Below is the current list of network programs and their status. NBC has still not made decisions on a number of scripted shows and FOX is still working on a couple of their reality shows. As decisions are made on those programs, this table will be updated.
Upfronts are this week, and a complete fall schedule for the five networks will be posted at the end of the week. Will your favorite shows be returning in the Fall?
UPDATE May 25: The CW renews Whose Line Is It Anyway.
UPDATE May 28: NBC cancels Debris
UPDATE June 9: NBC cancels Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
UPDATE June 11: Negotiations fall through, Clarice not going forward on Paramount+
UPDATE June 14: NBC cancels Manifest
UPDATE: June 25: NBC cancels Good Girls
ABC renewed Black-ish for a final season while cancelling Mixed-ish. For Life, American Housewife, and freshman series', Rebel and Call Your Mother, were also cancelled. The Rookie and A Million Little Things, both currently in their third seasons, were easy renewals. Freshman comedy Home Economics joins veterans The Goldbergs and The Conners for another season.
| 20/20 | Renewed |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | Renewed |
| American Housewife | Cancelled |
| American Idol | Renewed |
| The Bachelor | Renewed |
| The Bachelorette | Renewed |
| Big Sky | Renewed |
| Black-ish | Renewed (final season) |
| Call Your Mother | Cancelled |
| Celebrity Family Feud | Premieres summer |
| Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune | Renewed |
| The Connors | Renewed |
| Dancing with the Stars | Renewed |
| Don't | Cancelled |
| For Life | Cancelled |
| The Goldbergs | Renewed |
| The Good Doctor | Renewed |
| Grey's Anatomy | Renewed |
| Home Economics | Renewed |
| The Hustler | Renewed |
| Kids Say The Darndest Things | Premieres summer |
| Match Game | Premieres summer |
| A Million Little Things | Renewed |
| Mixed-ish | Cancelled |
| Rebel | Cancelled |
| The Rookie | Renewed |
| Shark Tank | Renewed |
| Station 19 | Renewed |
| Supermarket Sweep | Renewed |
| United We Fall | Cancelled |
| Who Wants to be a Millionaire | Renewed |
CBS made the interesting move of renewing SEAL Team for a fifth season and then pushing it off to Paramount+ after the first four episodes of the new season air in the fall. Clarice was also given a reprieve and moved off to the streaming site as well. The Unicorn was cancelled, no real surprise, its ratings were some of the lowest for the network this season. Freshman comedies United States of Al and B Positive were renewed. All Rise was cancelled.
| 48 Hours | Renewed |
| 60 Minutes | Renewed |
| All Rise | Cancelled |
| The Amazing Race | Renewed |
| B Positive | Renewed |
| Big Brother | Renewed |
| Blue Bloods | Renewed |
| Bob (Hearts) Abishola | Renewed |
| Bull | Renewed |
| Clarice | Cancelled |
| The Equaliser | Renewed |
| FBI | Renewed |
| FBI: Most Wanted | Renewed |
| Love Island | Renewed |
| MacGyver | Cancelled |
| Magnum PI | Renewed |
| Mom | Cancelled |
| NCIS | Renewed |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | Renewed |
| NCIS: New Orleans | Cancelled |
| The Neighborhood | Renewed |
| SEAL Team | Renewed(ish) (will air four episodes on the network then move to Paramount+) |
| Survivor | Renewed |
| SWAT | Renewed |
| Tough As Nails | Renewed (through 2023) |
| Undercover Boss | Renewed |
| United States Of Al | Renewed |
| The Unicorn | Cancelled |
| Young Sheldon | Renewed (through 2024) |
NBC renewed Law & Order: Organised Crime last week. No real surprise. Good Girls, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, and Debris are still awaiting news, though it's likely all three are cancelled. Ellen's Game of Games is still waiting for news as well. What's interesting is there was no mention of Manifest during the NBC upfront announcement. The show is in its third season and such programs are rarely cancelled. It's possible the Peacock could take a page from CBS and push one or more of these shows off to their streaming service.
| America's Got Talent (summer) | Premieres summer |
| America's Got Talent: The Champions | Cancelled |
| American Ninja Warrior (summer) | Premieres summer |
| The Blacklist | Renewed |
| Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Cancelled (final season will air in summer) |
| Chicago Fire | Renewed |
| Chicago Med | Renewed |
| Chicago PD | Renewed |
| Debris | Cancelled |
| Dateline | Renewed |
| Ellen's Game of Games | ?? |
| Good Girls | Cancelled |
| Kenan | Renewed |
| Law & Order: Organised Crime | Renewed |
| Law & Order: SVU | Renewed |
| Manifest | Cancelled |
| Mr Mayor | Renewed |
| New Amsterdam | Renewed (through 2023) |
| Superstore | Cancelled |
| This Is Us | Renewed (final season) |
| Titan Games | Premieres summer |
| The Voice | Renewed |
| The Wall | Renewed |
| The Weakest Link | Renewed |
| World Of Dance | Cancelled |
| Young Rock | Renewed |
| Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist | Cancelled |
FOX renewed Call Me Kat for a second season while cancelling Prodigal Son. The Great North had terrible ratings numbers, but the network announced it was already renewed for a third season after renewing it for a second season earlier this year. While decisions have been made on all of the scripted shows, several of the reality and competition programs are still waiting for news.
