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 DON’T LIKE HOW THE SHOW ENDED. I LOVED THE EPISODES BUT I JUST WANT TO FIND OUT IF THATS DERWIN BABY OR NOT. THAT;S WHY I DIDN’T LIKE THE ENDING THEY NEED A FOURTH SEASON
Please even as a man this was an awesome sitcom……please bring it back.!
I never missed an episode nor my family. We watch the reruns over and over until it is time to go to bed. Please bring the show back. I feel the reason the rating dropped is due to the change to digit and so on. What have been waiting for the next season. I check the internet often for the return. Please bring the show back.
PLEASE BRING THE GAME BACK I LOVED THT SHOW CUZ I CAN RELATE 2 IT I WENT THREW THE SAME STUFF MELINA WENT THREW THT WAS A GREAT SHOW AND IT NEEDS TO COME BACK LIKE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE I STILL WATCH ALL THE OLD EPSIODES THTS HOW GOOD IT IS ND I STILL BE IN TO THE SHOW EVEN THOUGH I KNOW WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN SO PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BRING THE GAME BACK 🙂
I love this show I waited all summer to see the new season. To find out that it was cancelled is horrible. Its true there are not many blacks shows left on the air for us to wacth what is that we have to do to keep a black going like the Cosby show did back in the day. I want a show to grow and laugh with what is the problem.
i love the game am and BET should pick up the rest of the shows it would benefit them .
Please bring the game. Back me and my family use to watch it ever Friday that show was the only show that brought us together now that is gone I feel that there no other black show left for us to watch we love the drama the charcters and the little comedy it had please bring it back for another season. We miss it .
I REALLY DIDNT LIKE THE WAY THE SHOW ENDED. I WANTED TO SEE HOW THE BABY LOOKED AND HOW MELANIE WAS GOING TO REACT TO THE BABY AND TO SEE IF JASON AND KELLY WAS GOING TO GET BACK TOGETHER. AND I WAS WONDERING IF KELLY AND TASHA WAS GOING TO BE FRIENDS AGAIN. AND THEY NEED TO LET TASHA FIND HER A GOOD MAN AND BE WITH HIM. BUT TASHA IS MY GIRL. SO PLEASE PLEASE BRING THE SHOW BACK. TANYA LACY
I think that they should bring the game back!!!! It is an excellent show that people can relate to. PLEASE BRING BACK THE GAME
this is just like when family guy got cancelled, it was a great show too. follow in fox’s footsteps and bring back a great show!!!
please bring the game back! i just started watching on BET recently and i am HOOKED! friday nights are not a good time spot for the game, your demogrphic is young people i am assuming, and young people like to go out on friday nights! thats why your number of viewers dropped! it doesnt mean we arent in love with the show! please bring it back we cant be left hanging! we need to see what happens next with derwin and melanie!! =)
Bring “The Game” back you just can’t leave us hanging like that and not only was the show good the case was great.
I think there definitly needs to be a fourth season…idk how many times ive cried with melanie!! im only 20, so i know i have so much more to look forward to with relationships. Its so much more than entertainment; Their life lessons. Real life. I love The Game! btw: tasha mac is a trippp!!!!
I think it is a shame that all of the good shows are being cancelled. Why did the CW cancel this show anyway? We all don’t watch shows that follow teenagers around schools now that we are older. I VOTE to bring this show BACK!!!!! What a big loss for all of the fans.
I have been watching the reruns on BET and I am so disappointed that it was canceled. It was a great drama. I REALLY hope that BET makes the move to pick the show up. They definitely have a captive audience!