This is one of my favorite
posts to do and look back at once the season is over. I love in my post before
the season starts having a look at the upcoming season and thinking about what
shows will end. I think that I’m getting better at it than I have been in the
past and I’m not entirely sure that I was ever that bad at it. Of course, there’s always stuff that I’m
bound to get wrong. I know that not all of my predictions will be cancelled and
I know that shows I don’t predict will be cancelled. As always, this is an
overestimation of what will end. But if any of them do, you will have read it
here first.
ABC shows prediction
Conviction: The post Dancing
with the Stars timeslot has never produced great ratings in the end. That alone
is why I’m putting it here. There may be nothing against this show, although it
does seem like a common idea for a show that doesn’t have much new to offer.
American Housewife: This show
looks terrible and I just don’t see it lasting long. Plus, hasn’t society
evolved past the point of needing housewives? Also, I’ve never been that
impressed by the acting skills of the lead in this show and I just don’t see
long term success in its future.
Repeat after Me: This show
existed once then never returned to the future. If it does come back in the
end, that in and of itself would be a bit of a surprise, but it is more than
likely going to get cancelled if it does. If it doesn’t come back, then it is
cancelled even if they never say otherwise. Come to think of it, this is
probably already cancelled as it hasn’t been renewed or put on the schedule for
future seasons, so I’m just going to mention that it did exist, in the main
season too, and was never officially cancelled somehow. If you remember this,
you’ll know what I was talking about. If not, then just ignore this part of the
post.
The Real O’Neals: I honestly
haven’t yet seen the show so I don’t know if it’s as bad as all the promos for
it make it seem. I’m more hoping that it will be cancelled than thinking that
it actually will be. How can something this terrible be on, anyways?
Speechless: Once again, we
have a show that looks horrible that I just can’t imagine lasting long. Sure,
maybe some special needs people and their families are jerks, but we don’t need
a show centered on that. If this isn’t among the first cancellations of the
season, something is seriously wrong with the world. How did it get green
lighted?
Designated Survivor: As much
as I love the idea of what I hope this show is and can be, I don’t always think
that shows this great will last. That reasoning of mine is for many different
reasons: among them being that people tend to hate these shows that I think are
among the best. So I hope that this lasts at the moment, but I’m not sure that
it will.
Last Man Standing: This has
been struggling in the ratings for a while and should have enough episodes to
enter syndication by now. Plus, the show hasn’t really been good in a while (if
it ever was in the first place) and lower quality tends to mean less people
watching.
Dr. Ken: Many people hate this
show, me being one of them. Some may be surprised that it has lasted as long as
it has, but that could probably just be because it gets better ratings than
they might think. Regardless, I still think that it’s safe to say that this
will end.
Secrets and Lies: What kind of
show just randomly disappears from the schedule for a whole season? The fact
that it didn’t air at all this previous season and is just now coming back for
season 2 is a very red flag. Only shows that networks don’t care about wind up
off the schedule a lot so I don’t see this as doing well at all. I'm a bit surprised it is even coming back.
Downward Dog: Here’s an
example of what I like to call the bad title rule. Basically, it’s a tried and
true rule saying that any show that has a bad title could be a victim of
cancellation by the end of the season. Will this follow the rule? I have no
idea as I only know the title of the show and nothing else about it. This means
that it could be a great show, but I have no idea for sure.
Imaginary Mary: I’m also
putting this under the bad title rule and like the previous show I mentioned, I
have no idea if this will actually be cancelled or not as I know nothing else
about the show. Maybe it will be good and everything about it will work out.
But I could be wrong about this and know that not all of my predictions will be
cancelled.
Still Star-Crossed: For the
rest of us who have suffered through our high school and teenage years by being
forced to read the overrated Shakespeare and his play Romeo and Juliet, we can
tell that this show gets the ending entirely wrong by having the Montague
family and Capulet family still feuding with each other after the death of
Romeo and Juliet. How can they get a clear and cut ending wrong? I have the
feeling that this pisses off too many purists and won’t work on TV. Meanwhile,
for those of you who haven’t read Romeo and Juliet, if you ever have to, don’t.
