{"id":1729,"date":"2015-03-18T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2015-04-22T03:55:47","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:55:47","slug":"nbc-says-goodbye-to-allegiance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/03\/18\/nbc-says-goodbye-to-allegiance\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Says Goodbye to Allegiance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">NBC Cancels <em>Allegiance<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After only five episodes, NBC has officially cancelled <em>Allegiance<\/em>\u00a0and removed the show from the Thursday night lineup. \u00a0The fifth episode premiered on March 5th to a total audience in 18-49 of 3.28 million with a .8 rating\/ 3 share which was pretty consistent with the numbers it generated in the first few episodes. \u00a0Although\u00a0<em>Allegiance<\/em> is cancelled, they will continue to release\u00a0the rest of the filmed episodes every Thursday online at NBC.com and the Twitter account remains active. \u00a0The cancellation was not surprising, TV By the Numbers has been predicting since the second week that NBC would pull it from the lineup.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The fate of NBC Thursday night is facing uncertainty and is struggling since it abandoned its traditional comedy format. \u00a0<em>The Slap<\/em> has been temporarily moved to the Thursday 10 PM slot from 8 PM. \u00a0NBC is trying to leverage the success of <em>The Blacklist\u00a0<\/em>and will fill\u00a0<em>The Slap<\/em>&#8216;s former spot\u00a0with\u00a0<em>Dateline: The Real Blacklist.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0The two hour\u00a0<em>Blacklist<\/em> themed programming block premiered on March 12th. \u00a0The program is hosted by Richard Engel and will be about real life conspiracy themed investigations, playing off the theme of the show. &#8220;TV By the Numbers&#8221; reported that <em>Dateline<\/em> averages 7 million viewers overall on its regular Friday edition.\u00a0 On its Thursday premiere,\u00a0<em>Dateline<\/em> came in fourth in its time-slot with 4.51 million total viewers in 18-49, less than its average, but not horrible. \u00a0<em>Blacklist<\/em>\u00a0is the only savior for NBC on Thursdays&#8211; it has improved the time period by 9 million people according to Nielsen. \u00a0It will be interesting to see if the following of\u00a0<em>The Blacklist<\/em> is strong enough to pull in a good audience for the <i>Dateline<\/i> themed series.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Twitter Followers: 4,139<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Facebook Likes: 19,663<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC Cancels Allegiance After only five episodes, NBC has officially cancelled Allegiance\u00a0and removed the show from the Thursday night lineup. \u00a0The fifth episode premiered on March 5th to a total audience in 18-49 of 3.28 million with a .8 rating\/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/03\/18\/nbc-says-goodbye-to-allegiance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[377],"tags":[382,478,477,480,102,383,405,479,404,437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}