Mike & Molly Cancelled, Says Co-Star 

‘s upcoming season apparently will be its last.

Echoing conventional wisdom born of the news that Season 6 had been trimmed to 13 episodes, actress Rondi Reed — who plays Mike’s mother Peggy on the CBS sitcom — says the cast has known “for a few weeks” that this is the end.

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on CBS…. We are done taping as of January 27th,” Reed shared in a Facebook post this week. “Other venues were explored by [Warner Bros. TV] and [Chuck Lorre’s] Bonanza Productions after CBS announced their intentions, but did not turn up a future for our show.”

A CBS spokesperson did not immediately respond to TVLine’s request on Sunday afternoon for comment.

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‘s truncated season emerged when CBS’ midseason schedule showed the sitcom — which stars Emmy winner-turned-Oscar-nominated film star Melissa McCarthy opposite Billy Gardell — forming a new Wednesday comedy block with

for just six weeks, starting Jan. 6. After that, Season 6’s remaining episodes will be scheduled opportunistically.

averaged north of 11 million weekly viewers and a 3.4 demo rating during its freshman run. Season 5 averaged 7.4 mil and a 2.0.

adieu? Anything you hope to see happen before the series ends?

Mike & Molly deserves to end. Looks like Melissa McCarthy is now moving forward to her amazing movie career.

Sad news. I really enjoyed this show. Hopefully this might give Melissa McCarthy some extra time to appear in a cameo at least for the Gilmore Girls revival, but who knows.

That was my thought, too! I hope she can come back for at least a little bit.

I thought “Yay! Time for Gilmore Girls!” haha

I loved M&M when they found their rhythm in season 1, but when they tried to shift the dynamics a couple of seasons in the show lost its charm.

Once Molly quit her job and got ‘crazier’, I didn’t like it as much. But I still like the ensemble and the show is still one of the few sitcoms that makes me laugh out loud every single episode.

No surprise here. Rumor had it Melissa wanted out, so she could focus more on her film career. People also need to keep in mind that CBS doesn’t own Mike & Molly, Warner Bros. does. A network is more likely to renew shows owned by its sister studio over outside productions, because they make money off of syndication deals, international sales, etc. For CBS in particular, it’s never just about the ratings. Case in point: Stalker. So many fans were upset it was cancelled, because the ratings weren’t terrible. They failed to take into account the fact that it was not owned by CBS, which is a big disadvantage. While Mike & Molly had great ratings, they suffer the same problem. CBS has no financial incentive to renew a show it doesn’t own, because it’s not benefiting from syndication packages or the like. But if the network owns a show and it’s making them a profit, when it comes down to a ratings tie (or even just renewal decisions in general), they will usually go with that show over one they are simply agreeing to air on their network.

About this “program ownership” issue, I think vertical integration sucks. If that’s true, then I really hope CBS gets a good “owned” sitcom in the next couple of years.

I am also keeping in mind that only the top-tier shows like “The Big Bang Theory” (a Warner Bros.-owned show), “NCIS” (owned by CBS’s in-house studio), and “Criminal Minds” (which CBS Studios actually co-owns with ABC Studios) can have big ratings and run for as many seasons as possible, while the lower-tier shows (like “The Good Wife” and “Elementary”, which are owned by CBS Studios, and “Person of Interest”, owned by WB) only have respectable ratings and are unlikely to get past seven or eight seasons. I think “Mike & Molly” is a second-tier show, and as such, I thought it was unlikely that it could get past season 6.

Before she stepped down as chairman, Nina Tassler said “program ownership” was key to CBS’ decisions. She outright admitted that determined renewal for them, because they take into account revenue they earn from streaming deals, syndication packages, international sales, etc. She said they monetize different shows different ways and try to determine how to monetize across the board, so program ownership is usually a deciding factor. When the new president Glenn Geller took over, he said they’d continue that trend. Both execs admitted that for something like TBBT, which isn’t owned by CBS but gets monster ratings, that’s an exception. And, they are still looking for that kind of a show – one that has that level of success.

It stinks that CBS doesn’t own Person of Interest. It is an amazing show, and deserves more love from CBS. I am still pissed that it was renewed for an abbreviated 5th season, but CBS failed to add it to their mid-season schedule. They spent money on filming the episodes, so they better find a timeslot soon to air them.

This is one of the reasons Congress moved to prohibit co-ownership of movie studios and TV networks in the mid-1950s. (CBS and Paramount were trying to merge as early as 1952.) Another reason is that networks would give sweetheart deals to their own affiliates when their shows went into syndication, while charging higher fees to other stations. (Viacom started as an outdoor billboard company. It entered the TV business when Congress mandated that companies independent of the networks syndicate their programs. Viacom was selected to syndicate CBS-produced series.)

