The bloodletting appears to have stopped — for now. A total of 14 broadcast series were dispatched to TV’s dreaded MIA Network on Friday as the major networks began cleaning house in advance of next week’s fall presentations (aka the “Upfronts”). The body count was highest at ABC, which axed series both established (Speechless), fledgling (Splitting Up Together) and presumed dead (For the People). CBS shuttered nearly a half dozen programs, including Life in Pieces, Murphy Brown and Fam. Fox, meanwhile, pulled the plug on The Passage and Lethal Weapon (among others). Even NBC got into the act (R.I.P., I Feel Bad.) On the bright side, the weekend is here. The bad news? The next 48 hours will likely bring additional cancellations (review our 2019 Renewal Scorecard for a complete rundown of the remaining in-limbo series). But there’s no sense worrying about what could be. Let’s spend our time stressing about what already is. It’s in that spirit that we direct you to the poll below. We lost a lot of shows today, folks. Which fatal blow hit you hardest? Think long and hard about the options and then cast your ballot. And then head to the comments to explain your choice. Popular on TVLine<doc-sep>It was a dark Friday for many networks, actors, and crews as multiple TV series at FOX, CBS, NBC and ABC were axed ahead of upfronts next week. Many shows which have been dangerously low in rating numbers were given the boot to make room for fresh series to premiere in the fall. FOX canceled "Lethal Weapon" after three tumultuous seasons and "The Passage," "Rel," and "The Cool Kids" after one season each. On Saturday news broke that "Star" was canceled after three seasons as was "Proven Innocent" after one season. STEVEN SPIELBERG AND AMBLIN TV EXIT CBS DRAMA 'BULL' OVER MICHAEL WEATHERLY HARASSMENT CONTROVERSY ABC canceled "Speechless" after three seasons, "Splitting Up Together" after two seasons, "The Fix" and "The Kids Are Alright" after one season each, and "For the People" after two seasons. NBC canceled "I Feel Bad" after one season and Steve Harvey's syndicated talk show is ending in June. CBS canceled the "Murphy Brown" revival, "Fam" and "Happy Together" after their first seasons and "Life in Pieces" after four seasons. COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL TV SERIES IN THE WORKS Meanwhile, earlier in May, TBS canceled "Angie Tribeca" after four seasons and Netflix canceled "Santa Clarita Diet" after three seasons. As for renewed TV series, NBC is welcoming back: “The Blacklist,” "This Is Us," “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago Med,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Ellen’s Game of Games,” “Good Girls,” “The Good Place,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Manifest,” “New Amsterdam,” “Superstore,” "Blindspot" (final season), and “Will & Grace.” NBC also ordered Kenan Thompson's new sitcom, "The Kenan Show," and he will still remain a cast member of "Saturday Night Live." Be on the lookout for these shows returning on CBS: “Blue Bloods,” “Bull,” “Criminal Minds” (final season), “FBI,” “God Friended Me,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “MacGyver,” “Madam Secretary,” “Magnum P.I.,” “Man With a Plan,” “Mom," “NCIS,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “The Neighborhood,” “SEAL Team,” “S.W.A.T.,” and “Young Sheldon.” STEVE HARVEY'S DAYTIME TALK SHOW TO END IN JUNE AFTER BATTLE BETWEEN NBCU AND ENDEAVOR: REPORT Returning on ABC: “A Million Little Things,” “American Housewife,” “black-ish,” “Bless This Mess,” “The Conners,” “Fresh Off the Boat,” “The Good Doctor,” “Grey’s Anatomy," “How to Get Away With Murder,” “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.,” “Modern Family” (final season), “The Rookie,” “Single Parents,” "The Bachelor/ette," "Dancing With the Stars," and “Station 19.” Coming back to FOX are: “9-1-1,” “Bob’s Burgers,” “Empire,” “Family Guy,” “Last Man Standing,” “The Masked Singer,” “The Resident,” and “The Simpsons.” You'll see these on The CW: “The 100,” “All American,” “Arrow” (final season), “Black Lightning,” “Burden of Truth,” “Charmed,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow,” “Dynasty,” “The Flash,” “In the Dark,” “Legacies,” “The Outpost,” “Riverdale,” “Roswell, New Mexico,” “Supergirl,” and “Supernatural” (final season).