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Designated Survivor SEASON 3 Cancelled By ABC
Designated Survivor Season 3 release date – CANCELLED
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About Designated Survivor
Designated Survivor Season 2 released September 27, 2017 on ABC; Season 2B released Feb. 28, 2018.
Kiefer Sutherland stars as Tom Kirkman, a lower-level cabinet member who is suddenly appointed President of the United States after a catastrophic attack on the US Capitol during the State of the Union. Kirkman will struggle to keep the country and his family from falling apart, while navigating the highly-volatile political arena and leading the search to find who is responsible for the attack.
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Please do not cancel Designated Survivor ABC. It is the best on TV!
Designated Survivor is the best show on TV. ABC should NEVER cancel it. One of the very few that I and many of my friends watch every week!
Bad mistake to cancel Designated Survivor!! One of best shows on regular TV. Guess I will go back to paid tv!
do not cancel this show abc should just shut down they take the crossing and now this what snext geeZ
Disappointed! Don’t cancel!
you all keep the dumbess crap on tv . you cancel shows everyone loves such as Scandal and now this?i will now be watching any thing on this channel.
I will not watch anything.
Please don’t cancel. I really look forward to this show, it actually has sustenance.
Maybe this TV viewers drop is temporary, if real. I think Designated survivor is one of the most impressive and realistic TV series I’ve ever seen. I hope ABC reconsider and doesn’t cancel it, it’d be frustrating.
We can’t believe you are cancelling this show. It’s such a great show.
Designated Survivor is best right up there with West Wing. Can’t image what ABC is thinking. Loyal fans week-after-week watching, buying the commercial products, Relating current day events in the WH and those politics. You struck a low when you killed of the First Lady but I watched anyway as I can relate. Please reconsider or sell to another network that cab make it happen
I´ll would never start to see a serie that has not a final episode. ingorbernable, vis a vis, designated survivor. waste of time.
Where have I been? I just found out Designated Survivor was cancelled. Say it isn’t so! I am soooooo disappointed in ABC for cancelling this show. It was the only program I watched…..not just on ABC, but on TV. I sure hope they bring it back soon since most episodes are probably already “in the can” anyway.
WITHOUT DESIGNATED SURVIVOR ABC DOESN’T HAVE A LOT TO OFFER. I DON’T KNOW WHAT THEY’RE THINKING. I WAS UPSET THAT THEY OFFED THE FIRST LADY. I FIGURED IT WAS TO SHOW HE HAD TRUE GRITT TO OVERCOME PERSONAL PROBLEMS AND STILL BE A GOOD LEADER SO I KEPT WATCHING. I THINK THEY WERE MAKING HEADWAY . I DON’T WANT IT CANCELLED IT’S ONE OF MY FAVORITES IN A LONG TIME. MOREOVER THERE’S NO REAL ENNDING / WRAP UP. IT’S VERY DISAPPOINTING ALL AROUND.
I FEEL CHEATED.
Are you kidding me ABC? Of all the garbage on TV these days, you cancel the best show in years? With no wrap up? You are going into the crapper for sure!
One off the best shows to watch. I don’t usually stay up past ten but I did for this. ABC is full of themselves
Not very many good shows left on tv anymore. What a shame. I would really like to say some choice words to the people who make these decisions! With all the trash that gets on tv and this gets trashed!
Please do not cancel this great series. It is the best thought out show on tv. Why would you cancel after all the accolades and awards, you guys had something. I hate reality tv programs and this is what tv needed. If you don’t want it you should sell it to another network to do as there are way too many fans waiting on this.
Really good idea!
I love Designated Survivor!!! Please bring this edge of your seat exciting show back, please. I fail to understand how great shows get cancelled : ( ABC, I want you to renew Designated Survivor, PLEASE.
Wow really, one of the best TV programs and you cancel them. Wow, please re new Designated Survivor..
Please continue with the tv show. I wonder if Emily is the real traitor as shown in the last season when Hanna wells found out from her boyfriend’s daughter..
I just watched the first season and I am in the middle of the second one. I hope they will continue. Very good show, I really like it, even though I am not a big fan of TV shows. This is better than “Grey’s Anatomy”, at least I like it better.
You are CANCELING it?!?????? WHY?!?! We don’t get a series closer or anything? THIS is why I don’t watch the basic channels, you guys are FLAKES! This is the first really good drama series I have seen in YEARS, and you cancel it. I don’t know who is choosing your lineup but FIRE THEM! They are making you some very poor choices & costing you viewers. I hope you will change your mind. This would be a real disappointment & loss!
I too love this show. I’ve been keeping an eye on the news, and just found out that Netflix will be releasing Season 3 sometime in 2019. Hopefully that’s good news for the fans of the show.
Designated Survivor was an instant “must watch” for me, and many of my friends, from the get-go. It has been ridveting from the very beginning. Just imagine, a President of good character, who loves his family, and is doing his best to cope with the unusual and tragic situation in which he has found himself. What a contrast to what we are actually seeing in the White House!
I have just learned of ABC’s cancellation of Designated Survivot and am both upset and puzzled by their decision.. DS was without doubt one of the best dramas on network TV.
Are y’all delusional? Why in the world is this show being cancelled? It is must-see-tv, in my opinion. You’ve clearly been smoking too much wacky weed.
Why would you cancel such a great series. Very disappointed.
Just finished season 2, What the heck, what about Emily now. Disappointed.
THANK YOU NETFLIX for Not turning your backs on one of the BEST TV shows that was produced. Our family really enjoyed watching it. I really hope you keep this show on. It has all the great elements, Great acting, great story line and plot and family oriented!! Is their a possibility that you can take a look at
‘Pure Genius” also? These were two of our favorites!
We have been members Of Netflix for a while and always pleased with the choices you have add to your list of great quality TV. Shows!! Speaking of another one of my favorites … Great Job on “LOST IN SPACE”!! and can’t wait for the next season! Exceptional job on that show also!!
Please reconsider …Dont cancel!! My wife and I love this show.. Its the best show on TV, why would you not continue? We will be very upset with your Network if you cancel…Please Don’t!!!!!!!!!
Just read further….Thanks Netflix!!! How any Network can cancel this show is beyond me….
I have just finished watching season 2 on Netflix wondering where on earth season 3 is, after reading up on the history of the shows ”showrunners” I am not surprised this has happened, but I am so disappointed to say the least,
Keifer Sutherland as President should happen for real, and you take away our fantasy over a rating hit which was bound to happen due to the behind the scenes swapping of the writers every 6 episodes?
I think it is extremely short-sighted, this show could have been legendary.
I find most television programs a bore, poorly written, laughingly acted, and not worth my time. Designated Survivor was none of these. It was one of very few programs I would make time to watch. Why would you stop this show when it was so appealing? What a mistake you are making. This program was not only entertaining, it makes one think about government and its use of power, about family interaction and so much more. ABC really needs to rethink this and bring it back.
“Designated Survivor” has been renewed by Netflix for its third season. Please update.
I can not understand why this show was canceled ! I guess ABC could not handle a hit. This show made you think and use your brain, this why it was canceled. At this time in would be hard to get the cast back together.
I absolutely love this show. I have not watched tv in over 15years. There is too much garbage, but DS was different. The content, loyalty of family, honor and good character of the President. I am so grateful Netflix picked this series up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have never enjoyed a show so much and I look forward to many seasons more!!! Thank you Netflix for maybe a stellar choice!
I’m considering trying Netflix ONLY because of this show. I have no idea why ABC cancelled it. Maybe it was not fake enough?