A lot of people’s favorite Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles is rumored to have been axed as of this time, although there is still no offiicial word out yet from Fox.
Aside from the ratings reason as cause for cancellation, my guess is that the CGI costs too much to make?
The set for the show was even reportedly torn down many weeks before the recent season finale last week.
More reasons on why this cake is baked is that Brian Austin Green has signed on with the CW Series “Body Politics” and is committed to at least 8 episodes. BAG also told Korbi Ghosh at Zap2it that he “was down” for making an appearance on 90210 sometime later this spring. You can’t do either of these if you are tied down to a series.
In other TV news….
90210 — 90210 has been canceled! But only in Australia last year! It sucks, why don’t they cancel this show full of malnourished misfit bitches? Tough luck, a show like this even got renewed for a second season.
Prison Break – the first of the last 6 episodes of PB season 4 returns this week with episode 17. I’ve hated this since middle of season 2. Just finishing the franchise!
Fringe – heck, even cult fave fringe is about to be canceled as well! Though the numbers weren’t bad (nine million), they were likely a few million less than what FOX execs were hoping for.
more from tvby the numbers
let’s look at the scripted show situation at FOX. First, here’s a list of FOX shows that have already been renewed or cancelled:
| Network | Already Canceled | Already Renewed |
| FOX | Do Not Disturb | Til Death |
| FOX | Prison Break (ending) | The Simpsons |
| FOX | King of the Hill (ending)* | 24 |
| FOX | Family Guy | |
| FOX | House |
*While FOX has announced its plans to end King of the Hill’s run, if memory serves the final episodes will actually air in the fall of 2009. A couple of other notes on this table:
While I don’t recall seeing a formal announcement about Family Guy’s renewal, FOX did do a nine figure deal with Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane through 2012. Family Guy is a demo beast, especially with adults 18-34 and I’m counting it as already being renewed.
Similarly, I haven’t seen a formal announcement for House, but it’s FOX’s highest rated scripted show, there’s no way it’s not coming back. It’s an NBC Universal produced show and NBC would pick it up in 2 seconds if FOX didn’t. And I think you can look at Hugh Laurie signing a deal that makes him about $9 million a year (or $400,000) an episode through the 2011-2012 season to mean House has already been renewed for the next two upcoming seasons.
OK, now onto the shows with less formal statuses:
| Network | Won’t be renewed | Will be renewed | Not Sure Yet |
| FOX | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | American Dad | Sit Down, Shut Up |
| FOX | Dollhouse | Fringe | |
| FOX | Bones | ||
| FOX | Lie to Me | ||
Please note, these are only predictions, and not based on any formal announcements. But, they aren’t predictions based on show quality or my mood, or pulled completely out of the air. They are based on numbers and other available data. But as you can see there is much less uncertainty (at least for me) with FOX’s shows when compared to NBC’s and ABC’s.
