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?
Great show please bring it back
Abc – I hope that you actually read these comments. It looks like you need to re-think this!
It took 3 weeks to get started and then got really good. I watched episodes 4-8 this weekend not knowing that it was cancelled and was looking fwd to it coming back in the spring with the rest. Terrible time slot – it should come back during the summer slacker season at a better time slot. I’m very disappointed in you ABC
They have 4-8 now on Hulu which shocked me so I found somthing to watch today.
Saw episodes 4 through 7 …. the show only got better …. bring it back now
Plz bring it back 🙁
I love this show ….Wat kinda of bull was that to take it off air
I was very surprised when Wicked City was not only cancelled but pulled after only 3 episodes. I am sick and tired of the fate of tv shows being controlled by the “demographic 18 – 49” year old age group. There are alot of people watching shows from the ages of 50 – and beyond. Does it ever occur to the networks that when you are older and perhaps retired you have more time for TV and if they are worried about their sponsors people over 50 also have money to spend.
Would have liked to see more episodes. Why was the show not liked – reasons
Another great show canceled only after 3 episodes, gimme me a break, it didn’t have a chance. Does anyone know good TV anymore, this was based on a true story too, Bring it back!!!!
At least bring them to Netflix.
BRING IT BACK!!! ITS NOT FAIR Y’ALL.DIDN’T GIVE IT A CHANCE AT LEAST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE HAS STATED LET US FINISH THE SEASON!!
I’m not happy about this at all and I know quite few other people who r not happy!!! This was a great show and unique!! I loved it and the story line!!! if I could watch my two favorite shows on Abc somewhere else I would never watch channel again. I mean give it a chance y’all didn’t instead you cancel after 3 episodes wth could of at least let the season finish before cancelling!!! Too bad another network can’t pick it up I honestly believe this show would of went far!! HBO is kicking their selves in the asses… Read more »
I thought the show was really good and had alot of potential. Was really surprised that they cancelled it. Do not think that they gave it enough time to attract viewers. Really hope they release the remaining episodes on the website.
No I don’t think they gave it enough time. Three episodes isn’t enough time to pull viewers in not to mention it was just starting to heat up. I also hope we will at least b able to finish season online
I was really getting into the show and was bummed that it was cancelled so soon. I would like to at least see the episodes that did not air.