Don’t read the play. It isn’t worth your time. If your English teacher tells
you to read it, know that they are crazy. All English teachers are crazy (some
more than others). I can tell you the plot right here and now: Most of the cast
dies, including the main characters who kill themselves because they can’t live
without each other in one of the dumbest and most depressing endings I’m
familiar with. If the love of your life dies, there’s always someone else who
can work for you. Plus, should we really be forcing teens who hate life to read
stories where people are convinced that suicide is the right answer to
something? Suicide is never the right answer.
Time after Time: It seems that
more often than not, shows that have time travel as a central theme just don’t
last. I’d come up with a list if I could remember more than just Terra Nova.
But this is another one that I hope that I’m wrong about as the show looks
quite good and interesting.
The Catch: This wasn’t that
much of an illogical renewal for this coming season, but it is close enough to
that that it falls under the illogical renewals won’t cheat death twice rule.
This could only have gotten the renewal based off of Kerry Washington’s
pregnancy affecting Scandal and ABC loves them Shonda Rhimes. If this continues
to get subpar ratings, it won’t last.
Beyond the Tank: ABC just doesn’t
care about this show and it always just slips through the cracks whenever there
is a gap in the schedule. If there is never a gap, then this show won’t last
long and might not even return. Shows that aren’t cared about tend to be
cancelled.
Grey’s Anatomy: While it might
actually be a bad idea to constantly put the longest running drama of a network
on the list, it still doesn’t seem like all that bad an idea in the end. Those
shows tend to get too expensive to produce that the network would be saving
money by cancelling it, even if it still has decent ratings. Another thing this
show has against it is the high number of Shonda Rhimes shows already on this
network. It might not be a bad thing, but it is more of a reason to throw out
an aging show in place of new stuff that could work instead.
Scandal: Maybe it was only 30
Rock that failed in ratings after the main star’s pregnancy affected the airing
of the show. But, if it has happened once, then it could easily happen again. That’s
the only thing that I see against this show right now as it doesn’t really have
anything about it screaming cancellation. It is probably still quite popular.
When We Rise: Here’s another
example of the bad title rule. Will it apply again or mean nothing? I honestly
don’t know just yet. It could be a good hit or it could mean absolutely
nothing. It’s hard to tell that right now. But I still think that it is safe to have this listed as cancelled.
What I think is safe: Dancing
with the Stars (I’m not sure why this is as well liked as it is, but I don’t
see that changing any time soon), The Middle (while it may not be as flashy as
other shows on this network, it is still as good as ever), Fresh off the Boat
(this show remains popular at the moment so it won’t yet die), Marvel’s Agents
of S.H.I.E.L.D. (this show is still quite good in the ratings and I’m not sure
what could kill it just yet), The Goldbergs (nothing about this has potential
signs of failure just yet)
Safe predictions continued: Modern
Family (even if critics are starting to hate it for whatever dumb reason they
have, this show is still quite popular), Black-ish (magic season 3, critical
acclaim, and good ratings are why this show will probably last), Notorious (I
don’t see this new show as failing since ABC hasn’t had a failure on Thursday
nights since the spin-off of Once Upon a Time aired), How to Get Away with
Murder (this show is still quite popular, even if it has never had a full
season), Shark Tank (there’s no reason to think that this show will ever end),
America’s Funniest Home Videos (I’m not sure how this has lasted as long as it
has, but it might never die, even though nothing about it is good), The
Bachelor (for reasons I’ll never understand, people like this show and watch
it)
CBS shows prediction
Elementary: Sadly, this great
show now occupies the 10/9 Central time slot on CBS’s Sunday schedule. Shows at
that time slot always get cancelled. Another nail in the coffin is the fact
that this season will give it 100 episodes meaning that if it doesn’t still get
good ratings (which it hasn’t been doing that well in the first place) there
will be no reason to keep it around much longer.
NCIS: Los Angeles: It being
moved to Sundays can be a bit worrisome. That, and it would seem that if any of
the three NCIS shows were to end, that this would be the most likely of the three.
It might stick around for a while still as the 7 Central timeslot hasn’t been
that bad for CBS Sunday shows, but I just can’t keep giving it high hopes all
the time.
