TV shows - Renewed and Canceled

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 12:48pm

So for those wanting to know what is sticking around and what is heading to the TV graveyard

Canceled (more to be added)
Hostages Canceled
The Crazy Ones Canceled
Bad Teacher Canceled
Friends with Better Lives Canceled
Dracula Canceled
Lucky 7 ABC Canceled
Mind Games ABC Canceled
Mixology ABC Canceled
Once Upon A Time in Wonderland ABC Canceled
Suburgatory ABC Canceled
Super Fun Night ABC Canceled
The Neighbors ABC Canceled
Trophy Wife ABC Canceled
How I Met Your Mother CBS Final Season Finished
We Are Men CBS Canceled
Nikita CW Final Season Finished
Star-Crossed CW Canceled
The Carrie Diaries CW Canceled
The Tomorrow People CW Canceled
Almost Human Fox Canceled
American Dad Fox Moving to TBS
Dads Fox Canceled
Enlisted Fox Canceled
Raising Hope Fox Canceled
Rake Fox Canceled
Surviving Jack Fox Canceled
Believe NBC Canceled
Community NBC Canceled
Crisis NBC Canceled
Growing Up Fisher NBC Canceled
Ironside NBC Canceled
Revolution NBC Canceled
Sean Saves The World NBC Canceled
The Michael J. Fox Show NBC Canceled
Welcome To The Family NBC Canceled

Renewed
Parenthood Renewed (Last season)
Last Man Standing Renewed
The Mentalist Renewed
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC Renewed
Castle ABC Renewed
Grey's Anatomy ABC Renewed
Modern Family ABC Renewed
Nashville ABC Renewed
Once Upon A Time ABC Renewed
Resurrection ABC Renewed
Revenge ABC Renewed
Scandal ABC Renewed
The Goldbergs ABC Renewed
The Middle ABC Renewed
2 Broke Girls CBS Renewed
Blue Bloods CBS Renewed
Criminal Minds CBS Renewed
CSI CBS Renewed
Elementary CBS Renewed
Hawaii Five-0 CBS Renewed
Mike & Molly CBS Renewed
Mom CBS Renewed
NCIS CBS Renewed
NCIS: LA CBS Renewed
Person Of Interest CBS Renewed
The Big Bang Theory CBS Renewed
The Good Wife CBS Renewed
The Millers CBS Renewed
Two and a Half Men CBS Renewed
Arrow CW Renewed
Beauty & The Beast CW Renewed
Hart Of Dixie CW Renewed
Reign CW Renewed
Supernatural CW Renewed
The 100 CW Renewed
The Originals CW Renewed
The Vampire Diaries CW Renewed
Bob's Burgers Fox Renewed
Bones Fox Renewed
Brooklyn Nine-Nine Fox Renewed
Family Guy Fox Renewed
Glee Fox Renewed
New Girl Fox Renewed
Sleepy Hollow Fox Renewed
The Following Fox Renewed
The Mindy Project Fox Renewed
The Simpsons Fox Renewed
About a Boy NBC Renewed
Chicago Fire NBC Renewed
Chicago P.D. NBC Renewed
Grimm NBC Renewed
Hannibal NBC Renewed
Law & Order: SVU NBC Renewed
Parks and Recreation NBC Renewed

Updated On: 5/11/14 at 12:48 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 12:51pm

Yay for Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 12:56pm

I'm thrilled about BROOKLYN NINE-NINE. Also, I'm very happy for another season of THE GOLDBERGS and (what I think is one of the funniest show on TV), THE MINDY PROJECT.

Oh, and I love ABC for giving NASHVILLE a 3rd season!!!

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 1:10pm

I'm a little disappointed that Suburgatory got cancelled, but I figured it would happen.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 1:26pm

I'm pretty sure I've seen every episode of Suburgatory, but holy god did that spin off into its own bananas orbit.

[jasonf]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 1:44pm

Really hoping they renew Parenthood.

Very happy about THe Goldbergs - I love that show.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 2:19pm

Great to see so much love for The Goldbergs, one of the best new sitcoms in ages. Jordan I agree about the Mindy Project as well. Glad The Good Wife and Revenge got another season (I think it will be the final one for Revenge so they can wrap everything up).

[jasonf]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 2:33pm

Never really tried The Mindy Project. It's worth checking out?

I agree about The Goldbergs - I really think it's one of the funniest shows on TV.

