{"id":16363,"date":"2011-06-01T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T20:11:45","slug":"2010-tv-canceled-renewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/2010-tv-canceled-renewed\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. TV Shows of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the 2010-2011 TV season now drawing to a close, the major networks have held their Upfront presentations in which they preview their fall schedules for advertisers. This is an important time for &#8220;bubble&#8221; shows (TV series with so-so ratings that may or may not be viable candidates for renewal), because this is where the networks formally announce which existing shows will make the cut for another season and which are dead in the water. Unfortunately, a number of shows of interest to this blog have had their plugs pulled.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <em>TV by the Numbers<\/em> blog maintains a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com\/the-renew-cancel-index\/\">Renew\/Cancel Index<\/a>&#8221; to each of the major networks. I&#8217;ve highlighted the most notable entries (read: those shows I actually care about). <\/p>\n<h5>ABC<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Better with You&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Brothers &#038; Sisters&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Detroit 1-8-7&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Mr. Sunshine&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;My Generation&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;No Ordinary Family&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Off the Map&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;V&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Whole Truth&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Body of Proof&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Castle&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Cougar Town &#8216; \u2013 Renewed<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Happy Endings&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Middle&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Modern Family&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Private Practice&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I doubt it will surprise anyone that &#8216;Castle&#8217; and &#8216;Modern Family&#8217; were renewed. They&#8217;re both pretty big hits for ABC. Although I haven&#8217;t written about it here yet, I like &#8216;Happy Endings&#8217; a lot. (It&#8217;s basically the show that &#8216;Perfect Couples&#8217; tried to be \u2013 only much funnier.) I&#8217;m glad to see that one renewed, though a little confused as to what&#8217;s going to happen to one of the characters since Damon Wayans, Jr. is being promoted as starring in a new Fox sit-com in the fall. <\/p>\n<p>You know, I kind of liked &#8216;Mr. Sunshine&#8217;. It wasn&#8217;t a <em>great<\/em> comedy, but its dry humor appealed to me. I won&#8217;t miss it terribly, but I&#8217;m a little disappointed that it couldn&#8217;t find more of an audience. <\/p>\n<p>I fully expected &#8216;V&#8217; to get canceled. Although it was a really dumb show at times (all right, most of the time), it was just campy enough to keep me entertained. I would have tuned in again had it been renewed. <\/p>\n<h5>CBS<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;CHAOS&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Defenders&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Mad Love&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Medium&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;$#*! My Dad Says&#8217; \u2013 Canceled  <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Big Bang Theory&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Blue Bloods&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Criminal Minds&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;CSI&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;CSI: Miami&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;CSI: NY&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Good Wife&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Hawaii Five-0&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;How I Met Your Mother&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Mentalist&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Mike &#038; Molly&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;NCIS&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;NCIS: Los Angeles&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Rules of Engagement&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Two and a Half Men&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t watch a lot of shows on CBS. &#8216;How I Met Your Mother&#8217; is still puttering along. This last season was a bit of a rebound from the year before, which was kind of a mess. I believe the next season will be its last, and I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s about as far as it can go. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge fan of &#8216;The Big Bang Theory&#8217;, but I&#8217;ll watch it on occasion. It took a while for this one to grow on me. (I hated it at first.)<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Z has been trying to get me hooked on &#8216;The Good Wife&#8217; for some time now. What I&#8217;ve watched of it has been pretty good, but I feel like I need to start over from the beginning. In any case, I&#8217;m glad to see that it was renewed. <\/p>\n<h5>The CW<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Hellcats&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Life Unexpected&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Smallville&#8217; \u2013 Canceled (Final Season)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;90210&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Gossip Girl&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;One Tree Hill&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Nikita&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Supernatural&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Vampire Diaries&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t give a damn about anything on The CW, honestly. We might have some &#8216;Supernatural&#8217; fans here, but I never got into the show. I watched a couple of episodes of &#8216;Nikita&#8217;, and it seemed all right, but nothing I&#8217;d go out of the way to watch. <\/p>\n<h5>NBC <\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;The Cape&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Chase&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Event&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Friday Night Lights&#8217; \u2013 Canceled (Final Season)<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Law &#038; Order: Los Angeles&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Outlaw&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Outsourced&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Paul Reiser Show&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Perfect Couples&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/span> <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Undercovers&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8217;30 Rock&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Chuck&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Community&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Harry&#8217;s Law&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Law &#038; Order: Special Victims Unit&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Office&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Parenthood&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Parks and Recreation&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I expected &#8216;The Event&#8217; to get canceled. It was a terribly uneven show. If the producers could have cut out all the crappy parts (read: everything to do with Jason Ritter&#8217;s character) and kept the good parts, I&#8217;d have liked it a lot more. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m hoping that &#8216;Chuck&#8217; rebounds next season, which will be its last. There was some good stuff in this year, but it was really clear that the producers were winging it in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Hooray for the renewals of &#8216;Community&#8217; and &#8216;Parks and Rec&#8217;. An even bigger hooray for the cancellation of the dreadfully unfunny and shockingly racist &#8216;Outsourced&#8217;. I think that &#8216;Perfect Couples&#8217; could have developed into something really funny with time, but am not too sad to see it go. I think that both &#8217;30 Rock&#8217; and &#8216;The Office&#8217; have run their courses and probably should have been let go after this year. We&#8217;ll see if either one can build up any steam next year. <\/p>\n<h5>Fox<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;Breaking In&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Chicago Code&#8217; \u2013 Canceled<\/span> <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;The Good Guys&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Human Target&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Lie to Me&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Lone Star&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Running Wilde&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Traffic Light&#8217; \u2013 Canceled <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;American Dad&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Bob&#8217;s Burgers&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Bones&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Cleveland Show&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Family Guy&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Fringe&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Glee&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;House&#8217; \u2013 Renewed <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8216;Raising Hope&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/span><\/li>\n<li>&#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; \u2013 Renewed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;The Chicago Code&#8217; was starting to get really good. 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