Man with a Plan: CBS does not
have the good a record with comedies in terms of quality. They may have good
ones every now and then, but a lot of them tend to suck. Now I don’t know for
sure if it will suck and it’s likely to stay around a long time like other
shows that I hate. CBS never seems to have the right number of comedies on the
air and they either overestimate or underestimate the number of shows that they
need that last half an hour. This might not be in any danger and it might not
be bad. But I just don’t see it lasting that long. What is it even about?
Criminal Minds: Beyond
Borders: There doesn’t seem to be a long term plan for this show just yet.
Maybe there is, but I don’t see it as lasting as long as it could be. It has
lasted longer than a lot of midseason replacements on CBS, but it could easily
not last as it would be on the main schedule instead of yet another replacement
for something on the main schedule.
Pure Genius: I probably do
want this show to succeed, but I just don’t see it as happening. It appears to
be too high concept of a show meaning that it could be too great for television
and won’t last. Other than that, it is premiering too late into the season,
even though it is technically a fall show.
Training Day: Midseason shows
on CBS have done quite terribly in the past. I’m not entirely sure if those
days are over just yet. Maybe they are and this will last longer, but maybe it
won’t. Outside of that fact, I haven’t actually done any research into the show
so it could last a long time.
Ransom: The later we learn
about a show existing, the less likely it is to succeed. Why do I say that?
Well, typically most unannounced shows don’t last long. This could be an
exception or it could fail like them. But if it doesn’t last, it wouldn’t come
as that much of a surprise to me.
Doubt: This is also here
because midseason shows on CBS haven’t done well in the past. Plus, this does
have a bit of the bad title rule in here which is given to shows that could be
cancelled based off of a bad title alone. That doesn’t always mean something
will be cancelled, but sometimes it does.
The Great Indoors: This is
mostly here for the bad title rule. It could be a bad show as bad shows tend to
be put on after The Big Bang Theory. Of course, a Big Bang Theory leading
probably means that it will have too high of ratings despite the bad quality it
may otherwise have.
The Amazing Race: Why is this
randomly downgraded to midseason replacement? It doesn’t actually make a lot of
sense. Maybe there is not enough space on the schedule for it at first. Now it
could not actually be in any danger of cancellation. But they don’t put long
running shows they care about off the schedule for a while. Of course, it could
replace a quickly cancelled drama on CBS. It’s been a while since a drama show
has truly failed on this network.
Kevin Can Wait: Kevin James
has not had a critical or financial success since The King of Queens ended. It
will only briefly have The Big Bang Theory as a lead-in and then will be
expected to hold its own for the rest of the season. I can’t understand what
the plot of this show might be and the promos don’t seem to make this look like
anything worth watching. I’ll have to see for sure if it would work or not
because it looks like a lot more terrible things are on the schedule on other
networks.
NCIS: New Orleans: With this
losing the NCIS lead-in, it could lose a bunch of ratings and then be in danger
of cancellation as a result. Of course, with this being on its third full
season in a row (magic season 3), it probably won’t be in danger of ending,
this season at least. We’ll see if there’s actually a decrease in ratings with
the move for next season or not.
2 Broke Girls: This is well
past the point of syndication. It is also not owned by the CBS network. If the
last season taught us anything, it’s that CBS is quick to get rid of any show
that’s not owned by the network. That actually covers a lot of their existing
comedies. We’ll see if that actually happens or not as it probably remains too
popular in ratings to justify cancellation.
The Odd Couple: I say that
this show is nothing without its Big Bang Theory lead-in. Without that popular
show being paired with this one, it seems likely that it will no longer have
good ratings and will be cancelled as a result.
Life in Pieces: This show has
already defied the odds and lasted a second season despite being a single
camera comedy on CBS instead of their usual multi camera comedies. But, I don’t
see it getting good ratings without The Big Bang Theory being in front of it.
It just won’t last anymore.
The Big Bang Theory: Why is
this here? Haven’t I just been saying how great ratings this has continued to
be getting? Would this popular comedy really be in danger of cancellation?
Well, this is probably the least likely of all my predictions and I really
don’t think that it will end anytime soon. I’m just a bit worried that CBS will
get rid of a show that they don’t own like they have in this past TV season.
