NBC is sticking with Shades of Blue. Today, the network announced they’ve renewed the TV series for a third season.
The crime drama stars Jennifer Lopez as Harlee Santos, a single mother navigating her personal life and her career as an NYPD officer and FBI informant. The cast also includes Ray Liotta, Warren Kole, Drea de Matteo, Dayo Okeniyi, Vincent Laresca, Hampton Fluker, Sarah Jeffery, and Gino Anthony Pesi.
Season two of Shades of Blue debuted on March 5th. And while ratings are down from season one, the show is still bringing in moderate viewing numbers. So far, season two is averaging a .94 rating in the 18-49 demo and 5.045 million viewers.
From NBC:
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — March 17, 2017 — “Shades of Blue,” NBC’s gritty drama starring Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta about corruption in the NYPD and the ramifications that ensue, has been renewed for a third season.
The announcement was made by Jennifer Salke, President, NBC Entertainment.
“We’re so hugely appreciative of everything Jennifer and Ray do, and know it is due to their dedication, as well as the hard work of our incredible cast and producers, that ‘Shades of Blue’ has so clearly and compellingly earned a third-season renewal,” Salke said. “This show continues to mine powerful stories that always leave us hungry for more.”
Thus far in its second season, “Shades of Blue” is dominating the Sunday 10 p.m. ET hour among the ABC, CBS and NBC dramas, generating a +50% margin of victory in the timeslot in adult 18-49 rating. In total viewers, “Shades of Blue” also wins decisively, averaging 5.0 million viewers in “live plus same day” ratings from Nielsen Media Research.
Additionally, “Shades” leads the timeslot’s broadcast competition in all other key measures – adults, men and women 18-34; men and women 18-49; and adults, men and women 25-54.
“Shades” adds substantial viewership from time-shifting and video on demand, with the show’s March 5 season premiere growing by 66% in “live plus three day” Nielsens to a 1.6 rating in adults 18-49, and in total viewers by 2.5 million persons to a total of 7.8 million, accounting for the biggest L+3 lifts of the night on the Big 4 networks.
Harlee Santos (Jennifer Lopez) is a charismatic single mother and resourceful detective at the heart of a tight-knit crew of Brooklyn detectives, led by enigmatic Lt. Matt Wozniak (Ray Liotta) who often leads the team to step outside the limitations of the law in order to effectively protect their precinct and their own.
Harlee navigates her fractured relationship with Wozniak as she struggles to conceal her deepest secret: She killed her daughter’s father. Following his discovery that Harlee collaborated with the FBI, Wozniak is confronted with a gut-wrenching dilemma of his own. The crew is under tight scrutiny from Stahl (Warren Kole) and the FBI, as well as from Internal Affairs, in the form of a gregarious detective, Verco (guest star Dov Davidoff), who investigates the disappearance of one of their own. Meanwhile, a former member of their crew, Julia Ayres (guest star Anna Gunn) runs for mayor and her complex relationship with Harlee and Wozniak comes to the fore. Neither Harlee nor Wozniak anticipates that Ayres’ corrupt connections will trap them in a dangerous war with the Mafia.
The cast includes Drea de Matteo, Dayo Okeniyi, Vincent Laresca, Hampton Fluker, Sarah Jeffery and Gino Anthony Pesi.
Showrunner Jack Orman and Jennifer Lopez serve as executive producers along with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Ryan Seacrest and Nina Wass.
“Shades of Blue” is a production of Universal Television, Nuyorican Productions, EGTV, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Jack Orman Productions.
What do you think? Do you watch Shades of Blue? Are you glad it’s been renewed?
I’m a fan of the show. I am very interested in seeing season 3. The cast is good.
I am glad to hear that it’s renewed. The end of S2 was a great cliffhanger. Enjoying the series. Great work by all the actors and good plot lines. I am not in the demographic as I am 64 but I do like this series.
