It came down to the wire, but NCIS: Hawai’i ultimately didn’t make the cut for next season at CBS. The news comes days before the network is set to announce its fall schedule on May 2 and before the Season 3 finale of Hawai’i is scheduled to air on May 6. According to sources, the episode was not meant to be a series finale and includes a tease for what was to come but fans won’t be left reeling by a major cliffhanger.
There will not be a fourth season of Canadian comedy Run the Burbs. Co-creator and star Andrew Phung shared the news Thursday on Instagram that CBC has canceled the series after three seasons. The show airs in the U.S. on The CW.
CBS has canceled CSI: Vegas after three seasons and So Help Me Todd after two. That despite CSI: Vegas and So Help Me Todd being solid ratings performers. With the entire CBS schedule doing well this season and three new drama series joining in 2024-25 — NCIS: Origins, Matlock and Watson (in addition to a second season of the Australian NCIS: Sydney) — the network was faced with painful decisions, and So Help Me Todd and CSI: Vegas are the least watched CBS drama series this spring in both linear and multi-platform ratings.
“I have loved working with you and something tells me Charles, this will not be the last time that we’re working together,” Gayle King told Charles Barkley in what was the show’s final episode.
NBC has decided not to proceed with a third season of its Quantum Leap reboot starring Raymond Lee. The news comes more than a month after the two-hour Season 2 finale aired Feb. 20. The development is not entirely surprising as the series, from Universal Television, had been on the bubble. That is in contrast to last season when Quantum Leap received a very early renewal in December 2022.
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The Kaley Cuoco-led thriller ran for two seasons, the last of which finished in 2022.
The forthcoming seventh season of The Good Doctor will be its final one, ABC announced Thursday. The medical drama, a co-production of Sony Pictures Television and ABC Signature, is slated to premiere Feb. 20. The Good Doctor is the second long-running ABC drama slated to end this season. Station 19, the first responder-focused spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy, will also close out its run with a seventh season.
The Grey’s Anatomy spinoff will end this year with an abbreviated seventh season. With Station 19 and Grey’s serving as the only remaining shows on ABC produced by hitmaker Shonda Rhimes — who is now based exclusively at Netflix — why would the network ax one of its Thursday staples? The answer can be found in the math.
Warrior won’t be returning for a fourth season on Max. However, the existing three seasons of the martial arts crime drama are set to find additional audiences as Netflix has picked up the series’ library in a co-exclusive deal with Max in Warner Bros. Discovery streamer’s markets.
The Disney-owned broadcast network on Friday revealed that the upcoming seventh season of the firefighter-focused spinoff of Grey’s Anatomy will be its last.
Bob Hearts Abishola‘s love story is winding down. CBS announced Wednesday that the Chuck Lorre comedy will end with Season 5. Its 13-episode farewell run begins Monday, Feb. 12, while its series finale will air Monday, May 13, at 8:30 p.m. ET.
Season 3 of the NBC sci-fi drama La Brea will be its last. The series will conclude with an abbreviated season that will consist of 6 episodes. La Brea will premiere on Tuesday, Jan. 9, at 9 p.m. and serves as a lead-in to the season’s final two episodes of the hit fall drama Found.
The upcoming 14th season of CBS’s venerable cop family drama Blue Bloods will be its last. The popular series starring Tom Selleck is getting an extended farewell with a two-part final season which will consist of 18 episodes. The first 10 will air this coming midseason, premiering on CBS on Feb. 16 and streaming live on Paramount+; the remaining eight will run in fall 2024.
The military drama series starring David Boreanaz will conclude on the Paramount+ streaming service with its seventh season, which is set to go into production in early December and will air in 2024. Originating on CBS, the series moved to Paramount+ with its sixth season. The show was renewed by Paramount+ for Season 7 in January and obviously production was impacted by both the writers and actors strikes.
CBS’s No. 1 comedy series Young Sheldon is coming to an end. The Big Bang Theory spinoff will conclude with the upcoming seventh season, which will consist of 14 episodes. Young Sheldon will air a one-hour series finale on at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 16. The news is not surprising. The upcoming Season 7, which premieres Feb. 15, is the last in a three-year pickup Young Sheldon received in 2021.
A decision on whether the network would renew the freshman drama, led by Niecy Nash-Betts, was delayed for months amid the ongoing dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes both of which have recently concluded. The ratings for The Rookie: Feds were modest. The network also announced it would not be moving forward with The Good Lawyer, a spinoff of The Good Doctor starring Kennedy McMann and Felicity Huffman.
The final 10-episode season will air in 2024.
Like the twisted stalker at the center of its story, Paramount+’s Fatal Attraction series is dead after one season. In addition, Rabbit Hole — the corporate espionage thriller starring Kiefer Sutherland — also will not return for Season 2. Both series’ first seasons will continue to be available on the streaming service.
Welcome to Flatch will not see season three on Fox. Jenny Bicks writes and executive produces the single-cam, documentary-style comedy, and Paul Feig directs and executive produces. The show premiered in March 2022.
The update of the beloved Nickelodeon series ran for three seasons on the streamer.
ABC is making some changes to its lineup following the resolution of the writers strike. Comedy Home Economics has been canceled and High Potential has been moved to fall 2024. ABC still has to make decisions on a renewal for The Rookie: Feds and the status of The Good Lawyer, a backdoor pilot spinoff of The Good Doctor.
The news came after the second-season finale aired Sunday night.
ABC has opted not to proceed with a third season of The Wonder Years. The news comes a month after the reboot of the classic coming-of-age comedy wrapped its Season 2 run on the network. Originally slated for a midseason return, The Wonder Years‘ second season was pushed to summer, hinting at the show’s potential fate as summer has traditionally been used as a destination for broadcast scripted series that have either been canceled or are likely to be.
