When Does According to Jim Season 9 Come Out? Is It Renewed?

What is According to Jim about?

According to Jim spent eight seasons watching Jim Belushi play a man-child contractor who treats his suburban home like a personal playground. The show's entire premise rests on the notion that a well-meaning idiot married to a patient woman makes for reliable sitcom material, and for millions of viewers on ABC, it apparently did. If you want comfortable half-hours about a guy causing domestic chaos and then sort of apologizing about it, this delivers exactly that without asking much in return.

The show's tone is aggressively mild. There are jokes about football and tools and Jim doing dumb things while his wife Cheryl (Courtney Thorne-Smith) sighs at him. The humor rarely ventures beyond what you'd find in a family restaurant, and the emotional beats follow the same track: Jim screws up, Jim learns a lesson, Jim and Cheryl remember why they love each other. It's the television equivalent of a comfortable sweatshirt, which is both its appeal and its limitation. Belushi has natural charisma and decent timing, but the writing rarely gives him anything sharper to work with than exasperated physical comedy.

Audiences clearly connected with it. The show ran for eight seasons and generated solid ratings through its run, suggesting that plenty of people found its particular brand of domestic sitcom satisfying. Critics were less enthusiastic, treating it as a perfectly acceptable but unremarkable entry in the sitcom catalog. It occupied the middle of the road at a time when the middle of the road was still a viable place for network television to live.

What's worth noting is how completely According to Jim has vanished from the cultural conversation. Even the most forgettable 2000s sitcoms get nostalgia revivals or streaming rediscoveries, but this show seems to have been genuinely forgotten, which might say more about its lack of distinctive personality than its actual quality.

Created by Jonathan Stark, Tracy Newman

Is According to Jim renewed or cancelled?

Why was According to Jim cancelled?

According to Jim ran for eight seasons on ABC, which by network television standards is a respectable run. But the show's later years told a familiar story: declining ratings and an aging audience that networks increasingly viewed as less valuable to advertisers. By the time the show ended in 2009, it was no longer the reliable performer it had been in its earlier seasons, when it regularly drew millions of viewers. The sitcom formula that worked in the early 2000s, centered on Jim Belushi's everyman comedy, had simply worn thin.

The network's decision to end the show also reflected broader shifts in how ABC was managing its comedy lineup. The network was investing in newer shows and different formats, and keeping a show on the air that was no longer generating strong numbers did not make economic sense. Sitcoms in general were becoming harder to sustain on broadcast television, and According Jim, while competent and loyal to its core audience, was no longer a priority for the network's future direction.

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