Tommy Cancelled After 1 Season at CBS
Cop, out.
CBS‘ Edie Falco-fronted Tommy will not be returning for a second season, TVLine has learned, making it one of but a few series not included in the network’s mass renewal announcement on Wednesday. [pmc_inline_gallery]
The drama was one of four CBS series to get the ax Wednesday, along with the freshman sitcoms Carol’s Second Act and Broke, as well as the Matt LeBlanc staple Man With a Plan.
Heading into its May 7 finale, Tommy is averaging just shy of a 0.5 rating along with 4.9 million total viewers (in Live+Same Day numbers), on par with time slot predecessor Evil in the demo while delivering a 36 percent larger audience. Among the 18 dramas that CBS has aired this season — four of which have ended or already been cancelled — it ranks next-to-last in the demo (topping only Madam Secretary) while placing No. 14 in audience.
Tommy, which debuted in early February, stars four-time Emmy winner Falco as Abigail Thomas, a former high-ranking NYPD officer who becomes the first female chief of police for Los Angeles. A true blue New Yorker, “Tommy” uses her unflinching honesty and hardball tactics to keep social, political and national security issues from hindering effective law enforcement in the Southland.
TVLine’s 2020 Renewal Scorecard has been updated to reflect Tommy’s fate.
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Not surprised and not saddened at all by this news. Show was DOA
I enjoy watching Tommie. This is a show that hints at the notion that a woman can’t possibly handle being the top cop in L.A. And not just a female but a lesbian AND mother. And not just a mother, a mother with a child of mixed race.
Then there is the scene where Coop is being touted as the next chief. YOU CANNOT LEAVE US (Me) HANGING ON WONDERING HOW THIS IS GOING TO GET RESOLVED. I mean Really, you got me so excited for the season finale and looking forward to season 2 and you sucker punch me with Tommie Is Leaving The Station and not coming back? FYI: 97% of the shows I watch are on CBS… at least for now. I do hope you’ll give (If You Must)Tommie a proper send off. I know I’m just one person but who knows… maybe I’m not.
BTW, I guess I’m a bit lost. How do know that I was one viewers of the show? Just wondering how you figure out who’s watching.
I, too, watch CBS 97% of the time. I agree with all you had to say and I am outraged that this wonderful show has been canceled. They didn’t even try to give it a chance. In the past, when a good show had poor ratings, they’d switch the day and time of the show to a better slot. Why couldn’t they do that this time?
i agree. They never gave Tommy a chance. I think it has definitely got a fabulous chance of doing well.
You took the words right out of my mouth. We love it. I can’t believe my eyes when I see the list of shows renewed then they get rid of this great show. And YES, they left us hanging.
They didn’t leave us hanging about Tommy. She kept her job, but they did leave us hanging about the mayor, who was sleazy. I was disappointed this didn’t get a 2nd season. I hope Edie goes back to cable where she seems to do better.
Good idea about cable! Netflix could pick it up.
Sad thing about Netflix, we don’t all get that
Amen! Love Tommy!!! I hope they will at the very least, wrap it up!
i love that show.
I agree. Loved the show.
I truly enjoyed Tommy and thought it was a great solid show. I’m saddened that it was canceled. Hopefully the powers that be will change their mind.
Right!!! How can we change their minds? Tommy was great!!
LB i also watched Tommy and mostly all CBS shows. I am seeing a constant trend of shows with strong female leads being cancelled. I am about done with network TV.
I had the same feelings. I love the show and couldn’t wait until the next show aired. A strong woman, standing up for the good. What man decided this show needed to be canceled? So sad!
I think Tommy was the best new show on TV. The writing and especially Edie Falco’s portrayal was just what was needed. Her demeanor was just the right mix of intelligent stern, honest,understated strength that we would hope armed forces leaders would act. I’m so disappointed, even outraged that it won’t be coming back. It was so good!!
I’m with you.
I was disappointed that the show was canceled so soon. Very disappointing.
I totally agree. This show should NOT be cancelled. It is fresh and new.
The show is well-written with multi-faceted characters, various backstories and, also a POLICE show.
This show has drama, a little soap opera and police story/activity. Something for everyone!!
BRING IT BACK!!
Yes!!!
Like Madam Secretry, this was a wonderful series about a clever, stratagizing woman in power. Well-written, fast-paced, good role models. What’s not to love?! Why dummy down our tv selections? Give us entertaining AND rewarding.
i to enjoyed watching this show. strong women figures are needed
Wow… so disappointed Tommy is being cancelled! Definitely wrong call. Seems we don’t like to face facts that exist in many areas. I am sad this is CBS not being conscious of needed truth on tv.
