CBS Renews 11 Series, Including MacGyver, Blue Bloods
CBS announced Wednesday that is has renewed 11 more of its current series.
The new renewals are: Blue Bloods, Bull, Hawaii Five-O, Madam Secretary, MacGyver, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Survivor, The Amazing Race, 48 Hours, and 60 Minutes.
That brings CBS up to 17 renewed shows total, having previously renewed The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, Mom, NCIS, SEAL Team, and SWAT. The network has therefore renewed their entire Tuesday and Friday night lineups at this point.
Noticeably absent are any of CBS’ Monday shows, specifically Kevin Can Wait, Man With a Plan, Superior Donuts, and Scorpion, with the long-running drama series Criminal Minds also not yet renewed. Freshman comedies 9JKL and Living Biblically are also awaiting official word on second seasons, though both of those shows have not been stellar ratings performers. Life in Pieces, currently in its third season, has not yet been renewed as well.
Sunday drama Instinct and Saturday drama Ransom are also awaiting second season orders. Instinct sagged in the ratings after NCAA basketball ended, but has since bounced back. Ransom, meanwhile, has sunk even lower in the ratings for its second season, but the show is a Canadian-Hungarian co-production, making it a relatively low cost acquisition for CBS.
Freshman comedy Me, Myself, and I was previously pulled from the CBS schedule, while freshman drama Wisdom of the Crowd was not picked up beyond its original 13 episode order.