<doc-sep>The TV networks brought out the cancellation ax this week, as they firmed up their schedules for the 2019-2020 season. Among the casualties are family favorites such as ABC’S “Speechless,” the underwhelming CBS revival of “Murphy Brown,” the troubled Fox cop show “Lethal Weapon,” and more. It’s been a rough season for freshman shows, as newbies including CBS’s “Fam,” Fox’s “The Passage” and ABC’s “The Kids Are Alright” only made it through one season. But more veteran series also got the boot, including CBS’ “Life in Pieces,” which lasted four seasons before getting pink-slipped. Some series entered the renewal/cancellation season wobbling “on the bubble,” as the TV term has it, with their future up in the air. “Lethal Weapon," for example, was bubble material all the way, considering the behind-the-scenes drama that led to original costar Clayne Crawford getting fired. The show returned for a third season with Seann William Scott costarring with Damon Wayans, but nobody seems surprised -- or disappointed, frankly -- that the show won’t be back for Season 4. Did your favorite shows make it, or are they gone? Here’s the complete rundown: “Angie Tribeca” (TBS): After four seasons, the comedy is canceled. Oh, well, at least fans will always have Oregon. The spoofy series filmed a Season 4 episode on Mt. Hood and in the Portland area. “Berlin Station” (Epix): After three seasons on the not-so-heavily-watched Epix network, the spy thriller is over. “The Big Bang Theory” (CBS): Canceled isn’t the word to describe the blockbuster comedy’s departure, but after star Jim Parsons reportedly decided not to continue, the show is scheduled to end its 12-season run on May 16. The reruns? They’re never going away. “Busy Tonight” (E! ): Busy Philipps’ talk show had its fans, but it didn’t really fit into the hyper-giddy E! atmosphere and now it’s canceled. The actress/host says she’s hoping to find the show a new home. “Catastrophe” (Amazon Prime Video): Critics and fans are mourning Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s unsentimental comedy about romance and marriage ending with Season 4. “Channel Zero” (Syfy): The horror anthology had a cult following, but that apparently wasn’t enough to save it. Season 4 was its last. “The Cool Kids” (Fox): The comedy about older folks had a terrific cast, including David Alan Grier, Vicki Lawrence, Martin Mull and Leslie Jordan, but lights are out at the retirement community after only one season. “Counterpart” (Starz): The sci-fi/spy thriller starring the Oscar-winning J.K. Simmons won’t return for Season 3. “Crashing” (HBO): Pete Holmes’ loosely autobiographical comedy series was uneven, but it had some insightful, touching moments. Unfortunately, it won’t be back for Season 4. “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (The CW): Its ratings were always small, but its cult was loud. They already know that the comedy/musical has aired its series finale. “Detroiters” (Comedy Central): The comedy starring Sam Richardson (“Veep”) and Tim Robinson (“Documentary Now!”) won’t be back for another season. “Elementary” (CBS): Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu were always fun to watch as a contemporary Sherlock/Watson in this well-written series. It’s returning for a final season in May, but then it’s done. “Fam” (CBS): The freshman comedy starring Nina Dobrev (“The Vampire Diaries”) and Tone Bell didn’t engender enough warm and fuzzy feelings to muster many viewers. “The First” (Hulu): Though the news that Sean Penn was starring in a TV series kicked off a fair amount of buzz, the space drama never took flight, and was canceled after one season. “The Fix” (ABC): Apparently, viewers weren’t ready for a legal drama from co-creator Marcia Clark that seemed like it was inspired by the O.J. Simpson murder trial. It’s gone after one brief, little-noted season. “For the People” (ABC): The legal drama from executive producers Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers lasted two seasons, but the case is closed. Rhimes, whose shows led ABC to “TGIF” success for years, has also moved on, having signed a multimillion dollar deal with Netflix. “Friends From College” (Netflix): The ensemble comedy-drama is canceled. Which freed up costar Cobie Smulders, who’s the lead in the new