Last Updated November 20, 2012
We frequently get questions about why we don't have a Renew/Cancel Index for cable shows. The short answer is because we couldn't do it and be as accurate as we are with the broadcast shows. For more detail on that, check out this post. Maybe someday we'll throw accuracy to the wind and do a "for entertainment purposes only" index for scripted cable shows, but in the meantime it occurred to me that we could at least maintain a renew status list for cable scripted shows. The table below is a first crack at that.
My goal (and I don't expect I have achieved that in this first crack at it) is to include all scripted cable shows excluding kids' shows and Adult Swim's shows. I don't have anything against kids shows or Adult Swim (or, for that matter, unscripted shows) but was looking to create something that could fairly easily be maintained/managed/updated.
Most of the shows on the list have statuses - if there isn't a status that just means there has been no announcement at the time of the most recent update (see date at top of post and/or above the table below).
If you find errors or omissions (excluding unscripted shows, kids shows or shows that have not aired yet) please note them in the comments and I'll update the table.
Notes:
- Kids shows and Adult Swim shows are not on the list below
- I've seen some squawking about shows on the list below that are owned/created by networks/studios outside of the United States. For purposes of this list, which focuses on U.S. cable networks, I'm only focused on where the shows air here in U.S.
- Shows from overseas like Downton Abbey & Sherlock that air on PBS in the U.S. are not in the list below (PBS is not a cable network).
- Despite some current inconsistencies in the table below, I do not intend to track episode orders or return dates specifically in this table at this time. The primary goal of the table is: what's been renewed, what's been canceled, and what shows fates haven't been decided yet.
Last Updated November 20, 2012
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| Show | Network | Current / Last Season | Status |
| Breakout Kings | A&E | 2 | Canceled after 2nd season |
| Glades, The | A&E | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season |
| Longmire | A&E | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Baby Daddy | ABCFAM | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Bunheads | ABCFAM | 1 | Extended S1 continues in January |
| Jane by Design | ABCFAM | 1 | Cancelled after 1st season |
| Lying Game, The | ABCFAM | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Melissa & Joey | ABCFAM | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd season |
| Pretty Little Liars | ABCFAM | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season |
| Secret Life of the American Teenager | ABCFAM | 5 | Upcoming 2nd half of 5th season will be its last |
| Switched At Birth | ABCFAM | 1 | Renewed for 20 episode 2nd season |
| Breaking Bad | AMC | 5 | Ending after 5th season |
| Hell On Wheels | AMC | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season, But... |
| Mad Men | AMC | 5 | Renewed for a 6th season |
| The Killing | AMC | 2 | Canceled after 2nd season |
| The Walking Dead | AMC | 3 | A lock for a 4th season renewal |
| Bedlam | BBCA | 2 | |
| Being Human | BBCA | 4 | Renewed for a 6 Episode 5th Season |
| Copper | BBCA | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Doctor Who | BBCA | 7 | |
| Luther | BBCA | 2 | Renewed for 4 Episode 3rd Season |
| The Hour | BBCA | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| tvbythenumbers.com | |||
| Game, The | BET | 5 | Renewed for a 6th season |
| Let's Stay Together | BET | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season |
| Reed Between The Lines | BET | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd Season |
| Futurama | CMDY | 7 | Second half of 26 episode S7 still to air in 2013 |
| South Park | CMDY | 16 | Renewed through 20th season (2016) |
| Workaholics | CMDY | 3 | 20 Episode 3rd season split into 10 ep S3 & S4 |
| American Horror Story | FX | 2 | Renewed for a 13 hour third season |
| Anger Management | FX | 1 | Renewed for 90 additional episodes (100 total) |
| Archer | FX | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season |
| It's Always Sunny... | FX | 8 | Renewedfor a 9th season |
| Justified | FX | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season |
| League, The | FX | 4 | |
| Louie | FX | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season but will not return until 2014 |
| Sons Of Anarchy | FX | 5 | Renewed for a 6th season |
| Unsupervised | FX | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Wilfred | FX | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season |
| tvbythenumbers.com | |||
| Boardwalk Empire | HBO | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season |
| Bored to Death | HBO | 3 | Canceled after 3rd season |