| 9-1-1 | Renewed |
| 9-1-1 Lone Star | Renewed |
| Bless the Harts | Cancelled |
| Bob's Burgers | Renewed |
| Call Me Kat | Renewed |
| Duncanville | Renewed (through 2023) |
| Family Guy | Renewed (through 2023) |
| Filthy Rich | Cancelled |
| Gordon Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back | ?? |
| The Great North | Renewed (through 2023) |
| Hell's Kitchen (summer) | Premieres summer |
| I Can See Your Voice | Renewed |
| Last Man Standing | Cancelled |
| LEGO Masters (summer) | ?? |
| The Masked Singer | Renewed |
| Masterchef (summer) | ?? |
| Masterchef Junior (summer) | ?? |
| neXt | Cancelled |
| Prodigal Son | Cancelled |
| The Resident | Renewed |
| The Simpsons | Renewed (through 2023) |
| So You Think You Can Dance (summer) | ?? |
The CW announced all of its renewals back in March. Penn & Teller: Fool Us was renewed for an eighth season after its successful run during the fall and winter seasons. No word yet on Whose Line Is It, Anyway or Masters Of Illusion.
| All American | Renewed |
| Batwoman | Renewed |
| Black Lightning | Cancelled |
| Burden Of Truth | Cancelled |
| Charmed | Renewed |
| DC's Legends of Tomorrow | Renewed |
| Dynasty | Renewed |
| The Flash | Renewed |
| In The Dark | Renewed |
| Kung Fu | Renewed |
| Legacies | Renewed |
| Masters of Illusion (summer) | ?? |
| Nancy Drew | Renewed |
| The Outpost (summer) | Premieres summer |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us | Renewed |
| Riverdale | Renewed |
| Roswell, New Mexico | Renewed |
| Supergirl | Cancelled |
| Superman & Lois | Renewed |
| Two Sentence Horror Stories | Renewed |
| Walker | Renewed |
| World's Funniest Animals | Renewed |
| Whose Line Is It Anyway | Renewed |
Written by LadyShelley on May 17, 2021
Sometimes it comes down to other behind the scenes deals. The only reason Dynasty is still on the air, for example, is because the CW got some sort of sweetheart deal from NetFlix.
The other rule of thumb is that a show in its third season is rarely cancelled. (the network will almost always renew it to get the episode count pumped up for syndication deals) And before anyone brings up Manifest, the rule only works for shows that get full-season orders. Manifest was always short 13-16 episode seasons, so it wasn't close to the magic number of syndication episodes.
And then for some, I swear the production is just blackmailing the network. :D LOL!
I can never understand why they seem to cancel shows that are getting high ratings and some shows that are getting redundant are still going on. So glad Netflix and Amazon pick up some of the shows to continue them.
It's odd that NBC hasn't said anything about Debris, Good Girls, Zoey's, or Ellen's Game of Games. The real headscratcher is Manifest.
It's possible they are working out some sort of deal that would move some of them to the streaming service. Considering Ellen DeGeneres just announced she was ending her talk show, the game show may be done as well.
Networks like to slip in cancellation news on Friday afternoons, that might be the time to start watching the newswires (or whatever they are called these days. :) )
Curious when we will get to know what will happen to Debris, really liking the show.
But not renewed on the network. It's been pushed off to a streaming service (which is noted). As far as the CBS fall schedule is concerned, it's cancelled.
Clarice Renewed
Okay, I went back and looked at the numbers. When Lucifer was cancelled in 2018, it had an average rating of 0.9 and an audience of 3.5 - 4.0 million viewers. In comparison, Prodigal Son is averaging a 0.3-0.4 rating and ~2.0 million viewers. Some of that will be natural attrition, certainly, but will that be enough to convince a NetFlix or Amazon to continue the series? Not sure.
Prodigal Son seems to be the program that hurt most this season with its cancellation. I would need to go back and check the ratings numbers for Lucifer to see how to two compare in terms of audience. The only reason NetFlix (or some other streamer) would pick up a show was for the built-in audience who would pay the subscription fee to see more of their favorite show. If the audience isn't that big, it's not worth the effort for the streamer to make more.
will miss prodigal son the most, not sure if there's much plot left for them to cover but it would be interesting to see if netflix picked it up like they did with lucifer.
ABC cancelled two other half-hour comedies, so they had to have something to plug holes. And since Home Economics was a midseason replacement, they aren't as on the hook to keep it around past next season if the ratings end up low.