TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

‘Roadies’ Canceled By Showtime After One Season

It’s the end of the road for Roadies. Showtime has opted not to renew the hourlong comedy from Cameron Crowe, J.J. Abrams and Winnie Holzman for a second season.

The show, set behind the scenes of a touring band, received lukewarm response from critics and viewers. The cancellation decision comes on the heels of Roadies ending its 10-episode freshman run on August 28.

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Jonathan7157 said:

OK then, Will.

Looks like this thread has it's first show that is ENDING! No, not being cancelled, but ending after a long run! First, a 2 hint on what show is ending. It's ending after an 6-year long run, and it is in CN...

Personally, it's one of my favorites, so this one is a little bit sad, and I accept that.

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‘Aquarius’ Canceled at NBC After 2 Seasons

“Aquarius” has been canceled at NBC after two seasons, TheWrap has learned.

The series stars “The X-Files” and “Californication” alum Duchovny as a Los Angeles police officer on the trail of Charles Manson. The first season was released via streaming video in its entirety following its May 2015 premiere.

The show failed to find a major audience on traditional channels. The first season averaged just 2.8 million viewers and a 0.5 rating per episode. Season 2 wasn’t any better, coming in with 1.7 million viewers and a 0.3 rating.

The one upside to this news, at least for Duchovny, is that this could free him up to return for more episodes of “The X-Files.” Fox executives have consistently said that scheduling issues have been a big hindrance to producing more episodes of the paranormal procedural.

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‘BrainDead’ and ‘American Gothic’ are dead and goth … er, gone at CBS

The other shoe has dropped for a pair of shows that had summer runs on CBS: “BrainDead” and “American Gothic” are done after single-season runs earlier this year.

News of the cancellations broke late Monday, but doesn’t come as much of a surprise. Both shows ended their runs in early September without word on their futures, but with a summer of modest (at best) ratings behind them.

“American Gothic” fared somewhat better in the Nielsens, averaging a 0.5 same-day rating in adults 18-49 and 2.7 million viewers on Wednesday nights. “BrainDead,” which split time between Monday and Sunday nights, managed just a 0.4 and 2.62 million viewers.

The cancellations leave CBS with a lone summer scripted show, “Zoo,” which will return for a third season in 2017. It scored a 0.7 and 4.45 million viewers over the summer.

“American Gothic” and “BrainDead” were also among two lowest-rated scripted series on any of the Big 4 networks this summer. Only NBC’s “Aquarius” (0.3) had a worse 18-49 rating.

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anotherguy said:

I asked this in another thread, but how did ABC's game show revivals in the Summer do ratings wise and will any of them be brought back? Even if they are I figure it will be as filler for the holiday season or next Summer.

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‘Duck Dynasty’ ending after season 11 on A&E

After 10 successful seasons on the air, A&E has officially announced that their reality series, “Duck Dynasty,” will be ending after its eleventh season.

The final season of “Duck Dynasty” will air through January 18, then after taking a small break, will return with 7 episodes before airing the series finale on A&E on April 12.

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‘Reign’ To End After 4 Seasons On the CW

The story of young Mary Queen of Scots is coming to an end. The upcoming fourth season of the CW’s costume drama Reign will be its last. The CW brass have made the decision and have informed the series’ producers.

The 16-episode final fourth season of Reign premieres on Feb 10, with the period drama occupying the Friday 9 PM slot. Its last episode is expected to air in June.

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‘Marco Polo’ Canceled After 2 Seasons On Netflix

Marco Polo has come to an end. Netflix has opted not to renew the drama series about the famous 13th century merchant and explorer for a third season. Marco Polo, which launched in 2014, was the first Netflix original series developed in the US for the global market. Created by John Fusco, it was inspired by Marco Polo’s early years in the court of Kublai Khan. Because of its setting and scope, the series, produced by the Weinstein Co., had a healthy budget. It attracted sizable viewership in its first season, earning a second season renewal, but the second season, released in July, was more quiet.

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‘Salem’ To End After 3 Seasons On WGN America

The current third season of WGN America’s supernatural drama Salem will be its last. The network has opted not to order a fourth season of the series, which reimagines the infamous 17th century witch trials in a world where witches are real, but they are not who or what they seem to be. Salem‘s storyline will wrap with the conclusion of the 10-episode third season in early 2017 as the season finale will serve as series finale. That is something Salem creators Brannon Braga and Adam Simon are prepared for.

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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, the long-running public television program about religion and spirituality, will broadcast its final episode in February 2017.

Producing station WNET made the decision in response to declining primary-channel carriage as stations shifted the program to multicast channels with fewer viewers, said WNET spokesperson Donna Williams. Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly content is also available on the multicast World channel.

This season the program aired on 113 primary channels and 380 secondary channels, according to public TV audience analyst TRAC Media Services.

The show premiered in September 1997, founded by veteran NBC News journalist Bob Abernethy, who took a one-year leave from the network in 1984 to study theology and social ethics at Yale Divinity School. Over the years, the show covered religion’s role in politics and issues such as immigration, poverty and health care.

Over more than 1,000 episodes, the nonsectarian series interviewed notables including the Dalai Lama, President Carter and evangelist Billy Graham. The program also made news on its own by fielding five national opinion surveys that examined such issues as the religious landscape post-9/11 and the rise of the religiously unaffiliated.

The show won more than 200 journalism awards. Most recently, it swept the television news magazine religion reporting category at this year’s Religion Newswriters’ Association Awards.

From the first episode, the program has collaborated with the nonprofit newsroom Religion News Service. Jerome Socolovsky, RNS editor-in-chief, said its end leaves a gap in important coverage.

“I think the media landscape will miss this crucial provider of video stories about religion that didn’t favor one or the other but gave viewers a full perspective on religious news developments — which we now know are extremely important” in many international events, he said.

Socolovsky said the show’s team, including Abernethy, Executive Producer Arnold Labaton and Managing Editor Kim Lawton, is “one of the keys to its success. Not that many people have such deep knowledge of television, religion and journalism. And those are definitely three who did.”

WNET will continue to provide the program’s archives online. The website includes transcripts, videos, articles and other resources.

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‘Blunt Talk’ Comedy Series Canceled By Starz After 2 Seasons

Blunt Talk will not go beyond its original two-year order. Starz has opted not to pick up a third season of the live-action comedy starring Patrick Stewart from Seth MacFarlane, Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames and MRC.

Blunt Talk ended its modestly rated run quietly, with a series-low Live+Same Day viewership of 77,000 for its Season 2 and now series finale on December 11.

Starz landed Blunt Talk in April 2014 with a 20-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order. Created by Ames, it revolved around Walter Blunt (Stewart), a British import intent on conquering the world of American cable news.

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A&E Cancels KKK Docu-Series Citing Ethical Violations

Following a week of outrage over the upcoming Ku Klux Klan docu-series that has already prompted a change to the show’s title, A&E has cancelled Escaping The KKK, citing serious ethical concerns.

The network disclosed today that “third-party producers” had paid for access to at least some of the people who participated in the docuseries, which was billed as an in-depth look inside America’s oldest hate group. While A&E insists the payments were “nominal”, they were in direct violation of network policies.

“We had previously provided assurances to the public and to our core partners – including the Anti-Defamation League and Color of Change – that no payment was made to hate group members,” A&E said in a statement. “[A]nd we believed that to be the case at the time. We have now decided not to move forward with airing this project.”

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