When the vertical integration restrictions were lifted in the 1980s, many of the old fears came true, although they were not usually noticed by the public. Fox-owned “M*A*S*H”, which had been popular with the CBS affiliates that had originally carried it, was yanked out of general syndication and offered exclusively to Fox affiliates. And CBS, Paramount and Viacom moved incredibly fast to merge together.

BTW, the only reason that there are so many Warner Brothers series on CBS is because the two companies co-own The CW. They have a tacit agreement that any series aimed at families and older viewers go to CBS while their more “youth-oriented” series go to The CW.

Never watched the show but this is giving me hope that we’ll see Sookie on the Gilmore Girls revival!!!

Just gonna believe that this is so she can be on Gilmore Girls. :)

Gilmore Girls is small potatoes for her now. Maybe a small appearance, but I doubt she’ll be a regular in each episode. She’s moved on to bigger things.

Yep. Less than 5 minutes on air for any episode, with one other small cameo thrown in. Expect lots of phone conversations with an unseen Sookie. Maybe she lends her voice, but maybe not.

Sorry to hear this. I really enjoy the show. Peggy, we’ll miss ya! (and Jim, too)

Yup, Peggy (and Jim of course!!!) were def favorite. Before my mom passed away, we would laugh like CRAZY while we watched (and then recapped to each other) Rondi Reed’s every expression, voice tone, voice volume, grunts, snorts etc. My mom’s been gone four years; M&M’s cancellation is a sad goodbye to a link with my mom 😢

Not surprising given CBS has been actively trying to kill the show the past two years with scheduling. Case of a network of taking a perfectly funny little sitcom, yank it around the schedule to knock off it’s viewers, then cancel it because it’s ratings are down.

This isn’t surprising. Last seasons episodes I saw weren’t very good and you could tell the show had lost it’s spark. Hopefully this last shortened season will wrap things up well and the episodes will be better.

I really enjoyed Mike and Molly. The writing was outstanding, and the characters delivered their lines well. I couldn’t tell you that I had one favorite character because I liked them all. Each one made the show funny. The WB is making a big mistake and should reconsider one more year. If any show should be cancelled it is Two Broke Girls. That show is so stupid. I will be watching Mike and Molly on Wednesday, but not Two Broke Girls because writing and the characters are awful.

I so enjoyed this show! Why does a show with respectable ratings gets dropped and these new silly comedies without substance or ratings remain? Great cast….hate to see them go.

Not Surprised. The show lost it’s charm when they tweaked it in Season 4 and tried to change the character of Molly to that of the bafoonish characters played by Melissa McCarthy in her movies. Once again if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

Exactly. I thought I was the only one who noticed it. It went from Molly being the smart responsible one to Mike being the buffoon to a total role reversal. It really annoyed me how they made her the same way she is in her movies for the show. I think in only the later part of last season they cut down on her buffoonery. I had almost gave up on the show when they made that switch.

Sad to see it go though but I figured sooner or later she would rather do movies than a sitcom. I honestly feel or the rest of the cast more or less.

I agree. I stopped watching the show when they changed the format and had her acting like characters in her movies. I feel she is funny without all of the over the top antics. In most of her movies it seems like they are trying to make her as unattractive as possible and somehow that is supposed to be funny. I wish she would change it up and do a movie where she can be funny and pretty.

They were supose to have a baby. The baby announcement ending aired in Canada not the US. The baby was scraped. I think that would have helped.

This is kinda dumb to me. The show still does well so what cbs should have done was put the show on fridays. If last man standing can survive so can this shows.

Unfortunately probably doesn’t bode well for 2 Broke Girls either unless Angels from Hell bombs, which it should.Way things going next year I won’t need to watch TV.

Unbelievably derivative, simplistic and stupid “Gilmore” is coming back and “Mike and Molly” is over? Simply more proof that glossy, slim and gorgeous but sickeningly facile will always trump realism (a stab at it, at least) in TVland. A crying shame.

Of course, everyone is entitled to her opinion. But, I can’t believe that anyone who has ever seen Gilmore Girls would call it any of those things, especially not simplistic. I also enjoyed Mike & Molly. But, word on the street is also that Melissa McCarthy wanted out to focus more on her film career. If that’s the case, it wasn’t all in the hands of the network.

I’m so sad that my favorite show ever will be cancelled. The cast is brilliant! Best show since “Will and Grace”! Why do All the really good things have to end?

With you on this one. They leave the lousy shows on tho’.

Every show ends eventually. Six season and ~125 episodes is an excellent run in this day and age.

I liked Melissa on “Samantha Who,” but I didn’t think “Mike and Molly” was that funny. I hope that now she will be free for the “Gilmore Girls” reunion!

I am so sorry to hear this. By far for myself and my husband, this was one of the funniest shows that we ever watched. Everyone of the characters on this show made us laugh. We continue to watch the reruns and still continue to laugh even after seeing them over and over.

