Certain Cancellation:
N/A
Likely Cancellation:
Brilliant Minds (0.15, 0.12-0.18)
The Hunting Party (0.14, 0.10-0.17)
Leans Cancellation:
On Brand with Jimmy Fallon (0.17, 0.14-0.22)
The Wall (0.16, 0.12-0.19)
Leans Renewal:
Law & Order (0.22, 0.20-0.27)
Stumble (0.17, 0.15-0.18)
Likely Renewal:
Happy's Place (0.24, 0.22-0.26)
St. Denis Medical (0.31, 0.25-0.34)
The Voice (0.24, 0.24-0.42)
Certain Renewal:
Chicago Fire (0.34, 0.29-0.39)
Chicago Med (0.35, 0.28-0.39)
Chicago PD (0.29, 0.25-0.34)
Dateline NBC (0.18, 0.15-0.20)
Law & Order: SVU (0.28, 0.21-0.33)
Saturday Night Live (0.60, 0.58-0.70)
Coming Soon:
The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins
Surviving Earth
The Hunting Party: It was a surprise last year when NBC renewed ratings-challenged freshman series The Hunting Party for a second season. The series had averaged just a 0.21 in the demo, with that average being inflated by a post-NFL rating, and it sunk as low as 0.13 during the back half of the season. NBC scheduled it in the fall, stating in May that the plan was for both it and Brilliant Minds to run for full seasons of eighteen to twenty-two episodes. That plan was scrapped within two months, with NBC replacing The Hunting Party on the fall schedule with Law & Order: Organized Crime, slashing its planned episode count to thirteen, well below the initial expectation. It proved NBC right to slash the order right out the gate this year, debuting to a paltry 0.10 in the demo despite a 0.30 lead-in. That's the lowest rating for any NBC premiere ever, managing to return down even from its lowest of season one lows. It has looked decent on streaming, charting in the top ten on Peacock since the start, which seems to indicate that its delayed ratings have stayed solid enough, like last year (we got no multiplatform information on The Hunting Party during season one, but Nielsen's release of the top 100 shows from the 2024-25 season indicated that The Hunting Party averaged 7 million viewers in MP+35 ratings - the ninth-highest of any NBC series). However, it is important to note that those Peacock chart rankings can be misleading and inconsistent, and aren't always indicative of its overall performance. Brilliant Minds was performing similarly to The Hunting Party at the start of this season, but never charts now, while The Hunting Party charted less than Found last season, but had a million more multiplatform viewers. so the concrete data we have for The Hunting Party is not positive for its chances. The only real net positive is that it rose to a 0.17 in the demo in week two, managing to tie Grey's Anatomy on ABC for the night, and bringing its season two average up to a rounded 0.14. With at least drama pilots in development at NBC (and more possibly on the way), though, I'm confident that NBC is opening up at least two hour-long slots on next year's schedule. Recent seasons have seen networks harshly cut down on the number of pilots ordered, and I truly doubt NBC has ordered so many pilots because they're content with the current state of the network. They seem to want a shakeup, and it's hard to imagine a struggling second-season drama that barely made it past season one and already had its order cut this season performing well enough to survive said shakeup. The Hunting Party begins as a likely cancellation.
The Wall: NBC was certainly not expecting juggernaut ratings when they brought The Wall back for Mondays at 9 PM behind repeats off Stumble, so I'm not holding the show to too high of a standard. However, it is among NBC's lowest-rated series, and NBC clearly sees it as nothing more than filler. It's hard to believe the show has been on the air for nine years now, but in that time, it's only aired six seasons and less than 100 episodes, so it hasn't been a constant presence on the NBC schedule. It last aired new episodes in summer 2024, and will only air four episodes of its sixth season before the Olympics begin and The Voice reclaims its slot. It surely filmed more than just four episodes, so it's bound to return to air more episodes at a later date, and a renewal or cancellation decision is probably not imminent. It is worth noting that thanks to the long hiatus and inconsistent scheduling, it's been out of production now for a year and a half, with the sixth season apparently filming back in 2024. This show is reliable filler for NBC, but it's not quite as inexpensive as some of their other game shows, and they have enough episodes in the can to keep it going for a while yet, even if this is the final season. It's a hard call either way, since this is a show that can resume filming years after it last taped new episodes, but NBC has been cutting some of their unscripted shows lately (Deal or No Deal Island and That's My Jam have either been outright canceled or completely disappeared recently), and I'm not betting on The Wall, with its modest ratings, being able to survive this season, either. It'll probably be a while before it's confirmed, but The Wall leans cancellation.
Interactive Schedule:
| The TV Ratings Guide | 8:00 | 8:30 | 9:00 | 9:30 | 10:00 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | St. Denis Medical | The Paper | The Voice | Brilliant Minds | ||
| Tues | NBA on NBC | |||||
| Wed | Chicago Med | Chicago Fire | Chicago PD | |||
| Thurs | Law & Order | Law & Order: SVU | Law & Order: Organized Crime | |||
| Fri | Happy's Place | Stumble | Dateline NBC | |||
| Sat | College Football on NBC | |||||
| Sun | Sunday Night Football | |||||
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