The Village, starring Chicago Fire’s Warren Christie, cancelled by NBC
Chicago Fire alum Warren Christie’s current series The Village has been cancelled by NBC after the drama scored low ratings in its only season.
Former Chicago Fire actor Warren Christie returned to NBC with his new drama The Village, but the show won’t be getting a second season.
The Village was officially cancelled by the network at the end of May sweeps, after a freshman season of decidedly average ratings. Its season—now series—finale pulled in 4.25 milion people watching live, ranking it fifth among 14 broadcast TV shows that night.
While those numbers aren’t terrible, they weren’t on par with what NBC was hoping for after it invested a lot of promotional push into the series about the residents of a Brooklyn apartment complex, who form a surrogate community.
The show was heavily advertised and got a plum time slot with the network’s top-rated drama This Is Us as its lead-in.
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But its initial ratings were just okay, and the first warning sign came when NBC decided to swap The Village with The Voice on Tuesday nights.
That didn’t lead to a big bump in its live ratings, and when the series wasn’t part of NBC’s annual upfront presentation to advertisers last month, that was a big clue that it wasn’t coming back.
A similar thing happened to Chicago Justice, which was literally NBC’s last show left on the bubble and then finally cancelled.
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Warren Christie starred on The Village as Nick Porter, who returned home to Brooklyn after military service struggling with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Nick quickly found out that his ex-girlfriend Sarah (Law & Order: SVU alum Michaela McManus) lived in the same apartment building, and that he was the father of her daughter Katie (Grace Van Dien).
It was his first major role on an NBC series since he appeared as firefighter Scott Rice during the second season of Chicago Fire. If there’s a silver lining here, it’s that he’d now have the time for a return to the One Chicago universe, but he doesn’t think that’s likely to happen.
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