| Curb Your Enthusiasm | HBO | 8 | Unknown. "It's always up to Larry," says HBO |
| Eastbound & Down | HBO | 3 | Renewed for a 4th season |
| Enlightened | HBO | 1 | Renewed for 10 episode 2nd season |
| Game of Thrones | HBO | 2 | Renewed for a 10 episode 3rd Season |
| Girls | HBO | 1 | Renewed for a 10 episode 2nd season |
| How to Make it in America | HBO | 2 | Canceled after 2nd season |
| Hung | HBO | 3 | Canceled after 3rd season |
| Newsroom | HBO | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Treme | HBO | 3 | Renewed for 5 episode 4th and final season |
| True Blood | HBO | 5 | Renewed for a 10 episode 6th season |
| Veep | HBO | 1 | Renewed for a 10 episode 2nd season |
| Bullet in the Face | IFC | 1 | |
| Portlandia | IFC | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season |
| Todd Margaret | IFC | 2 | |
| Army Wives | LIFE | 6 | Renewed for a 13 episode 7th season |
| Client List, The | LIFE | 1 | Renewed for a 15 episode 2nd season |
| Drop Dead Diva | LIFE | 4 | |
| tvbythenumbers.com | |||
| Hunted | MAX | 1 | BBC One not moving forward with 2nd season, Cinemax is considering its options. |
| Strike Back | MAX | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season |
| Awkward | MTV | 2 | Renewed for 20 episode 3rd season |
| Beavis and Butt-Head | MTV | ||
| The Inbetweeners | MTV | 1 | |
| Teen Wolf | MTV | 2 | Renewed for 24 episode 3rd season |
| Californication | SHO | 5 | Renewed for a 6th season |
| Dexter | SHO | 7 | Renewed for an 8th (and presumed final) Season |
| Episodes | SHO | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd season |
| Homeland | SHO | 2 | Renewed for 12 episode 3rd season |
| House of Lies | SHO | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Nurse Jackie | SHO | 4 | Renewed for a 5th season |
| Shameless | SHO | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd season |
| The Big C | SHO | 3 | Renewed for a 4th and final season |
| The Borgias | SHO | 2 | Renewed for a 10 episode 3rd Season |
| Web Therapy | SHO | 2 | Renewed for a 10 episode 3rd Season |
| Weeds | SHO | 8 | Series concluded after 8th season |
| Alphas | SYFY | 2 | |
| Being Human | SYFY | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd season |
| Eureka | SYFY | 5 | Canceled After 5th Season |
| Haven | SYFY | 3 | Renewed for a 13 episode 4th season |
| Lost Girl | SYFY | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd season |
| Merlin | SYFY | 5 | |
| Sanctuary | SYFY | 4 | Cancelled after 4th season |
| Warehouse 13 | SYFY | 4 | S4 expanded to 20 episodes (half have aired) |
| Boss | STARZ | 2 | Cancelled after 2nd Season |
| Magic City | STARZ | 1 | Renewed for a 10 episode 2nd season |
| Spartacus | STARZ | 3 | Renewed for a 4th and final season |
| Cougar Town | TBS | 3 | Renewed for a 15 episode 4th season |
| Men At Work | TBS | 1 | Renewed for a 10 episode 2nd season |
| Sullivan & Son | TBS | 1 | Renewed for a 10 episode 2nd season |
| Tyler Perrys: For Better Or Worse | TBS | 2 | currently airing *35* episode 2nd season |
| Tyler Perrys: House of Payne | TBS | 8 | concluded after 8th season |
| Wedding Band | TBS | 1 | |
| tvbythenumbers.com | |||
| Dallas | TNT | 1 | Renewed for a 2nd season |
| Falling Skies | TNT | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season |
| Franklin & Bash | TNT | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd Season |
| Leverage | TNT | 5 | |
| Major Crimes | TNT | 1 | Renewed for a 15 episode 2nd season |
| Perception | TNT | 1 | Renewed for a 13 episode 2nd season |
| Rizzoli & Isles | TNT | 3 | Renewed for a 15 episode fourth season |
| Southland | TNT | 4 | Renewed for 10 episode 5th season |
| The Closer | TNT | 7 | Concluded after 7th season |
| Exes, The | TVLAND | 2 | Second season expanded to 22 episodes |
| Happily Divorced | TVLAND | 2 | S2 expanded to 24 episodes (12 still to air as of 11/7/12) |
| Hot In Cleveland | TVLAND | 3 | Renewed for a 24 episode 4th season |
| Retired At 35 | TVLAND | 2 | |
| Soul Man, The | TVLAND | 1 | Cedric the Entertainer tweets its renewed, no official news yet |
| tvbythenumbers.com | |||
| Burn Notice | USA | 6 | renewed for a 13 episode 7th season |
| Common Law | USA | 1 | canceled after 1st season |
| Covert Affairs | USA | 3 | Renewed for a 16 episode fourth season |
| Fairly Legal | USA | 2 | Canceled after 2nd season |
| In Plain Sight | USA | 5 | Canceled After 5th Season |
| Necessary Roughness | USA | 2 | |
| Political Animals | USA | 1 | mini-series, USA says there won't be more |
| Psych | USA | 6 | Renewed for 7th season, premieres 2/27/13 |
| Royal Pains | USA | 4 | Renewed for 5th & 6th Seasons (26 episodes total) |
| Suits | USA | 2 | Renewed for a 16 episode 3rd season |
| White Collar | USA | 4 | Renewed for a 16 episode 5th season |
| Single Ladies | VH1 | 2 | Renewed for a 3rd season |
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Forgot “Being Human” on Syfy, it’s their flagship series. Or at least I think so.
