NBC posted its Fall 2017 schedule this morning, and there are still questions regarding what will happen to two of its shows. Chicago Justice and Trial & Error are not on the Fall schedule, however NBC execs are quick to note no decision has been made yet on the fate of either. Based on ratings, Chicago Justice should be an easy renewal decision. Trial & Error did not fare as well in the ratings race and the half hour balancing act for comedies may be a factor in if there is room on the schedule for the series. After the Lazarus return of Timeless with a short, ten episode season, the Peacock has kept everyone guessing this year on what will happen in the Fall.
Program | Renewed/Canceled |
America's Got Talent | Renewed |
Better Late Than Never | Renewed (summer series) |
The Blacklist | Renewed |
The Blacklist: Redemption | Canceled |
Blindspot | Renewed |
Chicago Fire | Renewed |
Chicago Justice | Canceled |
Chicago Med | Renewed |
Chicago PD | Renewed |
Dateline NBC | Renewed |
Emerald City | Canceled |
First Dates | Canceled |
The Good Place | Renewed |
Great News | Renewed |
Grimm | Canceled |
Law & Order: SVU | Renewed |
Little Big Shots | Renewed |
The Night Shift | Renewed (summer series) |
Powerless | Canceled |
Shades of Blue | Renewed |
Superstore | Renewed |
Taken | Renewed |
This Is Us | Renewed (season 2 and season 3) |
Timeless | Renewed |
Trial & Error | Renewed |
The Voice | Renewed |
The Wall | Renewed |
Written by LadyShelley on May 14, 2017
UPDATE: Chicago Justice was canceled overnight.
UPDATE: Trial & Error has been renewed!
Still no word on Chicago Justice.
NBC may be gritting its teeth over the fast renewal of Shades of Blue. The premier episode scored well but since then the numbers have dropped (even taking the Spring slump into consideration, the numbers were still woefully low). But its produced by Universal Television which NBC owns so you can see the trend. The show will start mid season, so keep an eye out for when it premiers. If it's in January, chances are good NBC still thinks well of the show as it will have a chance at close to a full season order. If it doesn't start until March or April, then enjoy those episodes as chances are they will be the last.
Taken did pretty well in the ratings so I'm not sure why its renewal was in question (it's also produced by Universal so another point in its favor) Taken also made the fall schedule so NBC seems pretty confident it will continue to pull good numbers.
No surprises here...
Happy to see Blindspot renewed ! When they said this one was TBD i was scared they were going to cancel it..
And after watching last weeks episodes...where they first let Weller and Jane get together and then jump 2 years ahead..
I was sure they made a nice little end to it...
Blacklist redemption.. wasn't bad.. but wasn't nearly as good as the original Blacklist ! So I don't mind it being cancelled.
Surprised to see Taken renewed.. was pretty sure they were going to cancel that one.. but happy to see it stay !
Also happy to see Shades of Blue being renewed.. and The Night Shift is one of my favorite summer series !
My 2 cents on canceled/ended is that it matters, at least to me, how a series demise is classified. Ended shows me that the series knew ahead of time the end was near and, hopefully, gave fans a nice clean ending. Canceled means the rug was pulled out from them.
I know dead is dead but was the death a murder? suicide? accident? natural causes? ... it's important to know the cause.
Call it whatever you like, but Grimm was canceled. :) It just got the privilege of ending the way it wanted.
Of the three time travel programs that premiered this season, Timeless seemed to be the best one as far as premise was concerned. (on paper at least, I haven't watched any of them yet, though Timeless is still sitting on my DVR.) It also managed the best comparative ratings. While Making History and Time After Time were usually in the bottom third of their respective network's ratings chart, Timeless was usually in the upper half at least.
Better "Timeless" than "Making History"! (That Slacker-in-a-sleeping-bag-time-machine was a Hipster mess.)
Grimm was not cancelled, but ended in a proper way.
I'm assuming you're saying you didn't like Redemption? Never watched it, so I don't have an opinion one way or the other. :-)
correct decision : The Blacklist: Redemption (cancelled)
The Blacklist is correct.