The TV renewals and cancellations are rolling in ahead of upfronts week — but which shows continue to hang in limbo?
ABC has been renewing shows left and right including High Potential, Shifting Gears and more. Doctor Odyssey, however, has remained on the bubble ahead of its season finale. There has been speculation that the quickly Ryan Murphy-led series is too costly to pick up for more seasons.
Doctor Odyssey follows Joshua Jackson‘s character, Dr. Max Bankman, on his journey to becoming the new onboard doctor of the Odyssey, a cruise ship helmed by Captain Massey (Don Johnson). The show — which also stars Phillipa Soo and Sean Teale — hasn’t been afraid to push boundaries with wild story lines and a revolving door of star-studded cameos.
“[Cocreator] Ryan [Murphy]’s imagination is prolific and bizarre in its ability to hold [space] for the absolutely grotesque and absurd — and then there are his lighter and happier shows. All of that being inside of one man’s imagination is amazing,” Jackson exclusively told Us Weekly in March. “I will say that for myself, I have wanted to work for Ryan for quite a long time.”
Jackson praised the creative storytelling ideas, adding, “Ryan’s word was sparkle. He said, ‘Make sure that my show sparkles.’ And we have tried to make sure that this show sparkles as much as possible and just hope that the joy that we feel in performing it and doing it all together is what comes across while you’re watching it.”
Then there’s The Hunting Party on NBC, which stars Melissa Roxburgh and is a crime procedural about investigators who are assembled to track down and capture the most dangerous killers in the country. The twist? The criminals escaped from a top-secret prison that’s not supposed to exist.
Roxburgh is playing Bex, an ex-FBI agent recruited to the task force due to her reputation as a profiler who caught the world’s most dangerous serial killers. She must work with the warden of the prison, who turns out to be her former partner and ex-boyfriend Oliver. Their last mission took a turn when Oliver murdered the criminal they were chasing down and Bex can’t figure out whether she trusts Oliver now.
NBC’s procedural relies on unexpected twists — and Roxburgh hasn’t always been in the know. “I kind of go back and forth. There are some days where I’m so overwhelmed by what’s currently happening in the scripts and making sure that I have my lines down or trying to understand it,” she told Us in February. “Then there are some easier days where I’m like, ‘I’m going to go be nosy to the showrunner now because I want to find out what happens.’ As the series went on with the mystery, I did start to get a little more curious.”
Keep scrolling for a breakdown of which shows still need to be renewed — or canceled — as they remain in limbo for now:
Doctor Odyssey
Accused
Alert: Missing Persons Unit
Grimsburg
The Cleaning Lady
The Great North
All American
Good Cop/Bad Cop
Wild Cards
Brilliant Minds
Grosse Pointe Garden Society
The Hunting Party
