American Idol, Supergirl, Last Man Standing, and other TV shows have all made recent TV show news by being renewed for an additional season, cancelled, or had additional episode orders. These shows air on Fox, CBS, and ABC.
American Idol (Fox)
American Idol…will end its run after one final season. Fox has renewed the venerable music competition series for a 15th season, which will be its last. Coming back are host Ryan Seacrest, who has been on the show since Day 1, as well as the judges for the past two seasons Jennifer Lopez, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr.
All of ABC’s Renewals
Castle, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away With Murder, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Nashville, Once Upon a Time, Scandal, American Crime, Secrets and Lies, Marvel’s Agent Carter, black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Goldbergs, Last Man Standing, The Middle, Modern Family, Galavant, America’s Funniest Home Videos, The Bachelor, Dancing With the Stars, Shark Tank, Beyond the Tank, 20/20
The Mysteries of Laura (NBC)
Undateable (NBC)
The Night Shift (NBC)
NBC…[handed] out renewals to freshman The Mysteries of Laura and sophomores Undateable and The Night Shift. The Mysteries of Laura is the only NBC freshman series to land a second season pickup. I hear the renewal is for 13 episodes.
Undateable[‘s]…third season [will] consist…entirely of live episodes. They will be live on East Coast, and I hear there is a possibly of doing them live for both coasts, like the episode the show did this week. It is unclear whether the order is for 13 or 22 episodes. Undateable will be the only returning NBC comedy series on the schedule next season.
The Player (NBC)
Game of Silence (NBC)
NBC and Sony TV… just reached deals for [two] pickups, series orders to drama pilots The Player (formerly Endgame) and Game of Silence
Minority Report (Fox)
Lucifer (Fox)
Rosewood (Fox)
The Frankenstein Code (Fox)
Fox just…wrapped its series pickups with nods to its big frontrunner Minority Report and dark horse Lucifer. They join previously ordered medical drama Rosewood and The Frankenstein Code.
The network also has Ryan Murphy’s straight-to-series comedic horror anthology Scream Queens…Fox’s fifth drama pilot, music-and-drugs-themed Studio City, is not getting picked up now but Fox is expected to revisit the pilot after the upfronts for potential midseason consideration.
Backstrom (Fox)
Backstrom has been axed by Fox.
The series did OK in its series debut, opening with a 2.0 rating in adults 18-49 and 8 million viewers, but declined after that.
Battle Creek (CBS)
Battle Creek has been cancelled. There is no official word yet but CBS’ other bubble freshmen, drama Stalker and comedy The McCarthys, also are not expected to come back.
Marry Me (NBC)
About a Boy (NBC)
State Of Affairs (NBC)
freshman comedy Marry Me and sophomore About a Boy were pulled off the About a Boy…have been officially cancelled by NBC.
Not that there was any realistic hope for renewal of freshman State Of Affairs after its low-rated (and short) run, but NBC has made it official — opting not to go with a second season of the espionage drama starring Katherine Heigl as a CIA Analyst.
After a respectable debut, likely based on Heigl’s name recognition, State Of Affairs quickly dropped in the ratings, despite airing behind The Voice on Mondays.
The Following (Fox)
It’s the end of the road for Fox drama The Following after three seasons.
The Following, created by Kevin Williamson, was a breakout hit when it launched in early 2013 and finished the 2012-13 season as the highest rated new broadcast series in adults 18-49. But after a strong first cycle, the violent serialized thriller, which only produced limited seasons per Bacon’s contract, couldn’t keep the momentum, slipping in Season 2 and then again in Season 3. Its strong DVR/on-demand appeal could not make up for the low on-air ratings.
Limitless (CBS)
Rush Hour (CBS)
Code Black (CBS)
Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (CBS)
Life In Pieces (CBS)
Angel From Hell (CBS)
Supergirl (CBS)
CBS…[picked] up four new dramas, Limitless, Rush Hour, Code Black, and the Criminal Minds spinoff — now officially titled Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders — and two comedies, the single-camera Life In Pieces…and Angel From Hell
The Rush Hour pickup means that both of Warner Bros. TV’s big titles at CBS went to series, with Supergirl getting an early nod
Facing another medical drama pilot, LFE, Code Black, written by Michael Seitzman, snagged the series order.
Bones (Fox)
Fox’s comedic crime procedural Bones is set to return for an 11th season after series producer 20th Century Fox TV closed new deals with stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz, whose contracts were up at the end of this season.
Uncle Buck (ABC)
The network has picked up single-camera comedy Uncle Buck
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Spinoff (ABC)
ABC and Marvel have put the brakes on the proposed Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff…S.H.I.E.L.D. fans have been divided by the spinoff, and there had been some backlash to the idea of taking some of the strongest new characters on S.H.I.E.L.D. away from the mothership series.
Big Little Lies
Big Little Lies, starring Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon, written by Emmy winner David E Kelley, followed True Detective to the same network destination, HBO, with the same straight-to-series commitment. The premium cable network has picked up the project, originally put together in November.
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