Spring is the same old renewal/cancellation time of yr for community TV reveals, and CBS made early calls for a lot of of its reveals within the 2025 TV schedule. A whopping 9 collection have been renewed directly again in late February, whereas Watson needed to wait a bit longer however nonetheless bought the excellent news. Some reveals did get the axe, nonetheless, and it seems that just a few of these have been cancelled regardless of rating within the High 20 most-watched community reveals of the 2024-2025 season thus far. Whereas Tracker and Matlock crushed the competitors, I am actually eyeing the numbers for Blue Bloods and two of the three FBI reveals.
CBS celebrated one other profitable yr of scores wins in late April, hitting a report seventeenth consecutive season because the most-watched TV community, with seven of the highest ten reveals. It wasn’t significantly stunning that Justin Hartley’s Tracker held on to its prime spot of the most important viewers from final season, whereas Matlock was a breakout hit final fall with main girl Kathy Bates.
No, these mega hit reveals doing nicely did not come as a very attention-grabbing reveal. It was the totals for just a few different reveals that made the High 20 in Nielsen’s Dwell+7 numbers by means of mid-April that earned a re-evaluation from me. Check out the viewers sizes:
- Tracker: 10.84 million (renewed)
- Matlock: 9.53 million (renewed)
- FBI: 8.11 million (renewed for 2 extra seasons)
- Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage: 7.98 million (renewed)
- Blue Bloods: 7.9 million (cancelled)
- NCIS: 7.86 million (renewed)
- Elsbeth: 7.78 (renewed)
- Ghosts: 7.29 million (renewed for 2 extra seasons)
- Watson: 6.66 million (renewed)
- FBI: Most Needed: 6.49 million (cancelled)
- FBI: Worldwide: 6.49 million (cancelled)
- Hearth Nation: 6.15 million (renewed)
Of CBS’ three cancelled reveals on the High 20 rating, none of them have been really the least fashionable in Dwell+7, which actually makes their ends sting a bit extra. Blue Bloods was at #5 throughout all of community tv in its last season! Certain, Donnie Wahlberg is getting a by-product, however Tom Selleck wasn’t prepared for the present to finish.
Then, in fact, we’ve got FBI: Most Needed and FBI: Worldwide being cancelled regardless of edging out Max Thieriot’s Hearth Nation within the High 20, and barely falling behind Morris Chestnut’s Watson. I am going to admit that I believed the writing was on the wall for Worldwide as quickly because the dubiously titled FBI: CIA pilot was introduced, since it will probably be simpler (and presumably cheaper) to provide one other spinoff within the U.S. than in Europe. Nonetheless, I did not know simply how nicely each reveals have been nonetheless doing in recruiting audiences.
CBS axed another collection as nicely, though these weren’t reaching the sorts of numbers to put them on community TV’s High 20. Shemar Moore’s S.W.A.T. was cancelled for the third and presumably last time, whereas comedies Poppa’s Home and The Neighborhood each finish this spring. Manu Bennett’s The Summit will not be again, and the wait is on for information about Queen Latifah’s The Equalizer.
Elsewhere in primetime, solely seven reveals from networks apart from CBS made the High 20. They embrace NBC’s Chicago Hearth at #8, Chicago Med at #10, Chicago P.D. at #13, and The Voice at #18. ABC’s Excessive Potential got here in at #12, with Will Trent at #14 and 9-1-1 simply making the lower at #19.
Will the numbers for the cancelled reveals change any behind-the-scenes selections at CBS? Nearly actually not, though I’d have beloved to see not less than FBI: Most Needed rescued and moved to streaming for followers with a Paramount+ subscription. Different networks probably would have beloved to succeed in the sorts of numbers that CBS has had with its cancelled reveals.