April showers give way to May flowers, and April meetings among broadcast-television executives often give way to May renewals and cancellations of existing series.
With so many shows currently sans such a decision, we’ll get plenty cancellation/renewal news this month as well.IndieWire is a bit early to the game this year, but there’s already been a few broadcast TV shows scrapped.
Among them, however, were some preplanned decisions like the ending of NBC’s “This Is Us,” CBS’ “Bull” and ABC’s “Black-ish.” But then there is ABC’s “Promised Land,” which followed two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California’s Sonoma Valley.
“Promised Land” performed so unpromisingly that it was banished to the predominantly Disney-owned Hulu (Comcast’s NBCUniversal still owns 33 percent of the SVOD service) after airing just a few episodes on the Disney-owned broadcast network.
Hey, maybe Hulu will want
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