The New Season – A Status Report

I saw something interesting at Marc Berman’s page at TV Media Insights on Thursday. Apparently of twenty seven series that debuted this fall, thirteen of them have been given a full season order. Several other shows have been cancelled. Now the thing is that – if I’m not mistaken – November sweeps began on either Wednesday or Thursday, meaning that these thirteen seasons have been renewed before sweeps. Regardless of that I thought it might be of interest to look at the status of the shows from the 2011-12 shows.

ABC

Last Man Standing – Full season order
Man Up – Status pending
Suburgatory – Full season order
Revenge – Full season order
Charlie’s Angels – Cancelled after nine episodes
Once Upon A Time – Full season order
Pan Am – Status pending. The network has ordered five additional scripts

CBS

2 Broke Girls – Full season order
Unforgettable – Full season order
How To Be A Gentleman – Effectively cancelled after three episodes
Person Of Interest – Full season order
A Gifted Man – Status pending

FOX

Terra Nova – First season will end in December after 13 episodes. No information on renewal expected until May 2012
New Girl – Full season order
I Hate My Teenaged Daughter – Debuts November 30, 2011
X-Factor – First season will end on December 22, 2011. Has been renewed for a second season
Allen Gregory – Status pending. Will be replaced by Napoleon Dynamite after 13 episodes

NBC

Playboy Club – Cancelled after three episodes
Up All Night – Full season order
Free Agents – Cancelled after four episodes
Whitney – Full season order. Will move to Wednesday nights (replacing Free Agents) from Thursdays when 30 Rock returns to Thursday night
Prime Suspect – Status pending
Grimm – Status pending

The CW

Hart Of Dixie – Full season order – 1.7/3
Ringer – Full season order – 1.4/2
H8R – Cancelled after 2 episodes, will be replaced by One Tree Hill January 11, 2012
The Secret Circle – Full season order

Here are the overall audience (in Millions), overall position, rating in the 18-49 demographic and position in the demographic for each of these shows in their last airing. Shows that have a full season order or will be ending at mid-season are in red.

Network	Show	Overall	Position	Demo	Position
Sunday
ABC	Once Upon A Time	11.64	3	3.9/9	2
ABC	Pan Am	5.59	3	1.9/5	3
FOX	Allen Gregory	4.73	4	2.4/6	4
Monday
CBS	2 Broke Girls	11.14	2	4.2/12	1
FOX	Terra Nova	6.38	3	2.1/6	3
The CW	Hart Of Dixie	1.97	5	0.6/2	5
Tuesday
ABC	Last Man Standing	9.30	2	2.6/8	3
ABC	Man Up	6.41	4	1.8/5	4
CBS	Unforgettable	11.27	1	2.3/6	1
FOX	New Girl	7.53	3	3.5/9	1
The CW	Ringer	1.80	5	0.8/2	5
Wednesday
ABC	Suburgatory	8.49	3	3.1/8	3
ABC	Revenge	8.57	2	3.0/8	1
FOX	X-Factor	11.50	2	3.9/10	1
NBC	Up All Night	4.75	4	1.8/5	4
Thursday
CBS	Person of Interest	11.66	1	2.7/7	3
NBC	Whitney	4.33	4	2.1/5	4
NBC	Prime Suspect	4.47	3	1.2/3	3
The CW	The Secret Circle	2.27	5	0.9/2	5
Friday
CBS	A Gifted Man	8.39	1	1.2/4	2t
NBC	Grimm	5.92	2	1.8/5	1

Polls Closed - NBC Cancels Free Agents

The second – or maybe the third – series cancelled this year and the first comedy is…

Free Agents

NBC has cancelled Free Agents after four episodes. The American remake of the frankly profane (not to mention nudity filled) series from Britain’s Channel Four lasted four episodes in the United States despite the presence of Anthony Stewart Head who appeared in the original. Just as a matter of interest, the American series lasted 2/3s as long as the British version. For the foreseeable future, Free Agents will be replaced by reruns of NBC`s new comedy Whitney.

Also cancelled today (and the reason why I can’t really decide whether Free Agents was the second or third new series cancelled this year) was The CW`s reality series H8R created and hosted by Mario Lopez. Apparently The CW`s viewer (and given the ratings the network as a whole has been pulling this year the lack of an ‘s’ there is only barely an exaggeration) didn’t care to see “celebrities” confront the people who claim to hate them and convert them into fans.

I didn’t poll on reality shows, but the voting on the comedies was quite lively, with 25 votes being cast. All but two of the shows got votes. FOX`s New Girl and ABC`s Last Man Standing (which debuts next week) had no votes. Suburgatory from ABC, Up All Night from NBC and FOX animated comedy Allen Gregory (which has not yet debuted) had one vote each. CBS`s How To Be A Gentleman had two votes while the network’s 2 Broke Girls and Free Agents both had three votes. FOX live action sitcom I Hate My Teenaged Daughter got four votes and NBC’s Whitney and ABC’s Man Up had five votes each. Last Man Standing, Allen Gregory, I Hate My Teenaged Daughter and Man Up are all yet to debut. Additionally Up All Night and Whitney have been given full season orders from NBC, 2 Broke Girls has received a full season order from CBS, and New Girl has a full season order from FOX.

Update: CBS has announced that production on How To Be A Gentleman will be moving to Saturday nights effective immediately while Rules Of Engagement, which had been scheduled to air on Saturdays will be moving back to the time slot following The Big Bang Theory on October 20th. Production on How To Be A Gentleman will halt after the completion of the show`s ninth episode. According to Deadline Hollywood, "That is effectively a cancellation for the sitcom with the Saturday run qualifying as a burn-off, though CBS never officially cancels a series before the upfronts." For our purposes, while the series has aired only two episodes, the fact that the remaining seven episodes will in fact air, even if it is in the Saturday "death slot," still qualifies as airing more than the four episodes that Free Agents got.

Second Update: CBS has pulled the episodes of How To Be A Gentleman from Saturday nights after a single episode. While the network still has six episodes in the can and won't announce the final fate of any of its shows until the May upfronts this amounts to the cancellation of How To Be A Gentleman with three episodes having been aired, one fewer than Free Agents.