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 that show helpme with my every day life as well i have a personalatiy like mel so please bring back the show asap thanks
dont leave us hanging we have to have an ending I LOVE THE GAME
It’s very hard to keep an primarily African American show on the air. I hope that the network is reading the comments of these postings. When they moved the show from sunday night to Friday that was a setup for failure. I feel that the show was successful. It would be nice to see it picked up on another network. I hope to see season 4.
I think that they should not cancel the game because it was really good and i think it could do one more or even 2 season and stop being cheap you never know the ratings might go back up don’t know but they should give it a try because I LOVE THE GAME YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this show it gives you a look at football players life. I hope they bring it back.
This is very disappointing. The viewers are left hanging again like we were with Girlfriends. Please bring it back.
They could at least bring this show back so we can see a conclusion!!!!!!!!!! NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey BET I just want you guys too know that everyone loves this show and that a season 4 needs to be made. THANK you
love Jada.!
please please bring it back!!!! i LOVED LOVED LOVED IT!!!! me and my friends live off the re-runs on BET! I JUST WISH IT WOULD COME BACK!!!!!
Please BET bring back the game. There is alot of us who can relate to what the show is all about and that is really and that is exactly what we are looking for in a TV show. I loved the last episode but i would love to see more of The Game Staff; Derwin, Melanie, Tasha, Rick, Malik, T.T.,Kelly and Jason. So please , please bring The Game back don’t take it away from us. Thank you.
i need this show to come back ….this show helps me understand that there is real black love an we dont have to settel down with being played …this shows you how u are subpose how to treat yr man an how yr man is subpose to treat u ….i really hope that this show comes back on asap…..plzzzzzz
The Game is still my favo tv show, iIeven watch the rerun episodes over and over again. Please make a season four drama or whatever, because I have been waiting and I’m still waiting.
I loved the game and the way it ended was not satisfactory to me! Please bring it back i want to see how melanie and derwin are coping now that mel cant run everytime things get tough and derwin cant act like a butthead i want to see the dynamic of the 3part relationship I want to see Malik TT Tasha and Kelly become friends again kelly & jason getting it together as single parents and i want to see the comedy of the game. bring it back BET bring it back!!!
please leave this show on the air its my favorite. Its a great and funny show.lots of people watch it and love it. Its one of the best sitcoms next to everybody hates chris.and pooch hall is fine, i wanna see him and melinie get married,and i wanna see rick and tashas relation ship work out, also i wanna see kelly and jason get back togather.
Please make a season 4 because i want to see Melanie and Derwin get married in have a baby together and just live their lifes that i all want to see them do. kelly and jason get back to togther and be good to each other and have a good marrige for their kid . now Malik needs to find him a woman that going to be with him for good and get married this time and last for ever. Tasha need to playing games in get rick fox back and get married with him and they will be fine.… Read more »