11 Highest-Rated Canceled Shows of 2025

As we get amped about the shows the broadcast networks are introducing this upfront season, we’re also mourning the ones they’re taking off air, especially now that NBC and CBS have canceled sizable swaths of their programming lineups.

For NBC, the cancellation of three dramas and two comedies comes as the network prepares devote its Tuesday nights this fall and both Tuesday and Sunday nights next midseason to NBA games.

“We had a lot of shows that we had to pass on in order to put our schedule together,” Jeff Bader, the president of program planning strategy for NBCUniversal Entertainment, told reporters on Saturday, per Deadline. “NBA is a huge priority for us, that is our biggest new show in the fall.”

CBS, meanwhile, is shedding five dramas and one comedy. “It’s not easy to end shows, and we had a lot of options this year,” CBS Entertainment President Amy Reisenbach told reporters earlier this month, as Deadline reported. “The schedule is really full, and so we always have to look at all of our shows, look at the aggregate information, the creative of where they are in their life cycle, what the finances look like, what the ratings are, and then we make those tough decisions.”

Of the 2024–2025 broadcast shows canceled so far, the ones below had the highest ratings in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic with their most recent episodes, with total-viewer stats breaking ties. (Note: The Canadian medical drama Transplant isn’t included in the ranking, since its final season premieres on NBC on May 22.)