Renew / Cancel Posts Are Taking A Break, Look For the Next CW Renew / Cancel Post On February 23.

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through January 31, 2010):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010; Officially Canceled
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season
• Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Life Unexpected’s adults 18-49 ratings for its first three episodes (1.1, 1.1, 1.0) put it solidly in the middle range of CW shows and if it can hold there it looks good for renewal. Note that Life Unexpected’s ratings average includes only new episodes, while the rest of the CW show averages contain many repeat airings.

And, if to do no more than let folks know who haven’t been paying attention, Melrose Place will certainly be canceled at the end of the season.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

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Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through January 24, 2010):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010; Officially Canceled
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season
• Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Life Unexpected’s premiere with a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating beat the virtual tumbleweeds of the CW’s big mid-season repeat gap, but last night it fell to a 1.0 rating (1.1 final rating). A post-premiere ratings drop is not unusual, and at that level it would still certainly be renewed, but the problems come if it keeps falling. Stay tuned.

And, if to do no more than let folks know who haven’t been paying attention, Melrose Place will certainly be canceled at the end of the season.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through January 17, 2010):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season
• Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Life Unexpected’s premiere ratings Monday night (which won’t make it into the Index until next week), beat the virtual tumbleweeds of the CW’s big mid-season repeat gap, to debut at levels that would put it among the top CW shows for adults 18-49. Where its ratings settle will determine its fate.

And, if to do no more than let folks know who haven’t been paying attention, Melrose Place will be canceled at the end of the season.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through January 10, 2010):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Several CW shows haven’t aired a new episode in their regular timeslots since the week ending November 22. If you start your season weeks ahead of everybody else (and pull one of your new shows after 2 episodes) you end up with a lot of repeat air in the middle of the season. Yikes.

And, back on topic, Melrose Place will still be canceled at the end of the season. Life Unexpected arrives next week (but sadly not in the Index for two more weeks).

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through January 3, 2010):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Since there have been few new episodes aired in the past two weeks, I thought it would be a good time to review CW’s mid-season scripted show situation this year compared to last year.

Mid-season 2008-9:

• 2 shows canceled (Easy Money, Valentine)
• 3 more shows ultimately canceled (Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, Privileged)

Mid-season 2009-10:

• 1 show canceled (The Beautiful Life)
• 1 show in significant danger (Melrose Place)

Fewer moving parts in the CW’s lineup means far simpler comparisons to last season. Just as Privileged was last season’s new fall ratings loser that hung on into the spring, this season it’s Melrose Place. Their fates will be the same.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through December 20, 2009):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Melrose Place ratings are so woeful, and its chances of being canceled at the end of the season so certain, that its last two new episodes (with 0.7 adults 18-49 ratings) failed to beat repeats of Supernatural, Smallville and (several) Vampire Diaries over the last 3 weeks.

Speaking of repeats, the CW’s practice of starting their season two weeks ahead of the rest of the official start of the broadcast season is coming home to roost. In the last four weeks they’ve aired a total of eight new episodes of scripted shows.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through December 13, 2009):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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If you get the sense I’m running out of things to say about Melrose Place being the only show on the CW that’s likely to be canceled at the end of the season, and there’s still a lot more season to go, you’d be correct. The new mid-season show (now named Life Unexpected, previously Life UneXpected, feel the letter case changing buzz!)  cannot arrive soon enough.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story

Our Renew / Cancel Index predicts potential renewal or cancellation for scripted broadcast primetime shows for the 2010-11 season (results through December 6, 2009):

• Likely To Be Canceled By May, 2010
• Some Danger Of Being Canceled By May, 2010
• Likely to Be Renewed For The 2010-11 Season

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Since its ratings are nearly the only good news that the CW’s had all season, of course Vampire Diaries will be renewed for next season. In fact, it’s more likely that the CW’s name will be changed to The Vampire Diaries Network, than that Melrose Place will survive until next season.

*I have frozen The Beautiful Life’s Index at its value the week of cancellation.

This is a breakdown of CW scripted shows and their renewal and cancellation prospects. Here are links to the other networks:

Read the full story