MacGyver: Remakes tend to not
be successful in the present. Hawaii Five-0 has proven us wrong about that. But
I can’t think of another remake, on network TV at least, that has actually
stuck around for a while. Most of them tend to be one season shows. Plus, they
don’t care about stuff that’s on Fridays and the last CBS show that aired new
at this timeslot was the first show of the season to be cancelled.
Hawaii Five-0: This show has
been struggling in the ratings for a while now and it is pasted the point of
syndication, meaning that it could end at any time without the need to create
more new episodes of it. I just don’t know if it can keep staying around.
Blue Bloods: While this show
has been successful despite almost always airing on Fridays, it doesn’t seem
likely that this keep staying around season after season. Sometimes shows keep
staying around time and time again even if the ratings are getting lower and
lower. I say that this is not going to stay around much longer.
Code Black: This was an
illogical renewal for this season and most of those shows don’t tend to stay
around for that long a time. They get the next season and they shouldn’t have
gotten, but then end after that. As much as I like this show, it won’t last.
Mom: Basically, if CBS keeps
turning on shows that are not owned by CBS, then this will be the next of the
group that will be offed by the network. With it being as close to syndication
as it is, I doubt that it will actually end, but you’ll never know for sure. I
mean, we wouldn’t have guessed that some shows would be treated so badly by
this network last season.
What I think is safe: Madam
Secretary (magic season three and the fact that it has been doing well in the
ratings makes this a likely prediction to stay around and certain people
believe that this would have to stay around to support future President Hilary
Clinton), Scorpion (this will also be on the magic season three and has no
problems in terms of ratings), Criminal Minds (this show has never been in
danger of cancellation that I know of and I don’t see that as likely to change
any time soon), Undercover Boss (despite always just filing holes in the schedule,
nothing about this screams cancellation)
Safe predictions continued: 60
Minutes (this show will never end), 48 Hours (even a Saturday exclusive show
does well that it won’t be ending anytime soon), Thursday Night Football (it
has already been renewed for next season and the only thing against it would be
problems with the new partnership on NBC, although it seems likely to last in
some way in the future, just maybe not this network alone), Bull (this is the
only new show that I have enough hope for on this network basically because it
will air after NCIS and it doesn’t seem to have anything against it just yet),
NCIS (this is already officially renewed for another season, so it won’t be
ending this season)
CW shows prediction
Supergirl: Actually, if this
gets anywhere close the same ratings it got on the CBS as it does on the CW,
then it will be in no danger of being cancelled as it will be the highest rated
show on its new network. This is more on here due to the fact that if it was
cancelled once then it could be cancelled again. Some people, including me,
dispute the fact as to whether or not it was actually cancelled as it seems
like it was destined to have a second season regardless of if it would be on
its old network instead of its new one. That’s what was said at least, but it
could have just been CBS’s way of saving face.
iZombie: This show was an
illogical renewal for this season. As much as I love this show, I just don’t
see it lasting. It didn’t make sense that they renewed it so it makes sense
that this new season will be its last. It doesn’t have the magic season 3
argument that some shows will have going into next season. It sadly won’t last.
Riverdale: New midseason shows
on the CW tend to do very poorly. They tend to premiere too late into the
season and, thus, have trouble finding enough viewers before burning off for
most of the summer. This might not happen, but it is more likely than not to
happen.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: This is
another illogical renewal and those shows don’t tend to last for another
season. Plus, they rarely, if ever, put shows they care about on Fridays so it
being moved there doesn’t bode well for its long term chances.
Reign: It’s possible that this
is the lowest rated show in all of primetime going into its next season. If
obscure cable shows are getting better ratings then this show, then it seems
unlikely that it will keep getting renewed even on a happy go lucky network
like the CW. However, since its fourth season that it’s going into will
probably have less episodes than previous seasons, it may be able to cheat
death one last time so it can meet the bare minimum standards for syndication.
But outside of that, it’s time to start betting on it getting cancelled.
Whose Line is it Anyways?: Last
season, the network fumbled around the airing of this show a lot. This season,
they didn’t air it at all until the summer except for the rare and unusual
rerun. With the CW having far too many shows on its schedule, they may wind up
caring less and less about it making its end all the more certain.
