Renewed or Canceled: The Status and Budget of Every Show for 2023

Updated: Jan 12, 2023By Kate PrinceEntertainment

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There’s nothing better after a long day than curling up on the couch with a bucket of popcorn and watching your favorite shows. Networks like Disney’s ABC decide to keep or cancel a show based on a lot of factors, including viewership rates, popularity with the times, and, of course, whether the show is actually making any money.

Here, we’ll tell you the status of your favorite shows—namely, whether they’ve been renewed or canceled, plus just how much the stars earn, how some shows have production costs upward of $1 million per episode, and whether these factors led to the show’s untimely demise.

If your show is canceled, don’t be too down, as there might be a spinoff in the works sometime in the future. They might even reboot it entirely. After all, it’s all about bringing in revenue and the entertainment business has that down to a fine art – most of the time, anyway. Read on to find out the status of your favorite shows.

1. Hell’s Kitchen

Status: Renewed
Network: Fox
Est. Cost: $1 million per episode*

Gordon Ramsay, the chef pioneer behind the show Hell’s Kitchen (among others), has been cagey about his salary – though estimated figures report that he now makes up to $225,000 per episode of his show. The reality series has 20 hit seasons so far, with its first season airing back on May 30, 2005.

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It features competitive chefs fighting to win their own restaurant and, perhaps more importantly, Gordon Ramsay’s respect. The latest winner of the show was Ariel Contreras. The Fox production has boosted Ramsay’s own personal net worth to a very impressive $190 million. Given the popularity of the series, that number is set to increase as the seasons tick by.

2. Doctor Who

Status: Renewed
Network: BBC
Est. Cost: $5 million per episode (later seasons)*

This famous, long-running sci-fi series currently stars Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor. Past Doctors have included Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi. The show features the Time Lord (the “Doctor”) traveling through space and time to solve problems throughout the TARDIS.

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The show is far too elaborate to be succinctly explained here, but it has been wildly successful—that much is clear. Doctor Who has had 13 seasons so far, with number 14 fast approaching. The show was created by C.E. Webber and Sydney Newman.

3. American Ninja Warrior

Status: Renewed
Network: NBC
Est. Cost: $2 million per episode*

American Ninja Warrior is a sports entertainment reality show that first aired in 2009. But what people might not know is that the series is actually a spinoff of Sasuke, a Japanese television series. The show has 14 seasons so far.

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The show currently airs on NBC and G4. You might recognize the host, Akbar Gbajabiamila, from ESPN, where he works as a sports analyst. The show is also hosted by Matt Iseman.

4. The Walking Dead

Status: Canceled
Network: AMC
Est. Cost: $3.4 million per episode*

The Walking Dead has become so popular that its stars were able to negotiate a pay raise of more than four thousand percent. Stars like Norman Reedus started out getting paid only $8,500 per episode, but now they are slated to make around $350,000.

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This post-apocalyptic zombie show now has its own spinoff as well, called Fear the Walking Dead on AMC. The show has run for ten seasons, and while fans were hoping it would stick around for a few more years, the series came to an end in 2022.

5. Dancing with the Stars

Status: Renewed
Network: ABC
Est. Cost: $1 million per episode*

Dancing with the Stars is one of ABC’s most popular shows. There have been 31 seasons so far. On the show, celebrities compete against one another to see who will be the best ballroom dancer. They’re paired up with a professional dance instructor, and the past winners were Hannah Brown and Alan Bersten.

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Fans are always just as excited to see the judges on the panel as they are to see celebrities learn to jive and cha-cha. The presenters include famous faces like Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews. The salary for the entire show is capped at $295,000, which isn’t to be sniffed at.

6. Shark Tank

Status: Renewed
Network: ABC
Est. Cost: $1 million per episode*

Starring the always-entertaining billionaire Mark Cuban (among other mega-rich businesspeople), the show Shark Tank has had 13 seasons so far. In the show, people with business ideas compete for funding and investments from the judges. Shark Tank airs on ABC and BBC.

Shark Tank @SharkTank / Facebook.com

Its executive producers include Mark Burnett, Laura Roush, and Kate Ryu, who were no doubt pleased to hear that the show had been renewed for a 14th season. With no plans to say goodbye yet, the Sharks are still enjoying getting thrown in at the deep end.

7. Westworld

Status: Renewed
Network: HBO
Est. Cost: $25 million (pilot episode)*

Westworld (based on the Michael Crichton novel) features a futuristic amusement park designed for rich people and controlled by robots. Rich people are able to live out their fantasies through artificial intelligence.

