Even the show had critical acclaim and, as The Hollywood Reporter writes, “heavy internal support”, FX has decided to cancel the show “Lights Out” after only one season.
The show’s highest point as far as audience turnout was 1.5 million viewers during the pilot. Afterwards, however, the ratings just kept sliding downhill.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the news is far from shocking, seeing how open John Langraf, president FX was to talking about his disappointment. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter in early March, Langraf said that the ratings problem with both this show and the recently cancelled
“Terriers” caused him great pain.
Langraf blames the ratings problem for “Lights Out”, and by extension, “Terriers”, on the seemingly sameness of the shows at the outset. He stated that while the shows feel similar, viewers found that when they actually watched the shows, they weren’t the same old hat. Even though the shows were dealing with similar dramas, there were enough “subtle” tweaks and innovations that couldn’t be marketed well.
“Lights Out” was a drama set around a boxer who struggles to find his identity and sense of self once he retires from the boxing world.
What do you think? Are you happy or sad the show got cancelled? Or did you even know about this show in the first place?
wow what a shame great show they need to put it on a different network cause not many people watch fx its a great show i hope somehow they can put it on a different network one of the best shows on tv i look forward to tuesday nights to watch it … hult is a great actor … i think they need better promo and the show would do alot better ….. somehow some way i hope they can pick up the show and get a season 2
This is ridiculous. There is so much crap on TV and this was a great show. I am sure FX's new show “Wilfred” will do well. Everyone is just dying to watch some idiot in a dog suit (or whatever in the hell he is supposed to be). This is a huge disappointment. Hopefully another network will pick this up. There were so many great elements to this show: the boxing, the family drama, the criminal element–it was all there. FX's execs are retarded and they deserve to have their contracts cancelled. What a shame.
lights out is the best show on television and they decided to keep sons of butthole anarchy i hate ron faggot pearlman holt is a beast
Lights Out was a great show. I’m super disappointed. It is clear that FX is a crap network. The Shield saved it and they screwed that show over by cutting the number of episodes after the first few seasons.
This is super disappointing. Lights Out was a great show. It is further proof that FX is a crap network. The Shield saved it and they screwed that show over by cutting the number of episodes after the first few years. Now they are going to show some more crap movies instead and I’ll be watching another channel.
Lights Out….was great. All the other crap that’s on TV and they cancel this. Come on people……someone PLEASE pick this great show up.