The 100: With this show never
having a full season thus far, you have to wonder how far a limited run series
like this will continue on. (I don’t think that they are planning on ever doing
a full season of this show, although I could be wrong about that.) It seems
that the quality of the show is starting to suffer and that can only be bad in
terms of ratings.
No Tomorrow: This show may be
good and it may not be. It can always be hard to tell that for certain before
the show actually airs. But it doesn’t seem to have that long term a plan in
terms of plot. So I don’t see this lasting long.
Frequency: Having all the new
shows on this network as likely to be cancelled may be a bit of a stretch for
me. But this show is likely to not to last since the longer a show is on a
network means the more likely it is to stay. That means new shows are less
likely to stick around.
The Originals: This show will
be at midseason for the first time in its history. That makes it less likely to
stick around in the long term. However, like Reign, it is close enough to
syndication that it may keep lasting. Plus, I doubt they would cancel both this
and The Vampire Diaries in the same season so if it came down to the two of them,
this would probably last once more instead of being cancelled.
The Vampire Diaries: I heard
rumors that this show will be cancelled next season so that’s enough for me to
put it on my list. If they had to choose between this and the Originals (because
I don’t see them cancelling both in the same season), this would be the more
likely one to be cancelled. Some shows last when they lose their lead, but it
might be time for them to let it run its course instead of keeping on with it
for each new season.
Masters of Illusion: It can be
hard to say for sure why this show has lasted as long as it has. Even if it
does end, it could easily return on another network in the future like it has
in the past. But it reruns far too much and what show doesn’t air new episodes
in primetime? They seem to care very little about this show on the CW so I
doubt that it will keep lasting.
What I think is safe: Jane the
Virgin (magic season 3 and critical acclaim is why I don’t see this show going
anywhere), The Flash (I just don’t see the highest rated CW show ending any
time soon especially since it will be entering magic season 3 where renewal
equals syndication), Arrow (this show still remains too popular for it to end),
Legends of Tomorrow (I don’t see the Arrowverse losing any members just yet),
Supernatural (CW’s longest running show could end, but I just don’t see it as
likely anymore), Penn and Teller: Fool Us (this show is too popular, I believe,
to end any time soon)
FOX shows prediction
Bones: This one is my only
freebie this season: It was announced that this new season would be the final
season for the show so it won’t be lasting past this season. To not include
this in my list would be to get an obvious choice wrong.
Scream Queens: It’s a bit of a
stretch that this show has even survived into this next season. It’s not
actually unexpected in a way, but it won’t last much longer if it continues to
get subpar ratings. Plus, the show seems kind of strange in a way.
Lethal Weapon: This is here
due to the remakes and reboots won’t be successful rule. Look at the last
season and name any new shows that followed that rule that are still on the air
in this new season. Well, if you couldn’t think of any either, than we know
that this won’t last.
Son of Zorn: The comedies on
FOX tend to come and go as if they are just like a person you know who is
always in a new relationship. Sure, a lot of these shows do last and are
successful. But a lot of them fail and this looks more like a potential failure
than success. I might like it, but shows I like tend to get cancelled each and
every season.
The Last Man on Earth: I might
sound too glum about this show all the time, but it has mostly been a bubble
show this last season. While it could change with improved ratings, I’m just
not sure that this will last or not. I don’t think that it will just yet.
Sleepy Hollow: For reasons I
don’t understand, many people have hated every season of this show except the
first one. I don’t know why that is. But they could keep this around longer in
hopes that there will be enough episodes for syndication. Even then, it seems
surprising from season 2 onward that this show has gotten renewed to this point
and they tend to keep changing what it is like and about.
American Grit: This show was
on the schedule from the last season and then wasn’t announced as part of the
new, upcoming season. That means that this show is probably already cancelled.
So this is more me pointing out a show that never had an announcement regarding
its cancellation was cancelled than it is me saying that it will returning and
be cancelled as it won’t be back anyways.
So You Thank You Can Dance?:
Why are they retooling a show that’s still on the air by making it about a new
generation? I can’t tell if the original show has lasted or not. Is this
replacing it? It’s hard to make sense of it and I believe that it could end at
any time.
