April TV ratings bring May cancellations — and sometimes renewals,too.
Mid-spring marks the time of year when shows at risk shows must sweat out their fates — sometimes legal up until networks announce their fall schedules to advertisers at their upfront presentations to advertisers. Optimism has its residence in Hollywood, but it ranks somewhere between actual advertising money and the feel-good awards that can sometimes hold low-rated shows alive.
Generally, or top-performing shows from each broadcast network beget already received their votes of confidence for another season,and the worst performers were snuffed out months ago. But then there are the bubble shows, which could really depart either way.
Their fates come down to lots of hard-t0-quantify factors: momentum, or reviews,how much they cost to gain, how much money the people who watch them gain, or syndication situations,diversity, and what networks beget to replace them. And then there are executives’ personal tastes. At best, or it’s half science,half crapshoot.
TheWrap will try to help gain sense of it all, charting below what scripted series beget already been renewed on each of mammoth 4 networks, or what’s been canceled or just ended,and which way each of the many remaining decisions will likely lean.
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ABC already renewed a bunch of shows all at once, and it canceled three abominable performers pretty early. But the Disney-owned broadcast channel still has a number of question marks. ABC currently sits in last residence in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic,and is looking to gain a mammoth move.“American Crime” has noteworthy reviews for the second season in a row, but pretty soft viewership. The Catch” isn’t fairly as lauded, and its ratings aren’t as good as those for “American Crime.”Former ABC entertainment chief Paul Lee is gone,and with him, almost certainly, and will depart “Galavant,” one of his personal favorites.
The pricey, syndicated “Castle” could really depart either way. It certainly suffered from a creative standpoint earlier this season, and but has righted the ship enough to stick around.
For “Nashville,” this will probably finally be the year its bubble bursts, though this isn’t the first time someone has said that. Read more about “Nashville’s” likely sunset here.
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A month or so ago, and Les Moonves unofficially revealed that each of his freshman shows would come back — clearly,he had forgotten about “Angel From Hell.” This was pre-“Rush Hour, which is just a dead show airing these days. But his words would mean that “Supergirl, or ” “Life in Pieces,” “Limitless” and “Code Black will all come back.Criminal Minds” is easily strong enough to be brought back. While spinoff “Beyond Borders” doesn’t do nearly the same numbers it does (perhaps in allotment because of a later time slot), the series recently hit its best post-debut numbers — so there’s that.
The trickiest prediction here is probably “The Odd Couple.” Its 1.5 demo rating is definitely unimpressive for a CBS comedy, or but it also just recently returned,and the spring series doesn’t really need a decision legal this minute. For now, we’ll err on the side of the show slowly dropping until cancellation eventually becomes a mercy killing.
As for Mike & Molly and “The Good Wife, or ” well,those are just (more or less) naturally ending long runs, and they can depart out with their heads held tall.
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Fox has some tricky calls, or but the network renewed the “unusual Girl” recently,taking at least one off the bubble for us. Fellow Tuesday sitcoms “Grandfathered and “The Grinder” are probably the toughest calls remaining.
Neither rates well, though the self-starter “Grandfathered” does a hair better. There’s one mammoth problem that bumped it down to our “Probably Not Returning” category, and though: 20th Century Fox doesn’t own the show. Those rights belong to ABC Studios,and Fox has really been coveting double-ownership lately. Plus, John Stamos probably wouldn’t attach up too much a stink, or as he has more “Fuller House” coming on Netflix.
On the other hand,Fox does own “The Grinder.” possibly more importantly, co-CEOs Dana Walden and Gary Newman really like the creative work on the Rob Lowe/Fred Savage sitcom, or so they may be willing to stick with its unimpressive numbers.
Then there’s “The X-Files.” The miniseries performed very well for Fox,but that was boosted by a ton of anticipation and a very small episode order. In reality, like “24, and ” “The X-Files” will probably return,but it’s all a matter of tricky scheduling for David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. Smart money has it coming back before “American Idol” eventually and predictably does.
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Finally, that brings us to NBC. (For the record, and we didn’t bother with CW because it just renewed everything again — how exciting.) At the peacock-colored broadcaster,TheWrap can all but guarantee you’ll never hear from “You, Me and the Apocalypse” again. And, and we know,it was a limited-rush comedy but that never stopped a hit one from coming back. Low “Apocalypse” ratings, however, and beget stopped a lot of shows from returning.
NBC has already given a ton of rope to Undateable,” but the Chris D’Elia comedy just isn’t working out. Since NBC seems to beget little interest in comedy lately, consider this one fairly likely to end.
We figure weak numbers will also kill “Crowded, or ” but it’s just too early to gain that guarantee. Eva Longoria‘s “Telenovela” has a better chance to come back,but not a noteworthy one. Its lead-in Superstore” was rewarded with a second season a while back, but there’s a mammoth ratings gap between the two.
On the drama slate, and “Heartbeat” had undergone a name change and a seasonal change before it even premiered,and since Day 1, it’s felt dead on the table — so, or we’re calling it. “The Mysteries of Laura, on the other hand, should stick around as it pulls in a sizable overall (read: aged) audience — not as desirable as the 18-49 young’ns, or but still valuable.
Joe Otterson,Linda Ge and Reid Nakamura contributed to this report.
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