It’s an upfronts miracle: Fox and 20th Television have closed Season 6 renewals of 9-1-1 and The Resident for the 2022-23 season. Negotiations were completed shortly before the Fox upfront presentation’s 4 p.m. ET start on Monday dso the two venerable dramas could be included in the network’s pitch to advertisers.
Bucking this week’s cancellation trend, ABC on Friday renewed all five of its remaining scripted bubble shows. For those keeping track at home, that includes dramas Big Sky (for Season 3) and A Million Little Things (for Season 5), as well as comedies The Conners (for Season 5), Home Economics (for Season 3) and The Wonder Years (for Season 2).
ABC has renewed the unscripted series The Bachelor, American Idol, Shark Tank, America’s Funniest Home Videos and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune for new seasons.
Young Rock will be back for a third season. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Young Rock focuses on different chapters of Johnson’s life. From growing up in a strong and resilient family to being surrounded by the wild characters of his professional wrestling family to playing football at the University of Miami, the show explores the crazy rollercoaster that has shaped Dwayne into the man he is today and the larger-than-life characters he’s met along the way.
The students of Bringston University are back for another school year. The CW announced today that it has ordered a second season of the drama All American: Homecoming. The net reports that Homecoming, which stars Geffri Maya as Simone Hicks, Peyton Alex Smith as Damon Sims, Kelly Jenrette as Amara Patterson, and Cory Hardrict as Coach Marcus Turner, was one of its most-streamed shows on the CW app in its first year.
NBC has set its comedy lineup for the 2022-23 season. The network has renewed second-year series Young Rock and rookies American Auto and Grand Crew. The three shows — all produced by NBC’s sister studio Universal Television — will join new half-hours Lopez vs. Lopez and Night Court on the schedule next season. NBC has also canceled Kenan, starring Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson, and the Ted Danson-led Mr. Mayor after two seasons, along with first-year drama The Endgame.
Exclusives
The pickups mean all nine of producer Dick Wolf’s scripted series — across two networks — will return in 2022-23.
The network has picked up all three shows from megaproducer Dick Wolf — and not just for one season. The three series — flagship show FBI and spinoffs FBI: Most Wanted and FBI: International — have all received two-season renewals that will take them through the 2023-24 season.
In addition, hundreds of episodes of the iconic talk shows, Maury and The Jerry Springer Show have also been sold in syndication by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios.
The network has renewed the CBS Studios-produced show, led by Tom Selleck and one of its longest-running and most popular, for a 13th season in 2022-23. The pickup comes 10 days before Blue Bloods airs its 12th season finale on May 6 and three weeks ahead of CBS parent Paramount Global’s May 18 upfront presentation.
The 1980s-set comedy has been renewed for its 10th season on ABC. The renewal arrives a month after star and executive producer Wendi McLendon-Covey signed a new deal to return with producers Sony Pictures Television. The pact, which sources note includes an option for an 11th season, included a sizable pay bump.
The Talk, CBS’s answer to ABC’s The View, has been renewed for a 13th season, the hosts said on-air Monday and CBS later tweeted from The Talk’s Twitter feed. The Talk will return with all of this season’s hosts — Akbar Gbajabiamila, Amanda Kloots, Jerry O’Connell, Natalie Morales and Sheryl Underwood — coming back.
Judge Steve Harvey is getting a second season at ABC as the network also renews Bachelor In Paradise. The network made the renewals as part of a slew of unscripted news including new specials and game shows.
The drama from Warner Bros. Television is the network’s first live-action scripted renewal for the 2022-23 broadcast season.
CBS Media Ventures, which produces and distributes The Drew Barrymore Show, has picked it up for Season 3. Station groups from CBS, Sinclair, Nexstar, Gray, Scripps, Tegna and Weigel have signed on to carry the show in 2022-23. The show will also be produced differently next season: It will be produced as two half-hour episodes that can run back-to-back or be split up to air in separate time periods.
The NCIS franchise as currently constituted will remain intact for the 2022-23 season. CBS has picked up all three series — flagship NCIS, long-running spinoff NCIS: Los Angeles and newcomer NCIS: Hawai’i — for next season. NCIS will hit its landmark 20th season in 2022-23, while Los Angeles will enter its 14th season and Hawai’i its second.
The network revealed the renewal on Wednesday. Season 4 of The Rookie opened with a 0.3 rating in the 18-49 demo and 2.8 million viewers and has remained fairly steady in demo throughout the season. According to ABC, The Rookie season 4 averages 10 million total viewers after 35 days of viewing across ABC’s linear and digital platforms, growing six times over its initial Live+Same Day rating among adults 18-49 with a lift of 500% after 35 days of multiplatform viewing.
The CW has handed early renewals to a large portion of its scripted schedule: All American, The Flash, Kung Fu, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Superman & Lois and Walker. Traditionally, the youth-skewing network hands out early renewals, sometimes as early as January, to the majority of its slate — a boon for its owners CBS and Warner Bros. However, this year, the broadcaster’s future is up in the air with local affiliate group Nexstar circling and Deadline understands that a new majority owner will likely have a say in some of its renewal decisions.
ABC’s breakout comedy hit Abbott Elementary will be back for another school year. The Alphabet net confirmed on Monday that the critically acclaimed workplace laffer, from Warner Bros. TV and 20th Television, has been renewed for the second grade, a.k.a. Season 2.
The network has also picked up Tough as Nails and Secret Celebrity Renovation for the 2022-23 season.
CBS announced Wednesday that it has renewed its long-running soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful for two more years, setting a run through the 2023-24 broadcast season. The network also announced a celebration of the program’s 35th anniversary for March 23.
The Gordon Ramsay-led cooking competition has brought in solid ratings in its inaugural run.
Star and executive producer James Spader announced the pickup Tuesday during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, a few days before the show’s return from a month-long hiatus. The renewal will also take the series past the 200-episode mark early in the 2022-23 season.
Along with revealing the premiere date for its much-delayed fourth season on Thursday, Netflix announced that Stranger Things — the sci-fi horror series that premiered in 2016, and became a phenomenon — has been renewed for a fifth and final season.
FX has renewed its critically acclaimed series Fargo for a fifth season — and it will be set in 2019. Set in the year before the pandemic, Season 5 from creator Noah Hawley and exec producer Warren Littlefield is being teased with the following questions: “When is a kidnapping not a kidnapping, and what if your wife isn’t yours?”
The Gilded Age will be back for a second go-round. HBO has renewed the praised period drama from Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes for a second season. The series’ Jan. 24 premiere was HBO’s best Monday night debut since Chernobyl.
The variety game show “That’s My Jam” has been renewed for Season 2 at NBC. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the hourlong music and comedy variety game show draws inspiration from popular Tonight Show games. Each episode features two teams of two celebrities competing for a charity of their choice in a series of music, dance, and trivia-based games and musical performances.
The pickup comes halfway through the show’s eight-episode second season and amid a big increase in viewership. The series created by Sam Levinson and starring Emmy winner Zendaya returned in January, almost 2 1/2 years after the first-season finale (a pair of special episodes aired in December 2020 and January 2021).
The ranch drama starring Kevin Costner and from creator Taylor Sheridan has been renewed for a fifth season on the ViacomCBS-owned basic cable network. The family drama capped a record-breaking season in January when the finale drew 10.3 million total viewers, an all-time high for both the series and Paramount Network. (The show is the last scripted original on the linear network.)
