Not Dead Yet Is Now Dead at ABC, Cancelled After Two Seasons

Coming as no surprise, ABC has cancelled its supernatural comedy Not Dead Yet after two seasons. I have mentioned it several times lately in my weekly Cancellation Watch column, suggesting that it was pretty close to the grave. Its ratings are down year-over-year, seeing a 17% drop based on same-day viewing in the 18-49 demographic, and it has also been seeing a notable drop in its lead-in audience from The Conners this season. Its second season episode order was cut short to ten eps, in part due to the strike but also suggesting that the network had lost faith in the show. Not Dead Yet was actually a longshot for a second season to begin with seeing as its numbers were pretty soft in its first year. But several ABC execs were pulling for the show and decided to give it a chance to build its audience. The viewership slipped in its second year, though, and the network decided to cut ties with the property.

I have had this one at Bubble status since early in the season, and its fate started to look particularly grim when ABC was announcing renewals for its other shows while remaining silent on the status of this supernatural comedy. Whether it will be shopped around remains to be seen, and fans will need to make some noise to get it trending on the social networks to have any hope for a third season. A good place to start would be our current Save My Show Poll where it is at Number 11 in the rankings as of this writing.

This announcement brings the Cancellation/Renewal Score for the current season to 12 cancelled and ending sci fi/fantasy entries (20% of shows tracked) vs 23 renewed (39%). You can see the breakdown of the numbers and the full list of shows for the current and prior seasons at our Cancellation Watch Page.

Not Dead Yet follows a woman who returns to her career of journalism, but finds herself assigned to the obituaries and starts encountering the ghosts of the people she is writing about. It stars Gina Rodriguez, Hannah Simone, Lauren Ash, Rick Glassman, and Joshua Banday and it is based on the book Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up by Alexandra Potter.

We are at the end of the broadcast network regular season and I expect more announcements to come over the next week or so. You can see the status of all this season’s shows at this link. And be sure to follow this site and the Cancelled Sci Fi Twitter Site for updates and breaking news.

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