TV Shows Cancelled in 2025
Every TV show whose run ended in 2025 and now carries a cancelled verdict — across every network and streamer in the catalogue. The biggest names are explained below, followed by the full list.
73 shows cancelled in 2025
The biggest cancellations of 2025
1. The Cleaning Lady
FOX gave The Cleaning Lady a decent run by modern broadcast standards, four seasons and 46 episodes is more than most dramas get on a network increasingly cautious about serialized storytelling. But by its fourth season the show had drifted well past the premise that made it work, a desperate mother navigating a criminal underworld to save her sick child. Once that core urgency dissolved, the series became another crime procedural with soap opera trappings, and audiences noticed.
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2. Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls ran for seven seasons, which is a genuinely strong run for any drama, but its ending on The WB was less a clean conclusion than a slow fade shaped by industry upheaval. The most significant factor was the 2006 merger of The WB and UPN into The CW. That transition reshuffled priorities, budgets, and target demographics, and long-running shows with older casts and loyal but not massive audiences were caught in the churn. Gilmore Girls had never been a blockbuster ratings hit; it was a critically praised, devoted-fanbase show, and those don't always survive network restructuring.
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3. The Resident
FOX's medical drama The Resident had a reasonably good run by the standards of network television, reaching six seasons and over a hundred episodes, which is more than most shows ever see. But longevity on a broadcast network doesn't guarantee survival, and by its sixth season the show was showing the classic signs of a series that had aged out of the network's priorities. Ratings had softened considerably from its earlier years, and FOX has been steadily trimming its scripted drama slate as the economics of broadcast television have grown harder to justify.
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4. Las Vegas
Las Vegas ran for five seasons on NBC and built a loyal enough audience to keep it going well past what many procedural-light dramas manage, but by the 2007-2008 season the numbers had eroded to the point where NBC simply couldn't justify renewing it. The show had always been more of a glossy guilty pleasure than prestige television, and that kind of entertainment is especially vulnerable when ratings soften, because there's no critical goodwill to offset the decline.
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5. Resident Alien
Resident Alien ran for four seasons on USA Network, which is a longer run than most cancelled shows ever see, and that context matters when trying to understand what happened. USA Network has been quietly pulling back from original scripted programming for years, prioritizing cheaper content and leaning harder into its cable sports and reality offerings. A show like Resident Alien, with its production demands, location shooting, and ensemble cast, costs real money to keep on the air, and even a respectable IMDb score of 8.0 doesn't pay the bills when the network's broader strategy is moving in a different direction.
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6. Magnum P.I.
Magnum P.I. actually has an unusual story for a cancelled show, because it was technically cancelled twice. CBS pulled the plug after four seasons in 2022, only for NBC to pick it up and produce a fifth season. That kind of revival rarely ends well in the long run, and this one was no exception.
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7. Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon's cancellation came down to one thing more than anything else: Clayne Crawford. The actor playing Martin Riggs was reportedly difficult on set throughout the show's run, and after complaints from cast and crew, FOX removed him ahead of season three. That kind of mid-run lead replacement is almost always a death sentence, and replacing Crawford with Seann William Scott, however game the effort, couldn't hold the audience together.
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8. FBI: Most Wanted
CBS pulling the plug on FBI: Most Wanted after six seasons and 108 episodes is a bit of a surprise on the surface, given that the franchise it belongs to has been a reliable workhorse for the network. The Dick Wolf procedural universe, which also includes FBI and FBI: International, has kept CBS's Tuesday nights humming for years. But reliability eventually hits a ceiling, and Most Wanted was arguably the weakest link in that trio. A 6.9 on IMDb is not a disaster, but it reflects an audience that was engaged enough without ever being particularly passionate. Procedurals live and die by their linear ratings, and after six seasons, the show was almost certainly drawing a smaller and older slice of even its own original audience.
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9. The Following
The Following arrived on FOX in January 2013 with considerable momentum, pulling in massive premiere numbers built on the pairing of Kevin Bacon and James Purefoy. The premise, a charismatic serial killer orchestrating a cult of murderers from behind bars, felt fresh enough in that first season to sustain genuine tension. But the show had a structural problem baked in from the start: it kept escalating. Each season had to top the last in body count and conspiracy, and by season three the whole enterprise felt exhausted, almost self-parodying in its relentlessness.
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10. The Wheel of Time
Amazon's cancellation of The Wheel of Time after three seasons is a genuinely surprising outcome, given how much the company invested in turning Robert Jordan's sprawling fantasy series into a flagship property. The show debuted in late 2021 with solid viewership numbers and enough enthusiasm to suggest Amazon had found its answer to Game of Thrones. But over three seasons, the audience never quite coalesced into the passionate, durable fanbase that sustains expensive fantasy productions. A 7.2 on IMDb is respectable without being exceptional, and respectable without exceptional is a difficult position for a show that costs as much as this one clearly did.
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All shows cancelled in 2025
Frequently asked
- How many TV shows were cancelled in 2025?
- IsItRenewed tracks 73 TV shows with a cancelled verdict whose cancellation was reported in the news in 2025.
- What was the biggest show cancelled in 2025?
- By audience popularity, The Cleaning Lady is the most popular 2025 cancelled show on this list.
- How does IsItRenewed decide a show was cancelled in 2025?
- A show is grouped under 2025 when its cancellation was first reported in the news that year and its current verdict is cancelled.