As reported earlier, NBC has renewed Chicago Fire, Chicago PD and Grimm for next season. In addition, the network has confirmed the renewals of Parks and Recreation, The Voice, and The Celebrity Apprentice.
Here’s their press release:
NBC RENEWS DRAMAS “CHICAGO FIRE,” “CHICAGO P.D.” AND “GRIMM” FOR 2014-15 SEASON
With Previously Announced Series Also Returning, the Peacock Maintains Its Primetime Lead in 18-49 Demo
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif – March 19, 2014 – NBC has announced it is renewing dramas “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago P.D.” and “Grimm” for the 2014-15 season. The network previously picked up “The Blacklist” (season 2) “Parks and Recreation” (season 7), “The Voice” (season 7) and “Celebrity Apprentice” (season 14). NBC is winning the season in adults 18-49, and ranked #1 for the first time in 10 years this late in the season. The network is up 20% versus one year ago, with its highest rating 25 weeks into the season in six years.
Following the success of “Chicago Fire” last year, Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf’s idea to build a second franchise in Chicago has become a reality with the renewal of mid-season success “Chicago P.D.” Both shows share the same creators and producers making it easy for characters and storylines to occasionally crossover seamlessly from one show to the other. This will be the case on the upcoming Tuesday, April 29 episode of “Chicago Fire” – a massive bomb explosion sends the city into chaos, which will conclude the following night, Wednesday, April 30, on “Chicago P.D.” where the police officers deal with the fallout from the tragedy and try to find who was responsible for the blast.
“Chicago Fire” ranks #1 in the Tuesday 10 p.m. ET/PT slot among the broadcast networks so far this season in adults 18-49, averaging a 3.1 rating, 9 share in 18-49 and 10.6 million viewers overall in “most current” averages from Nielsen Media Research through the first 25 weeks of the season. “Chicago Fire” is generating gains versus one year ago of 35% in 18-49 rating and 33% in total viewers. With its move from Wednesday nights last season to Tuesday nights this season, “Chicago Fire” has improved the Tuesday 10 p.m. hour versus NBC’s regular-program averages in the slot one year ago by 24% in adults 18-49 (to a 3.1 rating from a 2.4).
“Chicago Fire” will head into its third season next year and “Chicago P.D.” will go into its second with executive producers Dick Wolf, Matt Olmstead, Danielle Gelber, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas, Peter Jankowski, Joe Chappelle (“Chicago Fire” only) and Mark Tinker (“Chicago P.D.” only). Both series are produced by Universal Television and Wolf Films and shot in Chicago.
Jesse Spencer and Taylor Kinney star as heroic Windy City firefighters who lay themselves on the line in dealing with everyday situations involving life or death. The show also stars Monica Raymund, Lauren German, Charlie Barnett, David Eigenberg, Yuri Sardarov, Joe Minoso, Christian Stolte and Eamonn Walker.
“Chicago Fire” has been nominated for a People’s Choice Award and is the winner of a Prism Award and Imagen Foundation Award.
“Chicago P.D.” is delivering a 2.5 rating, 7 share in adults 18-49 and 8.9 million viewers overall so far this season in “most current” averages from Nielsen. “Chicago P.D.” is retaining 94% of its 18-49 lead-in from “Law & Order: SVU” and 97% of its total-viewer lead-in in “live plus same day” results to date. In its first nine weeks on the schedule, “Chicago P.D.” has generated NBC’s nine best 18-49 results in the time period, excluding Olympics and “Saturday Night Live” specials, since Sept. 25, 2013.
Freshman series “Chicago P.D.” follows the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city’s street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city’s major offenses, including organized crime, drug trafficking and high-profile murders.
The series stars Jason Beghe, Sophia Bush, Patrick John Flueger, LaRoyce Hawkins, Archie Kao, Jon Seda, Elias Koteas, Jesse Lee Soffer and Marina Squerciati.