They just cancelled The Crazy Ones, Bad Teacher and Friends With Better Lives.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/05/10/mentalist-renewed-canceled/

Crazy Ones started good, but we stopped watching mid-season. Bad Teacher we stopped about ten minutes into the first episode. Friends WIth Better Lives, though, we actually really liked. Kind of upset about that one, though I think that woman on it who was on Whitney needs to just be not allowed on sitcoms any more.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 2:47pm

That had better mean Mad Men gets Bob Benson back! (or did they already film next year's "mid season")

Most of these are shows that I expected to come or go--I'm more confused by the new show line ups. ABC continues to be crazy (is anyone *watching* Mixology?)

[jasonf]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 2:49pm

DIdn't they cancel that?

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 2:57pm

It was just announced that The Mentalist was renewed was by CBS.

However, the network cancelled The Crazy Ones, Bad Teacher, Friends With Better Lives, Intelligence, and Hostages!

ABC just renewed "Last Man Standing" for a fourth season.
Updated On: 5/10/14 at 02:57 PM

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 3:39pm

Ive stopped watching the 1hr dramas until they get renewed for a 2nd season. I got sick of investing my time into these shows and then we are just left with an unfinished story. I will make exceptions here and there. Resurrection was the only new show i watched this season. At least with the 30 minute sitcoms the stories are self contained so it doesnt matter as much if they dont get renewed.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 3:43pm

Damnit. I really liked The Crazy Ones. And I love Bad Teacher because Ari Graynor is perfection in everything she touches. But the Friends With Better Lives cancelation hurts me since I would follow James Van Der Beek to the end of the earth. I feel like I've spent the past 15 years chasing my own personal Dawson.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 4:45pm

Jordan, I'm still not over the cancellation of DON'T TRUST THE B IN APT 23. One of those shows that was meant to be on cable and inexplicably made it to ABC, who had absolutely no idea what to do with it. Van der Beek was insanely good in that I thought.
Can't say I'm sad about any of these. Probably the first time that's happened since I've been following these things closely. Network TV has just gotten so terrible, good riddance to all of these I have to say.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 4:54pm

It is interesting to note though, just how many half hour comedies are being canceled after their first seasons lately, on all of the networks. Do people just not want to watch comedies anymore?

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 5:57pm

Jordan, I thought the same thing. After a quick scan of the list the OP posted, only five new comedies from this season are returning—The Goldbergs, The Millers, Mom, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and About a Boy (please feel free to correct me if there are more). To be a comedy these days, the ratings need to be off the roof, and it’s sad that shows get cancelled before it can find a footing and maybe work its way up to steady, high, ratings.
For ABC, I'm starting to wonder if that 8:30 Wednesday slot between The Middle and Modern Family is cursed, as well as the 9:30 slot after Modern Family. No show seems to be able to get one of those slots and stay there for over a year.
Shows that have tried to run with The Middle and Modern Family: Suburgatory, Super Fun Night, Better With You, Cougar Town, Hank, Mr. Sunshine, Happy Endings, and Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23.
More than one season: Suburgatory, Happy Endings (both moved around a lot and had non-consistent slots), Cougar Town (was also moved around a lot, but then picked up by TBS)
I wonder if they'll move The Goldbergs and Last Man Standing to those two slots and have on big night of comedy instead of a couple nights.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 6:32pm

Network TV is just in a difficult place now. Their really good comedies just don't get seen by people, shows like 30 ROCK and PARKS & RECREATIONS just don't make money for some reason. On cable, they'd be considered hits, but on the network model they get eaten alive and the networks just don't give them a chance, I think there's just very little support for smart comedies unless they are juggernauts from the get go. The time when a show was allowed to grow, find its footing, and attract an audience seems kinda gone. I was so saddened when GO ON was cancelled last year, that was a show that I thought had found itself by the end and could have gone somewhere, and then NBC just cancelled it to replace it with a new batch of comedies, none of which were renewed I believe. It's so odd.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 7:10pm

I think the nature of Tv has just changed so much. Like I'm thinking now there seems to be a lot more choice of scripted shows on cable that I don't recall there being previously. Unless I was just unaware of it. But, AMC used to be like TCM with showing classic movies and nothing else. Wasn't HBO generally movies until Sex and the City? And I think all of those sort of stations like Showtime and Cinemax and Starz all have original programming now.

