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
Nice article! Feel bad for "Prodigal Son" and "All Rise". Also "The Unicorn" wasn't too bad... "Home Economics"'s renewal was unexpected.
Shows on CBS regularly garner larger audience numbers (viewers and ratings). Middling numbers on CBS are chart-toppers on NBC. That's why you always want to compare numbers within the network. It doesn't matter if a show "wins its time slot" every week. If it has below-average numbers for its network, it probably won't last.
I don't use any that are network-specific (we have Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+), well maybe Disney+ fits that, but we got it because they were basically giving it away. LOL! But Paramount+, Peacock, Discovery+ plus, Apple TV nope you can keep 'em, not enough content for what they want to charge.
Seems a lot of the shows CBS cancels would be rating stars at other networks.
I currently don't do any streaming services, though if I were to select any, the ones I'd pick would probably be Paramount Plus and HBO Max.
Well not cancelled exactly, but it has been pushed off to the streaming service. So fans will get more of the show, assuming they can find it. I suspect this will be a growing trend. NBC did the same thing with AP Bio a couple of years ago. Not sure how successful it's been but I can see more and more marginal shows getting "renewed" for whatever network streamer is out there. The thinking being there is somewhat of a built-in audience that might pony up a few bucks to continue watching.
Definitely will miss Prodigal Son as well. Clarice grew on me, even though it appears to be cancelled.
All Rise was a bit of a surprise, its ratings were no worse than SWAT or SEAL Team, I wonder if there was something else going on. I don't think CBS has that many dramas in the pipe for the fall, but we'll have to wait for their upfront to know for sure.
Going to miss All Rise and Prodigal Son :(