All the Canceled and Renewed TV Shows This Month (October 2023)

If you're a fan of television (and you darn well should be), then October was a great month for good news. Several high-profile TV shows were renewed for new seasons, including Prime Video's Gen V, Netflix's Sweet Magnolias, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, and Peacock's Based on a True Story. That's the good news. The bad news is that there were cancellations, too, including Apple TV+'s The Afterparty, Paramount+'s Joe Pickett and Fatal Attraction, Max's Sort Of, and Netflix's Elite; the latter two will get final seasons to wrap things up. You have to take the bad with the good.  

Whether you're looking to celebrate more of your favorites or mourn the loss of something on your regular rotation, we're keeping tabs on all the TV shows that were canceled or renewed this month below. 

Last month's renewals and cancellations

TV show cancellations

• Joe Pickett, Paramount+: The neo-Western starring Michael Dornan as a besieged game warden in Wyoming began as a Spectrum original in Season 1 and became a Paramount+ exclusive, but was canceled after two seasons. (Oct. 31, Variety)
• Fatal Attraction, Paramount+: The TV reboot of the 1987 movie has been canceled after one season. Lizzy Caplan and Joshua Jackson starred. (Oct. 26, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Rabbit Hole, Paramount+: The Kiefer Sutherland-led conspiracy thriller has been canceled after one season. (Oct. 26, The Hollywood Reporter)
• The Problem With Jon Stewart, Apple TV+: Jon Stewart's current affairs talk show will not return for Season 3. Per The New York Times, the show's abrupt end is due to creative differences between Stewart and Apple. (Oct. 19, The New York Times)
• Elite, Netflix: The hit Spanish teen drama will end with its eighth season. Netflix announced the news days before the premiere of Season 7. (Oct. 18, Netflix)
• The Afterparty, Apple TV+: The party is over — the star-studded murder mystery comedy has been canceled after two seasons. (Oct. 13, Variety)
• Welcome to Flatch, Fox: The mockumentary sitcom based on British series This Country is not returning after its second season. (Oct. 6, Fox)
• Sort Of, Max: The Canadian series will end with its upcoming third season, co-creators Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo announced on Instagram. "We feel in this coming season that [the] story came to an end in a way that felt right for us," they wrote. (Oct. 5, Deadline)
• iCarly, Paramount+: The reboot, in which Miranda Cosgrove reprised her role as the titular Carly, has been canceled after three seasons. (Oct. 4, Variety)

More TV coverage:

• New Shows and Movies on Netflix in October
• New Shows and Movies on Max in October
• New Shows and Movies on Prime Video in October
• New Shows and Movies on Hulu in October
• The Ultimate Guide to What to Watch on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Max, and More in October 2023

TV show renewals

• Everyone Else Burns, The CW: The British sitcom imported by The CW will return for a second round Stateside. The series was previously renewed for Season 2 on Channel 4, its original broadcaster in the U.K. (Oct. 24, The CW)
• Gen V, Prime Video: The spin-off of the Prime Video hit The Boys is unsurprisingly a hit itself and has been renewed for a second season of young supe higher learning and gross sex stuff. (Oct. 19, Prime Video)
• Sweet Magnolias, Netflix: Raise a glass! The feel-good comfort drama set in South Carolina will be back for a fourth season. (Oct. 19, Netflix)
• That's My Jam, NBC: Jimmy Fallon's sing-song celeb-filled game show will be back for Season 3. (Oct. 17, Deadline) 
• Based on a True Story, Peacock: Kaley Cuoco and Chris Messina's bumbling amateur detectives will stick their noses into more true crime in a second season of Peacock's satire. (Oct. 12, Peacock) 
• MasterChef Junior, Fox: The cooking competition series has been renewed for a ninth season — and Tilly Ramsay, daughter of Gordon Ramsay, will join the show as a judge, alongside returning judges Aarón Sánchez and Daphne Oz. (Oct. 12, Fox) 
• Star Trek: Prodigy, Netflix: No, that's not a typo, and technically this isn't a renewal. The Paramount+ animated series set in the Star Trek universe has been rescued from cancellation and is moving over to Netflix. Season 1 will stream later this year, and the un-aired Season 2, which was in trouble after Paramount+ canceled the series in June, will air sometime next year. (Oct. 11, The Hollywood Reporter)
• Castlevania: Nocturne, Netflix: The video game adaptation — which is set 300 years after the events of Castlevania — has been renewed for a second season. And production has already started. (Oct. 6, Netflix)
• Only Murders in the Building, Hulu: Selena Gomez, Steve Martin, and Martin Short won't be running out of murders to investigate anytime soon. The comedy has been renewed for a fourth season. (Oct. 3, Hulu)