drama from ABC based on the “Stumptown” comics series, in which Smulders will play a Portland-based private investigator. “The Gifted” (Fox): Marvel movies may be hot, but the fact that this superhero drama was set in the Marvel “X-Men” world didn’t save it from being canceled by Fox. “The Good Cop” (Netflix): The comedy starring Josh Groban and Tony Danza ended after one season. “Gotham” (Fox): After five seasons, the Batman-inspired series wrapped up this spring, and won’t return. Erin Richards and Ben McKenzie in the "Gotham" series finale. (Photo: Fox) “I Feel Bad” (NBC): The one-season Amy Poehler-produced comedy was a certainty to be canceled, and now it’s official. “Into the Badlands” (AMC): After three seasons, the martial arts adventure recently aired its series finale. “iZombie” (The CW): The zombie series has been canceled, and will end after its currently airing fifth and final season. “Jane the Virgin” (The CW): The comedy/telenovela spoof is airing its fifth and final season. “The Kids Are Alright” (ABC): The 1970s-set family comedy featured a fine cast, but it won’t be back for a second season. Seann William Scott and Damon Wayans in "Lethal Weapon." (Photo: t Darren Michaels/Fox) “Lethal Weapon” (Fox): After three seasons, and behind-the-scenes turmoil that led to recasting, the series is canceled. “Life in Pieces” (CBS): After four seasons, the family sitcom won’t return. “Love Connection” (Fox): Not that anybody has noticed all that much, but just so you know, the Andy Cohen-hosted revival of the dating show has been canceled. “Marvel’s Daredevil” (Netflix): The news behind the cancellation of Netflix Marvel superhero shows has to do, industry experts say, with the fact that Disney -- which owns the Marvel universe characters -- is soon to launch its own streaming service. “Marvel’s Iron Fist” (Netflix): See above. Plus, nobody really liked this one. “Marvel’s Jessica Jones” (Netflix): Also canceled. “Marvel’s Luke Cage” (Netflix): Also canceled. “Marvel’s The Punisher” (Netflix): You’ll never guess – this one’s canceled, too. The revival craze didn't extend to "Murphy Brown," which CBS canceled after one season. Pictured, from left: Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood, Joe Regalbuto as Frank Fontana, Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown, and Grant Shaud as Miles Silverberg. (Photo: David Giesbrecht/2018 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.) “Murphy Brown” (CBS): The revival has been off the air for a while, and its ratings were disappointing, so the official word of cancellation was expected. “Nightflyers” (Syfy): No doubt Syfy was hoping for “Game of Thrones”-style success with this space/horror thriller inspired by a novel by George R.R. Martin. Didn’t happen, and it’s canceled after only one season. “One Day at a Time” (Netflix): The outcry from disappointed fans and the creators of the family comedy-drama has been loud and passionate since Netflix announced it was cancaled after three seasons. But at this point, the show hasn’t found a new home on another network. “The Passage” (Fox): The thriller is based on Justin Cronin’s best-selling trilogy, but the show only lasted one season. “Proven Innocent” (Fox): The low-rated one-season legal drama starring Rachelle Lefevre, Kelsey Grammer and Russell Hornsby is out of business. (Hornsby, who Portlanders will recall from “Grimm,” will soon be back on NBC as the lead in “Lincoln,” a new drama inspired by “The Bone Collector” novel and movie). “Rel” (Fox): Lil Rel Howery is funny and likable, but his sitcom only lasted one season. “Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television” (YouTube Premium): The cop spoof is done for after two seasons. “Santa Clarita Diet” (Netflix): The offbeat zombies-in-suburbia comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant was apparently too anemic for Netflix or order a third season. “SMILF” (Showtime): Series star and creator Frankie Shaw was accused of misconduct associated with making the show, though an investigation found Shaw had not engaged in wrongdoing. Nevertheless, the show is canceled after two seasons. “The Son” (AMC): The decades-spanning Western drama about a Texas family is airing its second and final season.<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.