Because the 2022-2023 broadcast TV season begins to come back to an in depth, there are nonetheless many reveals whose fates are up within the air. A type of reveals is CBS’ S.W.A.T., which remains to be awaiting a Season 7 renewal (or cancellation), and its destiny feels particularly unsure following the community’s latest wave of renewals. Govt producer Shawn Ryan went on the report to confess why the Shemar Moore-led sequence has but to be renewed, and it’s much like the reasoning for Blue Bloods.
S.W.A.T. has seen a lot success this season after shifting again to its Friday time slot, main into profitable freshman sequence Hearth Nation and long-running procedural Blue Bloods. Sadly, it has remained on the bubble, and because the sequence will get near its Could finale, it’s arduous to inform what is going to occur. Shawn Ryan revealed the explanation why that’s whereas showing on THR’s TV’s Prime 5 podcast (opens in new tab), and it’s not what you might suppose:
Proper now, it’s up within the air whether or not S.W.A.T. will get picked up for a seventh season, and that has nothing to do with rankings.
The present season of S.W.A.T has averaged 6.8 million viewers and is in a five-way tie for third in demo on CBS, and if it have been 15 years in the past, Ryan stated it might be a no brainer for a renewal. It’s not precisely that minimize and dry today, because the EP admitted that negotiations between CBS and Sony Photos Tv are nonetheless happening, and it’s all concerning the cash:
S.W.A.T. proper now could be the No. 3 present, I feel, or tied for third, for CBS within the demo. There’s no cause why the present shouldn’t be picked up apart from the economics of the enterprise are altering, and CBS and [lead producer] Sony [Pictures Television] will or is not going to determine a strategy to economically make a seventh season work.
Whereas it’s irritating that S.W.A.T. has but to be renewed, it’s a tad of a reduction understanding that, if not for economics, the sequence can be getting excellent news sooner relatively than later. Contemplating all that goes into making a present like S.W.A.T. – together with the ensemble forged, stunts, motion sequences, and props (I’m you, Black Betty) – it’s doable that we may see some finances cuts with the intention to get one other season. However for now, that is solely hypothesis, as nothing has been publicly confirmed on the time of writing.
In fact, even when the worst does occur and the present is cancelled, S.W.A.T. may exit kicking with a powerful Season 6… so long as there may very well be a correct finale for 20-Squad, anyway. The sequence hit 100 episodes final season and stated goodbye to sequence common Lina Esco. Now, with Shemar Moore’s Hondo anticipating a child woman after welcoming certainly one of his personal in actual life, it may very well be the proper strategy to finish the procedural if a seventh season would not occur.
With community Upfronts going down in Could and the WGA negotiations deadline on Could 1, it’s doable we received’t hear something till then, which can be simply weeks earlier than S.W.A.T.’s season finale on Could 19. So it’s simply going to be a ready recreation. Fortunately, S.W.A.T. Season 6 remains to be a part of the 2023 TV schedule, so at the very least followers have that to look ahead to for now.
