20 TV Shows That Were Cancelled In 2025

TV sure is in a weird place right now. 

Though there's arguably more amazing small-screen content than ever before - more than anyone can actually watch, even - in the Streaming Era, the metrics of "success" have never felt so ambiguous.

What is a hit and what is a flop is down entirely to the numbers seen by executives, many of which aren't ever made public, ensuring that shows can be both renewed and cancelled totally out of nowhere.

And over the past year, these are the 20 biggest TV shows to get cancelled. Whether people saw the writing on the wall or not, they were all given the chop.

Perhaps flagging viewership was to blame, or maybe there were complicated exterior factors, some of which just might even involve the President of the United States himself.

Whatever the reason, these 20 shows were all cancelled this past year for better or worse. 

While a few could potentially be saved in the future and get picked up by another network, most of them clearly won't be coming back in any form...

Though it was originally expected to have a five-season run, hit mystery thriller series Yellowjackets was recently confirmed to be wrapping up after its upcoming fourth.

Even as recently as 2023, co-creator Ashley Lyle stated that the five-season plan was still in place, and with its third season ultimately being its most-watched to date, it's rather surprising that Paramount made the decision to tie things off a season early.

Even accepting the rather polarised fan response to the latest season in particular, viewing figures are king, and it's tough to parse Paramount killing a golden goose prematurely.

Some have suggested that the recent Paramount-Skydance merger might be to blame, with regime changes causing the premature cancellation for opaque bureaucratic reasons.

Either way, it appears that Lyle has been given a season's worth of runway to wrap things up, which is at least a better result than the show being canned after season four has already been shot.