Beware: The upfronts are coming. While many fan-favorite series have gotten renewed, networks are also canceling a bevy of shows, from “Speechless” to “Lethal Weapon.” Look below for the full list of cancellations, and keep checking back as more announcements are made. ABC “Whiskey Cavalier”: Despite featuring “The Walking Dead’s” Lauren Cohan and “Scandal” alum Scott Foley, the action comedy-drama never found a substantial audience, and was canceled after one season at ABC. “The Kids Are Alright”: Obvious and heartless pun aside, the family comedy won’t see a second season. The series was inspired by the childhood of creator/executive producer Tim Doyle, and focuses on a traditional Irish-Catholic family in the 1970s. “The Fix”: About a district attorney’s redemption after suffering a “devastating defeat,” the freshman drama won’t get a second chance to make its case. It starred Robin Tunney, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Scott Cohen, and was executive produced and co-written by Marcia Clark (lead prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case). “For the People”: ABC has canceled the legal drama after two seasons, which was the second lowest rated of the Shondaland series, averaging almost 3 million total live viewers and a 0.51 in the 18-49 demo. “Speechless”: It’s the third and final season for the single-cam comedy. Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver) is a mother who will do anything for her children, especially eldest son JJ (Micah Fowler), who has cerebral palsy. While the show was a solid part of ABC’s family comedy lineup for the past few years, the recent season has ranked the lowest rated of the network’s scripted series, averaging 2.3 million total live viewers and a 0.49 in the 18-49 demo. “Splitting Up Together”: ABC has pulled the family comedy after two seasons. The show, starring Jenna Fischer and Oliver Hudson as exes who live together and redevelop feelings for each other, was the second-lowest scripted series for the network. It averaged 2.77 total million live viewers and a 0.66 in the 18-49 demographic. CBS “Fam”: CBS said “It’s a no from me, dawg” to renewing “Fam,” the comedy about an engaged couple (Nina Dobrev, Tone Bell) whose lives are disrupted when their 16-year-old relative comes to live with them. “Happy Together“: It’s a sad future for “Happy Together,” which CBS pulled after the first season. The comedy starred Damon Wayans, Jr. and Amber Stevens West as a 30-something couple who reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when a pop star (Felix Mallard) is drawn to their ordinary suburban life and unexpectedly moves in with them. “Life In Pieces”: Created by Justin Adler and starring Dianne Wiest and James Brolin, the comedy revolved around one big, happy family and their milestone moments. The cancellation arrives only five episodes into the fourth season, which is averaging a 0.84 rating in the 18-49 demo and 5.75 million viewers per episode, representing a dip from last season. “Murphy Brown”: Unfortunately, Candice Bergen’s return as the news legend was short lived. The first season of the sitcom concluded after 13 episodes, and CBS opted out of ordering more. The revival saw Brown entering back into the journalism ring amid the 24-hour news cycle and a vastly different political climate than when she (and the show) was last on. Fox “Proven Innocent”: The Kelsey Grammar-starring legal drama didn’t light any fires at Fox, where it was canceled after one season. David Elliot served as writer and executive producer on the project, while “Empire” co-creator Danny Strong and Stacy Greenberg also executive produced. The series centered on a legal team, led by Madeline Scott (Rachelle Lefevre), that reopened investigations, putting their own lives in danger to exonerate the innocent that were ‘proven’ guilty. “The Cool Kids”: The comedy proved lukewarm for Fox, which canceled the multi-cam after one season. The show hailed from executive producer Charlie Day and starred David Alan Grier, Leslie Jordan, Vicki Lawrence and Martin Mull as four friends in a retirement community who are determined to make the third act of their lives the craziest one yet. “The Gifted”: Set in the Marvel “X-Men” universe, the drama about teenagers with mutant powers couldn’t prevail at Fox. Following the show’s first season, the average rating for Season 2 almost halved down to 0.59, while the average viewership dipped to 1.95 million. “Love Connection”: There was no love for the unscripted series, which Fox canceled after two seasons. It was hosted by Andy Cohen and premiered in the summer along with “Beat Shazam.” “The Passage”: The network also closed the chapter on “The Passage,” based on Justin Cronin’s trilogy of novels. It centered on a young girl (Saniyya Sidney), who is taken by agent Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) for