Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171008010933/@comment-5899967-20171219114955

The point is, if AoS and Once get cancelled, what would ABC do with the friday death slot (which they know fails every time)? Both shows are profitable outside of live ratings, as others said there is a Netflix contract, although that will expire because Disney wants to make their own streaming platform. Merchandise, novels, toys, conventions, a faithful fanbase that prevents the show from hitting 0.1 in ratings, etc. They could always introduce new shows that do just as bad as AoS and Once but they could do even worse, and they are not as profitable in general, it depends on the new shows I guess, if they do THAT bad, then AoS and Once will be renewed again, if not, I could still see a 13 episode final season for both of them.

Another point though: At least for me, should Once be renewed? I mean, with Colin O'Donoghue's contract expiring, Robert Carlyle wanting to leave, there would not be much from the original cast, it would basically become the Lana Parrilla show plus the newbies, some of them are interesting and some aren't, but obviously they do all deserve a proper conclusion to their storylines. So I don't really know...