The Resident gets disappointing news on future
The Resident season 6 was the final time we'll visit Chastain Park Memorial Hospital.
Having wrapped up with the episode 'All Hands on Deck' back in January, Deadline reports that Fox has officially cancelled its medical drama, due to a significant shrink in ratings.
Its sixth season, which gave Conrad Hawkins his happy ending with Billie Sutton, averaged around 6.9 million pairs of eyes per episode (after seven days of delayed viewing) - 12% down from season 5 and a massive 35% drop since the first season.
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With axe rumours circulating since September of last year, co-creator Amy Holden Jones remained defiant in her opinion that The Resident could continue long into the future.
"I consider it to be one of the biggest triumphs of The Resident that what we're doing is showing people's evolution – the lives of being doctors over time," she said at the time.
"I watched ER when it was on years ago, and I never found it got old. They changed characters, new doctors came in, ones we thought we couldn't live without left, just as it's happened to us. It reinvented over and over and over again and remained fresh.
"[The Resident] has that potential."
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Jones went on to point out: "The fate of the show is somewhat caught up in the fact that it's owned by Disney but shown by Fox, which is not an ideal scenario...
"The ratings are incredibly stable. We have a very core audience that just loves us, and if we have a chance, I'm sure we will continue to grow. It has the potential to go on and on, but whether it'll be given that shot, I don't know."
The Resident aired on Fox in the US, and streams on Disney+ in the UK.
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