From Suits LA to Night Court: Every NBC show that got canceled lately

The NBA season will soon be starting up, and needs up to 180 hours of primetime space on the NBC schedule. To make space for NBA coverage, NBC has announced 5 series cancellations recently. These cancellations vary from brand-new series with just one season to popular series with three seasons.

The NBA basketball programming coverage is a high-demand primetime for the network, so it was a challenge to make space for it on the schedule. 5 shows including Suits LA, Night Court, Lopez vs Lopez, Found, and The Irrational.

Here's everything we know about these cancellations.

Every NBC show that got canceled for the NBA season

5 shows received the axe on May 10 from NBC to make space for primetime NBA programming. This list includes the spinoff of the popular series Suits, which aired for just one season before it was canceled.

The show premiered its debut episode in February 2025 with around 2.6 million viewership (live+same-day viewership). Since the debut, the viewership numbers have been struggling to touch the 1 million viewership mark. Viewership remained low despite Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey in the mothership show Suits, reprising his role for a three-episode arc, as well as Louis Litt and Daniel Hardman, who also appeared on the show. Nevertheless, in a fate similar to the first Suits spinoff, Pearson, Suits LA was also canceled after its debut season.

The second show on the list is Night Court, after three seasons on the network. The cancellation of this show is not a surprise, considering the viewership of this show has been low since its debut season. Even though the debut season premiered with average viewership, since then, the show has had less than average viewership, making it extremely vulnerable in its future.

Another series that ran for three seasons before it was also canceled by NBC recently is George and Myan Lopez's multi-camera comedy Lopez vs. Lopez. Even though the co-creator and actor Myan Lopez revealed that she felt extremely confident that the show would be renewed for a fourth season, it came as a surprise when NBC canceled the family-centred sitcom.

The Irrational, a crime drama procedural led by the Law and Order alum Jesse L. Martin, was also among the canceled series. The Law and Order alum played a behavioural science expert who solved unusual cases and premiered with two seasons before it was canceled. The first season of the show did well, considering it was released during the writers' strike, however, the next season performed below expectations for NBC.

Finally, the fifth show to be canceled was Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Shanola Hampton's Found. The show had a similar course to The Irrational, as it was released during the strike period, so it had above-average viewership, but the later seasons could not keep up, and ratings went down, causing it to be included on the cancellation list.

These were the five shows that have been canceled to make space for the NBA coverage.

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