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The staff at Chastain Memorial has been let go. To little surprise, FOX has cancelled The Resident so that it won’t be back for a seventh season.
A medical drama series, The Resident TV show stars Matt Czuchry, Manish Dayal, Bruce Greenwood, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Jane Leeves, Anuja Joshi, Jessica Lucas, Miles Fowler, Kaley Ronayne, and Andrew McCarthy. The series follows a group of doctors at Chastain Memorial Hospital, as they face personal and professional challenges on a daily basis. Although its motto is, “Committed to excellence,” the hospital is staffed with human beings, and humans are flawed. The staff includes Chief Resident Conrad Hawkins (Czuchry), resident internist Devon Pravesh (Dayal), cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. AJ Austin (Warner), veteran doctor Randolph Bell (Greenwood), neurosurgery resident Billie Sutton (Lucas), surgical intern Leela Devi (Joshi), emergency doctor Kincaid “Cade” Sullivan (Ronayne), renowned pediatric surgeon Ian Sullivan (McCarthy), and CEO Dr. Kit Voss (Leeves).
Airing on Tuesday nights, the sixth season of The Resident averaged a 0.34 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 2.77 million viewers in the live+same day ratings (includes all DVR playback through 3:00 AM). Compared to season five, that’s down by 19% in the demo and down by 11% in viewership. In the live+7 day ratings, episodes picked up an average of 60% more viewers.
While The Resident has been one of FOX’s most-watched scripted series, the show was nearly cancelled a year ago during negotiations with the series’ studio, 20th Television (now owned by Disney). The cancellation doesn’t come as a surprise this year since the show’s sets have been taken down and much of the furniture has gone up for auction.
In response to the cancellation, Resident co-creator Amy Holden Jones wrote, “It was a great run. The Resident lives on Hulu where you can watch commercial free. Today is a day of gratitude for our amazing cast and crew and the life altering experience we shared.”
The Resident won’t be back for the 2023-24 season, but FOX hasn’t given up on medical dramas. The network recently gave a series order to a new show titled Doc.
THR reports that Czuchry is set to join the next season of FX’s American Horror Story, which is also produced by 20th Television.
What do you think? Have you kept up with The Resident TV series on FOX? Are you disappointed that this medical drama has been cancelled and won’t be back for a seventh season?
Great show and characters. Don’t cancel
No. Please keep The Resident. It’s my favorite medical show and so well done.
The Resident was one of the best shows on tv. Looked forward to seeing a new episode each week. Now Fox has nothing but really poor, at best, shows. 911 and Lone Star are not even close to the quality of The Resident.
Will not be watching anything on Fox going forward. Sad that Fox executives could not see a quality show like The Resident.
Spoil sports great show
Very disappointed. Love this show and can’t believe it has been cancelled. I hope another network will pick it up.
Very sad.I’ve been watching from the start.I love all the actors & they did their jobs well.it will be missed.
That is so wrong!! One of my favorite shows!
I loved watching The Resident I’m very disappointed that it was cancelled. Loved all the actors, they made it seem so real. It was a great show !
Not happy at all!! Hey Netflix, any chance you’ll pick this one up & give us a better send-off than they stupid network probably will. This is a quality show with amazing actors!! I vote for the end to ALL reality shows & the funding go to keeping quality shows like The Resident around for more seasons!!!!!!
Sooooooooo disappointed!!!!! We are in our 60’s and thoroughly enjoyed The Resident. Dont know who they polled but they didnt ask us! Bad move FOX!
Very disappointed Loved the characters & enjoyed the unique hospital storylines.
Why do the shows with substance always get cancelled?
I am extremely disappointed. Great acting! Awesome story lines. Excellent screen writing! So superior to all the reality shows and the shallow series!! Sob Sob another favorite being axed.
Very sad to see this show cancelled. Loved all the characters and little Gigi was an amazing little actress. I do appreciate that they tried to have the last episode tie things up
Not happy at all. It was a great show with great acting and plot. Will miss this one as well as New Amsterdam.
Very disappointed. Probably get another worthless reality show.