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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Please bring this show back. I want to know is that baby really Derwin, what happen with the other stars. This is really a down to earth show that needs to continue.
ITS THE BEST SHOW ON BRING IT BACK!!!!!!!!!
let me say i never watched this show really, lost track of it mainly because i didnt know when it was on. but since BET started show the reruns ive really gotten into it, and my anticipation for a new season is really high. i really wish that if they arent gonna start up a fourth season that they would stop showing it, they are just building my interest higher and higher. if your not gonna do anything about it, take it off so i can forget about it.
yo the game was one of the best shows ever i want to know was that davis baby anh how do he deal getting married am having a baby all in the same day
Thanks to CW and the like canceling well written entertaining shows like the Game, I have pretty much given up on television. The news and sports, a few movies are becoming all we watch because the networks seem to be disinterested in what we the viewers want to see. I use to look so forward to the comic intelligent entertaining relief of the show The Game. Thank God I can read and the networks have no control over books. Hopefully, the networks will notice a dwindling population of viewers and seek to entertain us instead of whatever egos they are… Read more »
I don’t care about no other shows but this one. Please make a way to get my show back. And yes, there are so many qusetions of mine that is in need of answers. Please, Bring back my show.
VERY unhappy withhow it end what happen with the baby , did jason ever come back to his wife we NEED a season 4 to get all THE question answered
i love the game..i have fell in love with it and its characters..anyone who doesnt watch this show is crazy. i demand a season 4..we cant be left hanging..the last episode brought many questions..so please please let there be a season 4…this is the best show i ever watched..good job producers and cast members.also..pooch hall is so so sexy
I honestly would like to know what possesed CW to schedule the show on fridays? Dumbest move ever and wondered why the ratings were low. I need to know if that baby is really Derwins!
I love the show its very entertaining please bring it back so we can see what else is going to happen.
I’m with the rest of the viewers. I need to know if that is Derwin’s baby and if it isn’t then that means his wife (Melanie) will give him a baby and the family will be complete. Will Janay try to keep Derwin and Melanie in limbo with the truth, remember she did go to Miami without Derwin and was seen with another guy over in the morning have a ball on the town. PLEASE give us more and don’t let it end this way. Will Malik ever settle down? Will Tasha and Ricky final get back together? And will… Read more »
I’m, with everyone else!! I still watch the re-runs and the re-runs re-runs! I’m addicaated! i Know all the characters and all the lines to most of the shows. NO, I hate tehy way they ended it. I don;t know why it was moved to friday but I think they set the show up for failure by doing that. We were left with so many unanswered questions. BRING THE GAME BACK!!!!
no, it needs to continue. great show, work hard to bring it back.
NO NOT AT ALL. I slept on that show! That show goes hard! I would be heart broken if it’s ova. My fiance is in kuwait and that show keeps me entertained and ima need kelly and jason to really make up! And can’t you all give Chris Brown a spot on the show? I know he did wrong but everyone can change. A lot of people are dealn with real life issues like that but we need to focus on rehabilitation and not so much of the negative. There is life afta bad decisions look at mel and derwin.… Read more »
No I’m not satisfied at all I want to see more I want to see what’s gonna happen next with Derwin being a father and a husband. I’m so sick and tired that all of the best African American shows are being cancelled. They’re are some stupid sitcoms that are on right now that sucks but yet they are still being showed. I’m hoping and wishing that they do get they fourth season.