4400

Status: Cancelled
Aried: 2021-22, One Season Totaling 13 Episodes
Premiere: October 25, 2021
Network: CW
Starring: Joseph David-Jones, Ireon Roach, Brittany Adebumola, TL Thompson, Jaye Ladymore, Derrick A. King
Series Website: www.cwtv.com/shows/4400/

Description: Over the last century at least, four thousand four hundred people who were overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized vanished without a trace off the face of the planet. Last night, inexplicably, they were all returned in an instant to Detroit, MI, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them. As the government races to understand the phenomenon, analyze the potential threat, and contain the story, an empathetic social worker (Joseph David-Jones, “Arrow”) and hardened community corrections officer (Ireon Roach, “Candyman”) are among the civil servants called upon to deal with the uncanny refugees. The new partners clash in ideology and approach, but gradually find they have more in common than they thought as they become familiar with those under their care, including: a lawyer and resilient young mother from the early aughts (Brittany Adebumola, “Grand Army”), whose unexpected reunion with her estranged husband (Cory Jeacoma, “Jersey Boys”) and suddenly teenaged daughter is immediately rocky; a WWI Army surgeon fresh from the Harlem Renaissance (TL Thompson, Broadway’s “Straight White Men”); an influential hidden figure from the Mississippi civil rights movement (Jaye Ladymore, “Empire”); a black sheep reverend-scion born to a notable televangelist family in 1990s Chicago (Derrick A. King, “Call Your Mother”); a seemingly shallow but misunderstood D-list reality TV star (newcomer Khailah Johnson) from Miami, circa 2015; and two wildly different unaccompanied teens, a vibrant girl (newcomer Autumn Best) whose bell bottoms give away her 1970s upbringing, and an introspective, prescient boy (Amarr Wooten, “Liv and Maddie”) whose origin remains a mystery. These unwilling time travelers, collectively the 4400, must grapple with their impossible new reality, the fact that they’ve been returned with a few…upgrades, and the increasing likelihood that they were brought back now for a reason they’re only beginning to understand. cwtv.com

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Why Was It Cancelled? When this reboot of the 2004 series debuted in Fall 2021 it performed quite well for a CW entry.  Its numbers slacked off a bit towards the end of Fall, but it was still one of the network’s better-rated shows.  When it returned at Mid-Season, though, its numbers dropped off notably and they remained low through the rest of its run.  The show did not develop much in the way of good buzz from fans or critics, but in a normal year it almost certainly would have been renewed for a second season because that had been how The CW rolled in prior years. But a potential sale had a significant impact on the network’s renewal strategy and this ended up as one of several shows sent to the Network Executioner at the end of the season.  Prior to the cancellation, there had not been much in the way of an effort to convince the network to bring it back for a second season, so this one will likely end as yet another one-and-done casualty of the Peak TV era.

2021-22 Season Ratings Results:

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