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CBS has canceled CSI: Vegas after 3 seasons and So Assist Me Todd after two. The inside track is no surprise as Closing date printed previous this week that each dramas have been closely at the bubble and in grave risk.
That in spite of CSI: Vegas and So Assist Me Todd being forged scores performers. With all the CBS agenda doing smartly this season and 3 new drama collection becoming a member of in 2024-25, NCIS: Origins, Matlock and Watson (along with a 2nd season of the Australian NCIS: Sydney), the community used to be confronted with painful choices, and So Assist Me Todd and CSI: Vegas are the least watched CBS drama collection this spring in each linear and multi-platform scores.
In most modern linear Nielsen viewership (2/12 so far), CSI: Vegas, which stepped forward its time frame, is at #21 amongst all non-sports broadcast methods with 6.234M audience and So Assist Me Todd at #22 with 6.224M. This is greater than a slew of collection on different broadcast networks which have been safely renewed for subsequent season, together with ABC’s Will Trent, The Rookie and Gray’s Anatomy and NBC’s Regulation & Order, The Voice and The Irrational.
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In 35-day multi-platform viewership, So Assist Me Todd is forward via a hair with 7.7M audience vs 7.6M for CSI: Vegas. There aren’t any present plans for both collection to transport to Paramount+ following their CBS cancellations.
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With broadcast budgets underneath power amid comfortable advert marketplace and total belt-tightening via the media corporations, CBS collection cuts have been inevitable to make room for the brand new additions.
After Elsbeth used to be simply renewed and with The Equalizer additionally anticipated to come back again contingent on a brand new handle megastar/govt manufacturer Queen Latifah, NCIS: Hawai’i stays as the one main query mark.
As Closing date reported previous this week, the collection’ long run is alleged to be the topic of tricky trade conversations, with a partial Season 4 of about 13 or so episodes a chance. A Best 15 broadcast collection in general audience, Hawai’i is a part of the storied NCIS franchise and the primary installment with a feminine lead.
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Like Hawai’i, CSI: Vegas is a part of a signature CBS/CBS Studios franchise with an extended historical past at the community. CSI manufacturer Bruckheimer Tv has every other CBS drama collection, scorching sophomore Hearth Nation, which has been renewed for subsequent season and would possibly spawn a Sheriff by-product which is on a slower construction monitor. There may be the possible Chilly Case reboot from Bruckheimer TV and Warner Bros. TV, which has been in negotiations at CBS.
A followup to the 2000 CSI collection, CSI: Vegas introduced with unique solid contributors William Petersen and Jorja Fox reprising their roles in Season 1. The sequel’s present solid comprises fellow unique megastar Marg Helgenberger, who joined in Season 2, Paula Newsome, Mandeep Dhillon, Matt Lauria, Ariana Guerra, Jay Lee and Lex Medlin.
The collection, produced via CBS Studios in affiliation with Jerry Bruckheimer Tv, is created and govt produced via Jason Tracey. Jerry Bruckheimer, Jonathan Littman, KristieAnne Reed, Anthony Zuiker, Carol Mendelsohn, Ann Donahue, Craig O’Neill, William Petersen, Cindy Chvatal, Steven H. Kram and Steven H. Blume additionally govt produce.
The cancellation ends So Assist Me Todd‘s Cinderella tale after beating the percentages to land a sequence order in Would possibly 2022 after robust pilot checking out then development robust momentum over the summer time to release as some of the marvel hits of the 2022-23 season, incomes an excessively early Season 2 renewal.
The CBS Studios-produced collection stars Marcia Homosexual Harden and Skylar Astin, along side Madeline Smart, Tristen J. Winger, Inga Schlingmann and Rosa Arredondo. Scott Prendergast serves as writer and govt manufacturer with Elizabeth Klaviter, who additionally serves as showrunner. Dr. Phil McGraw, Stuart Gillard, Jay McGraw and Julia Eisenman additionally govt produce.