I recall in middle and high school my weeknights consisted of 3 nights of shows on The WB, now CW, Thursday was NBC with Friends, and Friday was ABC with the family programming block. Now I watch a few things on ABC and CBS, NBC for SNL, and junk like Dance Moms or whatever is weird on TLC or another similar station.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 7:39pm

Don't trust the Bitch (yes, I said it) was brilliant week after week. And ABC even aired the remaining episodes out of order!

Out of the new crop I'm most worried about Constantine--just because I love the character of John Constantine from Moore's Swamp Thing *so* much--and Keanu already sorta destroyed that. The fact he can't even have his trademark cigarette makes me think NBC will see this as a new "supernatural detective" show.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 5/10/14 at 9:37pm

Bummed about Suburgatory and Enlisted. Knew a lot of people who loved Trophy Wife.

I'm just going to outright say, I really wish Community had a better send-off episode- particularly one that had Troy bARNES. It just felt like, and the fact this was a drastic cut from the number of episodes Harmon was used to, that the latter half of the season was stunt episode after stunt episode.

"Don't trust the Bitch (yes, I said it) was brilliant week after week. And ABC even aired the remaining episodes out of order"

Not just out of order but Season 2 got hampered with continuity issues because ABC forced them to show Season 1 leftovers that they didn't bother burn off first season.

But there was that wonderful, all too brief period where Happy Endings and Don't Trust the Bitch were back to back.

Network TV just seems old hat in terms of scheduling. You have these cable stations with their own rules and schedules and they do really well. Meanwhile, it is clear that Network is still enslaved to time-slots. How much would have Trophy Wife been helped had they been in the Modern Family slot rather than Super Fun Night and Mixology? Both were doomed and both critically plundered versus Trophy Wife being one of the more praised new shows.

I do think some cable shows reached their saturation point. No way can some of these stations survive beyond just one original, scripted programming. You see Netflix and Amazon (I read that Whit Stillman is working on a series with them for goodness sakes) trying to build by the fact a large number of TV viewers watch their shows online and watch those shows in binges. For all of this TV vs. film bunk, I frankly think TV is moving at a rate where it is completely removed from its original structures and, called me old fashioned, I think potential negatives outweigh potential supposed positives.

jasonf- I frankly think The Mindy Project had one of the better second season surges since Parks & Rec. Still not perfect but it feels like it finally found itself after a first season that reeked of too much market-testing and cooks in the kitchen.

Updated On: 5/10/14 at 09:37 PM

[Taryn]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 1:54am

So, so sad about Almost Human.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 11:12am

The irony about that post-MODERN FAMILY death slot is that ABC had the perfect show to put there this year, TROPHY WIFE, and they never did. And it killed TROPHY WIFE as a result, which was up there with BROOKLYN NINE-NINE as the two best sitcoms this year (if not a few years.)

[StageManager2]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 12:21pm

Really hoping they renew Parenthood.

I'm so glad Parenthood got renewed. I really enjoyed spending Thursday nights with the Bravermans. Really some great acting and writing on that show. Shame it was never embraced by the public or the TV awards. The only sad thing is, it's the last season -- and only 13 episodes at that. This past season had almost twice as that.


Crazy Ones started good, but we stopped watching mid-season.

The Crazy Ones had some great premises for its episodes (i.e. the Chicago-themed Bar Mitzvah), but it wasn't good at pulling them off. That episode should've been funnier than it was. Lots of missed opportunities with this show. Nevertheless, I was rooting for it to get renewed and eventually right itself, because God knows James Wolk needs a hit show! After winning acclaim in the TV movie Front of the Class (200, he's really had bad luck on TV. The shows Lone Star (2010), Georgetown (2011), and Political Animals (2012) were all canceled shortly after debuting or only given one season. He's had better luck with recurring guest-roles on hit shows like Shameless and Mad Men, but you can't make a career out of that, can you?

Updated On: 5/11/14 at 12:21 PM

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 1:40pm

Saw the trailers for "State of Affairs" and "The Mysteries of Laura". Alfre Woodard as POTUS on State of Affairs? I'm in. The Debra Messing show isn't my cup of tea but I think it's got promise.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 4:32pm

"jasonf- I frankly think The Mindy Project had one of the better second season surges since Parks & Rec. Still not perfect but it feels like it finally found itself after a first season that reeked of too much market-testing and cooks in the kitchen. "

Mindy Project is still maddeningly inconsistent, and I actually am not sure I like the cast changes from season one--but I agree. It was a great finale.