Renewals and Cancellations: 'The Recruit, 'FiveThirtyEight, 'Running Point' 'FBI: Most Wanted''

We’ll have a Running Point review up later today (spoiler: I liked it), but Netflix has already moved to renew the Kate Hudson basketball series from Mindy Kaling. It’s the top show on Netflix this week (and was number three last week with only a few days of streaming under its belt). Netflix hasn’t historically been keen on comedies, so this is actually great news.

Not so great news for The Recruit, the Noah Centineo series that was canned this week after two seasons (as I predicted). It wasn’t a great show, but it was better than The Night Agent, which was renewed for a third season before the second even launched. I do wonder if airing in back-to-back weeks hurt The Recruit, since the two were often confused for each other.

Elsewhere, while it’s not a television show, it’s worth noting that the 538 site has been canceled as well. The once hugely popular site founded by Nate Silver offered a lot of false reassurance ahead of the 2016 election and even the 2024 election (though Silver was no longer running it by then). It was a decent place for political polling round-ups, but those exist elsewhere, and polling—for obvious reasons—has fallen out of favor.

CBS, which is always stacked with procedurals, has axed two from the FBI franchise: FBI: Most Wanted is out after six seasons, and FBI: International has been put out to pasture after four. For those who don’t watch these shows, Most Wanted was the one that starred Dylan McDermott and Keisha Castle-Hughes (oh, that’s where she went), while International starred literally no one I’ve ever heard of. The two were canceled to make way for, among other shows, a Fire Country spin-off and a Blue Bloods spin-off. They could be shopped to other places, as they still had solid linear ratings.

Meanwhile, on Paramount+, Criminal Minds: Evolution has been renewed for a fourth season ahead of its third-season premiere, which arrives on the streamer in May.

Storage Wars has been picked up by A&E for a 16th season, and Netflix has renewed its survival series Outlast—which I’ve never even heard of—for a third.