{"id":39885,"date":"2015-05-08T17:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=39885"},"modified":"2015-05-08T17:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T21:04:47","slug":"fox-cancels-the-following-nbc-drops-constantine-state-of-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/05\/08\/fox-cancels-the-following-nbc-drops-constantine-state-of-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"FOX Cancels &#8220;The Following,&#8221; NBC Drops &#8220;Constantine,&#8221; &#8220;State of Affairs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those familiar with ratings, none of Friday&#8217;s three network television cancellations should come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation has emerged that FOX is passing on a fourth season of &#8220;The Following.&#8221;  NBC, meanwhile, will not be purchasing additional episodes of freshman dramas &#8220;Constantine&#8221; and &#8220;State of Affairs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Insofar as &#8220;The Following&#8221; began to stumble in the ratings last season, its third season renewal was seen as a last chance to prove its worth.  Its performance only worsened, and FOX decided to pull the plug.<\/p>\n<p>Neither &#8220;Constantine&#8221; nor &#8220;State of Affairs&#8221; made ratings waves.  Insofar as NBC gave &#8220;State of Affairs&#8221; the coveted post-&#8220;The Voice&#8221; slot on Mondays&#8211;which sent hit drama &#8220;The Blacklist&#8221; to a difficult Thursday timeslot&#8211;its performance was considered particularly weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[2311,255,2307,256],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FOX Cancels &quot;The Following,&quot; NBC Drops &quot;Constantine,&quot; &quot;State of Affairs&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For those familiar with ratings, none of Friday&#039;s three network television cancellations should come as a surprise. 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