Real happy endings not fake. Real.. it happens
Sad to see Tommy go. It is one of the reasons I don’t generally watch the first season of any show because too many of the ones I like get cancelled. I think you should run at least two seasons of a show before you decide to cancel it just because it doesn’t do well the first season doesn’t mean it won’t do well the second
No idea you
One of the new CBS shows I actually watched.
This is ridiculous. This show is a great drama with great characters and humor, and Edie Falco, what else do you need? Slow down CBS, these are trying times. Give the show a chance. Big mistake CBS, big.
I agree with KJ. Tommy had a lot to offer. We enjoyed it and looked forward to it each week. Now tonight is the last one?CBS didn’t give it much of a chance. I Edie Falco is awesome as was her supporting cast. Boo!!
I loved Tommy. It was refreshingly new.
Too bad it isn’t renewed
A little bit of a shocker, given it was led by Edie Franco. It wasn’t a bad show at all, but I won’t miss it.
Her name is Edie Falco.
At least it was trying something a little different for a CBS cop show. And more than that, Edie Falco and the cast made it work. Unlike a lot of these type shows it held me for the whole season. And it didn’t look like the numbers were that bad. (Similar to Evil which got renewed.) Of course I don’t get why CBS canceled God Friended Me ether and I didn’t watch that
Are they seriously cancelling this show??? I thought it was a wonderful show. I love the way Tommy shoots from the hip, is honest, doesn’t mind stepping on politicians toes in order to get things done and you know that after all of that, she is a good cop!!! Shows with main characters of goodness instead of corruption, are few and far in between. I was hoping for a crossover episode between Tommy and Blue Bloods. Now that would make an interesting episode. I too, DO NOT WANT THIS SHOW TO BE CANCELLED!!!!🇨🇦
I am heartbroken!!! I love this show and Edie Falco. I I think CBS is wrong and also wrong about Carol’s 2nd Act…it is a cute bright spot on CBS.
I was blown away that God Friended Me was canceled. I loved it, but it’s being ended doesn’t bother me half as much as Tommy being canceled.
I liked this show well enough, but Edie Falco was surprisingly terrible in this role. She was so stiff and blank, like she was just reading the dialogue or something. And her daughter was such an annoying character. I very much liked the supporting cast though, and it’s a shame they couldn’t kill her off and replace the character (obviously wouldn’t have happened, as the show’s name was “Tommy”, even if it had been renewed).
I agree, Edie Falco was sleep walking through this while everybody else was better. I wasnt expecting Carmella Soprano but at least more energy in her line readings. She was the weakest link in show.
This is a different character, different show. She’s playing this one spot on. Carmella doesn’t belong in this role.
YOU NEED TO GIVE IT ONE MORE SEASON.
CBS. Needs to reconsider renewing Tommy, my wife and I really enjoyed the show. Bad decision on their part.
I love this show!
Okay show but it didn’t have anything really unusual to make it stand out. At least not from my point of view. Not surprised by the cancellation.
Not really a surprise. I have to wonder if the pandemic also played a small part in this, given that the show is filmed in NY, and there’s no telling as to when filming will begin again. I do hope that there is a proper ending for the season.
Pseudo west coast version of Blue Bloods without the real strong family to bind it together.
Refreshing to see a kind story about cops that wasn’t hyperbole of perfect cop and super hero life. I love Blue Bloods and swat but those script models on 20th century family configuration, impeccable policework and idealized human (or hero) perfection. This stress knows her way around real, so if shes stiff, it’s part oh her character.
Give Tommy a break for goodness sake! It’s actually perfect character building to have her be stiff and awkward as she steps in as a woman at the helm of a political system that is at least hostile if not out to get her. It’s the whole 1st season’s story! Needs time to evolve the characters and IMHO rushed the backstory of family/career history, especially with daughter, so that emotional fallout came across as whining bec resolved to easily given early levels of family disengagement. There is plenty of time to evolve story and characters — or would have been if CBS hadn’t jumped the gun and killed the series.
Love Edie Falco CBS should have given the show at least another 1/2 season then make a final decision as to its fate my opinion? CBS made a big mistake. Unfortunately in real life the LAPD hates this how just the same. That’s on them.
I’m so disappointed, to really enjoyed Tommy, please reconsider!
Shame.. Really liked it.. Especially for a CBS cop show.. But like deputy on fox.. I think the ppl who may have been most likely to tune in ( I.E not my demo) may not have loved the message of the show.. And the slant of the main character… Well I’ll watch the finale and miss it… Then continue to ignore most CBS procedurals
I hope NBC or Netflix picks this up….I think it’s a PHENOMENAL show!!! As always I love Edie Falco as well as the supporting cast!