Superhuman: Based on the name
of this show, it is probably another in a long line of superhero shows. If this
were on the CW, then I wouldn’t bother with this prediction as I would think
that it is safe this upcoming season. But I don’t see a lot of FOX’s unusual
shows sticking around. They never tend to last and I don’t see this as being
any different.
You’re Back in the Room: This
is here due to the bad title rule. I’m not sure what else the show is about as
I don’t always do as much research into shows as I should. But, this is still
as much as a prediction as the rest of them.
24: Legacy: Did you know that
they are bringing this show back without Jack Bauer? That sounds like a recipe
for failure to me. Reboots don’t tend to be successful and this may only be a
short time plan anyways like the show’s last reboot was.
APB: What the heck is this
about? All I can get out of the title is three letters and I’m not entirely
sure what it means. I’m guessing this is a war related show of some sort, but I
have no idea for sure if it is one or not. Remember GCB? No? Exactly. I suspect
that this will go the same way.
Kicking & Screaming: There
was a movie called Kicking & Screaming. I don’t know if this is a TV show
version of that show or not. If it is, then this is filed under the remakes and
reboots won’t be successful rule. Outside of that, this would be under the bad
title rule anyways.
Pitch: This is a show about a
woman in baseball. I won’t watch it do to being uninterested in sport shows and
the like. While I hope it is a success, I’m not sure that it can or will be
considering how sexism is still a huge and unfortunate part of our society.
Star: So many potential shows
have bad titles in a way. I don’t know if this will last or not. I’m starting
to sound like a broken record in these paragraphs and am not sure that I should
be giving each of these shows at least a three line paragraph. Oh, well. I’m
done with this one.
Prison Break: I don’t know why
FOX is bringing back so many different shows that they had in the past. Maybe
they are longing for the days before their ratings collapse last season. I
don’t know why FOX felt the need to act like a cable network when they do why
better in ratings than cable networks do. I guess they wanted the low ratings
of cable too. Remakes tend not to work.
Making History: A time travel
comedy like this could be a surprisingly good thing like how The Last Man on
Earth proved that the genre it was could have comedies as well. But I’m not
sure if this will be good as a lot of FOX comedies sadly suck. Maybe this will
work, but I don’t have high hopes for it right now. We’ll see if this lasts or
not.
Wayward Pines: This show was
already over before FOX decided that they wanted more of it. If it is on the
schedule for future seasons, it could clearly end for real this time. If not,
then this is another dumb prediction of mine.
World’s Funniest Fails: It’s
possible that this show isn’t around anymore already. But I think that it is
still around, although I don’t see this lasting much longer. It aired early into
the season and was never heard from again. I don’t see this returning long
term. It may already be cancelled. I haven’t seen it on the schedule for the
next season and it wasn’t renewed so it was probably already cancelled.
The Exorcist: This sounds like
it is based off of a horror TV show. I don’t know if there has ever been a
successful horror TV show or not. Grimm might be concerned like that, but I
don’t know if that’s the only exception or not. This will probably not last.
Plus, narratives on Fridays are shows that FOX doesn’t care about in the
slightest.
The Mick: Who names a show The
Mick? What the heck is a mick? This will be a short lived show if people can’t
understand what it is about. Maybe it will last. I might have thought that a
seemingly obscure show like Rosewood would have not lasted either. I just don’t
see this as lasting.
My Kitchen Rules: This is
probably the last example of the bad title rule on this network at least. Do we
really need another kitchen based reality show on FOX? They have far too much
of it already. Of course, that could mean that this fits in with it perfectly.
So we’ll see what happens with it or not.