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There are no consequences in Westworld—that is until things begin to go haywire in the park. The show is based on the ’73 movie, and it features a cast that includes veteran actors Ed Harris, Anthony Hopkins, and Thandie Newton.

8. America’s Got Talent

Status: Renewed
Network: NBC
Est. Cost: $10 million per season*

America’s Got Talent is presented by Terry Crews, Howie Mandel, Simon Cowell, and Julianne Hough, and it is a reality competition that features people of all ages performing their talent, whether it’s dancing, singing, ventriloquism, or something much weirder. Celebrity judges, including American Idol’s Cowell, decide who moves forward in the competition that week.

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The grand prize is $1 million. Winners of the show have gone on to have lucrative careers that outshine the original prize money, too, thanks to the worldwide exposure being on such a popular show gives them. AGT has been nominated for a People’s Choice Award.

9. The Mandalorian

Status: Renewed
Network: Disney+
Est. Cost: $100 million per season*

If you’ve been on the internet at all in the past couple of months, you’ve probably seen your news feed overrun by Baby Yoda memes. Baby Yoda is one of the characters in the Disney+ show The Mandalorian, which is a Western-themed space opera starring Pedro Pascal.

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Pascal plays a lone gunfighter (the Mandalorian) who travels through the Star Wars Universe. He travels through the galaxy’s outer reaches to get away from the New Republic’s grasp. The first episode aired on November 12, 2019. The production location is, alas, not in space (yet), but it is in Los Angeles, California. Season 3 is expected to drop in 2023.

10. NCIS

Status: Renewed
Network: CBS
Est. Cost: $2.5 million per episode*

NCIS is one of the rare hit shows that has made it past ten seasons and is well on its way to twenty. The police procedural has stuck out amidst a sea of shows in the same genre by focusing on the cast of unique characters like the jet-black pigtailed Abby Sciuto.

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Fans can’t get enough of the world that NCIS created, so its network CBS would be crazy to cancel the rating juggernaut. With an impressive seventeen-year run that shows no signs of stopping, the drama series is currently the second longest-running non-animated show on TV, second only to fellow procedural Law and Order: Special Victims Unit.

11. Archer

Status: Renewed
Network: FX
Est. Cost: $100,000 per episode*

H. Jon Benjamin voices the acerbic Archer in this brilliant animated comedy created by Adam Reed for FX. The show also features the voice talent of Aisha Tyler, Judy Greer, Jessica Walter, and Amber Nash. The first season of the show premiered in 2009.

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Fans of the show are intrigued to see how the storyline continues to develop, proving that there’s life left in this animation yet. Archer is aging incredibly well and keeping its edge in a market full of stiff competition.

12. Fauda

Status: Renewed
Network: Netflix
Est. Cost: $200,000 per episode*

Fauda is an Israeli television series that became a hit worldwide when it made it to Netflix. The suspenseful show focuses on a former Israeli Defense Force soldier from an elite unit who gets drawn back into the hunt for a terrorist he thought he took out years ago.

Fauda @FaudaOfficial / Facebook.com

Similar to Homeland or 24 with its non-stop twists and turns, Fauda is sure to keep anyone glued to the screen, unsure what will happen next. Nothing is off-limits in this thriller, which also somehow manages to be successful with Palestinians and Israelis alike, a testament to the show’s storytelling abilities.

13. The Good Doctor

Status: Renewed
Network: ABC
Est. Cost: $1 million in total*

Despite the success of The Good Doctor, two actors decided not to return for season 4: Nicholas Gonzales and Jasika Nicole, according to Good Housekeeping. The medical drama has been on ABC since 2017, and it is one of the highest-rated shows from the network, with a rating of 8.2/10 on IMDb and 8.8/10 on TV.com.

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The Good Doctor stars Bates Motel’s Freddie Highmore as Dr. Shaun Murphy, an autistic savant surgeon who joins the medical team at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. Fans were elated when the fifth season hit screens in September 2021, and even more excited when it was renewed for a sixth outing.

14. Dead to Me

Status: Canceled
Network: Netflix
Est. Cost: $300,000 per episode* (Cast Salary)

Netflix has a knack for finding vehicles for actors of days gone by to make their own. Christina Applegate hadn’t had mainstream success for quite some time, until she was cast in one of the leading roles in Dead to Me, opposite Linda Cardellini. Now, she’s back on top.

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The dark comedy has Will Ferrell as a producer, which could explain why it’s just so good. Applegate and Cardellini both turn in stellar performances as women trying to get themselves out of some very tricky situations, including murder. Netflix renewed it for a third and final season in 2020 that is set to air in 2022.

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