a mysterious government experiment, and ends up trying to save her from the same project. “Rel”: Creator and “Get Out” star Lil Rel Howery couldn’t escape the show’s fate. Canned after one season, the multi-cam comedy featured Howery as a self-made success who has to start over when he finds out his wife is having an affair with his barber. After returning solid ratings for its premiere, “Rel” saw a severe ratings dip for the remainder of the series, ending up with an average rating of 0.77 and a hint over 2 million total viewers. “Lethal Weapon”: Fox has put an end to the one-hour “Lethal Weapon” adaptation after three seasons, which might not come as a surprise to those following the drama surrounding the series. The show originally starred Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans as a buddy cop duo, but the stars’ off-camera fighting led to Crawford’s dismissal. Season 3 continued with Seann William Scott replacing Crawford, but it was the beginning of the end, with Wayans announcing he was quitting, coupled with a steep decline in ratings. NBC “AP Bio”: Mike O’Brien’s series starring “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s” Glenn Howerton was the second-lowest rated scripted series for the network in its second season. Howerton starred as a disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar who returned to his Ohio hometown to teach high school biology. Patton Oswalt also starred. “I Feel Bad”: NBC’s cancellation of the comedy will no doubt leave fans in a sour mood. The show starred Sarayu Blue as a “perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter” who in real life is far from perfect but figuring things out.<doc-sep>There are a lot of people feeling a lot of pain all over Hollywood today with the annual ruthless round of Black Friday cancellations but, Donald Trump and Clayne Crawford may be pretty pleased. Primetime-Panic Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series orders See All The former Celebrity Apprentice host was relentless mocked by CBS’s Murphy Brown revival and the ex-Rectify star was pink slipped from Fox’s Lethal Weapon small screen reboot last year after two allegedly difficult seasons. Now both those shows and many others are as dead as Crawford’s Lethal Weapon Martin Riggs character in what looks to be an expanded new normal on the small screen Click on the photo above to launch our gallery of the canceled shows so far. Days before the Upfronts start in NYC, the broadcast networks today killed off the Candice Bergen-led sitcom and the Damon Wayans co-starrer, plus a slew of newbies over the past 24 hours like CBS’ Nina Dobrev starring Fam and Damon Wayans Jr. and Amber Stevens West’s Happy Together, ABC’s Marcia Clark co-created The Fix, Fox’s Marvel offering The Gifted as well as The Cool Kids and NBC’s Amy Poehler EP’d I Feel Bad too. As he has in the past, This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman took to social media to tell those who saw their series go down today, to feel the pain, but not to let it get cripplingly bad: Sucks seeing so many shows cancelled, knowing how many found out they were unemployed via google alert. I’ve been there. A lot. My routine: Drink some whiskey. Punch a wall. Then take breath, a month, and start writing again. Congrats on getting a show on TV. It ain’t easy. — Dan Fogelman (@Dan_Fogelman) May 10, 2019 Fogelman’s words of advice aside, in a year where The Big Bang Theory, The CW’s Jane the Virgin, Gotham and Elementary are all taking their final bow after years on the air, Black Friday also saw other veterans get shown the door. The Minnie Driver-led Speechless is going silent after three seasons on ABC, NBC satire Trial and Error has stumbled after two seasons and Life in Pieces was truly smashed into pieces after four seasons on CBS. In an anticipated move that is still hard reality check, Empire co-creator Lee Daniels’ Star was axed too after three years by the newly streamlined Fox. Click here to follow all the cancellations from this year’s Black Friday; updating regularly. Proving that almost no one is safe in the splintered and ratings declining reality of the Peak TV era, denying Daniels’ musical drama a fourth season would have been inconceivable just a few years ago when Empire was the ever-rising tide that raised all ships for the still Murdoch owned net. It is a move by Fox that also would have seemed crazy when they were corporate siblings to 20th Century Fox TV and the competition from the streaming services was less intense for viewer’s limited time and attention. However, this is a new age where most of the old rules no longer apply and, unless you are the surprisingly renewed Fresh Off the Boat, if you aren’t delivering or are on the bubble, you are the walking dead – though clearly not that Walking Dead, if you know what I mean? With the AMC zombie