CBS handed down cancellations to five freshman shows today as they join
We Are Men. All of the CBS cancellations this year were to new shows, a rarity as they usually cancel at least one veteran show (not counting the ending (by choice)
How I Met Your Mother).
Probably the most painful cancellation was
The Crazy Ones. This was a big attempt by CBS to get in the single camera game and boasted the return of Robin Williams to TV for the first time in decades. Premiering after the season premiere of
The Big Bang Theory in the tentpole 9pm Thursday slot, it debuted to huge numbers and did well for a little while. But things started to fall apart in late fall as the show was losing a ton of its lead-in and contributing to a consistent slide as Thursday night went on. It eventually lost its tentpole slot and swapped with
Two and a Half Men before ending its season early so the writing was on the wall.
Two of the most recent entries were also cancelled:
Friends with Better Lives and
Bad Teacher.
Friends premiered after the series finale of
How I Met Your Mother and had disappointing numbers but it held up OK once it started following
2 Broke Girls in the new CBS Monday lineup. This was one that truly could have gone either way but it seems like CBS is leaning heavily on dramas for next season.
Bad Teacher premiered to decent numbers after
The Crazy Ones ended, but it all fell apart in the second week with a huge drop so this was not surprising. Its cancellation means that CBS so far does not have any single camera sitcoms planned for next season.
Least surprising was the cancellations of
Hostages and
Intelligence. The two shared the Monday 10pm timeslot.
Hostages was annihilated by
The Blacklist from week one while
Intelligence had a huge debut in a preview after
NCIS but then crashed and burned the very next Monday.
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