Via TheFutonCritic's twitter feed, Defying Gravity will now air on Fridays in Canada. The ratings on Sunday on ABC have been realllly bad. It started out bad, only to get worse.
Some have speculated that it will move to Fridays in the US too, and that's a possibility although everything, including Ugly Betty and Supernanny reruns on ABC's Friday lineup has outperformed Defying Gravity on Sunday.
Saturday seem the more logical dumping ground, unfortunately with college football coming back soon, there wouldn't be room there to air all the remaining episodes on Saturday.
As of ABC's most recent schedule, Defying Gravity was still on the Sunday lineup through 9/13. It will be interesting to see what ABC does...
This is actually quite a good show, shame to hear it’s not doing too well.
I agree. I look forward to watching it develop, and it would be sad to find it cut or unfinished.
I doubt that ABC will do anything with it. Ratings are bad across the chart for the network, so one hour is not really going to make the difference at this point.
That’s a bummer. I have heard good things about this show and I wanted to check it out…but now I’m afraid I’ll get into it and they’ll pull it!
That show will be pulled out, they have like 8 episodes to air and the first four are already bad and with the fall season coming soon, I expect it to be pulled out and re-appear probably on Christmas season
typical ABC. They trash all their good shows by moving them around and preempting them for months on end, then wonder why the audience disappears, ie, Commander in Chief w/ Geena Davis, Men in Trees, Samantha Who, ….
I no longer invest any of my time with that network and new shows, they dont care about the audience
Steve,how can it be typical if ABC hasn’t moved Defying Gravity yet? Besides, it already has lost its audience (not that it ever had a big audience!), but it was down to 2.66 million viewers and sub 1.0 rating with adults 18-49.
If Defying Gravity will be pulled it is very reasonable anyway with the losing streak it has. It is a different case with Commander in Chief, Samantha Who? and Men in Trees they started good but lost momentum because of scheduling problems unlike Defying Gravity which is already started bad.
Defying Gravity got really boring, very fast, for me. I’m generally very receptive to sci-fi shows, but I couldn’t make it through the last episode. It kinda reminded me of Virtuality, but less trippy with less interesting characters.
I actually thought the final two Merlin episodes were fairly decent, I’m kinda surprised how poorly that is doing with the Harry Potter craze. Poor timing to feed off it?
ABC is only paying a licensing fee to air this. I heard CTV and FOX Studios covered all the production costs. Considering the ratings are probably bad in Canada too, I doubt CTV will order a 2nd season.
There was no promo for the next episode after Sunday’s episode. I, too, suspect that the show is not long for this world on ABC.
BBC was a co-producer as well, it’s a shame because there’s obviously an arc developing with regard to the ‘hidden’ container.
As to Commander in Chief being good errrr……. that must have been the episode that wasn’t written!!
What I meant with Commander in Chief being “good” is “good in ratings”. It did start with very strong ratings
Repeat airings of Desperate Housewives or Brothers & Sisters perform worse the Defying Gravity. ABC has no incentive to make a change at this point with just a few episodes remaining to air.
Defying gravity is a great show. Hopefully the international co-operation will help keep it on air. Maybe it’s a bit too mainstream for a broadcast network, or maybe just ABC – could have been a good fit alongside Dollhouse on Fox when it returns
The show is too ‘mainstream’ for a broadcast network? Might be the first time I’ve ever seen that argument!
ABC promoted it heavily and gave it a good timeslot. People just weren’t interested. I’ll keep watching as long as it’s on, though.
^How could something be “too mainstream” for broadcast? Isn’t that where mainstream shows (American Idol) thrive, while niche shows (Dollhouse) struggle? If a show is “too niche” for broadcast, people talk about how it would do better as a cable show. Where do shows that are “too mainstream” for broadcast go?
It’s actually a pretty good show. Maybe ABC should have billed it as SyFy instead of Sci-Fi, then it might have caught on.
I like it but its too much of a drama for a sci-fi show. there isn’t enough suspense or action to make it a hit.
Why would ABC expect this series to do well?
Have they promoted it? NOPE
Did they air it in a timeslot that would attract viewers? Yeah..lots of people watch TV at 10:00 PM on a Sunday…
Hmmm…it looks like this series was destined to be cancelled before it even aired.
Frankly, I’m pretty frustrated because I like the show. Seriously though, 10:00 P.M. on a Sunday?!?!? If I didn’t have DVR then I wouldn’t be watching it, and if Apple hadn’t prompted me to watch it then I would have never know it existed.
Epic fail ABC, epic…