With the renewal, “Grimm” – the popular Friday night series inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales – will now head into its fourth season. “Grimm” is the #1 Friday series on ABC, CBS, NBC or Fox so far this season in adults 18-49, averaging a 2.5 rating, 8 share in adults 18-49 in “most current” averages from Nielsen Media Research. This is a 4% gain versus the show’s rating at this point in the season last year, while “Grimm’s” average of 8.1 million viewers overall is up versus one year ago by 17%.
David Giuntoli stars as Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt, who discovers he’s descended from an elite line of criminal profilers known as Grimms. He increasingly finds his responsibilities as a detective at odds with his new responsibilities as a Grimm.
The series was created by David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf and Stephen Carpenter. Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner and Norberto Barba serve as executive producers along with Greenwalt and Kouf.
The series also stars Bitsie Tulloch, Russell Hornsby, Silas Weir Mitchell, Bree Turner, Reggie Lee, Sasha Roiz and Claire Coffee.
“Grimm” is a Universal Television and Hazy Mills production.
“Grimm” has been nominated for two People’s Choice Awards, two Satellite Awards and a Saturn Award. “Grimm” was also nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding stunt coordination.
The Hollywood Reporter calls “Grimm” “a high-concept hootenanny” and says it has “chills and humor and the ability to take a procedural story and twist it.”
What do you think? Do you think NBC made a mistake in renewing any or all of these shows?
@Rena Moretti: Can’t nobody defend nothing in front of you. If I wanted to keep The Simpsons going as a first-run series, then it’d be a primetime soap opera like “Dallas” or “Beverly Hills 90210”. But it is not. With over 560 original episodes having been produced, the original run of The Simpsons needs to come to a close, that’s what should happen. Probably in 2015 or 2016. At least reruns of “The Simpsons” will still remain in syndication for years to come afterwards. Over the span of its original run, I have lost a few classmates from my 2011… Read more »
Again, not sure why you do not seem to understand my point. If the networks were to cancel all their flops (which is 90% of their schedules) I’d welcome it with open arms as long as the new shows don’t again come from the Seth MacFarlane, J.J. Abrams, Greg Berlanti, Rob Thomas etc… makers of crappy flops. Given the word we’re in, it makes a lot more sense to renew The Simpsons, which each episode will make money, unlike a flop like New Girl, thus keeping the industry afloat. That said, you are entirely free to hate animated shows, and… Read more »
I’m sorry, but “The Simpsons” absolutely HAS to be let go as a first-run series. I’m not renewing it again. There are only four spots in Fox’s “Animation Domination” lineup, there are the financial issues associated with producing such an expensive, long-running series, and there could be a possible abundance of brand-new animated shows that could be the future of the animation lineup, or maybe the future of the network. It doesn’t matter if you still enjoy the show or not, nobody’s going to agree with you on keeping “The Simpsons” and cancelling all the good (hit) TV series like… Read more »
Very, very sorry 🙂 but I gotta disagree again. First of all, I don’t think the “Animation Domination” concept ever worked. They call it “domination” to hide the fact that they have so few viewers and the only show on that slate that ever was a success is The Simpsons, which was created outside of FOX’s normal. FOX is obsessed with Seth MacFarlane and have talked themselves into believing he’s a star when all his shows have flopped (last one Dads flopped and of course FOX renewed it!) I actually don’t think FOX, as currently managed, is capable of ordering… Read more »
@Jim J: Not sure why you are so upset. That Parks and Recreation is a flop is known to anyone who looks at the ratings without the NBC PR smoke and mirrors… I do have no illusion I can make NBC listen to me (although they really could – I’d save them a bundle of money on not making more seasons of bad shows that only lead to lower ratings 😉 ) Big Bang Theory is indeed a hit. It’s one of the last hits on TV today. So is NCIS. You seem to think it’s a bad thing to… Read more »
I watch “Big Bang Theory” and “NCIS”, and they’re on CBS (I happen to like both programs, BTW). I don’t like any “You seem to…” statements directed towards me. I tried to say that on my last comment that you can’t stop a major network from making the effort to build new shows, even if the new shows end up total failures. Not every show can be successful and a long-runner. Each network has different standards of success nowadays, and you’re just gonna have a hissy fit about it? Other network TV shows can’t get as high a viewership figure… Read more »
