Board Thread:Spoilers!/@comment-2153169-20170216190723/@comment-25926288-20170331195546

I think the biggest nail in the coffin would be if Once fell off a cliff in terms of ratings. Contracts seem to be pretty set and with a soft-reboot you can change some things if it's too costly. They probably can trim Once's budget a bit and have a decently performing show while they find shows to replace it (or that do better). Like ABC has really flopped around in the mud for a while now. You'd think Time after Time wouldn't flop so hard given that it's sort of like Once, but it wasn't all too interesting and well, we saw what happened to it.

We'll have to wait and see. But a soft-reboot seems the way that they will go, even though I'd think (mostly) spin-off would be better if it's only going to be a season (but then again, it's practically the same as a soft-reboot in many ways).