Good news for some shows, limbo for others

As the Fox network nears its Super Bowl spotlight, there’s good and bad news about its future:
— The good: “The Cleaning Lady” (shown here with Elodie Yung) has been renewed for a third season. That could have gone either way; the show has had modest ratings and a serialized story that reached some conclusions as the second season ended.
— Also good: Fox has expanded its agreement to put all of its scripted and reality shows on Hulu, the day after they air.
— And the bad: The spot after the Super Bowl on Feb. 12 – a perfect place to launch a new drama or showcase a fairly new one – will instead go to “Next Level Chef.” Read more…

As the Fox network nears its Super Bowl spotlight, there’s good and bad news about its future:
— The good: “The Cleaning Lady” (shown here with Elodie Yung) has been renewed for a third season. That could have gone either way; the show has had modest ratings and a serialized story that reached some conclusions as the second season ended.
— Also good: Fox has expanded its agreement to put all of its scripted and reality shows on Hulu, the day after they air.
— And the bad: The spot after the Super Bowl on Feb. 12 – a perfect place to launch a new drama or showcase a fairly new one – will instead go to “Next Level Chef.”
The Hulu arrangement seems especially important. These days, shows can’t get enough over-the-air viewers; they need the back-up of a streaming network.
Other networks have their own – Peacock for NBC, Paramount+ for CBS, Disney+ for ABC. Hulu (owned by Disney) offers a second-chance spot for “The Simpsons,” “Masked Singer” and the rest.
The state of those shows can be hard to assess. If Fox had a terrific one, it would put an episode after the Super Bowl. Instead, that spot goes to one of Gordon Ramsay’s reality shows.
Fox’s scripted shows have been mixed lately: The “9-1-1” dramas thrive; others do borderline business. The network threw a big effort behind “Monarch,” which offered good country music and bad soap opera. Ratings plummeted and the show was canceled.
So it was encouraging to see that “Cleaning Lady,” a fairly good drama, will be back … and worrisome that “The Resident” remains in limbo.
“Resident” has gradually turned into a first-rate drama, but ratings have been moderate. It closed its sixth season with an episode that wrapped up almost everything – just in case there won’t be a seventh.

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