The 3 TV Shows Most Likely To Get Cancelled In 2015

 The 3 TV Shows Most Likely To Get Cancelled In 2015

Here we are, partway into the 2015 mid season premiere season, and we’ve got some new hits, such as Fox’s Empire, and some old critical darlings returning, like HBO’s Girls. But the Graveyard of Cancelled TV Series waits for no one, and there are quite a few shows out there with buzzards circling overhead, just waiting for that one memo so they can strike. (Incidentally, no new shows about buzzards this year, yet again.)
While networks have a way of surprising everyone with their random cancelations, the signs are often there on the horizon (or closer) to signify when a project’s demise is near. And though we’re certain that more than ten series are going to be put to rest over the next few months, here are the ten current shows most likely to get the axe. Fresh Off the Boat and Odd Couple, you’d better work extra hard to avoid making a list like this later on. 

State of Affairs

Katherine Heigl’s return to TV following her clamorous exit from Grey’s Anatomy, State of Affairs centers on Heigl’s CIA analyst Charlie Tucker as she assists in constant high-risk situations involving everything from 4Chan to potential terror attacks to foreign prison escapes. Because if you’re not analyzing, you better damn well be figuring out how to rescue 20 kidnapped soccer players.

Why Would it Go?: State of Affairs seems to have a more dependable DVR viewer base than a live one, as the show’s ratings have mostly ebbed since the first handful of episodes. And the overly serious tone has kept the critical acclaim quiet enough to justify assumptions that NBC will opt out on heaping any money into a Season 2.

Galavant

 

A fairy tale comedy musical from Crazy, Stupid, Love director Dan Fogelman, legendary composer Alan Menken and lyricist Glenn Slater, ABC’s Galavant tells the tale of a spurned knight (Joshua Sasse) who aims to win back the love of his life (Karen David) from the fabulously evil King Richard (Timothy Omundson). At eight episodes, Galavant’s limited series approach doesn’t fool me into thinking ABC didn’t want this thing to become a giant franchise-able hit.

Why Would it Go?: While many people (like myself) love the refreshing take on TV musicals, the double-episode airings haven’t been great for Galavant’s ratings, which have dipped each week. Something tells me Sunday’s broadcast of the final two episodes won’t be the graceful rescue the show needs.

Haven

 This Syfy series stars Emily Rose as FBI Special Agent Audrey Parker, who investigates and tries to squash the supernatural troubles – called Troubles, helpfully enough – that are plaguing the town of Haven, Maine. The show is currently in the middle of its split-in-half Season 5, the first half of which aired last fall.

Why Would it Go?: A split season is rarely good for a series, and tends to only happen when a show is on its way out. As well, Syfy’s reinvigorated push towards a schedule with a majority of actual science fiction doesn’t leave much room for this paranormal stayover.