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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Hopefully SyFy will p/u “V”. The 1st season was a little slow due to character building but in my opinion, the 2nd season rocked! I had a bad feeling about this when Anna skewed Diana on the season finale. I thought wow, this might be a bit much for average Americans who are used to watching mind-numbing “reality tv”. PLEASE SOMEONE PICK UP THE SERIES!
-Shamrock
It’s a shame ” V ” was cancelled. I honestly thought we had a hit on our hands, oh well. Hopefully, ” PROJECT ALICE ” can get T.N.T. to pick – it – up!!
This is so jacked up. i freakin LOVE ‘V’!!!! It is the only show i watch from ABC and it is extremely hard to get good shows to aire where Iam in the world. ABC, yallz got to be the dumbest network for cancelling this show, good luck with the rest of yallz monotonizing ,bland shows.
It is pretty obvious why ABC canceled the show….it didn’t want to compete with the current Alien Invasion show ” The Event” and the upcoming TNT “Falling Skies”. The ratings were so-so and you can only have one Alien Invasion show at a time or it loses it creative factor. I personally love the show and the plot but I was a kid when the 80’s show was out so i fell victim to ABC’s nostalgia ploy. Falling Skies looks good but The Event is slow and sucks.
I love V in the 80’s and the one now is even better. ABC needs to reconsider. Nowadays if the shows don’t have sex, drugs, vampires, booze , marital affairs, etc, etc, is not consider good. C’mon not everyone is into that. This was a show that my whole family enjoyed.
Unbelievable…ABC cancelled V. That was one of the best shows on ABC and I was looking forward to it returning. Hopefully ‘syfy’ will pick it up. If ABC keeps up canceling great shows, I’ll stop tuning on to ABC.
I cannot BELIEVE you cancelled “V”. that was the BEST SHOW around.
Everyone I talked to loved it! We all looked forward to it each week.
So, now what another stupid Reality show.
You should have kept “V”. A lot of people are angry about that.
not a good move!!
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The true meaning of ABC.
Very sad. I do have to admit it was dragging a bit and maybe one of those speciality channels like HBO , FX or Showcase would have done a better rendition of “V”. The real sad news is that the reality shows are flooding the market and that doesn’t say very much of the watching public.
It’s says a lot about what people would watch. Reality TV has taken over and it’s profitable to show that garbage to people. American tv shows suck!!
The plot is crap. The only interesting thing since the series began, is the appearance of Marc Singer in the season finale. I really do not understand why did not explode from the beginning the role of Donovan, which basically is what we expected all the fans
I wasn’t looking forward to V, but it turned out to a pretty fun show. It’s a shame because it’s the type of series that needs to have an ending, Mini-Series anyone?
maybe the series V will someday pick up where it left off on the cable channels.Syfy is where it belongs and probably would do quite well
We were extremely disappointed to see that V had been cancelled.
The network needs to show a final episode as to not leave
people who are interested in a good series hanging. Unlike
Raising Hope which got renewed. It seems like the most
horrible shows get renewed and the shows with more
story and you get hooked on get cancelled. Hope the
network re-considers!!!
Extremely disappointed. My whole family watches it. Abc should Definitely reconsider their poor decision.
It is hard for any program to get any momentum when the schedule is shifted or pre-empted. This should have been a big program but bad management killed it. It’s getting to the point that you can’t trust the networks with a series. You get involved in a storyline, then they cancel and disappoint. I’m going to go back to reading. There are plenty of series out there that have already been written with completed story lines — no more leaving me high and dry!