What I think is safe: The
Simpsons (outside of potential problems with a death of a major cast member
sometime in the future, this show is likely to stick around for quite a while
more than it already has), Bob’s Burgers (it was renewed for another season
past the one that we will get this coming season, so it is safe), Gotham (magic
season 3 is in the show’s future and it remains popular), Lucifer (this show is
well enough liked for now that it will probably stay around), Brooklyn
Nine-Nine (nothing about this screams cancellation just yet and they’re likely
to keep this around for syndication purposes even if there is a ratings drop), New
Girl (FOX’s longest running live action comedy still on the air is likely to
keep going strong)
Safe predictions continued: Empire
(potential problems with Tarija P Henson aside, this show is going to keep
lasting), Rosewood (this show was popular the first season and while that could
change for season 2, I’d still say that it is safe for now), Hell’s Kitchen (I
honestly can’t remember just how long this show has been around, but it will
stay around for a long time), Family Guy (cancelled twice and still going
strong, it seems unlikely that this show ends any time soon)
Safe predictions continued: Home
Free (if it has lasted past the first season with people knowing what the show
is about, it could last forever as a summer show), Hotel Hell (while this show
may not ever seem to air based on how it was always in and out of the schedule,
one thing is sure is that it is always around), MasterChef (this show is good
enough in FOX’s eye to rerun a lot in place of new programs that it could be
airing so it will keep lasting), MasterChef Junior (FOX loves Gordon Ramsey so
all of his shows are staying on their network until he dies), Shots Fired (I
don’t see police dramas failing at the moment), Coupled (I’m not sure why it
has lasted this long, but it could keep lasting if it will be around)
NBC shows prediction
Timeless: Here’s another time
travel show and they always tend to become part of the, er, past. They are in
and out regardless of how good they are (or aren’t). Maybe this show will last
and maybe it won’t. We’ll see what happens.
The Night Shift: This went
from being on the midseason schedule in the main season to being on the summer
schedule. While I normally don’t predict summer shows in this blog post, when shows
randomly drift there for no good reason, those shows tend to be either
cancelled or never brought back despite a lack of official cancellation.
This is us: Here’s yet another
example of the bad title rule. Now sometimes bad titled shows last quite long.
Look at 24. Who would have thought that a show named after the hours in a day
would last a long time. This could be like 24, but I’m not sure yet if it will
be or not.
Blindspot: The last show to go
from the post Voice timeslot to a Wednesday timeslot got low ratings and was
cancelled. It seems like NBC is the one network that cannot for the life of it
find a show that gets good ratings to start the night on Wednesday. Every other
network has the beginning of Wednesday figured out. But nearly every show, if
not all of them, gets cancelled at this timeslot.
Law and Order: SVU: Sooner or
later, this show is just going to get to be too expensive to make. It has
already been on the air longer than any of the other primetime dramas still on
the air and with a new part of the franchise on the horizon, then this could
end if that works better.
The Good Place: The plot of
this show is what worries me and the fact that NBC has been having a problem
with comedies recently that even the CW would find terrible. With little to no
comedies airing on this network anymore (something that is strange, given its
former great track record with popular comedies), I just don’t see this as
lasting.
Caught on Camera with Nick
Cannon: How can there be a primetime version of the stupid format of person
talking about web videos at the like on network TV? I know that there are a lot
of stupid syndicated shows that air late at night (typically, in my region at
least) that follow that format like Dish Nation, Inside Edition, Ridiculousness
(which is actually a cable show), and probably more that I can’t remember right
now. This show will end, hopefully sooner rather than later. Shows like that
just don’t last on network TV in primetime.
Law and Order: True Crime: The
last two new installments of the Law and Order franchise seemed to die fairly
quickly after premiering. Now I’m not sure that this franchise is dead just
yet. Like many shows with multiple installments on the air (NCIS, The Vampire
Diaries), I’m fairly certain that they would only cancel one part of the
franchise in a single season and not more than one. Who knows? This could wind
up soaring and becoming the next greatest hit on TV. If not, then they will
certainly keep the still pretty popular SVU over this.
Grimm: I heard that they might
be cutting back some of the airing of this show by reducing the standard number
of episode orders. This show is in a bit of a bad place already since it
hardly, if ever, airs a rerun. Typically, shows that are cared about more air
reruns. With this past 100 episodes, they could cancel this at any time and it
would have enough episodes for syndication. I don’t know if this is still as
well liked as it was originally. But when they start messing with a successful
format, bad things happen for the show that they are now messing with.
The Carmichael Show: Maybe it
is just because I don’t like it based on promos I saw for it while watching
Allegiance episodes online (despite the fact that I’ve never actually seen it
to know if it is bad just yet), but I don’t see this lasting long.