I am very upset this is being CANCELLED…I LOVED A NEW IDEA OF A WOMAN BEING HEAD OF THE FORCE N I ADMIRED HER WAY OF THINKING ..I ALWAYS LOOK FORWARD AT 10PM TO WATCH TOMMY N NOW …IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY NEW SHOW COMES ON I LIKE THEY TAKE OFF …I WISH THEY WOULD TAKE OFF A FEW NEW REALLY STUPID HALF HOURS SHOWS THAT ARE ON BEFORE TOMMY …BUT OH NO POPULAR ACTORS N ACTRESSES ..
ESPECIALLY THE MAN WITH A PLAN N THE ONE THAT HAS THE RETIRED DETECTIVE GIRL IN NCIS ..SHE NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THAT SHOW MOST DEFINATELY ….TIME WILL TELL
TOMMY WAS ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS ON CBS. I HOPE ONE OF THE OTHER NETWORKS PICK THIS ONE UP
I won’t miss the Tommy show. Any show that promotes homosexuality as acceptable will not be on my TV
You have the right to your opinion, but with that mindset what can possibly watch besides the 700 Club? What other shows are you watching that are actively or even passively anti-homosexual in this century? Even FOX News must be disappointing to you.
Probably why “God Friended Me” got the big boot too. CBS has never done well with Homo-centric character shows. Save them for ABC, NBC and the CW networks.
You are what makes this country wrong.
LMGDAO, GET THAT CRAP OUT OF HERE!
And it won’t miss you!
I am so very disappointed regarding “Tommy’s” cancellation
A true story about a womans struggle. In a man’s world. Rethinking watching CBS!!!!!
I’m done with them. Any show that isn’t the same boring crap gets canceled. And I’m really disappointed to see the homophobes on here commenting. So disappointing in this day and age. Hating other people just because of who they love, that is pathetic.
I’m so sad. I really love Edie and the cast. Bummer.
Great mistake for CBS to cancel this compelling show. With Edie Falco in the lead, this should have had another season to establish itself. No more CBS for us!
This really sucks, I watch off my DVR, because of my work schedule. I love this show and am very disappointed in the networks decision on this one.
CBS needs to understand three things:
1. time slots are meaningless. We record so much each week that we likely almost never watch a show in its assigned timeslots. Thus ratings are also junk in may respects because CBS has no way to determine when something is recorded for later viewing.
2. the 18-49 demographic is ********. NO WHERE is the an 18 year old and a 49 year old with similar programing tastes. Thus making a show that universally pleases all menbers of an age demographic 31 years wide is fiction.
3. Those of us in the intelligent adult demographic require that our TV entertainment provide some measure of mental challenge. Thus the comedic drivel of Young Sheldon, MOM and other such shows are of no value. We are increasingly streaming shows like BOSCH which rivals everything CBS can muster with possible exception of Blue Bloods.
So keep Tommy and unload some of the worthless crap.
So totally agree. CBS needs to rethink. I’m so tried if ridiculous comedies. Most are a 30 minute time slot of mindless self pity done in a self deprecating way to get a laugh.
Bring Tommy back
If you ran a TV network, it would be declaring bankruptcy in one week. 1. Time slots do matter in regard to what’s called “audience share,” which helps determine ad rates. Live+3, Live+7 ratings are “delayed viewing,” also called “time-shifted.” CBS gathers data on viewers who watch their programs at later dates and time. 2. People under the age of 50 watch less TV than those over 50, making the 18-49 demo harder to “reach.” Advertisers know they are going to “reach” older people, which why they pay more to get young viewers to watch their advertisements. This is business. 3. Again, it’s a BUSINESS. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it has no value. Top rated shows that are pure escapism bring in the big money, which is the fiduciary responsibility of any business that has stockholders. You keep using the word “we.” Who is we? The people in your household, or the entire country made up of diverse populations and people who like different things. CBS is the #1 broadcast network.
18-49’s are watching Netflix and Hulu, not network tv.
Too bad but too many issues and story lines. Token characters far too many. Biracial, scheming characters, etc. Should have narrowed focus and had better scripts
Makes no sense when renew SWAT, all rise and others which have no redeeming value
Honestly wouldn’t have cared either way. It was a “decent” show.
Disappointed, but not surprised. I was hoping though… Oh well, what can you do. Now I’m really hoping that the finale doesn’t leave any loose ends and us wondering.
Sorry to hear that. They will probably replace it with a stupid game show or something with no substance. Another top executive POOR decision.
I agrede about al thoses stupid game shows, hard to find good shows