CBS’s Partners was cancelled and removed from the schedule on Friday. Slightly softer exits for ABC’s 666 Park Avenue and Last Resort. Neither show got a back nine pickup, but both will get to air all of their episodes according to ABC. All three are marked “canceled” in the table below. None of them will be back next year.

Nobody who reads our site regularly should be surprised at any of those cancellations. They’d all been certain cancellations both here and in the Renew/Cancel Index for a while. In the case of the two ABC shows, they were. by wide margins the lowest-rated dramas that hadn’t already been cancelled (joining Private Practice). Similarly Partners was CBS’s lowest-rated comedy by a wide margin. Predicting those cancellations was akin to predicting that “water is wet” and “fire is hot.”

Another easy prediction: the Nielsen rage and fan campaigns that ensured in comments, e-mails, Twitter, Facebook, etc. While I’m not a believer in the fan campaigns, I’ll give them a very slight edge over Nielsen rage in terms of being worthwhile because they at least can give a person the illusion of doing something productive.  Still, I was amused by the EW story that quoted a “suit” as saying it amounts to “pissing in the wind.” But I'll take that over the "antiquated system" complaints, particularly the protests that Nielsen doesn't measure DVR viewing (it does!). But advertisers only pay for commercial viewing 3 days after shows air, and advertisers don't pay when the commercials get skipped/fast-forwarded during DVR playback.

No state-of-the-art measurement system is going to convince advertisers to pay for things they're not interested in paying for. But fans and TV networks can dream!

Don't Trust The B----, Happy Endings & The Neighbors

You can debate whether I did it on purpose or merely forgot to downgrade Don't Trust The B----to certain cancellation and Happy Endings to likely cancellation thiis week.  The B---- pulled some horrible, terrible, awful numbers on Tuesday, and Happy Endings wasn't much better.  Though Happy Endings is in its third season, because it's first season was only 13 episodes, it's going to need more than one more season to get to the 88 episodes necessary for Mon-Fri syndication.  But with Sony involved in its production, its relative ratings will have to get worse to get moved off the bubble.

As for The Neighbors, yep, I did merely forget to downgrade it to the bubble. I updated the text in the table, but the sorting and color is off. Next week...

Update: Bonus Forgetfulness

Yep, I forgot to add Whitney to the table even though it premiered on Wednesday. Because there's only one data point I'd have had it "on the bubble/too soon" this week anyway. It'll probably be there next week too since it's airing on Thanksgiving Eve...

When it comes to bubble status, like the Renew/Cancel Index we're focusing on the likelihood that a show will be renewed **for next season** (2013-14).  Certain shows are toss-ups where based on the ratings, the renewal decisions could go either way and not be surprising.

Here, “canceled” is used interchangeably with “won’t be renewed for next season” and is not meant to imply a show will be yanked off the schedule in the current season though obviously the two outcomes are not mutually exclusive. The semantics police and lawyers should feel free to break out the handcuffs and plead their cases in the comments. 

This Isn't The Renew/Cancel Index

Though the basic methodology is the same (intra-network relative ranking of shows by adults 18-49 ),unlike the Renew/Cancel Index which predicts what would happen if the season ended now, Bubble Watch prognosticates about what will happen by May. The two are still usually closely aligned, and almost certainly very closely aligned towards the end of the season.

Note: only scripted shows that have aired at least one episode this season are in the table below.

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Show	Network	Status
666 Park Avenue	ABC	Canceled
Last Resort	ABC	Canceled
Made In Jersey	CBS	Canceled
Partners	CBS	Canceled
Animal Practice	NBC	Canceled
		tvbythenumbers.com
Emily Owens, M.D.	CW	Certain Cancellation
The Mob Doctor	Fox	Certain Cancellation
		tvbythenumbers.com
Don't Trust The B---- in Apartment 23	ABC	Likely Cancellation
Vegas	CBS	Likely Cancellation
Ben And Kate	Fox	Likely Cancellation
Guys With Kids	NBC	Likely Cancellation
Up All Night	NBC	Likely Cancellation
		tvbythenumbers.com
Happy Endings	ABC	On The Bubble
Last Man Standing	ABC	On The Bubble
Malibu Country	ABC	On The Bubble
Nashville	ABC	On The Bubble
Scandal	ABC	On The Bubble
CSI: NY	CBS	On The Bubble
The Good Wife	CBS	On The Bubble
The Mentalist	CBS	On The Bubble
90210	CW	On The Bubble
Hart Of Dixie	CW	On The Bubble
Nikita	CW	On The Bubble
Beauty And The Beast	CW	On The Bubble
The Mindy Project	Fox	On The Bubble
Chicago Fire	NBC	On The Bubble
		tvbythenumbers.com
Castle	ABC	Likely Renewal
Neighbors, The	ABC	On The Bubble, Sorry About the Sort/Color
Suburgatory	ABC	Likely Renewal
The Middle	ABC	Likely Renewal
CSI	CBS	Likely Renewal
Elementary	CBS	Likely Renewal
Hawaii Five-0	CBS	Likely Renewal
How I Met Your Mother	CBS	Likely Renewal
Two and a Half Men	CBS	Likely Renewal
Bones	Fox	Likely Renewal
The Cleveland Show	Fox	Likely Renewal
Law & Order: SVU	NBC	Likely Renewal
Parks & Recreation	NBC	Likely Renewal
The New Normal	NBC	Likely Renewal
		tvbythenumbers.com
Grey's Anatomy	ABC	Certain Renewal
Modern Family	ABC	Certain Renewal
Once Upon A Time	ABC	Certain Renewal
Revenge	ABC	Certain Renewal
2 Broke Girls	CBS	Certain Renewal
Blue Bloods	CBS	Certain Renewal
Criminal Minds	CBS	Certain Renewal
Mike & Molly	CBS	Certain Renewal
NCIS	CBS	Certain Renewal
NCIS: Los Angeles	CBS	Certain Renewal
Person Of Interest	CBS	Certain Renewal
Arrow	CW	Certain Renewal
Supernatural	CW	Certain Renewal
The Vampire Diaries	CW	Certain Renewal
Glee	Fox	Certain Renewal
New Girl	Fox	Certain Renewal
Raising Hope	Fox	Certain Renewal
Go On	NBC	Certain Renewal
Grimm	NBC	Certain Renewal
Parenthood	NBC	Certain Renewal
Revolution	NBC	Certain Renewal
		tvbythenumbers.com
The Big Bang Theory	CBS	Renewed
American Dad	Fox	Renewed
Bob's Burgers	Fox	Renewed
Family Guy	Fox	Renewed
The Simpsons	Fox	Renewed
		tvbythenumbers.com
Private Practice	ABC	Canceled/Final Season
Gossip Girl	CW	Final Season
Fringe	Fox	Final Season
30 Rock	NBC	Final Season
The Office	NBC	Final Season

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