A major house cleaning is underway at NBC.
The network has axed 1600 Penn, Guys With Kids, Up All Night and Whitney — with more cancellations expected later today.
They join previously cancelled Peacock series Deception, Animal Practice and Do No Harm.
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Which cancellation are you more bummed about?!
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Save Community!!!
Agreed.
Yes!
I’m so nervous about Community!
Every time i get into a show they cancel it. 1600 penn is very funny im mad.
No.
I am really bummed out about Touch being cancelled!
Next up: Community.
I will not be remotely surprised if someone puts the sad, walking dead husk of the show Community out of it’s zombie misery. Other people are still enjoying it apparently, though, so I kinda hope it gets picked up for them even if I’m not watching. The end of season 3 was a great series finale, so I got what I wanted out of it.
Yup. Can’t even root for it anymore. It’s not the star it once was. Such a shame.
Since the above comment worked I’d like to take the time to ask TVLine why most of my comments in the last few days have not posted. Nothing offensive about them so what gives?
I seem to have been having a couple glitches with comments today, too. Must just be a site problem or something.
Community has the fact that it’s 16 episodes away from syndication in its favor. A final season of 16-22 episodes would put it in syndication zone. Hopefully that pans out.
I’m more worried for the totally mismanaged gem that is Hannibal. Not since Firefly have I been worried for a show with such a wonderful cast. Deadline is reporting that chances for a second season are looking quite good. 13 episodes a season, relatively low costs for filming and critical praise. Hopefully they market it better, because it definitely could be on par with shows like Dexter, Walking Dead and other premium shows. Miles ahead of Fox’s the Following.
Hannibal was a show I was immensely curious about, however because of its risque subject matter I decided to wait and see if it was renewed before becoming attached. Somehow networks don’t see this as a possibility when they axe shows or go on a long hiatus between episodes!
Comedy Central already has a syndication deal for Community.
off network syndication pays a lot more
I hope Go On makes it :(
Me too, it really hit its stride the last 11 eps. It’s got potential to be a really hilarious show. Please keep it NBC!
I hope Go On makes it too, I really do enjoy that show.
Go On is great, I hope to season 2 and beyond!
Me too! I love Go On!
Me too. I love that show. It’s a great ensemble. I think they have awesome places to go!
agreed. It’s gotten to be quite funny.
But I couldn’t be happier that “Whitney” was finally cancelled. How it got a 2nd season is beyond me….
Same here. Go On is a beloved show in my house. It is one of the few shows that crack me up while making me cry.
Same here, every time a renewel article pops up I look for it! The end of the season got so much better I’m really excited to see what comes next – hopefully we’ll get the chance.
I agree. I just started watching it, hate to see it go already. Give it a chance. d
Oh man, starting that off with a picture of Matthew Perry was not nice… He needs to be on a renewal post, not this one!! PLEASE
I know!! that was awful
Bahaha.There is a God and he hates Whitney!
Did you watch Whitney. After a very rough start it turned into a pretty good show. But it’s cool to hate on it i guess.
Refreshing and a new take. Not formulaic yet. Looked forward to seeing Whitney each week. Hard to follow with all the pre-emptions and time changes…All the good ones get canned too early.
Whitney was one of “my” shows, a guilty pleasure that I watched without my dh. I’m majorly bummed. Loved the quick and snappy one-liners. I will miss this show.
Damn straight. About time that dreck was sent to the garbage bin.
I was honestly shocked that it took them this long to cancel it.
Where’s the community news?!?!!
More cancellations? Wow they are on a major spree today
Whitney was terrible but I really liked 1600 Penn :(
Agreed on both counts. 1600 Penn had potential.
bs’d
I think that makes three os us :)
and that baby reveal at the end!!! so mad I won’t get any resolution with that storyline!
Guys With Kids needed that 2nd season. Cancelling it is just stupid.
I liked 1600 Penn. Skip was great,
Skip was awesome! :) definitely the best part. oh well. ya can’t win them all :(
I wish that guy could find a show that won’t get cancelled. He is incredibly funny.
Indeed. It started out weak, but it really found its groove later on.
