2012 TV Renewals and Cancellations

Here is our report on which TV favorites are returning for yet another season and which shows have been cancelled by the networks.

I, personally, am mourning the loss of a few of my favorite programs. Did yours make the cut?

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Renewed:

ABC

Apartment 23
The Bachelor
The Bachelorette
Body of Proof
Castle
Cougar Town (Note: Cougar Town has been picked up by TBS)
Dancing With The Stars
Grey’s Anatomy
Happy Endings
Last Man Standing
The Middle
Modern Family
Once Upon A Time (Woohoo! We love this show)
Private Practice
Revenge
Scandal
Shark Tank
Suburgatory

CBS

2 Broke Girls
The Amazing Race
The Big Bang Theory
Blue Bloods (I keep expecting this to get cancelled. I don’t know why.)
Criminal Minds
CSI
The Good Wife
Hawaii Five-0 (We love this show! Amazing cast!)
How I Met Your Mother
The Mentalist
Mike & Molly
NCIS
NCIS:LA
Person of Interest (This is our new favorite show of the season! Great cast, great story, fantastic acting. I love it!)
Survivor
Two and a Half Men
Undercover Boss

While looking at this list, it’s become apparent to me that CBS is on point this season with a great selection of successful shows and genres.

FOX

American Dad
Bones
The Cleveland Show
Family Guy
Fringe (Final season)
Glee (Be sure to check out and stay updated with our Glee coverage)
Kitchen Nightmares
New Girl
Raising Hope
The Simpsons
Touch
The X Factor

NBC

 30 Rock (Renewed for a shortened final season)
Community (Renewed for a shortened season)
Fashion Star
Grimm
Law and Order: SVU
Parenthood
Parks and Recreation
Smash
Up All Night (Renewed for a shortened season)
Whitney

The CW

 90210
Gossip Girl (Renewed for a shortened final season)
Hart of Dixie
Nikita
Supernatural
The Vampire Diaries

 

Cancelled:

ABC

 Charlie’s Angels
Desperate Housewives (Series finale will air this May)
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
GCB
Man Up
Missing
Pan Am
The River
Work It

CBS

 How To Be A Gentleman

FOX

Alcatraz
Allen Gregory
Breaking In
The Finder
House
I Hate My Teenage Daughter
Terra Nova (Still bitter about this one. The cast was so nice)

 

NBC

Are You There, Chelsea?
Awake
Bent
Best Friends Forever
Chuck
Free Agents
Harry’s Law
The Playboy Club
The Prime Suspect
The Firm

THE CW

H8R
One Tree Hill
Ringer
The Secret Circle

Other Rickey.org favorites Pretty Little Liars, True Blood, Psych, Switched at Birth, and The Lying Game have also been renewed while favorites like Make It Or Break It will not be returning.

The CW has picked up 5 new series for the Fall:

The Carrie Diaries (Sex and the City prequel)
Beauty and the Beast
Arrow
Cult
First Cut

ABC has also picked up eight new shows for their own lineup. Probably half of these will be cancelled.

Nashville (a musical soap)
Zero Hour
Red Window
Last Resort (Max Adler of Glee is in this!!)
666 Park Avenue
The Neighbors
Family Tools
How To Live With Your Parents

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