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The number of broadcast cancelations plummeted from 40 last season to 26 this year
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Despite fewer cancelations, the broadcast networks ordered the exact same number of new series (36) as last year, when the total number of orders reached a seven-year low. The number of renewals also stayed about the same, ticking up by one.
TOPICS: Cancelations, Renewals & Pickups, ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, NBC, Upfronts
More Cancelations, Renewals & Pickups on Primetimer:- Fox cancels rookie dramas Our Kind of People and Pivoting
- Hulu passes on Hillary Clinton alternate history series Rodham, even though Claire Danes and Dakota Fanning are attached to star
- ABC passes on L.A. Law sequel series and Jo Koy comedy pilot Josep
- ABC orders Niecy Nash's The Rookie: Feds, Hilary Swank's Alaska and Gina Rodriguez's Not Dead Yet
