Sadly, the Visitors aren’t among us any longer. After two short seasons, ABC has cancelled their V TV series.
A reimagining of the original V, this series tells the tale of what happens when an advanced alien race arrives of Earth professing their desire to help mankind. Fortunately, not everyone trusts them. The second season features the talents of Charles Mesure, Elizabeth Mitchell as Erica Evans, Joel Gretsch, Laura Vandervoort, Logan Huffman, Morena Baccarin, Morris Chestnut, and Scott Wolf.
For season one, V ended up averaging a 2.25 rating in the coveted 18-49 demographic and 5.7 million average viewers. It was “on the bubble” but ended up being renewed for a 13 episode second season. The network was hoping that the show would catch on and the ratings would improve.
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ABC later reduced the episode order to just 10 installments and debuted them mid-season. Unfortunately, ABC’s gamble didn’t pay off. Season two of V ended up averaging only a 1.9 in the demo and 5.49 million viewers.
Though the network and producers maintained that the show was still in contention for next season, it was clear that there would only be a third season of V if ABC was willing to gamble once again. In the end, they weren’t.
ABC confirmed today that V has been cancelled after two seasons and 22 episodes. The series finale aired on March 15th and, unfortunately, there were lots of unresolved cliffhangers. Hopefully the producers will someday share what they had in mind for season three.
What do you think? Are you sad that V won’t be returning next season? Why do you think the series didn’t catch on?
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Tired of ABC canceling every freaking show. I will not watch anymore shows on ABC.
Wow. How terrible! I LOVED this series.
I agree cancel ABC…….. I had my V club ready !!!! We V we want V we want V!!!! So not happy!! Bring back V , open a facebook page and the rating will go up !!!i guess it NBC, FOX
Maybe it’s time to cancel ABC.
ABC… people are getting tired of getting into a show and then you guys cancel the series…
You should go out side the Nealson ratings..put it on your site to let everybody vote on a show.
You keep this up and we are going to stop watching all together.
V was a good show..now you left everybody hanging, wondering what was going to happen, and that SUCKS !!
Canceling a show like V was a hugh mistake. It was one of the only shows on ABC that I did watch, maybe if the network did more to promote the show and it stars it could have done better in ratings. I thought the show was well writtened and the actors did a great job but again ABC cannot keep the viewers watching unless there’s some reality show about CRAP. Stop Canceling great shows like V just because of ratings, maybe if the network shows that it cares about the opinion of it’s viewers, the over all network would… Read more »
Very sad, i really loved the show. 🙁
I don’t get it……the don’t cancel all of these ridiculous reality shows but they cancel a show that was in my opinion, great. Who cares about Snookie and how much she’s drinking and who The Situation is sleeping with!!!! Someone at ABC better wake up and smell the coffee!!
Now ABC is back to not having a single show that I give a damn about. Good job by their program director in destroying a once great network.
The commercials never bothered me, I skipped all the commercials with Tivo anyway.
I suspect most viewers gave up on “V” because it was 25% show and 75% commercial breaks. I have never viewed a program with so many commercial breaks. It was very distracting. The characters and story line were excellent but ABC sold out to “big money.” It is too bad because I, and I suspect many other viewers really enjoyed what little of the program they showed us each week. I stopped watching ABC local and national news as well as “Good Morning America” for the same reason.
Charles » Though it may seem that some primetime shows have more commercials than others, they’re all the same. Network primetime shows are all about 43 minutes of show (including credits) and 17 minutes of commercials.
Typical…must have had to make room for another reality show involving washed up has-beens or pretentious 20 somethings who do nothing in particular, but are famous anyway.
Oh come on! Why the hell do these people cutt off shows after ya get hooked on em!
Very disappointed. It was the only show I was watching since Lost and Heros ended.
I’m so disappointed that V has been cancelled, although I KNOW I should not be surprised…ABC does it every time, just like with Flashforward…both great shows but no follow through…ABC are QUITTERS!!!
“nobody” wants to watch sci-fi stuff anymore.. Just chock it into the pile with Stargate, Stargate universe, flash forward and Startrek Enterprise… The popular show are the reality crap and what everthey call that fighting/wrestling crap..