Home TV News CBS Renews ‘Instinct’, ‘Life in Pieces’, ‘Criminal Minds’, ‘Man With A Plan’. Cancels ‘Scorpion’ & ‘Superior Donuts’.

CBS Renews ‘Instinct’, ‘Life in Pieces’, ‘Criminal Minds’, ‘Man With A Plan’. Cancels ‘Scorpion’ & ‘Superior Donuts’.

by Dave Elliott
CBS Renews 'Instinct', 'Life in Pieces', 'Criminal Minds', 'Man With A Plan'. Cancels 'Scorpion'.

CBS Renews ‘Instinct’, ‘Life in Pieces’, ‘Criminal Minds’, ‘Man With A Plan’. Cancels ‘Scorpion’.

You thought we were done after last nights massacre, but no, there are still a few more shows out there battling for survival. This round comes from CBS as they give out renewals to Alan Cumming’s show Instinct, the wonderful Life in Pieces, Criminal Minds, and Matt LeBlanc’s Man With A Plan. Unfortunately, getting squished under the CBS boot is Scorpion, which is cancelled after 4 seasons, along with ‘Superior Donuts’, which leaves us after 2 Seasons.

‘Instinct’ is an adaptation of the novel ‘Murder Games’ from James Patterson (‘ZOO’) & Howard Roughan, which centres on a former CIA operative, Dylan Reinhart (Alan Cumming – ‘The Good Wife’, ‘Web Therapy’, ‘The X-Men’). Now working as a professor and writer, he is pulled away from his new life and back to his CIA past when the NYPD detective Lizzie Needham (Bojana Novakovic – ‘Shameless US’) needs his help catching a serial killer. The series has been bought by Sky Living in the UK and will air later this year.

Life In Pieces’ is a sitcom which follows the eccentric Short family, with each show split into four short stories from different family members, each showing their version of events. The all-star cast includes Colin Hanks (Dexter, Fargo, and son of Tom), James Brolin (‘Catch Me If You Can’, ‘Castle’ and father of Thanos – Josh Brolin), Dianne Wiest (‘Law & Order’, ‘Bullets Over Broadway’, ‘The Lost Boys’), Betsy Brandt (‘Breaking Bad’), Thomas Sadoski (‘The Newsroom’), Zoe Lister-Jones (‘New Girl’), Dan Bakkedahl (‘Veep’, ‘The Mindy Project’), and Angelique Cabral (‘Enlisted’). ‘Life In Pieces’ airs on Amazon Prime Video in the UK.

‘Criminal Minds’ revolves around an elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country’s most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again. The Behavioral Analysis Unit’s most experienced agent is David Rossi, founding member of the BAU, who is essential in helping the team solve new cases. The drama airs on Sky Living in the UK.

‘Man With A Plan’ stars Golden Globe Award winner Matt LeBlanc in a comedy about a contractor who starts spending more time with his kids when his wife goes back to work and discovers the truth all parents eventually realize: Their little angels are maniacs. Adam feels fully equipped to take on more parenting responsibilities while his self-assured wife, Andi, returns to the workforce after being a stay-at-home mom for 13 years. However, Adam is blindsided by how tough it is to wrangle three messy kids who can’t live without Wi-Fi. For some bizarre reason, no one in the UK has decided to pick up this comedy yet.

‘Scorpion’ was a high-octane drama about eccentric genius Walter O’Brien and his team of brilliant misfits who are the last line of defence against complex, high-tech threats of the modern age. As Homeland Security’s think tank, O’Brien’s Team Scorpion includes Toby Curtis, an expert behaviourist who can read anyone; his new wife, Happy Quinn, a mechanical prodigy; and Sylvester Dodd, a statistics guru. The show did air on ITV2 in the UK until they dropped it last season. The series does also appear on Netflix UK, so presumably, the 4th and final season will land there in due course.

‘Superior Donuts’ was a comedy about the owner of a small doughnut shop that’s located in a quickly gentrifying Chicago neighbourhood. Arthur is a gruff, to-the-point Chicagoan who refuses to sell newfangled cronuts and macchiatos or renovate his dated shop that hasn’t changed since it opened in 1969. That all changes when enterprising go-getter Franco fast-talks his way into Arthur’s life as his new (and only) employee and convinces him that he can bring the shop—and Arthur—into the 21st century. Again, this comedy wasn’t picked up in the UK.

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