CBS put fans of The Equaliser out of their misery, announcing late last week that the show was, in fact, cancelled. Its final episode aired Sunday night. Poppa's House wrapped its lone season last week, down a few tens of thousands of viewers. NCIS: Origins closed out its freshman season even with the previous week. Parent, NCIS was down eight hundred thousand viewers, but that was still enough to claim the top spot for scripted dramas. Tracker was even. Georgie & Mandie's First Marriage was down three hundred thousand viewers last week. Watson was up about one hundred thousand viewers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Survivor | 0.67 | 4.59 | |
| Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage | 0.37 | 5.63 | Renewed |
| Ghosts | 0.36 | 4.86 | Renewed (through 2026-27) |
| NCIS | 0.34 | 5.50 | Renewed |
| Tracker | 0.32 | 7.67 | Renewed |
| The Amazing Race | 0.32 | 2.68 | |
| The Neighborhood | 0.31 | 3.99 | Renewed (final season) |
| Poppa's House (finale) | 0.31 | 3.32 | Cancelled |
| NCIS: Origins (finale) | 0.29 | 3.87 | Renewed |
| 60 Minutes | 0.25 | 6.69 | Renewed |
| Elsbeth | 0.24 | 4.60 | Renewed |
| Watson | 0.24 | 4.59 | Renewed |
| SWAT | 0.24 | 2.82 | Cancelled |
| The Equaliser | 0.23 | 3.64 | Cancelled |
| FBI (rerun) | 0.20 | 3.67 | Renewed (through 2026-27 season) |
| FBI: Most Wanted (rerun) | 0.20 | 2.77 | Cancelled |
| FBI: International (rerun) | 0.19 | 3.11 | Cancelled |
| Hollywood Squares | 0.18 | 2.44 | |
| Fire COuntry (rerun) | 0.17 | 1.77 | Renewed |
| Elsbeth (rerun) | 0.15 | 2.55 | |
| PGA Tour: Zurich Classic (overrun) | 0.15 | 1.63 |
ABC premiered two of its summer game shows last week. Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune and Jeopardy! Masters opened about where they ended last season. Fans of Doctor Odyssey were still waiting for the other shoe to drop last week. After taking a week off, the show lost another four hundred thousand viewers. The series has two episodes left. Fans should probably enjoy them, as the show is likely cancelled. 9-1-1 picked up one million viewers after dropping a major bombshell and taking a week off for the NFL Draft. Will Trent was up half a million viewers. The Rookie was even.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| America's Funniest Home Videos | 0.67 | 4.85 | |
| American Idol (Sunday) | 0.53 | 5.31 | |
| 9-1-1 | 0.46 | 4.80 | Renewed |
| American Idol (Monday) | 0.45 | 4.61 | |
| President Trump: The First 100 Days | 0.35 | 3.96 | Renewed |
| Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune (premiere) | 0.33 | 3.04 | |
| Will Trent | 0.28 | 3.80 | Renewed |
| Jeopardy! Masters (premiere) | 0.28 | 3.12 | |
| Shark Tank | 0.27 | 2.75 | |
| 20/20 | 0.23 | 2.61 | Renewed |
| Doctor Odyssey | 0.22 | 2.07 | |
| The Rookie | 0.20 | 2.84 | Renewed |
| The $100,000 Pyramid | 0.20 | 2.28 | |
| Grey's Anatomy | 0.19 | 2.04 | Renewed |
| Celebrity Jeopardy! (rerun) | 0.18 | 1.89 | |
| Paradise | 0.10 | 1.32 | Import |
NBC wrapped St Denis Medical last week. The comedy was up a few tens of thousands of viewers and was one of the few bright spots for the network's freshman scripted content this season. At the other end of the spectrum, the network's latest attempt at a competition show, Yes, Chef! opened with abysmal numbers. Suits LA went sub one million in viewers, losing another four hundred thousand sets of eyeballs. Any hope fans had that the show might squeak a renewal has likely faded.