U SUCK NBC no wonder CBS IS #1. U CONTINUE TO CANCEL EVERYTHING GOOD. WHITNEY OVER PARKS & REC. REALLY?
So cancelling the higher rated Park & Rec, while renewing the lower rated Whitney is your strategy for making NBC #1?
I know you’re being sarcastic, but it almost comes off as genuine. Try not using the caps lock next time.
I agree… I hate parks. They have No format ….for this! Why oh why????
You too? Tons of sarcasm today!
i love you danny
I love love LOVE Parks, but I also love love LOVE Whitney. Keep them both! Lol. With the cancellations of other shows, they totally have room to keep Whitney AND bring more shows. Put Whitney on the same night of their high rated shows and I know it would get good ratings. Those other shows didn’t do well because they just weren’t funny, but I think Whitney could have done well if they stuck to one time slot and better placed. Ughhh I’m pissed. Happy Endings & Whitney canceled… I’m scared to read more articles.
If Go On doesn’t make it, NBC will have cancelled the last primetime show I had any interest in watching on their network.
I’m trying to think of something other than Go On that I watch on NBC … oh! I still love Parenthood!! But other than that, I have no use for NBC if Go On is gone.
That is so sad, yet so true. NBC really needs a hit.. and I’m not talking about Revolution or The Voice..
Grimm!
I think Grimm’s already been renewed.
Whitney was ok, but 1600 Penn was unwatchable.
^ otm. Josh Gad should have to serve a year or two in exile for his character and his whole show.
Agreed!
Hahahahaha, yes. Yes he should.
Disappointed … maybe even more so about 1600 Penn … it was so cute! Whitney was tiresome after the gay twist and exit.
Not Community. Not Community. Not Community…
THIS.
I watched Whitney. It has some genuine laugh-out-loud moments. It was a very underrated show.
I agree – but the first year was the best – this year has been kind of off the rails
I really loved Whitney the first season, and they ended the first one on such a great closing place. I still watched S2, and I’m so glad about Mark and Roxanne.
I didn’t watch the first season because of horrible reviews, I caught an episode this season and fell in love. It consistently made me laugh, I’m sad it’s been sacked. :(
one of my dvd shows….but if you watched the last episode of this season, the handwriting was on the wall….they knew they weren’t coming back
Sorry for fans of those shows, but every non-Community show cancelled is a little more wiggle room for Community….
Good point . . . gives me some hope. Although I must admit this season has pretty much sucked.
i don’t think nbc knows what a good show is whitney is an awesome and it’s only getting better , this is why nbc is loosing rateings
You are right, NBC doesn’t know what a good show is, which is why they cancelled 4 of their comedies today and 1 earlier in the year. Whitney was awful. Plain and simple. Parks and Rec is pretty much the best comedy they have. I could never get into Go On or Community, but they aren’t too bad. Just not my kind of comedy, I guess. Regardless, I’m glad NBC is cleaning house with their comedies. Most of them suck. I don’t see how you think Whitney is awesome. Oddest thing I’ve ever heard.
NBC hasn’t had a good comedy since Frasier, and yes that includes The Office!
NBC is a off my list of networks I will watch. They tease and pull out. Both Crisis and Believe were my favorites. Ratings are never accurate and reality tv has taken over because of the pathetic lives most Americans live. Next Honey Boo Boo will be in NBC prime time. As a cable paying customer with 200 plus channels I wish I could have more control but this communist society I live in provides over 150 of my 200 channels with reality garbage and NBC has just joined that list. I would also add as a paying customer that pulling the plug without a season ending episode is unethical and part of the growing socialist change.
I’m pretty sure Go On was renewed already.
No it wasn’t and the ratings were starting to take a hit.
Refresh Button Torture
LOL me too
Glad I’m not the only one :D.
Crossing fingers “Community” will get at least one more season.
I know they won’t survive, but I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for Guys with Kids and Hannibal.
Hannibal has a TON of buzz. I’d honestly be amazed if it DIDN’T get renewed.
Guys with kids was cancelled per this post.
