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Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows by the end of the 2011-12 season in May, 2012. (includes results from January 2- April 29, 2012):
| Program | Status | Renew/ Cancel Index |
| Fringe (F) | renewed | 0.50 |
| I Hate My Teenage Daughter* | canceled | 0.61 |
| Breaking In | canceled | 0.66 |
| The Cleveland Show | renewed | 0.70 |
| Allen Gregory * | canceled | 0.72 |
| The Finder (some F) |  |
0.83 |
| Raising Hope | renewed | 0.88 |
| Bob's Burgers |  |
0.88 |
| Terra Nova * | canceled | 0.90 |
| Alcatraz* | |
0.93 |
| American Dad | renewed | 0.98 |
| Napoleon Dynamite* | |
1.06 |
| Bones | renewed | 1.06 |
| House | final season | 1.10 |
| Touch | |
1.22 |
| The Simpsons | renewed | 1.22 |
| New Girl | renewed | 1.35 |
| Glee | renewed | 1.37 |
| Family Guy | renewed | 1.39 |
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Recipe for Touch being a "toss up" for renewal or cancellation:
- 1 part ratings that have fallen in all but one week of its run
- 1 part Fringe renewal, removing an hour from the 2012-13 schedule for 13 episodes
Mix and wait for Fan Excuse Bingo play to begin!
Those who'll jump to play the "Fox can't cancel all their rookie dramas" square, may wish to refresh their memory about what happened last season.
This is the last "regular" Fox Renew/Cancel Index post of the 2011-12 season. Next week Robert and I combine for our annual "Oddsmakers" final predictions for the season.
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The Renew / Cancel Index above includes results beginning January 2, 2012. How did FOX's shows stack up based on their Fall results? Click here.
*shows no longer on the air have their Renew/Cancel Index "frozen" at the point they left the schedule.
Notes:
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- certain to be cancelled by May, 2012 - - more likely to be cancelled than renewed by May, 2012
- - toss up between renewal or cancellation by May, 2012
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- more likely to be renewed than cancelled by May, 2012 -
- certain to be renewed by May, 2012
The Renew/Cancel Index is the ratio of a scripted show's new episode adults 18-49 ratings relative to the new episode ratings of the other scripted shows on its own network. It's calculated by dividing a show's new episode Live+Same Day adults 18-49 average rating by the Live+Same Day new episode average of all the new scripted show episodes on the show's own network. The network's average ratings in the calculation are not time weighted (ex. hour long shows are not weighted twice what 30 minute shows are).
(F) -Fridays: Shows airing on Fridays were renewed with significantly lower than average Indexes.
How would the Renew / Cancel Index Have Done Predicting Last Season's Scripted Show Fates? Check out how the Renew / Cancel Index predicted renewals and cancellations from the 2010-11 broadcast television season.
@rebecca
No she wasn’t, I have a feeling the screen grab you saw was of John Nobles daughter who made a guest appearance, I thought she had a bit of Jennifer Garner to her
@Liz
Thanks. She did look a bit like her. I thought that would have been cool to have her on, since Alias was also a JJ Abrams show.
FRINGE – 47 (-2)
RAISING HOPE – 31 (-3)
ALCATRAZ – 26 (+3)
TOUCH – 28 (+2)
I’m going with Rebecca’s votes because @Nick you have to wait 24hrs between votes
FRINGE – 52 (+3)
RAISING HOPE – 31 (-3)
ALCATRAZ – 21 (-2)
TOUCH – 28 (+2)
Yeah, @Nick had made an error with his original vote yesterday and when he voted again later (since we didn’t count the first vote) it was after 5 pm PST. Sorry @Nick. I know that means your vote times don’t sync up with the other threads, but we’re still a ways from getting a winner on this thread anyway. Just vote tomorrow at whatever time was on the other threads you voted on today.
^Of course, tomorrow is Tuesday so new threads will be up – we wait until @tvfreak starts the game up again on page 2 of comments.
24 tv movies!
FRINGE – 55 (+3)
RAISING HOPE – 28 (-3)
ALCATRAZ – 23 (+2)
TOUCH – 26 (-2)
Okay, I officially give up on trying to keep Fringe down.
FRINGE – 58 (+3)
RAISING HOPE – 25 (-3)
ALCATRAZ – 21 (-2)
TOUCH – 28 (+2)
From Raising Hope episode 1.18 “Cheaters” -
Virginia: All college guys cheat when they’re in a long distance relationship. Why do you think I didn’t let your dad go off to college?
Jimmy: ‘Cos he didn’t graduate high school?
Virginia: For your information, there are universities that advertise on late night television that are willing to overlook that.
FRINGE – 61 (+3)
RAISING HOPE – 27 (+2)
ALCATRAZ – 19 (-2)
TOUCH – 25(-3)
FRINGE – 63 (+2)
RAISING HOPE – 30 (+3)
ALCATRAZ – 16 (-3)
TOUCH – 23 (-2)
quote from The X Files [6.17]
Scully: (about the body, chopped in half) Should we arrest David Copperfield?
Mulder: (seriously) Yes, we should… but not for this.
FRINGE – 66 (+3)
RAISING HOPE – 27(-3)
ALCATRAZ – 14 (-2)
TOUCH – 25 (+2)
Wouldn’t be fun if Fox suddenly came to its senses and told WB, “Oh, hell, no, we’re not renewing Fringe!”
They could blame the initial decision on the crack the WB sales team passed around at the meeting…
Voting in the elimination game now closed on this thread. It has continued on page 2 of the new Fox thread posted today.
The Nielson needs to track DVR and Tevo thats why a lot of these shows dont get the live ratings. Tera Nova and Touch have great plots and deserve second seasons to explore them. A lot of shows in history flop season ones and recover seasons to come. Some don’t but it gets frustrating getting into a show then it go’s off the air.
I love touch!!!!!!! Please don’t cancel!!!!!!!!!
Come on guys. DON’T CANCEL TOUCH. THIS SHOW IS AWESOME! I liked Terra Nova. But, it cost a lot of money to produce. Glee is dumb, dumb, dumb. And, I didn’t watch American Midol. Boring, snooze. Touch is something different.
Keep heart of Dixie!!