James Hibberd at TheLiveFeed is reporting that NBC has given Parks & Recreation, Mercy and Community "back 9" orders to complete their 22 episode seasons.
And while it's not a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, this likely signals the official end of speculation about whether Trauma would be returning, and likely Law & Order as well.
Sweet.
Here’s hoping Parks can grow a little with time.
Did anybody seriously think, Law & Order wouldn’t be returning for a record breaking season?
Parks 6th episode of the season last night tied Kath & Kim’s 6th episode last season (both 2.1), and K&K had the benefit of a 2.8 demo lead-in from My Name Is Earl. So yeah, its an improvement.
shit know i have to whacing Mercy
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Does anyone think that Mercy’s pick-up could be due to a breakdown of Parenthood? Will that ever make it to NBC’s schedule?
So Mercy gets a full season pulling a 2.0 in a cake time spot yet Chuck pulls a 2.5 last year gets delegated to the bullpen and it is most likely going back to Mondays. Where the hell does Parenthood or Chuck fit in. I thought they were doing split scedules.
Chuck is getting treated like the ugly step Child. First they get delagated to March, but they get no chance of a full season. NBC can go to hell.
Parenthood isn’t expected until after the Olympics. I do think Mercy is being kept because of the lowered expectations on NBC given its current slate of programming. But don’t think this is really Parenthood related at this point. Think it has more to do with NBC doesn’t seem to know which way is up right now. There had to be better scripts and pilots out there than Mercy and Trauma last development season. Seriously.
I think Mercy and Trauma are both bad enough to be canceled. But Mercy was more bearable of the two I guess. Its comparing bad to worse, so its hard to pick a winner.
Awesome news for Parks! Season 2 has been amazing
Frankly, all of these are interesting for the consequences:
P&R / Community – Doesn’t NBC have a couple comedies waiting in the wings already? When do they plan to air those? Are they going to create a new Summer Thursday comedy block (probably with Office reruns)?
Mercy – What gets booted as a result? While it is obvious Monday will change at some point (Trauma’s 13 episodes won’t cover until February, regardless), is NBC in fact starting up Chuck to Heroes shortly? And then Parenthood to Persons Unknown in March?
Bill, I don’t understand your L&O comment though. What is their current order for this year?
HELL YEAH MERCY! now hoping for a second season lol
Alternatively, has Parenthood been abandoned to Summer burn-offs, leading to:
M Now: Emergency Filler / Heroes
M March: Chuck / Persons Unknown
Not like NBC has anything better to show. Community gets renewed when it got a 1.9? Wow! How Sad! Like everyone keeps saying, NBC has got to move 30 Rock to 8 and they shouldve kept Community at 930 to grow from The Office lead-in. I think 30 Rock could pull 2.5-2.7 in the 8 o’clock hour.
Gotta love NBC.
You, yes you, show with the 2.0 rating! No sane person ever thought you’d be renewed but we just love what you’re doing! I mean really, great GREAT work. We’re thrilled you’re on our network! What’s that? You’d never survive on any other broadcast network? That’s OK, at least you’re beating that Leno guy! What’s that? He’s on our network too? Well that’s embarassing…
Tom it seems unlikely that anything will get booted. I would guess that Mercy’s ‘back nine’ will take it through to the Olympics where it was always scheduled to be replaced by the new ‘mid-season’ line-up. What happens with the comedy line-up is another question, perhaps a second block on Friday from mid season?
No surprises. Plenty of bad shows. But no surprises.
To answer a previous question, NBC has “100 Questions,” which recently began production. Today’s announcement makes it clear they’re probably sticking with their original plan of using it after a 90-minute “The Biggest Loser” and not putting it Thursdays 8:00 while operating under the mistaken belief that they’ve found the next “Friends.” The original pilot was stunningly awful, but maybe the retooled version might be better. (I wouldn’t count on it since they fired pretty much everybody in the cast except for the one person who deserved to be fired. But I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt that, you know, maybe it might be better.)
Hooray!! Love Community and P&R is really good this season.
The thresholds for ratings “success” are getting lower and lower every year–especially for the broadcast nets.
Personally, glad to see intelligent, well executed TV comedies get a shot especially P&R!
i was right, mercy will get renewed, why would a low rated network will dump a show that rate better than majority of the shows, eventhough it has a low 18-49 share?
trauma is off to a bad start and and it’s on a bad timeslot, the show grew to me, the pilot is crap but the second episodes is wayyyy better and a huge huge improvement plus the show is a keeper in terms of quality, i hope i see the show on nbc’s next fall schedule
parks and recreation cancellation is a myth, apparently nbc’s executives are big fans of the show
I had a feeling about Mercy. It has no lead-in, no serious marketing, no stars and still pulls steadily one of the best total viewers on the network (behind only SUV and Office) and yes, demos pay the bills, but in a horrible year like this, NBC should appreciate what it has. And right now it’s Mercy with its steady 2.0 and 7 million viewers. Plus it kind of looks like a cheap show to produce.