The Show Must Go On: Renewals and Cancellations

[DanaC]

What's coming back, and what's been dropped? What are you excited about and what are you sorry to see finish?

First the sad bit: I'm a bit disappointed to lose Constantine. That show started to find its feet towards the end and I'd have been interested to see where they took it. There's some suggestion that it might get picked up elsewhere - but I suspect that ones dead for a bit at least.


Very pleased that Person of Interest got a season 5 order - but disappointed and a little perturbed that it's been shifted back on the slate and reduced to 13 episodes - sounds horribly like they're using the fifth season to close the show. As I understand it the viewing figures would be excellent for many channels but not compared to other dramas on CBS - and because CBS don't make it, they get much less of a return on it. Also, whilst it has settled to a fairly strong core audience who are happy to follow the show's path from interesting, but formulaic, weekly procedural to riveting, high-concept, serialised sci-fi thriller, the change left some viewers behind.


There was some small doubt that they'd get any fifth season at all - so at least they'll get to finish the story arc. I really hope if CBS isnt taking it further than 5 seasons, that it gets netflixed or Amazon Primed. It's telling one of the most interesting sci-fi stories on television right now.

In fact: I'd really urge anybody who drifted off during that first, fairly straightforward weekly procedural show to give it another go, because it gradually transforms into something very different.


Most exciting renewal news for me, is that Amazon Prime have order two more seasons of Ripper Street. Picking up the third season after the BBC inexplicably cancelled the show clearly paid off for them.