With the Parenthood announcement, Chuck is the only NBC show who’s future is in doubt to me, and on the off chance that its ratings recover as they did last season, I’m holding it out of the remainder bin for one more week. Make no mistake, the ratings have to come back, or the show is history. They did come back about 20% at the end of last season. This season, who knows.

Note that Chuck’s ratings average contains only a single repeat episode, and Heroes contains none, most of NBC’s fall shows have many repeat episodes factored into their ratings averages.

The only reason I think Law & Order will be renewed based on earlier statements by NBC’s Angela Bromstad that she wasn’t going to be the one to cancel the show short of the broadcast drama longevity record. The ratings say it gets canceled.

Some would put Heroes on NBC’s bubble. For me, its final show ratings of 2.2, 2.1, 1.8, 1.9, 2.0, 2.0 say its a goner, even on NBC.

As horrible as the situation is, NBC will try something new other than keeping the ratings losers Trauma and Mercy.

Fans will know the future of all the NBC shows no later than the NBC upfront presentation on 17 May.

Source: www.chuckmedia.org