NBC Renew/Cancel Week 16: Indebted Looks A Little Stronger, but Renewal Is Still Unlikely

In the past week, NBC has seen some additional ratings increases and they've debuted another new show. Keep reading to see what I have to say about Council of Dads, plus an update on one of their other new shows from the 2019-20 season.

Certain Cancellation:
Perfect Harmony (0.4)

Likely Cancellation: 
Bluff City Law (0.6)
Indebted (0.4)

Leans Cancellation:
Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt For the Bone Collector (0.5)
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (0.4)

Leans Renewal: 
Good Girls (0.4)
Manifest (0.7)

Likely Renewal:
N/A

Certain Renewal:
Saturday Night Live (1.3)

Already Renewed:
The Blacklist
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Chicago Fire
Chicago Med
Chicago PD
Law & Order: SVU
New Amsterdam
Superstore
This Is Us

Already Canceled/Final Season:
Blindspot
The Good Place
Sunnyside
Will & Grace

Coming Soon:
Council of Dads

Indebted: Last week, NBC's newest sitcom entry jumped a tenth to what was easily a new series high. Unfortunately, that series high is still a 0.5. The show doesn't have terrible retention from Will & Grace, holding onto 76% of that show's average (with a season average that's 0.12 lower than W&G), but with Will & Grace so low to begin with, it needs to do more than that. 0.5 isn't a terrible number for an NBC comedy, and it's actually the second-highest number any NBC newbie has hit season year so far, but I don't think it's going to be enough considering that Sony distributes and co-produces the show. NBC may end up giving a pity renewal to a newbie this season (none of their newbies have actually earned it), but I have real doubts that it'll be this one. Unless it really jumps in the coming weeks, it's still a LIKELY CANCELLATION.

Council of Dads: As with Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist earlier this season, it's too early for me to give Council of Dads a prediction at this point. Its premiere rating was awful, but it wasn't in its regular timeslot and therefore I'm not giving it a prediction. It will wait for a prediction until after it premieres at the end of April.

What do you think of my predictions? Let me know in the comments below and don't forget to vote in the poll of the week!

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