it on, because it’s not the right network for this programming. Like other series: American Crime, Hannibal, etc-it has a select viewership. So it’s never going to get high ratings, but will be critically praised by those who view it..And for those claiming the “race” factor, they never would have signed it to begin with. Hopefully Netflix or Amazon, etc will think about obtaining it.
Settle down now. Settle down. These people are fans and viewers, not tv execs. And they don’t want to hear about our business issues, they only want to know when their “product” (the show) is coming back. No need chastising these folks. Give it a rest. I’m really sorry the show was canceled but I suspected it would be because WGN canceled Outsiders, which was a dammmmed good and original show that was also it’s highest rated. After the 3rd show was canceled before Underground, it made me think the network itself had issues, not so much the shows. How… Read more »
I loved this show and recorded every episode. Now that I’m reading this bullcrap about it being cancelled, I am pissed. I’m pretty sure more people watched this more than the little ***** on MTV’s Teen Mom and that **** is still running
This show was well written, well acted, and pretty damn close to true history. Of COURSE it would get cancelled, because it had substance and truth at the forefront. We live in a fake news, fake president, fake reality driven world, which has no respect for a quality product anymore…oh yeah, and since it was minority driven and dominant, well, guess it might as well have doomed itself from the start. Guess the fact that ratings come from Nielsen, and Nielsen contacts mostly elderly white people doesn’t help it either.
It has NOTHING to do with it being minority driven. to suggest it is absolutely nuts. I say this as a bl ack woman myself, okay? If a certain person had done even a tiny bit of research on this matter they would realize that ALL of WGN’s programming has been canceled including Outsiders, which was better rated than this show here, and also Underground was the LAST show to get cut. Now ALL of that network’s programming has been cut. But I’ll tell you one thing, I have a TV show myself that we will be shopping around and… Read more »
It is a great show with great acting. It. Seems like TV today is going to all reality shows. Cheaper forthe networks but in the long run they will lose. I won’t be watching this network anymore!
If the networks keep jerking us around by cancelling every decent show. The viewers could easily cancel their cable or satellite and just buy dvds. I realize every show has to end. But stop giving us a look and then take it away. Underground was an excellent show.
I am a huge fan of Underground . Show series such as this needs to be aired. There is/was so much education within the show for the public of actual hostorical events. I will not be watching anything else that WGN had to offer. #bringundergroundback
WGN has nothing else to offer-this was the last show they had.
As I said before, I never heard of WGN before this and will not be tuning in to anything it offers after this.
I think that Underground should have season 3 on another channel- WGN has gotten too commercial, and doesn’t have the courage to show such a socially relevant and progressive television show.
I hope another network will pick it up
Hope Sinclair uses WGN as a platform for a new news channel.
Kat Timpf, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Ainsley Earhardt, Hugh Hewitt, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Jesse Watters, & a late night variety/talk show starring Chris Christie (yeah he’s much too liberal/leftist but he’s funny & entertaining).
I am so upset about the cancellation of Underground. It was the best quality show. Oh my goodness, my daughter and I made a point to watch this show to help us fight through our daily struggles.
Daily Struggles??
He’ll yess..its mity funny how this show is doing great..young black actors now outs gone woa while my ******* eyes burn from watching the Kardashians.. what the hell
I’m amazed the NAACP and the ACLU aren’t screaming Bloody Murder. Maybe they haven’t been told yet?
I’ve always felt like this series belonged on a different network. Praying that they can find a new home and revive this great and historical show.
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