As we get amped concerning the exhibits the printed networks are introducing this upfront season, we’re additionally mourning those they’re taking off air, particularly now that NBC and CBS have canceled sizable swaths of their programming lineups.
For NBC, the cancellation of three dramas and two comedies comes because the community prepares commit its Tuesday nights this fall and each Tuesday and Sunday nights subsequent midseason to NBA video games.
“We had plenty of exhibits that we needed to cross on as a way to put our schedule collectively,” Jeff Bader, the president of program planning technique for NBCUniversal Leisure, informed reporters on Saturday, per Deadline. “NBA is a large precedence for us, that’s our greatest new present within the fall.”
CBS, in the meantime, is shedding 5 dramas and one comedy. “It’s not straightforward to finish exhibits, and we had plenty of choices this yr,” CBS Leisure President Amy Reisenbach informed reporters earlier this month, as Deadline reported. “The schedule is absolutely full, and so we all the time have to take a look at all of our exhibits, take a look at the combination data, the inventive of the place they’re of their life cycle, what the funds appear like, what the scores are, after which we make these robust selections.”
Of the 2024–2025 broadcast exhibits canceled to this point, those under had the best scores within the 18-to-49-year-old demographic with their most up-to-date episodes, with total-viewer stats breaking ties. (Word: The Canadian medical drama Transplant isn’t included within the rating, since its remaining season premieres on NBC on Could 22.)