This is a real loss for our household. When I told him the bad news about Mike & Molly’s cancellation, the husband said, “OMG! That is the hardest thing for me to comment on. That was a very good show. Each year was funnier, never a lull with every joke funny. It’s one of the few shows I can see, over and over. Every one of the cast is hilarious.” Hopefully, the genius who started, developed and produced M&M will come up with more series for CBS, directly.

I bless the cast, crew, directors, producers, Warner Bros. TV and CBS for giving us Mike & Molly, all these years, filling our house with the laughter of happy people. It was a true gift in these struggling times.

It returns Wed Jan 6. The article says Jan 7, but that is the wrong date.

Not a shock, but six seasons is a pretty decent run. Plus Melissa McCarthy might be able to do more quality movies now.

I thought the show was so funny; however, I did not watch if for Mike or Molly, I liked the sister, the drunk mom (she was a scene stealer, in a great way) Peggy and Carl and Carls grandmother and Samuel made that show. I loved it when Peggy went out with the captain that was classic. It would be nice if someone else were to pick the show up, with or without Molly.

BTW, if any of the shows need to go on CBS take a look at 2 broke girl, the laughs are forced and n right stooopid (yep, I meant to spell it that way)

I still enjoy 2 Broke Girls, but I agree about how forced somethings are. I absolutely detest this running bit where Jennifer Coolidge’s character Sophie has to get an applause every single episode and enters each episode the same way (“Hey everybody!…..waits for applause…insert random comment. Sits down.) It’s always the same. It’s been so annoying for four seasons now.

And honestly even though I get a chuckle every now and then, some of the jokes have become so repetitive like the ones about Han’s height or the implications that he’s gay or Oleg’s typical comments. After five seasons they need to try to change things up a little. And yes the premise of the show is seeing the lives of two broke girls and how they navigate but at least have a little bit of maybe a seasonal storyline going. Make their lives improve a bit. What happened to the second job at the bakery place with the Sandra Bernhard character? And why are they always making them lose money and have their balance be so low? At least in the early seasons they were working toward getting their own place, but we’re not seeing much of an outcome with this current place now.

I still adore Max and Caroline has her moments so I’ll probably still stick with it, but it definitely does need some improvement.

I look forward to the “Hey Everybody” and say it with her, so I get sad if she changes how she says it. I do agree they need to work on advancing the show a little. They had a few 2nd jobs that quickly went away.

Now, onto a full time movie career and an appearance in the Gilmore Girls reunion.

The season two shift in focus to Molly was a blow to the dynamic of the ensemble. I hope she diversifies in film, because it seems she’s just playing variations of the same character on the so-called big screen.

Thank goodness. Never saw what the attraction was. Not funny at all.I don’t care for Melissa McCarthy’s movies either. Vulgarity is not humorous.

I love Mike and Molly will miss it terribly. Very few good comedies on. Great cast goes so well together – what a shame.

I’m not surprised by this. CBS has a history of canceling shows still with good ratings. Like rating wise it does better then 2 Broke Girls which it followed last season but I expect the main reason is Melissa McCarthy is to big of a star now and she wants to focus on her film career

Who’s the idiot that decided this? Mike & Molly is my favorite show. I can’t believe it’s over already.

They should give Nana a spin off. She’s hilarious.

Absolutely not. I am not ready for this to end. They could have done the full season as they agreed and gave it a farewell season. I didn’t think it should go off the air til at least 7 – 10 seasons were done. Trimming back the order and then a random airing is a slap in the face. Not happy at all. I feel bad for Jane Lynch as now fans aren’t gonna want to watch Angel from Hell as they don’t want to give CBS more reason to cancel shows in an unkind way

I take this with a grain of salt, the season hasn’t aired yet so for all she’s concerned, it IS the end… until it airs and CBS decides to pick it up again. If it does go, I will miss it for the most part but it definitely hasn’t been as good since they got married, and then randomly retconed the pregnancy storyline.

wow they are cancelling a show with a rating of 2.0. what hope is there for person of interest

I loved the show until season 3. But then with season 4 it became all slapstick-y Melissa and I quickly lost interest. No loss for me.

I’ve always thought that Mike and Molly was beneath Melissa McCarthy. I hope this means that she’s got less scheduling conflicts for the Gilmore Girls.

This is one of the best shows on t.v these days. 2 Broke girls should go instead of mike and Molly at least I can watch that show with my kids. I am sad to see such a great show leave now the only thing left to watch on cbs is Criminal Minds, Big Bang and Mom. Very sad

I’m sure it has more to do with increasing contracts with McCarthy, but CBS should have ditched Two Broke Girls instead.

Without a doubt. Who finds that show funny?

Finally, so to the fans who liked this show. It was poorly written and nothing about it was original. It was way below Melissa’a talent and she phoned in her lines all the time . Hey it was a hefty steady check. no pun intended so do not comment please.

I’m not surprised by this news but i think Mike & