To very little surprise, the CW has cancelled one of its few remaining sitcoms, The Game. Is this the end for the series or could it still return?
Created by Mara Brock Akil, The Game began as a spin-off of Akil’s long-running comedy, Girlfriends. The series centers around a first year medical student (Tia Mowry) who chooses to follow her pro-football boyfriend (Pooch Hall) to San Diego. Others in the cast include Brittany Daniel, Coby Bell, Hosea Chanchez and Wendy Raquel Robinson.
The first sitcom to debut on the CW network, The Game averaged 2.3 million viewers in season one. For season two, the ratings dropped to 2.07 million and a .96 rating in the 18-49 demographic. This season, it’s fallen to an average of 1.68 million viewers and a tiny 0.7 rating in the demo, in part because it was given a Friday night timeslot.
The CW is essentially getting out of the sitcom business and has cancelled The Game after 64 episodes. There had been talks about changing the show’s format to an hour-long dramady, to make it more compatible with the network’s other programming. That was seen as a long-shot at best and actually would have created its own set of challenges for syndication.
Though The Game only has 64 episodes, BET recently signed a syndication deal to air the first two seasons and season three will be added this Fall. To increase the show’s number of episodes, there have been discussions between the cable channel and CBS (the show’s studio) about co-funding original episodes. The deal would likely come with some cost-cutting measures.
There’s been no further word on the potential deal with BET so, as of right now, “The Wedding Episode” is the series’ last.
If The Game isn’t rescued from cancellation, are you satisfied with the way the sitcom ended — with Melanie and Derwin finally getting married?
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Don’t do this to me I love this TV show its the best show that I have ever seen.Please don’t take it away from me. Don’t do it
I love the show, but I’d hate if it ended like that because it seems at bit too cliche. I think we all would like to know what Melanie and Derwin go through as a married couple.
My family and I were not sure if “THE GAME” was cancelled or not until today. What a shame
after “Girlfriends”, we do not have very much high quality “BLACK SHOWS” left. The network never gave them a ending. At least this show had some type of resolution or ending with
Derwin and Melanie getting married, after all their obstacles. I figured the show had been cancelled, the gentleman who played DERWIN (Pooch Hall) was added to the TV SERIES “Accidently on Purpose” on CBS. He was NOT the original character to play the “BLACK” friend of the “BABY’S FATHER, in the “pilot” of the show. He took over and has been on the show ever since! Good Luck to Pooch Hall…at least he is still a working actor.
I was one of the first persons to watch the Spin-Off during an episode of Girlfriends one night. I knew it would BE A HIT because I was kind of going through the same thing with my former football playing boyfriend (only we were in college). The show illustrated the TRUTH about Single Women, Committed Women, and Married Women and the men they passionately HATE to LOVE. I learned a lot about this show, and would like to Thank the Writers. They truly depicted the lives of couples and relationships in all aspects. One of the few televisions shows I persuaded all my friends and family to watch and now it’s Gone. (Next time I’ll include my entire facebook network to tune-in.)
Good Luck to the Entire cast,
I know you will be successful in all your endeavors.
-JoanneT
Tampa, FL.
I am going to be really pissed off if there is no season 4 I watched this show faithfully and that just can’t take it off the air like that because everyone I know watches it as well somebody needs to pick the show up!
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