‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Canceled, Won’t Move to Peacock — Why Couldn’t It Be Saved?
After weeks in limbo, NBC has canceled Grosse Pointe Garden Society after one season. It won’t be moving to Peacock like the team had reportedly hoped.
The network didn’t trust the show’s ability to grow its audience on the NBC streaming platform after evaluating viewership data, according to Deadline. This was reportedly determined by the fact that Season 1’s streaming numbers on Peacock after the finale aired on May 16 were not substantial. Moving to Peacock is said to have been its only hope for renewal, as its NBC viewership was too low to continue. The series first got a Sunday primetime air time, but it was quickly moved to Fridays after just a few episodes came out. Being moved to Fridays is never a good sign for any program.
NBC slashed five shows from its roster in a brutal day of cancellations on Friday, May 9. Night Court, Lopez vs Lopez, The Irrational, Found, and Suits LA all got the ax. On Monday, May 12, NBC renewed two of its series that were still in limbo, Brilliant Minds and The Hunting Party, for second seasons. The Dick Wolf and One Chicago shows were previously renewed, as were freshmen comedies St. Denis Medical and Happy’s Place, leaving Grosse Pointe Garden Society the last scripted program standing without a renewal or cancellation update ahead of its Season 1 finale.
Here’s everything we know about what happened to Grosse Pointe Garden Society.
Will there be a Grosse Pointe Garden Society Season 2?
There’s no indication that the series could be shopped around to another network in Deadline’s report. With the NBC cancellation, it looks like the show is done for good.
Grosse Pointe Garden Society follows four members of a suburban garden club who find their lives intertwined by scandal, mischief and a shared secret — a murder no one wants to talk about. As dark truths begin to rot their lives under the surface, they struggle to remain as perfect as the flowers blooming in their garden above. It stars Melissa Fumero, Aja Naomi King, Ben Rappaport, AnnaSophia Robb, Matthew Davis, Alexander Hodge, Nancy Travis, and Felix Wolfe.
Is Grosse Pointe Garden Society moving to Peacock?
According to Grosse Pointe Garden Society creators/showrunners Jenna Bans and Bill Krebs, the series was performing well on Peacock even if its NBC numbers weren’t the greatest (the series debuted to good ratings when it began airing on Sunday nights at 10/9c, but was moved to Friday nights at 8/7c midway through its first season). All 13 episodes of Grosse Pointe Garden Society Season 1 are available to stream on Peacock.
“We know we have a lot of support at the network and people love it creatively, so we’re just hopeful they’ll find a way to bring us back. It might not be a traditional way, but we’ll see,” Bans told The Wrap before Season 1 ended. “We have nothing concrete though.”
It’s not unheard of for NBC to shift shows from broadcast to streaming programming. It did so with Law & Order: Organized Crime ahead of its Season 5 premiere. But the Christopher Meloni series already has a large baked-in audience given the success of the Law & Order franchise, especially SVU. Grosse Pointe had a higher mountain to climb on this front being a brand-new series.
NBC cleared so much space in its fall 2025 schedule to make way for its new 11-year broadcasting deal with the NBA and WNBA. NBC will air regular-season and playoff basketball games on Tuesday nights beginning in October. Peacock will livestream national Monday night games.
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I love this show. Please give us season 2!! I watch on peacock!!
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I think regardless of the ratings, networks are way too fast in cancelling shows after one season. Cheers is a great example of a show that had poor ratings the first season and the network stuck with it, and it turned out to be a great decsion.
I really think NBC needs to stick it out for a least one more season and give it a chance, streaming on Peacock is fine, but NOT everyone streams shows, I prefer watching on the network so don't limit our options.
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I saw a clip on instagram and binged all episodes!!! I really hope there is a Season 2
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Love the show. Please keep it going with another season.
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Please air another season of GPGS. It is a great show... the writing.... the acting... I love it.
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One of the best shows.. please keep it.
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Im going to boycott NBC!!!! They cancelled every show that I watched! Really good shows too!! Guess they want to become a sports network, pretty soon only scripted broadcast shows they will have will be the Wednesday night procedurals and dick wolf cop shows. Irrational,grosse point, found and alert. I'm really mad that networks don't listen to viewers that buy the products advertised that pays for the network. We keep them on the air.... do they not know this??!! All they see are numbers. Good thing I have options, I will take the money that I would have spent on advertised products on the network and use it to pay for streaming. If enough viewers get exasperated with the network, NBC especially and CBS and ABC (not CW or Fox so much, at least they pay attention to what we want), I still think that peacock would have been the best solution for the shows but NBC doesn't give a damn what we want I guess, good bye!!
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LOVE this show! Please do not cancel. I think it will catch on as more people hear about it! MUCH better than Brilliant Minds, which I do watch, but is not nearly as good.
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I loved this show . The first major network series I watched in years... you stink NBC
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I watched this on 7plus. We were left in the lurch. Where is the ending
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This is bs. I’m not watching shows on peacock anymore if they’re this fast to knock them off. WTH
Leaving the show and fans on a cliff hanger too. It was such a good show.
If there aren't lesbians or gay themes in shows they don’t want to continue the series. BS
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I’m with you. They’re really bad. NBC is.
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Typical. You get a good show that makes you think and it gets canceled. So much for the much vaunted intelligence in programming. It doesn’t exist. Thanks a lot you Dogs.
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I am bummed that Grosse Pointe Garden Society isn’t coming back. I didn’t miss an episode
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You should always think of profit I think the show costs too much money therefore should be canceled so executives can get a bigger bonuses put on a stupid game show the more stupid the higher the ratings and the less expense remember this is America profit number one profit number one and if at all possible get rid of all humans use AI
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I stopped watching Grosse Pointe Garden Society as soon as I saw that they had a plot about a murdered Golden Retriever. I avoid shows where dogs die.
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Thank God! That was the most boring show. When somebody mentioned it gave them « Good Girls » vibes, nooooooooo way! The show also in need of a good lead cast.
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I'm really glad I didn't get invested in this show. I really didn't find any of the characters likable so I lost interest after 4 or 5 episodes.
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