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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I LOVE THE GAME YALL NED TO RING IT BACK HOW YALL HUST GOING TO ND IT LIKE THAT POPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPY WITH MELANIA AND DERWIN AND IF THAT IS REALLY HIS BABY
I loved the way it ended, but I want to see more…please bring it back BET!
Please bring The Game back! I miss my show….
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OMG! I love this show. I only catch the re-runs though because the time kept changing, which is probably the issue with the ratings. I got my husband and all his boys on board. The thing that makes The Game special is because it is totally unpredictable. You watch and hold your breath for the entire half hour and at the end you sit back sigh like you just had a great ******. This is the only new sitcom that has been able to retain my interest. I am really, really dissapointed.
I love the show! Watch the reruns on you tube. What a great bunch of actors. They are so ‘real.’
I LOVE THE GAME!!! Why would you cancel shows like this when there’s dumbass shows like one tree hill?! I love the characters in the game, Jason malik && derwin are hot!! And I didn’t like the way it ended with Jason and Kelly ): why would he leave her for that girl?!?and I wanna see how melanie and derwins marriage goes!! GET THE GAME bak on!!!!!!
This show is the real deal!! Me and my friends love this show!! It is the only show on t.v that I could really relate to. I hope they continue to air it for at least one more season.
I LOVE the game. I have been watching that show from the first day it aired. I also feel that they are racist and by keeping one black show, I guess keeps their quota ( makes you wonder). They need to get picked by a station that can see their true potential and not put them on a day that they know no one will be at home for them to watch them (Friday nights). I pray that there will be at least a season four.
oh my gosh I’m so angry this show and girlfriends are the bet shows ever i can not believe this i mean for real though why would they put the show on a friday time slot that wasn’t even givin the show a chance to get high ratings then every time i would try to watch it at the scheduled time it would never be on this is so sickning i don’t think i’m goin to watch any more shows on cw till they get there stuff together
they better put the game back on somewhere i dont care where it is. cause i feel lik i have some kind of relationship all lof them. from the sunbeams crazy asses to dingdong and medschool crazy drama. they jus dont want to see a blk show with better ratings than the others maybe who knows. i kno it will be back on soon where who knos, i have faith in the shows.
Could you all please bring back The Game. I am still waiting to see what happen with the baby saga. It seem like every good black show and yes I did say “black show”, comes on the CW. It gets canceled. Maybe your ratings dropped because most people go out on Fridays. Put it on Tuesdays. I am sick of watching these ru-runs. I want to watch new episodes.
ok if ya’ll don’t bring the show back like I suggest you do ,can you at least take the next season straight to dvd that way loyal viewers want be let down by cw again you guys are losing credibility with some fans and you know your fan base if you do decide to take it straight to video with the right advertisement you guys will get all you put
I think they need a fourth season. What’s going to happen with jason and Kelly? Are they really over? Will Tasha finally be with Rick Fix since he came back on the show for the seaon finale, and will Malik ever find somebody to settle down with. Derwin wasn’t playing football anymore will he ever have another contract with another football team. Janay finally had her baby how is this going to play out with Derwin and Melanie being married now. And lastly will Melanie have a baby by Derwin. It’s still so many thngs that could unfold. Please give… Read more »
It’s about time! This show has run out of intelligent stuff to talk about and has been dragging on like an injured race horse. Finally they put an end to this nonsense!