ABC’s The Company You Keep is Canceled – Cast & Fan Reactions Inside

It’s the end of an era for one of ABC’s new midseason dramas. The Company You Keep, starring Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim, has been canceled after its first season. The news comes just under a week after the season 1 finale aired. Get more details below, including reactions from fans and statements from some of the cast. 

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A quick refresher on The Company You Keep

The Company You Keep follows con man Charlie (Milo Ventimiglia) and his family, the Nicoletti’s, who are in debt to crime boss Daphne Finch. When he meets Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim) and the two fall for each other, he has no idea she’s an undercover CIA agent attempting to track Daphne down. As they try to navigate their personal feelings, their professional collision course might derail their relationship before it can really ignite. Between Emma’s quest for justice and her family’s political ambitions to Charlie trying to balance his conman ways with running his bar, the two have to decide what’s really important: their careers or their love for each other. The question is if they can have the best of both worlds with all the chaos going on around them. 

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When was the show canceled?

The news of The Company You Keep’s cancellation made headlines on Friday, May 12. According to Deadline, the show did not perform as well as ABC’s other two midseason series, Will Trent and Not Dead Yet. However, “there was talk that ABC may give the series a partial second season order to give it more time to find an audience” since it only premiered midseason and Ventimiglia has a longstanding relationship with Disney’s 20th Century Studios (via This is Us). 

The Company You Keep’s cancellation was in tandem with two other ABC drama series that were axed, Big Sky and Alaska Daily, Deadline reported. It comes on the heels of the show’s season 1 finale, which aired on May 7 titled “The Truth Hurts.” Throughout its 10-episode run, The Company You Keep had a fairly steady 0.3 rating within the 18-49 demographic and were pulling 2-2.4 million viewers, per ShowBuzz Daily. It was also heavily marketed by ABC and promoted regularly by the cast, especially series leads Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim, who would join fans in live tweeting.