Still No Word on 'The Walking Dead' or 'Alphas' - Scripted Cable Series Renew/Cancel Status Though November 25

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1. Robert Seidman

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 11:57 AM

   It turned out that Unsupervised was renewed after all?

   nope, that’s just a vestige of when I changed the status to a blank no status, I updated it within the post directly but did not blank it out in my spreadsheet so the next time I pasted the spreadsheet in I overwrote my correction (now fixed in the spreadsheet too, thanks!).

   The first-line PR contact for the show at FX couldn’t give me a comment and bounced me to someone higher who I have not yet heard back from. Normally I would view that as an indication that the news probably isn’t good, but in this case it’s just as likely I got lost in the shuffle. I’ll ping him again.

2. Hillbilly

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 12:02 PM

   I hope Alphas gets renewed. Want to see Gary rescue Bill & hold it over him.

3. DeeAgeaux

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 12:36 PM

   Glad TBS Wedding Band Added to list.

   Ryan Cartwright,who plays Gary on Alphas, said decision on renewal pushed back to “mid-December.”

4. Leverage-Fan

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 12:37 PM

   What about “Leverage”? This is frustrating and becomes harder every day!!!

5. MJDB

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 12:48 PM

   @Robert Seidman

   OK, thank you.

6. david

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM

   Great job on the list of shows. Pretty much all the shows i watch have been renewed.

7. lorie

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 1:21 PM

   I really liked the killing… also. American horror story is awesome so hopefully never cancelled..

8. Oliver

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 1:35 PM

   Alternative headline: “Feature Nobody Reads About Shows Nobody Watches”

9. SarahL

   Posted November 25, 2012 at 2:10 PM

   @Robert Seidman

   I’m sure it boils down to financial negotiations and the people on the show thinking “Hey, we want to be PAID!” It delays the renewal announcement but generally a good problem for AMC to have.

   I think you are right. You just know that with amazingly high ratings and Mad Men with only one remaining season, the TWD actors along with the producers want a much better deal.

10. Doug

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 2:33 PM

    @JJ – I would bet my ass that AMC wants to up the episode order of TWD. It’s probably their only original drama making money, and it’s probably making a wad of it.

11. mayorofsmpleton

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 2:58 PM

    TWD is a huge hit for AMC, and all around for cable. I wouldn’t mind a bigger episode order. Season 3 has shown they know what they are doing now and each episode has been amazing so far this year. They can easily handle doing an 18-22 episode season. Two runs of 8-11 episodes in the fall and the spring is what they will be gunning for.

12. Richard Steven Hack

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 3:15 PM

    Robert: Why bother with a show aired in the current year if the show has been canceled since before the current season? Sanctuary was canceled back in May.

13. Robert Seidman

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 3:20 PM

    I picked an arbitrary line and it was “aired new episodes within the last year.”

14. suckerpuncher

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM

    Still missing Torchwood (Starz) and Primeval: New World (though it hasn’t aired yet on Syfy).

15. CrimTV

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 4:12 PM

    Just announced that Merlin’s 5th season will be it’s last

16. Robert Seidman

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 4:13 PM

    @sucker: things that haven’t aired aren’t on the list. Torchwood hasn’t aired an original episode in over a year and until I hear otherwise I’m just assuming it’s finished for now.

17. Anthony

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 4:14 PM

    I’m really surprised to see Starz canceled “Boss” after Season 2. I really enjoyed that show and Kelsey Grammar as mayor Tom Kane was fantastic! Bad move by Starz which has only 1 hit show with “Spartacus” (which is ending this final season) and “Magic City” is just decent at best.

18. Tommy Mickens

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 4:20 PM

    Thanks for the list again. All I can say is, it’ll be a shame if this list goes away since this is probably the best (and only?) place in the entire internet to so easily see all the main scripted cable shows and their statuses in one place. Hope the traffic picks up!

    One way to improve traffic…start making predictions! Even if they’re much more likely to be wrong or less scientific, we’d still love them and I can almost guarantee it would increase traffic to the list. Even just extremely safe predictions would be worth it…you already said one right in the intro this week – of course Walking Dead will be renewed. So you already have one “certain to be renewed”! I wouldn’t mind if that leaves most shows “on the bubble”.

    The only thing is, I do really like seeing the list separated by network like you have it now instead of the bubble watch prediction way of doing it by likelihood of renewal regardless of network. It’s so nice here to look from network to network and view their shows and statuses as a block rather than scrolling through the different renewal likelihood statuses to find all the different separated shows of one network like with the bubble watch.

19. Tommy Mickens

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 4:25 PM

    So for instance, one way you could do predictions is leave the list organised exactly how you have it now and just add an extra column for predictions. Then start by listing them all as “on the bubble”. Then perhaps just have three statuses for cable shows since it’s harder, such as “more likely to be canceled”, “on the bubble” and “more likely to be renewed”. Then go through all the shows using your common sense, such as changing The Walking Dead to “more likely to be renewed”, etc.

    Like I said last post, it may not be as “scientific” and there may be many, many more “on the bubble”, but it would be predictions, it would get more traffic and in time, as you continue doing it, you just may develop a more precise way of predicting them like you have with the network shows.

20. Robert Seidman

    Posted November 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM

    There are formatting issues with adding another column and as you note in your first comment almost all shows other than a few obvious renewals would be on the bubble.