I’m still not following why you were so upset at me in the first place. All I sad about the Simpsons is that it made more sense for FOX to keep that show on that to keep flops like American Dad or New Girl on as at least new episodes of The Simpsons will help make the international and syndication packages run longer (and those are actually making money as opposed to New Girl which never will). The only thing I disagree with is with the idea that you can re-define hit when you happen not to make one (which… Read more »
Why I am upset with you is the suggestion that The Simpsons be kept on indefinitely. I understand that the original run of The Simpsons has already overridden the original runs of other shows such as ER, Friends, and Desperate Housewives. That’s “animation supremacy” right there. The Simpsons has already had its original run last for 25 seasons and produced 560 episodes. You can’t have too much of one scripted TV show, and all scripted TV shows have to cease being first-run sooner or later, otherwise, the syndication packages may be oversaturated. At least Friends (which was on NBC) produced… Read more »
I don’t believe I suggested any show sohuld go on forever. What I said is that if you’re going to renew shows with low ratings, it makes a heck of a lot more sense to renew The Simpsons where it’s clear the new episodes will end up turning a profit for FOX by extending the syndication life of a shows that’s very popular all over the world (there’s countries where the show plays ten times a day!) than renew a confirmed flop like New Girl that, if it sells at all in syndication and foreign, will be selling for peanuts… Read more »
I can’t even figure out what is funny about Parks. And the Apprentice is idiodic. Why should I care about washed up celebrities?
Essentially nobody outside of NBC and TV critics think Parks and Recreation is even watchable. Yet NBC keeps renewing it and hyping it. If I were at Comcast, I wouldn’t put up with the commercial nonsense of renewing an unwatchable show that has been losing NBC money since Day One… It makes you wonder why they stay silent and keep hoping that Dan Greenblatt will, somehow, stop emulating the disastrous practices of Jeff Zucker and his successors. Or maybe they’re just so dumb, they actually believe Greenblatt’s press and think that as long as they read it in the Wall… Read more »
I think the networks are probably “right-sizing” their standards of success to reflect how smaller their audiences have gotten in recent years (probably due to increased competition from cable channels with their own original programming). The renewals of “Chicago Fire” and “Chicago P.D.” mean that the network is trying hard to build and push newer/younger shows, and building and pushing newer/younger shows does NOT mean having to keep your precious “The Simpsons” going as a first-run show indefinitely, because even that series may end its run someday. You don’t believe me, ask the folks who recently renewed “New Girl”, “The… Read more »
Not canceling flop is in my opinion exactly what’s wrong with the way today’s executive mis-run their networks. I think you are right that they have decided “you just can’t find hits any longer” and find it a lot easier for their little egos and fragile psyche to blame the interweb for the fact they keep greenligting awful shows people don’t want to watch. They also love the ‘we’re building an audience for the show” excuse even as it’s rarest when a show builds its audience over time (exceptions were CSI, NCIS and House which were all hits that became… Read more »
You want to find something that isn’t a “flop”? Go watch something on CBS, like “The Big Bang Theory” or most of their procedural crap. You can’t stop a network from
I’m done discussing this here.
NBC renews its flops… What a surprise!!! Not. What is particularly appalling about those renewals is Parks and Recreations, which is a sham of a show, purely unwatchable and probably the lowest rated of NBC’s shows, yet Dan Greenblatt renews it. Good journalists would be asking why and not take the ageist demo garbage NBC serves as an answer. Another good question would be to find out why Dan Greenblatt signed Amy Poehler for another show when her current one has reached ridiculous CW levels. Quite upsetting to see no end to NBC’s self-destruction. But hey, who care? Dan Greenblatt… Read more »
Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean no one else does. Not everyone has the exact same taste as you do. Amazing, right?
Actually, the ratings numbers are on my side. Parks and Recreation usually fail to get 3 million viewers in the overnights. It’s a super-flop.
“Nobody watches” is obviously creative license for emphasis, but none of those shows have audiences that merit renewal. It’s not because people love them!!!