Beyond that, it has been crickets besides FOX handing Bob's Burgers and Family Guy expected renewals. NBC either renewed its stronger players or retired, leaving only Indebted and Perfect Harmony likely to sail on. That leaves ABC the greatest mystery as none of its eight remaining 8 sitcoms' fates announced. Save for The Conners, all run a risk factor. The Goldbergs has suffered the usual seasonal drops, is in its 7th season, outsourced to Sony and dropped in quality. Schooled seems to have managed retaining enough of its lead-in but like its parent mentioned in the last sentence is outsourced and marginally rated. Bless This Mess is one of the few sitcoms breaking ABC's overdone family sitcom model but hemorrhaging too much of The Conners' numbers.
Working in these shows' favors is ABC seems to be out of luck with scheduling options. Would ABC suffer through another low-rated seasons as there's little to replace it with? Or would they trim down the number of sitcoms offered to as low as four? Another week of mysteries is underway as networks remain quiet about what is coming and going. Though only Thursday night burnoffs remain the only original scripted options to report, The Sitcom Scorecard will continue to publish until 90% of the 33 shows' fates are reported. 11 have been announced as renewed, 4 cancelled and another 4 already declared their final seasons. That leaves 14 on deck hanging in limbo so stay tuned.
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