TV show's Ratings

    Cancelled

    " 1996 called, 2016 answered."
    Country
    Runtime 41 – 42 min
    Premiere: World October 5, 2016
    Premiere: USA October 5, 2016
    Channel The CW (21:00, United States)
    Digital: World October 6, 2016
    Production Companies

    Description

    A police detective in 2016 discovers that she is able to communicate with her father via a ham radio, despite the fact that he died in 1996.
    Season 1
    s1: e1 — Season 1, Episode 1  

    Pilot

    October 5, 2016 8.2
    s1: e2 — Season 1, Episode 2  

    Signal and Noise

    October 12, 2016 7.4
    s1: e3 — Season 1, Episode 3  

    The Near Far Problem

    October 19, 2016 7.5
    s1: e4 — Season 1, Episode 4  

    Bleed Over

    October 26, 2016 7.5
    s1: e5 — Season 1, Episode 5  

    Seven Three

    November 2, 2016 7.3
    s1: e6 — Season 1, Episode 6  

    Deviation

    November 9, 2016 7.5
    s1: e7 — Season 1, Episode 7  

    Break, Break, Break

    November 16, 2016 7.3
    s1: e8 — Season 1, Episode 8  

    Interference

    November 30, 2016 7.3
    s1: e9 — Season 1, Episode 9  

    Gray Line

    December 7, 2016 7.6
    s1: e10 — Season 1, Episode 10  

    The Edison Effect

    January 4, 2017 7.7
    s1: e11 — Season 1, Episode 11  

    Negative Copy

    January 11, 2017 7.6
    s1: e12 — Season 1, Episode 12  

    Harmonic

    January 18, 2017 8.0
    s1: e13 — Season 1, Episode 13  

    Signal Loss

    January 25, 2017 8.1
    Special

    Epilogue

    May 12, 2017 8.2

    Сast and Crew

    Premise

    In 2016, NYPD Detective Raimy Sullivan discovers that she is able to speak to her deceased father Frank Sullivan in 1996 via his old ham radio. Her attempts to save his life trigger the "butterfly effect", changing the present in unforeseen ways. To fix the damage, she must work with her father across time to solve a decades-old murder case.

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    Critique: 10

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    The Guardian October 5, 2016

    Whereas most of the other remakes have winks at their source material driving them and most time travel shows have the knottiness of sci-fi adventu...

    Collider October 4, 2016

    List is earnest in her role, and manages to make the stranger aspects of the show’s time travel and inter-dimensional plot points feel grounded.

    Vulture October 5, 2016

    It’s a bright idea, redolent of much headier science fiction that we’re used to seeing on commercial TV, but there’s no way...

    USA Today October 4, 2016

    It’s a good story, but in essence, it feels very much like a movie story – which is exactly what it was. Whether it can work as&nbs...

    Hollywood Reporter October 5, 2016

    Frequency aims for earnestness and emotion to smooth out leaps in logic.

    Los Angeles Times October 6, 2016

    The most urgent problem is that Frequency is based on source material that was already derivative, a grab bag of tropes borrowed from movies includ...

    AV Club October 6, 2016

    Hey, we’re not watching television for the realistic aspects, not even when we watch reality TV. So, once we’re on board with the ham-r...

    Variety October 3, 2016

    Despite the talents of the cast, which includes an underused Mekhi Phifer, the program doesn’t offer enough to set it apart from dramas loade...

    AV Club October 5, 2016

    Frequency’s vintage equipment is missing its spark of life.

    New York Times October 4, 2016

    It’s hard to make an impression in a genre so heavily worked, especially with a series drawn from a moderately popular movie, but F...

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