@The End
The cast says they have not heard about Alpha’s Season 3. SyFy has until Thanksgiving to renew. If it was 0% chance of renewal they would have already passed on the show and passed on the actors options for another year. Another site I read says 50/50.
Craig…yep, thanks. I’ll add that in too sometime within the next 24 hours!
@Craig
I think Being Human is Syfy’s flagship until Defiance arrives in April.
@DeeAgeaux
To be fair, the fact the show hasn’t been picked up, nor have the cast been offered extended contracts, nor to be the best of my knowledge this show being financed by Universal Cable Productions yet. I would say it was dead personally. It’s quite common for a wall of silence to be thrown up until deadline day/near abouts. Occured with Sanctuary too. Stargate Universe was cancelled because it was required at that time to give an answer either way by that date to MGM. Cast opinions are entirely worthless.
@Craig
Warehouse 13 is the networks flagship series, and the highest rated scripted show currently on the air. It went from Stargate to Eureka to Warehouse 13.
Any news on Beavis and Butthead regarding renewal?
@ The End
I did not cite cast opionions. Simply that they have not heard about season 3.
I think it was deadline that said 50/50 but not sure if I remember correctly. I guess we shall see how common a wall of silence is before cancellation.
Since Being Human is strong enough to run in winter/spring vs network shows as opposed to shows that run primarily in the Summer I call BH the networks flagship show.
You might want to add Camelot and its one season in 2011 and then cancellation on Starz
@bruce: I don’t think Camelot needs to be added. It has been over a year. No need.
Great list so far. The League does need to be added though to FX.
Comedy Central:
South Park
Futurama
Workaholics
@DeeAgeaux, first of all, the smart money is on not abusing the English language by putting an apostrophe in “Alphas” where on doesn’t belong. ;P
Unfortunately, the ratings are bad and I would bet against the show being renewed. I love the show and I’d love to see another season. I’d even abuse some apostrophes for another season, if that would help somehow. But it doesn’t look promising to me.
@DeeAgeaux
For 99 percent of Syfy shows, the cast find out about announcements at roughly the same time as the public. I’ve never bothered to find out if the cast are still under contract, I can’t imagine they will be for long, at this point they are free to do whatever show they wish to do.
But in general the term flagship is used too loosely. Being Human doesn’t warrant the same attention and prestige that Warehouse 13, or say shows like Stargate, or Eureka, or Battlestar Galactica received in the past. The show is beloved purely because it has a strong female following on the network. But you are welcome to call it a flagship show lol.
Anyway, I think we should put this conversation on hold till news of the shows future is made public either way.
Forgot Treme
South Park?
Downton Abbey???? I know it is coming back for Season 3 in January but will be keeping track of this decent show also?
White Collar is only starting it’s fifth season? It seems like it has been on forever. Like the show but dang, I would have thought it would be in season 8 by now at least. lol.
AMC Comic Book Men
What about Beavis and Butthead?
Bomb Girls on Reelz (renewed 2nd 12 ep season)
MTV: Underemployed – New scripted series debuted a month ago.