Quantico Renewed for Season 3 as Showrunner Josh Safran Steps Down 

ABC has renewed the spy-centric thriller for Season 3, TVLine has learned.

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In addition, executive producer Joshua Safran is stepping down as showrunner but will continue as a consultant on the drama. The move coincides with the end of his contract with the network.

“I will be consulting with the show moving forward, but I will not be with the show on a day-to-day level,” Safran tells TVLine. “I love the show, so I’ll be making sure it stays what it is.”

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In Season 2, the Priyanka Chopra-drama has averaged 2.8 million viewers and a 0.7 rating, down 40 percent from its freshman average. A midseason move to Mondays-at-10 failed to give the show much of a boost.

‘s Season 2 finale airs Monday at 10/9c.

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That’s good news. I’ve been enjoying the second half of the season.

Why would they renew this? 2.8 and .7. I just don’t get it.

It’s at a point where so many shows have fairly low ratings, that factors that go beyond advertising money is what potentially will help save them.

This show as a lot of potential. Yeah, yeah, I have a girl crush on Priyanka Chopra (her hair is to die for!) and Jake McLaughlin’s eyelashes give me some serious lash envy. That said, I think it’s a great cast – just needs some focused story telling and a long term angle.

Priyanka: turning straight girls gay for another season.

I’d be at the top of that list….I’m not even mad at ABC for renewing this, as long as I get to keep seeing Priyanka

I just finished watching tonight’s finale (it airs at 7pm where I live in Canada), and I thought it sure felt like a series finale, but then I see this! Oh well, I’ll keep watching beautiful people save the world.

Just how bad is the batch of ABC pilots that they renewed this mess?!

Lol! Maybe if NBC had renewed Smash for a third season and fired Safran it would’ve been a success. On second thought, probably not. I doubt a new showrunner can bring Quantico back to what it should’ve been (and never really was).

To those who are wondering why they have renewed Quantico despite bad ratings, all thanks to Priyanka’s global appeal as a huge movie star, Quantico is making good money for the network through the Netflix deal and worldwide syndication. May be ratings in American alone isn’t the deciding factor.

Exactly. in the movie business a lot of movies that have flopped domestically made a lot of money internationally. Pacific Rim did not do well enough in the US to get a sequel but it made enough money in China and now it’s getting a sequel.

The 2nd season was awful. But u renew because the 1st season was excellent n u hope that can be recaptured. It’s crazy how many great shows lose their way between seasons 1 n 2. Sleepy Hollow anyone?

This show was unwatchable since the pilot. Tried it a couple of times, through both seasons. A total mess with questionable acting from top to bottom.

Abc is trying to be the new CW, it renew way too many low rates shows this year

This show is barely watchable anymore….but Priyanka is probably the most beautiful woman on television right now.

If a show is renewed but literally its entire audience has abandoned it, does it still exist?

Well, fortunately for you, you don’t have to watch it. Perhaps you can spend your extra time looking up the meanings of words, such as ‘literally’ and ‘entire’.

THIS is why nobody’s bothering to watch network TV anymore. Mediocre offerings keep getting created and now renewed. You think that they would realize that the drop in ratings mean something, so why not move on to something better? ABC should free up this spot for a new, better show, rather than keeping this boring mess going.

ABC is digging thier own grave and Dungey will get her walking orders next season with renewing three fractional shows.

I just read on Deadline it only pick up 13 episodes , I’m amazed ABC Renewed it

This show has never been that great, sometimes even a total mess, but for some reason I can’t stop watching and I’m glad it was renewed. Maybe I just really like Priyanka Chopra.

This show is still alive solely because of Priyanka…her international appeal seems to be making ABC a lot of money via Netflix therefore the ratings in the US don’t seem to matter. I won’t be shocked it’s renewed for another shortened season.

So much better since they quit all the time jumping.

I disagree with all of you people. I love this show and thought it had a great season finale. It is a great show and is totally different for all the other shows on tv. It deserves to be renewed. No one is forcing any of you guys to watch it so get off your high horses.

That’s good news but should Quantico stay on Monday nights or move to a new night.

Since ABC doesn’t seem to care about the ratings for this show, move it to the Death Slot: Tues @10pm.

Put it on fridays with Once upon a time they both can go make low ratings there

Why oh why – it’s absolutely terrible. They can’t act and the storyline is so unbelievable

Who watches this show? I tried the first season and in my opinion, it was a disaster. ABC cancelled some good shows and kept this??

I like this show but it hard to follow. The Catch us so much better and they cancelled it.

This HAS to be the miracle of the 2016/17 season. This show is so bad. I watch the show every week and I actually have no idea what’s going on. I don’t know who’s good and who is bad. I know they’re going after some bad guys…but I have NO idea why.

Renewing junk like this doesn’t look good for ABC.

Yeah. Dungey is really making a name for herself now.

Finally some good news for a change. Been a few cancellations too many for me this year

I really do not like stupid shows. I wish the networks would accept the blame for some shoes failing to gain an audience. Like preempting a show and not letting us know if it will be shown or not. Or the network placing too many good shows on at the same time. These are my main gripes. To be short I will stop now. Until later

If the Nielsen ratings (in their current form) don’t matter any more, maybe sites like this one should stop reporting them.

They may not matter to some viewers, but they matter to advertisers, and that’s all that matters. Without advertisers, network TV cannot support its shows, and Neilsen compiles its numbers for advertisers, not for us!

I think s/he was trying to be “funny,” that ABC renewed such a low-rated show (one that ranks below Notorious and Secrets and Lies, but does match SHIELD). (After all, ratings DO matter: http://tvline.com/2017/05/11/tv-ratings-renewed-cancelled-shows-frequently-asked-questions/ )

Oh, right. That’s what I get for responding to comments from my email notifications (context). Well, as others have pointed out, this show factors in the international markets.

The best thing for this show is for Josh “I KILL SHOWS FOR A LIVING” Safran to step down. He’s technically a good ideas man but he’s a disaster when it comes to execution. (See Smash Season 2, Gossip Girl Seasons 5 & 6, Quantico Season 1B-2)

Honestly, I think this show has such potential if they gave it more of a Homeland vibe and storyline rather than the hot mess of plotlines they’ve been working with for the last season and half. Stop pushing Ryan/Alex down our throats too, they have zero chemistry, and stop killing off their other love interests. Maybe also stop the ridiculously incestuous relationships between Shelby and the Haas clan.

This needed to be a one season thing. Why are they doing this!? Happy I gave it up at the middle of season 2…

While I’m glad for it being renewed, I hope the episode count is reduced. This is a type of show that would be better suited for 10-12 episodes instead of 22.

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