23 Ending or Cancelled TV Shows for the 2012-13 Season

The networks will keep cancelling TV shows just as surely as they’ll keep introducing new ones. Below is the list of TV series that will or have ended during the 2012-13 season. In short, they won’t be back for 2013-14.

This list will be updated as the season progresses so feel free to bookmark and check back.

If you believe a show has been cancelled and don’t see it here, you can check the 2011-12 and 2010-11 lists.

30 Rock (NBC)
Season seven will be the end for Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) and Liz Lemon (Tina Fey). The peacock network ordered 13 episodes.

America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV)
Produced by Randy Jackson, the reality competition ran for seven seasons before being cancelled by MTV.

Anderson Live (syndicated)
The daytime talk show won’t be returning for a third season. The show will continue to air through Summer 2013.

Animal Practice (NBC)
It turns out that even little monkeys can be fired.

Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations (Travel)
The cable channel has announced that the 18 episodes of season eight will be the show’s last.

Attack of the Show! (G4)
On the air since 2005, this technology and pop culture series was cancelled due to G4 rebranding itself as “a more upscale, sophisticated guy TV space.”

Breaking Bad (AMC)
Walter and Jesse have been given their walking papers. Who will survive to see the end? The final eight episodes will air during Summer 2013.

Common Law (USA Network)
The bickering cops have solved their last case together. The Friday night series was cancelled due to low ratings. A crime?

Fairly Legal (USA Network)
Despite making some changes after the first season, the ratings just wouldn’t go up. It’s now been cancelled after 23 episodes.

Fringe (FOX)
Never a big ratings success, this cult-favorite series is saying goodbye with a fifth season of 13 episodes.

Gossip Girl (The CW)
The smallest network renewed the drama for a sixth and final season of 10-12 episodes.

iCarly (Nickelodeon)
One of the most popular shows on cable television, iCarly will end with a special that will air in November 2012.

Jersey Shore (MTV)
The cable channel has decided to pull the plug on the very successful reality series after six seasons.

Made in Jersey (CBS)
Not surprisingly, CBS has dumped the low-rated Friday night drama after just two episodes. Petition link.

The Office (NBC)
The peacock network’s highest-rated scripted series will be finished with the ninth season. The series finale will air in May 2013.

Political Animals (USA)
It was billed as a limited series but if the Sigourney Weaver show performed well enough, it would have become a regular series. It didn’t so there won’t be a second season.

Private Practice (ABC)
The ratings have been dropping for awhile and Kate Walsh announced she was leaving so there won’t be a seventh season.

The Secret Life of the American Teenager (ABC Family)
The fifth season of the hit cable series will be its last. The final episodes will begin airing in March 2013.

Shameless (Channel 4 in UK)
Season 11 of the original Shameless series (not the US version that airs on Showtime) is the last season.

Skins (Channel 4 in UK)
It’s been announced that the series will end with season seven. It will be broadcast in early 2013.

Spartacus (Starz)
Season three is the end of the warrior’s tale.

Victorious (Nickelodeon)
Many Nickelodeon shows have ended with 60 episodes and this one is no exception. The final 15 episodes will air during the 2012-13 season.

X-Play (G4)
A TV show about video games that includes reviews and comedy skits, X-Play was cancelled due to the cable channel deciding to go in a new brand direction.

What do you think? Are you surprised or disappointed that any of these shows won’t be back for 2013-14?

g4 killed itself awhile ago

NO NOT ABDC I LOVED THAT SHOW!!!!! FUCK