@Chablis It wasn’t listed as cancelled in this article at the time of Nerdbot’s post.
My kids love Guys with Kids. It’s sad when you lose shows that your whole family can watch together. Some of the shows that are on prime time should be on cable with the language and innuendo.
All of the adults, myself included, and kids I know loved Guys With Kids. Of course it was going to get cancelled because it was actually funny without being tasteless – and then they put it on after The Queen of Trash, Whitney? Which somehow managed two seasons? An outrage!
The season ending really needed that second season. I’m crying because I only just watched it (I’m in Australia) and I wanted to know what happens!!!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO damn You NBC!! 1600 had an awesome wtf cliffhanger!!! damn NBC damn it
The surprise I was hoping for the whole season!
bs’d
What abt Deception? I have been displeased with NBC since they cancelled Life with Damien Lewis for Prime Time with Jay Leno(how’d that work out?). :)
I’ll have a hard time ever forgiving that move.
I’m so glad for these cancellations. I hope that this means there’s more room on the schedule for ‘Hannibal’.
Pushing the ‘refresh’ button on TvLine every minute to see what fate NBC has given to the best comedy on television: COMMUNITY! #sicseasonsandamovie
I’m seeing a lot of love for Community, and I just don’t get it. It was excellent, but this year has been a train wreck. For those of you that love it (like I used to) I hope it gets renewed, but really, I just can’t watch it anymore.
Agreed but I’d give it another year to let the new showrunners some more time – they only had half a season to find their groove, and they could learn from their mistakes of S4…
I’ve been waiting for them to cancel Whitney since the first episode. I wanted to like 1600 Penn because I like so many people in the cast, but I couldn’t stand the older son. When I realized he was the brains behind the show and they couldn’t ditch him, I knew I wouldn’t be able to keep watching.
I know it’s not on NBC, but I really hope 2 Broke Girls gets canned next. I feel brain cells die when even just a commercial for that show comes on.
I could be wrong, but I think 2 Broke Girls got renewed. I believe CBS is just about through with all their renewals and cancellations, and they kept everything mostly the same.
I could not watch more then 10 minutes of the show each time I tried to watch.Who were the writer.?I was awful
“who were the writer.?!”
I tell you Witney was awful and hard to watch
To cable networks – Pick up 1600 Penn! The writing and cast are sharp and the series really never had a chance on NBC because no one watches the network anyway.
This post caused me to laugh, something 1600 never did.
I think NBC’s problem is not the shows… Whitney was good. But they are battling soooo many other channels. I think they need to revamp there line up. Oh when they banished Smash off to Saturday that was a great call… Saturday’s usually has nothing on…. I think NBC needs to put more SCI-fi shows on. Leave the dramatic shows for another networks. If I was them I would put Heroes back on the air or a show just like it. Male audiences drive networks especially when sports are not on. There you go shows about sports! Like a family racing drama, a show like Jerry Maguire… and reality tv will pass… I know people like it… but I think that is fading, could be wrong but follow players or those trying out for sports teams as a show…
Shows about sports is a great idea! I have an idea for one about a AA hockey team where the vetran and the rookie are after the same girl, but I’d probably have to change that to baseball for any of the networks to be interested.
first off, why whitney? the show was finally starting to get good. it’s an outrage that they are cancelling all these good shows only to keep stupid ones on. whitney was the last show i liked, and now it’s gone..so much for tv now.
Nooooooooooo I love Whitney!
I bet you like Two and a Half Men and paper cuts too
I really liked Whitey too. There is no way you watched so don’t give Whitney fans a hard time. You have no right to.
finally on Whitney, that should have been done awhile ago. But 1600 Penn I actually like :-) I was really looking forward to see how it all unfold it now that we know whose kid it really was..
I’m so glad whitney got cancelled, i could never stop watching it but i never really wanted to!!! as for the “more cancellations to come”.. three comedies are yet to be renewed; go on, guys with kids and community and i love all three and would love to see them all make it, especially community!
If Hannibal gets canceled, NBC really has no taste. Definitely my favorite new show this season. Give Bryan Fuller and company a chance.