I love the show Excellent cast I am so happy that got renew for the 3rd season.Huge Fan Excellent SHOW
I just love this show is am so happy it is coming back for the 3rd season. Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta are great together I can’t wait for the 3rd season to start what a great cliff hanger the 2nd season had. Everyone in the show are such great actors it’s one of the best shows on television.
One of the best network shows in years. Great cop drama and J. Lopez are excellent. It could have been a bigger hit on major cable network like HBO. Entire cast is top shelf and the writing, plots are often surpring and extremely well written and acted. Jennifer Lopez continues to prove herself as one of the most talented and underrated talents in entertainment and allows herself to transform into her character without the glam or glitz people associate her with. Ray Liota, as always, has the ability to be quirky, sincere, good/bad and unpredictable especially in this role. Perfect… Read more »
I am a huge fan of “Shades of Blue”! I love it and always can’t wait until Sundays when it comes on in the evening. I love the cast, love the script, and awesome drama/action! Please renew for a 3rd season! We are watching!!! #LoveShadesofBlue
I love the show I tape it because I work but I watch it the next day when I get home at 3pm. I am 60 yrs old so that age thing they speak about is not true. Lol. God Bless the Cast ..,love JLo.. Love her on celebration for Celia Cruz its on You tube..
I love this show. Please don’t cancel it
I am soooo HAPPY about its renewal. Shades of Blue is one of my favorite shows that my husband and I enjoy together. I love the characters and love Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta. I am at the edge of my seat when watching. I hope there are many more seasons that follow ! Congratulations ! Thank You NBC.
Ecstatic about the renewal. Best drama on TV. Cast is dynamic. Wish it was on another time slot though.
I am elated that NBC is renewing this program. Shades of Blue kind of reminds of F/X’s The Shield. Like The Shield, I am hooked on Shades. I also enjoy NBC’s Chicago P.D. NBC keep up the good work! Back in the 80’s the first gritty Police Drama I remember was NBC’s Hill Street Blues. I was also hooked on that Police Drama. Thanks for your great entertaining Police Dramas.
The show has a great story line. Watch it every week can’t wait until Sunday night, thanks for the renewal.
My husband and I find it very difficult to watch shows we “both” enjoy. Shades has a variety of suspense, action and drama that intrigues us both. I am happy to hear Shades has been picked up for another season. It would be nice to see it in a prime time slot as I truly believe it would draw more viewers. Either way, we are hooked and will watch until the end.
I enjoy watching the show. The plot keeps me “hooked” to see how Harley and Ray’s character try to solve their problems. I think it would be interesting to give some backstories of the characters to develop more of a connection with the characters as well as why the characters are motivated to solve their issues the way that they do.
The acting is excellent and this show is still new enough to go into many different directions of plot and story development. Keep up the great job!
Bananas. Straight Bananas. NBC has lost their mind. Whether you like the show or not is irrelevant. A lot of people come to this site & go ‘renew it’ or ‘cancel it’ like that has any bearing on anything… Like the bigwigs at NBC CBS ABC or anywhere are scrolling through the comments. For once I’d like to have a conversation here about the logistics behind the ratings and thebseries. Shades Of Blue doesn’t have great ratings… And S1 got that early renewal and it just kept falling and falling. Then S2 comes back even weaker and boom ‘ANOTHER EARLY… Read more »
If you want to talk about that stuff..have a chat with “worthymagic”. They are always on here saying what should be cancels and going on about low ratings. They seem to know what should stay and go.
Here I am! Gee, the show hasn’t done over a 1.0 after 2 episodes, has TWO A LIST MOVIE people in the show(plus Drea De Matteo) and shows like this crap used to get canned Every Single Year up until about 3 years ago, and it shouldn’t be Cancelled? FightOwensFight is right. SOB did a 1.17 last season live average ratings(not counting +3 or +7) and I’d like someone to point out a show with a 1.17 rating with these kind of names in the show that was renewed before 2013-14?
Not that you want it to last anyway. It Wouldn’t do good if the “original” actors decided to do the tv movie or show whatever it will or might not be.