Hollywood Game Night: When
shows randomly disappear from the schedule for no good reason, one can be
surprised that it is actually returning in the future. If they are willing to
just off this at any moment in time, then it clearly won’t longer than it
already has.
The Celebrity Apprentice: The
network got along with this show just fine last season. With all the
controversy regarding the old host and the fact that fans may not like the new
host is reason enough to think that this show will end in the future.
Great News: Despite the word
great being in the title, this is actually a bad title for a show. Maybe it is
a good show in the end and would work as a show. Maybe people will just want to
watch their favorite news instead of this.
Powerless: This is also filed
under the bad title rule. Now what can I say to waste your time for the rest of
this paragraph? There once was a man named Adam who liked to say and do a bunch
of random stuff and thus this blog was created. Cool, right?
Marlon: Here’s yet another
example of the bad title rule in action. Marlon sounds like a black person
name, but I have no idea if it is or not. I don’t know much, if anything, about
this show. I know that black people have different styles of shows than other
people, so I don’t know if this will actually be a hit like Empire and
Black-ish, or a failure like other shows I can’t remember.
The Wall: This is even more of
the bad title rule. Now that I don’t have anything else to say regarding that,
let me just tell you that you can call me Adam, Adam Decker, Mr. Decker, or
even Screening, but you shouldn’t call me Decker. I don’t like that and I
ignore all people who call me that.
Better Late Than Never: I know
that this is actually airing during the late summer schedule so I’m not sure if
this prediction is right or not to include. I just know that it doesn’t sound
like a long term plan exists for this show just yet.
First Dates: Maybe this will
actually work if the title sounds like giving us an interesting premise of an
idea of some sort. But this still is a bad title. In case you couldn’t figure
it out, I’m less certain about these shows I’m putting in here on the bad title
rule than other shows.
Taken: This is a prequel to
the movie Taken. It could actually be quite good and I hope that it is. I just
don’t have high hopes for it considering how it should have just been one movie
in the first place. Maybe it will work as a show, but remakes and reboots don’t
tend to work as shows.
Emerald City: So many delays
with this show already, plus the fact that it has already been cancelled once
makes me think that it won’t last in the future, if it even airs at all. Maybe
it will last as I find this idea to be interesting, but I’m not sure if it
will.
Midnight Texas: So many of the
shows on my prediction list have some sort of bad title for some odd reason.
These shows could all work and none of them might end up cancelled. But it is
hard to have hope for this one because who calls a show Midnight Texas? What
the heck is that about?
What I think is safe: The
Voice (this is NBC’s most popular show and arguably the reason why FOX
cancelled American Idol so it will stick around longer still), Chicago Fire
(the first part of Chicago franchise has gotten many spin-offs already and
potentially many more so this will continue to last for now), Chicago P.D.
(this show will last), Superstore (NBC needs at least one comedy that will last
so this will probably stick around unless something else comes along), Chicago
Med (this will probably not end anytime soon even if there are a lot of these
shows on the air), The Blacklist (still going strong, nothing could change that
except for maybe a decline in quality or change in plot), Dateline (this show
will never be cancelled, considering how NBC needs it to fill any and all holes
it ever has in its schedule), Little Big Shots (this seems popular for some
reason so I say that it lasts)
Safe predictions continued: Shades
of Blue (maybe this won’t last if people get too fed up with negative
portrayals of police officers, but other than that, this show should remain a
popular show), Trial & Error (this may seem like a random thing to call
safe, but I just don’t see it going anywhere just yet), Chicago Justice (this
franchise is so popular somehow that Dick Wolf is going to be getting tons of
money for it decades after he dies), The Blacklist: Redemption (I see no reason
at the moment that a spin-off of the popular Blacklist show will fail),
Thursday Night Football (potential problems with the partnership with CBS won’t
end Thursday Night Football as this will certainly air on some channel in the
future.)
Well, this was a long post and
it is probably the most fun I have doing a post all year. We’ll see as the
season goes along which of these shows will actually get cancelled, which ones
won’t, and what shows I thought were safe actually weren’t. These were just
predictions and a lot of them I’d probably like to stay around for future
seasons. What will happen? We’ll see.
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