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This series followed Dr. Henry Morgan, a man who can’t die and who has taken a job as a medical examiner to study death and to see if he can find the answer to his own immortality. It combined elements of Sherlock Holmes, The Highlander, New Amsterdam, and more and delivered yet another procedural with a twist to Prime Time television. But it did manage to stand out in a large part because of the excellent cast led by Ioan Gruffudd in the main role as well as the supporting players which included Judd Hirsch, Alana De La Garza, Joel David Moore, and more.
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The show debuted in the Tuesday 10 PM EST hour, which ABC had struggled with for several seasons, but produced decent premiere ratings. Its numbers slipped to marginal at best levels shortly after that, though. It did score well in delayed viewing, and ABC did give it a full-season pickup suggesting at first that the network had some confidence in the show. But as it turned out, the network apparently just wanted to use it as schedule spackle, plugging up the Tuesday 10 PM EST timeslot until the season ended. After November, it never aired more than two new episodes in a row which stifled any chance for it to build up momentum.
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Its numbers remained low, and despite the lip service the networks were giving to the delayed viewing stats at that time, ABC cancelled it at the end of the season. Forever received high marks from critics and topped most season-end polls as the show least deserving cancellation. And a very vocal fanbase lobbied hard to convince the network to bring it back for a second season or to move it to another venue. But it remained cancelled as would NBC’s Constantine that season and Limitless on CBS the next year, both of which were genre shows that also performed well in delayed viewing. The networks were still far to focused on the same-day viewing (despite what they would say in press conferences), and still show reluctance to move away from those stats even today.
For those interested, Forever is available to stream for free (with commercials) on CWSeed.com (as is Limitless). It is worth a look as a show that had promised and could have developed into a sleeper genre entry if its network had supported it.
Aired: ABC, 2014-15, 1 Season Totaling 22 Episodes
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Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Judd Hirsch, Lorraine Toussaint, Alana De La Garza, Joel David Moore
Created By: Matt Miller
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