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CBS has been filling its schedule with procedurals and spin-offs of procedurals for years. This time around, the network is trying something a little different — a legal drama. Will it be a success in the ratings? Will So Help Me Todd be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned. *Status Update Below.
The So Help Me Todd TV show stars Marcia Gay Harden, Skylar Astin, Madeline Wise, Tristen J. Winger, Inga Schlingmann, and Rosa Arredondo. In the story, Margaret Wright (Harden) is a razor-sharp and successful attorney who is reeling from the recent dissolution of her marriage. Her son Todd (Astin) is a quick-thinking former private detective who’s fallen on hard times after his “flexible interpretation of the law” got his license revoked. Though Margaret’s high standards and strict adherence to the law are at complete odds with Todd’s scrappy and seat-of-his-pants methods, she asks him to join her firm as the in-house investigator. Mother and son working together is a big first step toward mending their fragile and dysfunctional relationship. They may even come away with a better understanding of each other at this pivotal point in their lives.
The ratings are typically the best indication of a show’s chances of staying on the air. The higher the ratings, the better the chances for survival. This chart will be updated as new ratings data becomes available.
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Note: These are the final national ratings, including all live+same day viewing and DVR playback (through 3:00 AM). Early fast affiliate ratings (estimates) are indicated with an “*”. While these numbers don’t include further delayed or streaming viewing, they are a very good indicator of how a show is performing, especially when compared to others on the same channel. There can be other economic factors involved in a show’s fate, but typically the higher-rated series are renewed and the lower-rated ones are cancelled.
What do you think? Do you like the So Help Me Todd TV series on CBS? Should it be cancelled or renewed for a second season?
*2/3/23 update: So Help Me Todd has been renewed for a second season by CBS.
I love this show, however everytime I say that it gets cancelled like my beleoved NCIS New Orleans. I am glad it got picked up for another season.
This show is simply delightful! It has everything you could want– quirky mysteries, strong characters who are acted well and ongoing plotlines that are punctuated by episodes that could easily stand alone. You could jump into watching this show and still be able to follow what’s happening. I’m glad I found it! It’s become something I look forward to each week.
Such a wonderful series! Enjoying this so much I can’t believe this is CBS network. If you make more like this I watch more
An entirely watchable light bit of entertainment – there are no complex stories here, nor does it appear to be trying to convey any particular message beyond a slightly distant and nagging mum and her ever so slightly disappointing and whining son, but that story is one so many could relate to. Its watchable fluff, more than worthy of a further series because it does what tv used to do, it simply entertains without challenging every belief and ethic of the viewer…. thank you.
Nice to see that they’re trying something different than relying on the same Chuck Lorre garbage. I hope it keeps up this is a really good show
I love the show SO HELP ME TODD . KEEP it on TV.
This is a Great Show and each cast member is so well tuned to the whole family/co-worker dynamic going on in the background of the main story line….that it is a real treat to have the mystery solved as each character by adding their own view point pulls it together, while the whole lot of them piece it together! Witty, smart thinking by all…..makes this a fun delight and the sibling discord with the Mom stirring up the pot is sooooo true to life! It is a breath of fresh air and totally should be renewed!