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 its da best show ever that white **** u need to take off cuz i dnt give a damn about a vampire gossip girls is full of **** 90210 is dumb plz leave da past in da past the **** was left in da 90s dnt try to rekindle leave it alone we want da game i hope cbs and bet do something cuz cw is racist ****** soapsuds wonderbreads
Please Please do not cancel “The Game” This is one of the only shows that I watch.
I hope someone – maybe CBS will pick it up. The show is solid with great characters and story lines that can continue. Derwin and Melanie getting married is a good thing. The world is so crazy sometimes, it’s nice to see a man and a woman fall in love, stay in love and get married even with some obstacles along the way. The writers just have to be creative and work with that. It’s funny and it really has appeal for different cultures. It is really good when you really watch and pay attention – the hour long format… Read more »
THE GAME WAS THE BEST SHOW!!! WHY?????? PLEASE SOMEBODY PICK IT UP!
THE GAME was the only show left on that was entertaing to any race! I, like many did not miss an episode. Ok they got married but there is so many things that were left off from the show… Jason and Kelly could of got back together, Rick Fox and TASHA.. SO many avenues that the story still has left to take and again they cut it from up under the african americans!
why would they cancell the best show out….me and my wife love this show…..i dont care what we are doing….we make time to watch this show at 12pm and 5pm every day and 8thrity on fridays……cancell half and half or the rest of that stupid stuff …..
THE CW CANCELLED THE GAME FOR THE REASON OF BEING MORE MULTICULTURAL…IF THIS IS TRUE THEN WHY ARE ALL OF THE SHOWS PREDOMINANTLY WHITE…THE GAME WAS A WELL WRITTEN DRAMEDY AND IT SHOULDNT BE CANCELLED…THAT WAS THE BEST SHOW THEY HAD.. I DNT UNDERSTAND…SHAME ON THERE RACISTS ASS…REALLY A SHAME~!~!
as previously stated WHY THE HELL ARE ALL THE BLACK SHOWS BEING CANCLED… I haven’t been in tune with a tv show since martin.. This is MAJOR ********… Every time one of the “black” show move to this damn station it gets cancled… Gossip girl n all this other **** stay on for 10 years! I ABSOLUTLY LOVED THE GAME.. It’s jus hard to catch on a Friday night when every one is getting ready to hang out. Even still us loyal fans still kept up with the show. I guess the crime rate got to low in the urban… Read more »
i love the game! i cant believe they are doing this to the ONLY show i like!
this is what we are talking about no black shows the only place you can see a good black show no the only two black shows are house of payne and meet the brown on tbs the cw is bad and i will never watch a show on there again and i will be starting a boycotte on them tell they have a black show on the air and give it the same support they give the white shows
I am upset that this show ended it was a good show as well as the show All of us. There is no surprise that all of the black shows are cancelled and the goofy white shows stay on forever..
why did you freaking cancel this show it was really good or can i say awesome and to cancel it like this making us wonder what could have happened is wrong… forget cw their station is whack why do you think no one watches that channel because its so freaking boring but with the game it wasnt now im not even going to watch it.
The Game was the best show on TV and the only show I made an appointment to watch. I really hope that another network picks it up and keeps the original vibe of the show. BET does too much bleeping on the syndicated episodes.
What happened to all the black shows? Bring back Merwin!
no, I’m not pleased; very upset. Why they ccancelled this show it was so good. Just like girlfriends no closure!!!!!!!!!!They couls at least give us a mid-season!!
I am so upset that i could slap a hoe…… I mean it make no sense why would they cancel a perfectly good show. See this is the reason a lot of people stay in trouble. I hate this.