It looks like we finally have the first cancellation of the 2015-16 season. Four new shows have seen their episode orders cut (Truth Be Told, The Player, Blood & Oil, and Minority Report) but they’ve all stayed on the air. Tonight, ABC cancelled and pulled their low-rated Wicked City anthology drama after three airings.
Wicked City is set on the seedy Sunset Strip in the early 1980s. It revolves around Detective Jack Roth (Jeremy Sisto) and his new partner Paco Contreras (Gabriel Luna) as they try to solve a high-profile serial killer case. The rest of the show’s cast includes Ed Westwick, Erika Christensen, Taissa Farmiga, Karolina Wydra, Evan Ross, Anne Winters, and Jaime Ray Newman.
Airing Tuesdays at 10pm, Wicked City had trouble right from the start. The first episode attracted a meager 0.88 rating in the 18-49 demographic with 3.28 million viewers.
The second episode dropped more than 20% and this week’s third installment took another big fall, registering a 0.45 rating with 1.69 million. The latter rating is believed to be a historic low for an original episode on ABC; tying shows like NBC’s American Odyssey, NBC’s A To Z, and FOX’s Mulaney.
The Tuesdays at 10pm timeslot has been a real troublespot for ABC in recent years. Lucky 7, Killer Women, and Mind Games were all cancelled after a few airings. Forever and Body of Proof saw full seasons but also ended up being cancelled.
Word is that work on episode eight will be completed before production is completely shut down. The network will fill Wicked City’s timeslot with reruns of Shark Tank for the immediate future. At this point, it seems unlikely that ABC will air the five leftover episodes but they will probably be released online at some point.
What do you think? Do you like the Wicked City TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled? Would you like to see the remaining episodes?
Loved Wicked City! Was so disappointed last night to find it gone! Shark Tan reruns are you kidding me? I also was a huge fan of Forever. So if you have realized it is a tough time slot, why not be happy with the viewers who are dedicated and love the show. Or move it to another time slot and see what happens? For those who think it was too graphic. Take a look around at similar shows that are tops in the ratings right now. Criminal Minds dishes this out every week and has been around for years! American… Read more »
So disappointed. I loved Wicked City. It is the only new show I was watching this season. Why couldn’t you move it to a better time slot to gain more viewers before pulling the plug? The show was so different than anything on. ABC, you messed up. Just saying.
Being a big fan of the Sunset Strip and that era… I would really like to see the remaining episodes… There is alot worse on TV… you can go through all the channels and find pretty much nothing on that time of night.
Very dissapointed!!! I was looking forward to watching wicked city & couldn’t figure out why it hadn’t recorded. At the very least, you could have aired remaining episodes for the viewers that WERE watching!!
ABC………….what is wrong with you???? Why don’t you give the new shows you spend so much $$$$ promoting a chance? Three episodes? Really???????????? No wonder FOX and all the other networks have you beat year after year!
L LOVE THE SHOW. JUST STARTED WATCHING IT. I think the show should go on. I’ll be a fan!!!! Where can i watch the other unaired shows?
Wicked city is a show I was getting into and ex item about. It made the show people’s couch on bravo and they all concurred. Why would you do this abc?
I loved the show, i was looking forward to coming home from work last night and watcg the episode i THOUGHT was recording. Way to suck ABC. Show the remaining episodes at least instead of leaving us hanging!!!! I thought it was awesome, original, seductive, and a bit disturbing which is what made it so good.
This show’s really cool. Too bad you had to cancel it. That really sucks!
This makes me so angry! Yet ABC can play other stupid ****. Screw ABC. WICKED CITY WAS THE BEST! way to get people to stop watching your network
Thanks, explains why my DVR didn’t show this right now. The 6, 7 weeks of hype for this lasted 2 times longer than the shows run. Why do I even bother with ABC?! They cancelled “Forever,” last year – I was into that. This one I was watching also…whatever. And then I see some mid season replacement for a nonsense Cooking/Bake Off Reality piece of junk. ABC, take note..there’s a channel for that…called THE FOOD NETWORK!
We loved the show and will watch the remaining episodes online when available. ABC has cancelled many of our shows because we are older than the demographic about which the advertisers care. Even though we have 2 iPads, iPhone 6+, Galaxy S5, and two new laptops. We keep up with new technology and are buying products all the time – but the shows we watch don’t count.
Abc your whack for canceling that show was awesome.. Bring it back please
Bad move ABC. You never give new shows enough time. I really liked the show and don’t understand why you couldn’t finish showing remaining episodes. Boring Tuesday night TV. Definitely won’t be watching Shark Tank! Snoozer…guess I’ll have to start watching Chicago Fire on NBC.
My husband and I loved the show thanks ABC for nothing!
So did my husband and I!! I’m so angry.!! Voters are too critical. Yet they play other stupid ****