They’re mismanaging it. It should be a shoe-in for large ratings. Dexter does wonderfully on Showtime but somehow this show is struggling when it has better story telling? If it does get cancelled, I hope one of the cable networks swoops in to pick it up.
I enjoyed 1600 Penn. It was a nice show. One of the few NBC has left. Hope Go On still makes it!!
i really liked 1600 penn! i think josh gad made a mistake pitching to nbc, they’re where good shows go to die :S
bs’d
True Dat!!!
Hannibal, Go On and full-season Community.
so glad to see Whitney cancelled. What a horrible show.
Hmm, I guess I thought those were already gone.
I’m sorry if this seems wrong to some of the little fans these shows had…but THANK YOU JESUS!!!
Please don’t cancel Community!!!!
wasn’t this their final season
It was supposed to be, but now there’s a chance it’ll get picked up for another 13 episodes. Here’s hoping…
No. There are still 2 seasons and a movie left.
^ THIS
I heard Hannibal was cancelled…. a while ago! What about Guys with Kids! That is a great show. As I said before they need to gear TV towards men… I know you think ESPN and Spike TV…BUT no! I am talking about using a platform for a shows that are geared towards male friendly shows example Guys with KIds :P
please keep the Go On the New Normal and Guys with kids please!
He might have been great in Book of Mormon on Broadway but 1600 Penn proved that Gad is definitely not someone we want to watch in a network series week after week. Same thing was true of Oliver Platf.
Except Oliver Platt is AMAZING week to week in The Big C.
That isn’t a NETWORK show, Jen. Big difference. And Laura Linney carries that show, anyway.
Jon Benjamin Hickey is incredible.
I can assure you he was excellent in Book of Mormon. I got box seats, and he stole the show. I thought 1600 Penn was fun, and Bruce Campbell’s guest appearance was hysterical. But I guess not everyone felt the same way.
I’ll predict that Go On,The New Normal and Community will be the only renewals along with Parks and Recreation.
Good heavens, please.
‘Whitney’ had its moments but didn’t consistently deliver laughs. The only compelling part of the show was the dynamic between Whitney and Alex and even that grew tiresome. I want to like ‘Go On’ because I am a huge ‘Friends’ fan, but ‘Go On’ just isn’t funny at all to me. I want to like ‘Hannibal’ too but that show also doesn’t draw me in. It should be a great show with the interesting premise of a serial killer/cannibal but Hugh Dancy’s delivery just doesn’t do anything for me. Is he trying to have Aspergers because he isn’t pulling it off well at all.
Whitney was underrated. Yes it wasn’t perfect, but it’s much better than it ever gets credit for. Great cast and chemistry between them.
Save The New Normal!!
I thought Whitney improved a lot in season two. 1600 Penn was awful. If Goon ;-) goes on, I hope they do a major overhaul in the cast and concept (get rid of the group therapy and focus more on Ryan’s career. Maybe hire Anne and Owen to work at the station.
I agree with those who hope Guys With Kids comes back. Sure, it’s an old-school sitcom, but it was genuinely funny and the cast works well together. Anthony Anderson and Tempestt Bledsoe are the standouts on that show! Great chemistry!
Ugh, Whitney is hilarious. Damn you, NBC.
boooo! I really liked 1600 Penn. :-(
The New Normal is getting axed next.
The New Normal is another show that deserves to stay. It kept getting better and better. NBC is going to lose their entire audience except The Voice people.
WHITNEY…..noooooooooooooooooo! I LOVE Whitney! Hey other networks…..Like ABC, where this would fit in nicely, don’t let it become extinct. Take it over. Adding the bar set this year was good to give them some other place to hang out. I personally don’t care for 2 Broke Girls….but I love this! Love the chemistry between Whit and Chris…love the supporting players. This series deserves to keep on going….somewhere else, besides NBC where they will be appreciated.
I really liked Whitney as well. I knew it was doomed months ago when they pulled it from the schedule for months. After seeing this happen time and time again the writing was on the wall. Still I have to say it is upsetting to think I was right in this regards. Usually I love being right!
I like Whitney – sorry to see it go!