apocalypse series in mind, we still don’t know the fate of Whiskey Cavalier, which has once and perhaps future TWD lead Lauren Cohan as its lead along with Scandal alum Scott Foley. Talks are still going on with WBTV I hear, but if that conversation goes south, that’ll be another newbie canceled this year. On another note, an end to Whiskey Cavalier would see ABC move even further into the lead as the Big 4 net with the most cancellations so far while NBC has the least. While we can debate at length if the Big 4 are moving their addictions to revivals and reboots to a methadone program, there is no doubt that mergers, acquisitions and ownership are tightening the bottom line. In the case of Star and the April 17 canned Marvel themed The Gifted, both from the now Disney-owned TCFTV, the ratings just didn’t justify the price the newly minted Fox Entertainment would have to pay to take up space on its now sports heavy schedule. That’s the real bottom line for not just Fox but all of the Big 4 where margins are tightening and if you aren’t already in the family, your show is unlikely to make it to the air or stay there. Unlike streamers, who are usually one and done when it comes to pulling the plug on shows, the Black Sunday purge on what they are cancelling and the group hug on what they are renewing is still in the same batch and on the same day. Like a father walking his daughter down the aisle at her wedding, it’s an unnecessary tradition but a captive one with its own conveniences and regrets, as many discovered today.<doc-sep>“Star” has been canceled after three seasons at Fox. The musical drama from Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy told the story of three girls’ rise to fame. It starred Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O’Grady, Queen Latifah, Quincy Brown and Amiyah Scott. Daniels, Pamela Oas Williams and Karin Gist were executive producers; Gist was also the showrunner. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television in association with Lee Daniels Entertainment. The show was one of two Daniels had at Fox, the other being “Empire.” “Empire” was recently renewed for a sixth season despite the controversy surrounding series star Jussie Smollett. Smollet’s contract with the show has been extended but there are currently no plans for him to return for the show’s new season. Earlier today, Fox also canceled freshman drama “The Passage” and comedy “The Cool Kids,” while “Lethal Weapon” was also canceled after three seasons. In addition to “Empire,” the network has renewed “9-1-1,” “The Resident,” “Family Guy,” “Last Man Standing,” “Bob’s Burgers” and “The Simpsons.” New series orders for the 2019-20 television season include dramas “Deputy,” “Next,” “Prodigal Son” and the Untitled Annie Weisman/Jason Katims series, live-action comedy “Outmatched” and animated comedies “Duncanville,” “The Great North” and “Bless the Harts.”<doc-sep>
Fox’s music drama Star has been canceled after three seasons. Its producing studio, former Fox sibling 20th Century Fox TV, is already shopping it to other platforms. Star’s cancellation is not unexpected. As we noted in our story yesterday on Fox’s decision to pick up four new drama series, with a fifth pending, the move did not bode well for the network’s bubble dramas Star, Lethal Weapon and The Passage. All of them were canceled today. Created by Lee Daniels and Tom Donaghy, Star followed three talented singers – running from their pasts and desperate for a new start – with ambitions of stardom, as they navigate the cutthroat music business. The series spent most of its run paired with Fox’s hip-hop family drama Empire. Family soap pilot Filthy Rich, whose series pickup at Fox is pending, is being eyed as a companion for Empire. Related Story Network TV Series Cancellations For 2018-19 Season: Photo Gallery Star, which premiered onDecember 14, 2016 with Empire as its lead-in, starred Queen Latifah, Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny, Brittany O’Grady, Amiyah Scott and Quincy Brown. Scott became the third openly transgender person to play a major trans character in a scripted television drama series. Star existed in the same musical universe as Empire and the two shows crossed over in the second season. The series also included a star-studded roster of guest stars including Lenny Kravitz, Naomi Campbell, Tyrese Gibson, Gladys Knight, Missy Elliott, Big Boi and Paris Jackson, who made her acting debut on the series. That said, Star raked in solid numbers but hit a ratings low last November. The musical drama is expensive to produce, and its international sales have been challenging, which made the renewal decisions a bit more complex. Daniels and Donaghy executive produce alongside Pamela Oas Williams. Karin Gist serves as showrunner and executive producer. Network TV Series Cancellations For 2018-19 Season: Photo Gallery