LATE BREAKING: NBC announced renewals for the OneChicago shows Monday afternoon. All three shows are renewed, however the episode counts for each show will likely be reduced.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| Law & Order: SVU | 0.34 | 3.66 | |
| Law & Order | 0.28 | 3.55 | |
| The Voice (Monday) | 0.26 | 3.69 | |
| St Denis Medical (finale) | 0.25 | 2.12 | Renewed |
| Night Court | 0.24 | 1.74 | |
| Found | 0.22 | 2.07 | |
| Chicago Fire (rerun) | 0.21 | 3.04 | Renewed |
| Chicago Med (rerun) | 0.20 | 3.15 | Renewed |
| Chicago PD (rerun) | 0.19 | 2.74 | Renewed |
| Dateline: NBC (rerun) | 0.19 | 2.08 | Renewed |
| The Americas II (rerun) | 0.18 | 1.96 | |
| The Voice (Tuesday) (clip show) | 0.16 | 1.76 | |
| The Americas I (rerun) | 0.14 | 1.65 | |
| Yes, Chef! (premiere) | 0.14 | 1.51 | |
| Grosse Point Garden Society | 0.14 | 1.38 | |
| Suits: LA | 0.10 | 0.97 | |
| Dateline: NBC (rerun) (Sunday) | 0.08 | 1.29 |
FOX premiered an America's Most Wanted spinoff, America's Most Wanted: Missing Persons, to okay numbers. Krapopolis and Grimsburg moved from Sunday to Wednesday. Krapopolis seemed to benefit from the move, picking up about thirty thousand viewers over its last Sunday night episode. Grimsburg was at its regular low. The Cleaning Lady and Alert: Missing Persons Unit bounced back last week. The Cleaning Lady was up two hundred thousand viewers. Alert: Missing Persons Unit was up several tens of thousands
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| The Masked Singer | 0.29 | 2.75 | |
| Next Level Chef | 0.21 | 1.66 | Renewed through 2026-27 season |
| Family Guy | 0.18 | 0.71 | Renewed through 2028-29 season |
| America's Most Wanted: Missing Persons (premiere) | 0.16 | 1.14 | |
| The Simpsons | 0.16 | 0.73 | Renewed through 2028-29 season |
| Krapopolis (rerun) | 0.16 | 0.54 | Renewed |
| The Cleaning Lady | 0.15 | 1.21 | |
| Krapopolis | 0.15 | 0.70 | Renewed |
| The Great North | 0.15 | 0.53 | |
| Farmer Wants A Wife | 0.13 | 1.41 | |
| Alert: Missing Persons Unit | 0.13 | 1.05 | |
| America's Most Wanted | 0.13 | 1.02 | |
| UFL Football | 0.12 | 0.63 | |
| Grimsburg | 0.11 | 0.43 | |
| Extracted (rerun) | 0.10 | 0.81 |
CW chugged along for another week. All American, Police 24/7, and WWE: NXT were all even with the previous week's numbers.
| Program | Rating | Millions of Viewers | Renew/Cancel |
| WWE: NXT | 0.15 | 0.67 | |
| Police 24/7 | 0.08 | 0.47 | |
| All American | 0.06 | 0.37 | |
| Sunday Movie: Mr and Mrs Smith | 0.06 | 0.34 | |
| Whose Line Is It, Anyway (rerun) | 0.06 | 0.29 | |
| Penn & Teller: Fool Us (rerun) | 0.04 | 0.39 | |
| Cuomo Town Hall: The First 100 Days | 0.04 | 0.37 | |
| Masters Of Illusion (rerun) | 0.03 | 0.27 | |
| Lifelines of Hope | 0.03 | 0.21 | |
| Masters Of Illusion (rerun) | 0.02 | 0.29 | |
| Trivial Pursuit (rerun) | 0.02 | 0.22 |
Upfronts are next week!
Here is the schedule for when the linear networks will announce their fall 2025 schedules:
ABC -- May 13
CBS -- not participating (will announce at a different time)
NBC -- May 12
FOX -- May 12
CW -- not participating (will announce at a different time)
Will your favorite shows return next season?
Written by LadyShelley on May 6, 2025
I am still bummed about fbi Int and fbi MW, so much that I have dropped out of all cbs fare (cancelled my subscription) I don't ever want to get invested in a show for it to be cancelled or worse, taken off the air for this reason or that. Life is waaay too short to put up with that.
Because my time is now worth more than it was worth before, because I now have a lot less of it.