Round Up of Recent TV Pick-Ups & Cancellations

[Postman Dave]

ABC has done the inevitable and given Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. a second season. The network, which traditionally holds off on all of its renewals until the last moment, followed suit this year by handing out renewals for eight series and picking up another nine, including the Marvel period piece Agent Carter starring Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter from Captain America: The First Avenger.

The network also gave renewals to Modern Family, Resurrection, The Goldbergs, Once Upon a Time, Castle, Scandal, Revenge and Grey's Anatomy. It gave series orders to the racially-themed drama American Crime, Anthony Anderson's comedy Black-ish, supernatural drama Forever, musical fairy tale Galavant, Shonda Rhimes' How to Get Away With Murder, romantic comedy Manhattan Love Story, Karen Gillan's new comedy Selfie and alien invasion series The Whispers, which is executive produced by Steven Spielberg.

This is bad news for series that were on the bubble like Mixology, Nashville and Suburgatory, as that gives ABC a pretty hefty slate. Of course non-scripted series may drop at the network which would free up more time slots. Last Man Standing has not had a renewal announced yet but it is still considered a lock to come back and may be announced tomorrow or at the upfronts.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC has renewed Bryan Fuller's Hannibal for a third season.

The show is largely inexpensive for NBC to produce and has received critical acclaim even if the ratings aren't as high as the network would like. The second season has been about the same as the first in the ratings, even in a Friday time slot which generally has lower ratings. It has averaged a 1.5 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and around 3.9 million viewers. It didn't beat Dracula in ratings (which is still in limbo) but has a lot of buzz from fans and critics.

The show joins other returning dramas Chicago Fire, Grimm, Law & Order: SVU, The Blacklist and Chicago PD. NBC has also ordered new dramas Allegiance, State of Affairs, Odyssey, Constantine and Mysteries of Laura (starring Debra Messing).

There are some that believe with Constantine getting picked up, it doesn't bode well for Dracula. However, Dracula, which stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is produced in a similar fashion to Hannibal.

Now the fans of the cannibalistic serial killer can rest easy, as he's not going away any time soon

While fans of Hannibal may be praising NBC right now, fans of an entirely different show are about to be really upset. TVLine reports that NBC has officially cancelled Community after five seasons, making the season five finale that aired on April 17 the show's series finale.

The show's first three seasons received critical praise but had low ratings. NBC replaced Dan Harmon as the showrunner for season four but then brought back back for season five. Chevy Chase left after season four after some controversy. Donald Glover left the show after episode five of season five.

While there is still a possibility that Sony could find a new home for the show (which could deliver the promised "six seasons and a movie"), it's not going to be at NBC

TV Line reports that NBC has canceled the post-apocalyptic series Revolution after two seasons. They've also canceled freshman shows including the sitcom Growing Up Fisher and the dramas Believe and Crisis.

Revolution started season two on Wednesdays with 6.8 million viewers and a 1.8 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic. This week saw the show fall to 4.4 million and a 1.3 rating.

There are two shows currently on the bubble at NBC that have yet to get renewed or canceled. These include Parenthood (which just finished its fifth season) and Dracula (which finished its first season in January).

Man, Castiel is gonna be PISSED.

In other news, YAY MORE MARVEL

 

[Swinny]

Sucks Community was cancelled, but I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. They got 5 seasons out of it anyway and it wouldn't be terribly surprising to see them get a deal with Netflix or something to do the last season and a movie.

Not bothered by anything else though, but some of these new shows sound like they could be pretty good.

 

[Fuji Vice]

Not surprised to see Revolution cancelled, it must have cost a fortune to produce and it totally blew. Feel bad for the folks who won't get any closure from it, but that's the risk you take when you get into serial shows like that.

 

[Postman Dave]

More pick ups & cancellations....

CBS cut some dead wood today, confirming the cancellation of five shows. According to comingsoon.net, Bad Teacher, The Crazy Ones, Friends with Better Lives, Hostages and Intelligence are all done on the network.

The network officially picked up CSI: Cyber, NCIS: New Orleans, Battle Creek, Madam Secretary, The McCarthys, The Odd Couple, Scorpion and Stalker for the 2014-2015 season. Descriptions of the news shows should be revealed shortly.

According to comingsoon.net, Dracula joins Community, Growing Up Fisher, Revolution, Believe and Crisis on the NBC cut list. The network announced that they have picked up Mission Control, One Big Happy and Bad Judge for the 2014-2015 season.

Dracula has been on the edge for a few days now, but hey, at least there's gonna be more CSI & NCIS huh?

 

[Wang Chung]

I haven't seen much of any of the shows that have been canceled.

I am slightly intrigued by the CSI and NCIS spin off. Never was a fan of community so it doesn't bother me it's gone I haven't seen an episode of Dacula either.

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