SWAT: Bad news for fans of the series with Shemar Moore

After The Resident, which was recently canceled at the end of its 6th season, another American series, broadcast in France on TF1, will sadly end.

CBS recently announced that SWAT, led by Shemar Moore as Sergeant Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, will not be returning for a seventh season at the start of the school year.

The detective series, which also stars Jay Harington, Alex Russell and David Lim, will end its run across the Atlantic on May 19 after six seasons and no less than 128 episodes.

SWAT’s cancellation may come as a surprise because, with an average of 6.8 million viewers per episode, 0.7 percent in the coveted 18-49 target, the series created by Sean Ryan (Night Agent) managed. to increase the ratings this year – which is quite rare after so many seasons.

The passage allows him to revive CBS’s Friday night schedule, where he joined Blue Bloods and helped launch the new Fire Country with Max Thieriot ( Bates Motel ), which quickly established itself as a huge success and is already sure to return. Season 2.

Despite this, SWAT is far from the most watched program of the channel. And canceling it is also a financial decision, because Shemar Moore’s worn-out series is not entirely owned by CBS (it is a joint producer of Sony Pictures TV and CBS Studios) and therefore costs more and more for the channel.

Deadline reports that Sony (which is the studio that owns the majority of the series’ production shares) and CBS have been trying until the last minute to reach an agreement amid budget constraints with a possible season 7 in mind. in vain Which led to the sudden cancellation of the series this Friday, May 5th.

As such, SWAT joins NCIS: Los Angeles among the CBS series, which will end in May. Although the case of the NCIS spin-off, led by LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell, is somewhat different, as the decision to make season 14 the last was made a few months ago. Allows authors to envision a true ending. Which will not be the case with SWAT (if the season 6 finale is both a last season and one final series potential).

In France, the broadcast of season 5 ended last February with an episode that said goodbye to Lina Esco, the translator of Cristina Alonso, who has been in the credits since the start of the series in 2017. The sixth and final season, which opens with two episodes set in Thailand, is due to air on TF1 in the coming months, without further details.