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THR breaks down why some of your favorite shows won't return for the 2018-19 season.

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00:00You know I'm here for you, right?

00:02And are you, Detainter?

00:05Broadcast TV cancellations. The acts falls for an unlucky list of series every year,

00:09while the challenge to break through and hold on in this peak TV landscape only gets steeper.

00:14From freshman shows who dreamed of becoming the next This Is Us to veteran hits whose

00:17time has come to an end, The Hollywood Reporter's TV editor Leslie Goldberg has rounded up

00:21all the broadcast series that bow for the last time during the 2017-18 broadcast season so far.

00:27And here we go.

00:28You cannot compare yourself to anybody else. You are your own unique you.

00:34First up, let's take a look at ABC, which wrapped up the middle after its ninth season.

00:39Despite a recent ratings injection thanks to lead-in Roseanne, the veteran series was produced

00:43by an outside studio, Warner Bros. Television, meaning the network did not have an ownership

00:48stake and had to pay a licensing fee.

00:50Meanwhile, a year after undergoing a major creative reboot with nearly all of its original

00:53stars exiting, ABC tried to open a new Once Upon a Time chapter.

00:57But the reboot, starring Andrew J. West, fizzled in its new Friday home.

01:01The Shonda Rhimes-created political soap scandal said goodbye in April after seven seasons.

01:05Rhimes, who left ABC Studios last summer for a nine-figure deal at Netflix, always stressed that the

01:09drama would never have a run similar to Grey's Anatomy given the way the writers burn through story.

01:14Not leaving by choice, however, was critically panned Marvel drama Inhumans, which limped off the

01:19schedule in the fall, averaging only a 1.2 in the demo and 4 million total viewers with seven days of DVR.

01:25Kiefer Sutherland's designated survivor also didn't make it after two seasons and four showrunner changes.

01:29And despite a timely premise, the mayor, about an aspiring rapper who runs for office as a PR move

01:34and wins, failed to cut through the cluttered landscape.

01:37Also exiting ABC's schedule, the Paula Patton-led drama Somewhere Between, Keira Sedgwick's Ten Days in the Valley,

01:43terrorism drama Quantico, sci-fi thriller The Crossing starring Steve Zahn and Natalie Martinez,

01:49Deception, a poorly-reviewed drama about a magician who partners with the FBI to help solve crimes,

01:54Kevin probably saves the world, which couldn't save its slot on the schedule after averaging a 1.1 in the

01:59key demo, and the Zach Braff-led comedy Alex Inc. about a journalist who quits his stable job to open his own podcast business.

02:05My colon is fine. It's fine.

02:09Is it though?

02:10Switching over to CBS, Kevin James' Kevin Can Wait made headlines at the start of season 2 after its decision

02:15to write out and kill off Erin Hayes' character. Hoping to capture ratings gold, James' former

02:20King of Queens star Leah Romini was promoted to series regular, but despite the shakeup,

02:25the comedy will not return for a third season.

02:27Genius drama Scorpion found itself on the bubble for the first time after a run of series lows

02:32in its fourth season. Even though it was owned by CBS television studios, that wasn't enough

02:36to save the series.

02:37Meanwhile, amid a CBS investigation into sexual assault around star Jeremy Piven,

02:42the network opted to let the least-watched show on Sunday's Wisdom of the Crowd end after its

02:46initial 13-episode order.

02:48CBS also said goodbye to Jermaine Fowler and Judd Hirsch's sophomore series Superior Donuts,

02:53Bobby Moynihan's critically panned comedy Me, Myself and I, the comedy 9JKL, and Living Biblically,

02:59which was executive produced by Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki and pulled from the

03:03lineup after its most recent episode notched a series low of 3.5 million total viewers.

03:08Come on, Vincent, we got this. It's gone off without a hitch for, what, seven years now?

03:13Now let's move on to The CW, which bid farewell to the Vampire Diaries spin-off

03:17The Originals after five seasons, though the franchise will continue on as The CW is

03:21considering another spin-off from showrunner Julie Plec. But the verdict isn't as strong

03:25for Life Sentence starring Pretty Little Liars grad Lucy Hale. It was moved to Friday's

03:30after mustering a .1 among adults 18-49 and is not expected to return. Valor, one of multiple

03:35military dramas to air last season, will be honorably discharged, with The CW opting to put

03:40its faith in its Dynasty reboot, which has a lucrative deal with Netflix working in its favor.

03:44No, no, no. Brown sprinkles at the ice cream bar? Do you think I'm planning a funeral?

03:49Give me rainbow!

03:50And that brings us to FOX. Where else could we start but the little show that could,

03:54Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The Andy Samberg cop comedy from Universal Television isn't a ratings

03:59breakout, and it came with a price tag and a licensing fee that ultimately wouldn't work for FOX.

04:04The network dropped the show, fans like Mark Hamill and Lin-Manuel Miranda screamed

04:07from the social media rooftops, and NBC revived the comedy a day later for a 13-episode 6 season.

04:13Fans also weren't happy when Lucifer was canceled after three seasons, but the DC

04:17entertainment drama was a victim of FOX shifting to a new direction of broad affair

04:21produced in-house. Like Brooklyn Nine-Nine, post-apocalyptic comedy The Last Man on Earth

04:25is critically acclaimed, but a ratings underperformer. It was canceled after four seasons

04:29despite its cliffhanger finale. But sources say Will Forte's series could be shopped to Hulu.

04:34Also wrapping up at FOX, Zooey Deschanel's New Girl after an abbreviated seventh season,

04:39Caitlin Olsen's sophomore comedy The Mic, and The Exorcist, which underwent a

04:42casting reboot in its second season, as the anthology-like series also lost leading lady

04:46Geena Davis.

04:47I never do what people expect of me. Didn't see that one coming, did you?

04:53Let's wrap up with NBC, where we have some bad news for great news. The Tina Fey-produced

04:58workplace comedy became part of the critical conversation in season 2, which helps make up

05:02for a .9 in the demo with seven days of delayed viewing, but wasn't enough to get it a third season.

05:08The Brave, meanwhile, was another freshman military drama which ultimately fell out of formation

05:13despite landing the prime post-voice slot to open the fall season. Jennifer Lopez's procedural

05:18Shades of Blue will wrap after three seasons, but Lopez still has a packed schedule as she's

05:22slated to star in NBC's live musical Bye Bye Birdie and judge the network's unscripted series

05:27World of Dance. Also falling off the NBC schedule, Rise starring Josh Radner, medical drama

05:32The Night Shift and Taken, the reboot of the Liam Neeson film that got the hook midway

05:36through its second run. Luckily for fans, the remaining episodes will be taken to Saturdays

05:40after May sweeps.

05:41And there you have it, the broadcast shows that won't return for the 2018-2019 season so far.

05:46Head to thr.com slash upfronts for ongoing coverage including details on what's renewed, cancelled

05:51and new series orders, plus trailers and first-look photos. In the meantime, which dearly departed

05:56show will you miss the most? Let us know in the comments. For The Hollywood Reporter News,

06:00I'm Lyndsey Rodrigues.

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