HBO's 'Girls,' Renewed & TBS's 'Wedding Band' Canceled - Scripted Cable Renew/Cancel Status Through January 25, 2013

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1. Richard Steven Hack

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 1:14 PM

   From now on, I’m going to save my posts in a text file, so I don’t have to rekey them when they end up in the spam filter…

2. Dan

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 1:48 PM

   @Nick – You’re right about Bunheads and Lying Game, for some reason I had them mixed up. However while Justified is lower than American Horror Story and Sons of Anarchy, is FX really willing to cancel their stil high rated and critically acclaimed drama series, especially when they don’t know how The Americans will fare and Justified has been the best spring drama FX has had since Rescue Me and Nip/Tuck aired in the spring.

   FX is desperate for dramas so if a drama does well for them they will stick with it that same time every year. If The Americans does well than I can see

   Justified and The Americans being a spring staple
   Sons of Anarchy and American Horror Story are a fall staple
   and eventually FX may want to introduce a new drama to the Summer.

   ABC Family does this. Out of 2 dramas debuted each year 1 usually gets extended and the other gets axed after 1 season. Examples include Pretty Little Liars and Huge. If 3 dramas premiere 2 get renewed for more eps as part of Season 1, 1 gets axed and out of those 2 survive beyond season 1. Examples for those include Switched at Birth, The Lying Game and Nine Lives of Chloe King, where King was cancelled and TLG and SAB both got second seasons but whereas SAB will likely become the new Secret Life and PLL. Sometimes a show that gets extended wont get the second season as evidenced with Jane By Design, 10 Things I Hate About You, and likely Bunheads. I doubt The Lying Game will survive beyond a second season.

   My final guess based on ABC’s trends
   Switched at Birth after airing it’s 20 episode second season will get a third season as it is the new Secret Life/Pretty Little Liars of the network.
   Bunheads will probably be cancelled after it’s first season is over but I wouldn’t rule out a second year.
   The Lying Game will probably be cancelled as well after this season but again I wouldn’t rule out a short third season a la Make it Or Break It.
   Secret Life is ending this year after 5 years.

3. Bill Gorman

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 1:51 PM

   “Back in the spam filter again… I think that was a Western song, right?”

   Freed, but no clue whatsoever why it was trapped. My guesses that we had either “rape” or “rapist” manually on the list turned out to be wrong, and none of the other words seemed likely.

4. Nick

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 5:30 PM

   @Dan

   Both Wikipedia and IMDb say nothing about a renewal for Ugly Americans. I’d assume nothing official has come out. However, it had terrible ratings and it has not been on the air since April.

5. Nick

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 5:48 PM

   @Dan

   Yeah, those are all good points. Justified will certainly be renwwed.

   However, I’m sticking with my guess that The Lying Game will be renewed. It had even worse retention out of Pretty Little Liars before, and was still renewed. It’s coming back, unless ABC Family loves all of its upcoming pilots.

6. Richard Steven Hack

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 6:29 PM

   Bill: I’m resigned to the fact that the spam filter just doesn’t like my tone of voice.

   It’s like the recent news that people can be identified by their choice of words. Researchers were able to identify various people by their writing styles with 80 percent success with as little as 5,000 words of text. It’s called stylometry.

   Your spam filter – since I started posting here around early 2009 – has just now decided it doesn’t like my “style”.

   Come to think of it, neither do most people.

7. The End

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 7:05 PM

   I’m left wondering when TNT will air Season 3 of Falling Skies. Production is finished on the show, it ended in December. Adding special effects won’t take a huge amount of time. I would hate to see the network sit on it till June again. I would love an earlier premiere.

8. The End

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 7:09 PM

   And speaking of Anger Management. I think the show will be one of those programs that slowly builds an audience, and if it doesn’t see an audience by the time we’re on the final season. I think it’l be dead in the water. It’l all depend on how much FX wants Charlie Sheen on their network.

   The show will be filming quite a lot of episodes a year, they’l have to make a decision in the next 2 years if they want more than the 90 episodes ordered. And to be honest 100 episodes is fine for a TV show. If it ends there, I doubt a huge amount of people will be upset.

9. Dan

   Posted January 26, 2013 at 8:51 PM

   Hopefully TBS will steer clear of original hour-long scripted comedies for a while. “Glory Daze” and “Wedding Band” were both horrible and cancelled–deservedly–after 10 episodes.

10. DenverDean

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 5:27 AM

    @Richard Steven “HACK” – perhaps that’s the word that triggers the spam filter!

11. omabin

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 7:52 AM

    I am okay with my cable shows for now, but then again, I don’t watch too many. I would like that official confirmation on cougar town to come sooner rather than later, but i think it will be back, so it’s cool

12. Rebecca

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 8:45 AM

    I wish they’d say something soon about Curb. I wonder how late Larry waits to decide.

13. Data

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 9:14 AM

    @Rebecca: Larry David is currently working on a movie called Clear History for HBO. I don’t expect him to announce any future plan for Curb until that one is done and has aired.

14. Kevin

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 4:44 PM

    Robert Seidman, you’ve listed a few shows that haven’t premiered yet and noticed that one is missing from A&E – Bates Motel first season 10 episodes.

15. Rishi

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 5:05 PM

    Looking forward to The Americans. Will be interesting to see if the show works (both conceptually and ratings wise).

16. Dan

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 6:48 PM

    @Nick – We’ll see about The Lying Game and Bunheads, the fate of Bunheads will probably be decided sooner than TLG only because Bunheads will be done in February so like Jnae by Design ABC family will probably axe it shortly after but if their summer shows click, than ABC family can very well axe Lying Game too leaving Pretty Little Liars and Switched at Birth as their only dramas left after Secret Life ends its run. Only time will tell.

    Also you’re probably right about Ugly Americans, the 7 episodes that aired last March behind South Park were leftovers from the 17 episode Second season that Comedy Central ordered in March 2010 (the first 10 of which aired behind Futurama in the summer of 2011). So the shows been out of production for a while now, Though I wish Comedy Central would officially announce its cancellation.

    @Rebecca – Data is right, Larry has a lot of things going on now so a new season probably wont air until 2014 at the earliest. But its the type of show that each season if 1 self contained story so such a gap wont affect the show at all.

17. MVProductions44

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 7:28 PM

    Um correct me if I’m wrong Robert but hasn’t Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse already wrapped their 35 episodes; the season finale was in December! I think we’re waiting on renewal or cancellation now!

18. The Cool Max

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 8:31 PM

    Again, need to add Comic Book Men under AMC.

19. Brian

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 11:17 PM

    @The Cool Max – Comic Book Men isn’t a scripted show. That’s why it’s not listed here.

20. Robert Seidman

    Posted January 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM

    @MVProductions: you are correct. I’ll remove the status line. Thanks.