Ratings Roundup for the Week of May 7, 2023

CBS was the first network to announce its fall 2023 schedule past week. The network reversed course on SWAT, renewing the police drama for a shortened seventh and final season. East New York and True Lies were both cancelled. Ghosts wrapped its second season up one hundred thousand viewers. 

ABC announced several cancellations last week. Alaska Daily, Big Sky, and The Company You Keep all received the bad news that the shows would not be continuing. The network also premiered several of its summer game shows last week. The Company You Keep wrapped its season/series down one hundred thousand viewers. Station 19 was down three hundred thousand viewers. Grey's Anatomy lost one hundred thousand sets of eyeballs. 

NBC also announced its fall 2023 schedule last week. Lopez vs Lopez and Password were both renewed. There was nothing mentioned about That's My Jam. Chances are the series has been cancelled. No decisions have been made yet with regard to American Auto, Grand Crew, or Young Rock. A thin ray of hope for fans of these shows is that the network only has one freshman half-hour comedy on the schedule for next year. With that said, at least one of the three will be cancelled. Night Court wrapped its first season down six hundred thousand viewers. Lopez vs Lopez ended its season down three hundred thousand viewers. 

FOX renewed Animal Control and Next Level Chef last week. Next Level Chef was renewed for the next two seasons. Fans of Fantasy Island, however, found out their show was cancelled. Fantasy Island wrapped up two hundred thousand viewers. Accused was down three hundred thousand sets of eyeballs. 9-1-1 was up three hundred thousand viewers, while 9-1-1: Lone Star shed three hundred thousand viewers. 

BREAKING: FOX has renewed Special Forces, World's Toughest Test, The Masked Singer, I Can See Your Voice, and Farmer Wants A Wife. Kitchen Nightmares also returns after a ten-year absence. 

The CW had some renewal news as well last week. Walker was renewed for a short, thirteen-episode season. Kung Fu, Walker: Independence, and The Winchesters were all cancelled. NexStar may have shown its hand last week on how it plans to proceed once its obligations to current programming expire after next season. In addition to a number of sporting events the network plans to air, the network has also picked up several already-produced series' from other networks or countries. So it looks like the "low-cost scripted programming" the network plans to air, is foreign retransmissions. 

Fall 2023 schedules for the remaining networks will be announced in the next few days. Will your favorite shows be renewed? 

The Writer's Strike is now entering its third week and more and more shows currently in production have shuttered. Right now networks are still acting as though the fall season will kick off on schedule, but the chances of that happening are becoming less and less every week. If the fall season is delayed, expect networks to fill gaps with either retransmissions from other sources (NBC has already announced it will air the next two seasons of the Canadian series, Transplant, to fill holes) or quick to produce 'reailty' and 'competition' shows. The benefit of that last option is those shows don't require writers.