It looks like Unforgettable is joining Reckless on the casualty list this week. CBS has decided to cancel Unforgettable (for the second time) after three seasons on the air.
Unforgettable follows Carrie Wells (Poppy Montgomery), a police detective who has hyperthymesia — a rare medical condition that gives her the ability to visually remember everything. Unfortunately, the one thing she can’t remember is what happened on the day her sister was killed. The show’s cast also includes Dallas Roberts, Dylan Walsh, Tawny Cypress, James Hiroyuki Liao, and Jane Curtin.
The series debuted on CBS in the fall of 2011 and the first season averaged a 2.3 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 11.3 million viewers. That wasn’t good enough for the network and they cancelled it in May 2012.
Sony Pictures TV (which co-produces with CBS TV Studios) shopped the series to other outlets like TNT and Lifetime. Ultimately, CBS ended up reversing their cancellation to pick it up for a second season of 13 episodes for a Summer 2013 run. They later renewed it for season three and another summer run.
There’s no denying that the numbers have been inching downward. The second season averaged a 1.0 rating with 7.06 million and the third, which wrapped a month ago, averaged a 0.9 rating with 6.09 million.
Talks had reportedly been underway for a fourth season order but, for whatever reason, that’s not happening on CBS.
There are currently 48 episodes of Unforgettable — not enough for a syndication package. However, Sony TV has a history of finding a way to keep shows alive. Though there’s been no word of efforts to find another home for the show yet, the studio has incentive to get more episodes produced for a syndication package.
What do you think? Are you sorry that Unforgettable has been cancelled again? Would you watch a fourth season on another channel?
Leave it on , great show,
They gave it a chance once, why can’t they do it again? after all they gave that STUPID Extant another season, when it is a lousy show, why not this one that is a GOOD show!!!
To cancel this show that continues to draw fans is a big mistake. Have executives gotten as stupid as reality and singing shows… just sad!
Will miss this show. I really enjoyed it. Can’t understand why the big wigs pull things so quickly. Bring it back.
My wife and I love this show and have been watching it since the beginning… I would watch any number of shows on any number of channels for however long it lasts… Sign me up …
We loved this show. Note to networks: your viewers are often creatures of habit. Make shows easy to find. The uncertainties with this show didn’t help. Hope someone else picks it up.
This show was as good as many, better than some. It was a good watch in the summer, but would have been popular in the TV seasons. It will be a shame if it does not continue on a cable channel.
Hope Unforgettable doesn’t move to another network.
why is it that all of the great shows get cancled. please renew its a greay show
About time…………………
Unfortunately you decide to cancel a show that has managed to hold a respectable rating even though you did a very poor job of placing it in some of the worst show times. If you only had aired the show on a weekday, the ratings would have been much higher!
CBS ruined the series by reformatting it for season 2. It relied too much on technology and being a buddy cop show for characters Carrie and Al. They should have kept it the same as the first season which seemed to focus more on Carrie’s flawless memory solving crimes.
We enjoyed this show. We will miss it.
I would definitely watch a 4th season on any channel. I’m disappointed it was cancelled. I really enjoyed the show.
Why do they do this? The show gets better and better each year.!!! I hate network executives and network tv. Bring on amazon and netflix!!!!!