9 TV Shows We’re Worried Won’t Survive This Season
We still have months to go in broadcast television’s 2026-2027 season, but we’re ringing alarm bells for some TV shows already.
The situation seems especially grave at Fox, home of many of the season’s least-watched programs, according to Spotted Ratings’ season-to-date ranking. Even Best Medicine, Fox’s most-watched program, falls in the middle of the pack for the Big Four networks’ offerings.
(CBS, on the other hand, is riding high in total viewership, with 60 Minutes, Marshals, and Tracker ranking No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3, respectively.)
Below are the TV shows we think are at risk of cancellation, most of which are Fox shows getting outfoxed in the ratings.
Animal Control
The numbers for this sitcom might have Fox executives rabid, with the 18–49 demo rating averaging 0.23 this season. That’s down 39 percent from last year.
Universal Basic Guys
Unfortunately for fans of this animated sitcom, its appeal does not seem universal. Its demo rating average is 0.16, down 38 percent from last year.
Grimsburg
Speaking of ratings for Fox animated sitcoms, this one’s are grim indeed. The show is currently dead last in both total viewership and the 18–49 demo ranking and pulling in an average of around 590,000 viewers.
Doc
Fox can’t be pleased with this medical drama’s numbers either. With an 18–49 demo rating average of 0.18 this season, down 35 percent from last season, the prognosis isn’t promising.
Hell’s Kitchen
Gordon Ramsay might have some choice words for viewers who have put his once-popular Fox reality competition on the back burner. The show is averaging a 0.14 rating in the 18–49 demo.
Name That Tune
This Tune is off-key, with an 0.18 average demo rating and 1.34 million total viewers so far this season. On the plus side, the Fox game show’s demo rating has improved 8 percent this year.
99 to Beat
Fox’s bad luck continues with this game show, which has certainly proven beatable. Compared to last season, the show has lost a third of its 18–49 demo rating, which has dropped to 0.19.
Scrubs
Could ABC scrub this hospital comedy after just two seasons of the revived format? We think it’s possible, as its 18–49 demo average has slipped 29 percent year to year.
Law & Order
We also think NBC’s Law & Order revival is chancing cancellation, too, since it’s not living up to spinoff and lead-in program Law & Order: SVU. It’s losing 20 percent of SVU’s total audience and a full third of SVU’s 18–49 demo rating.
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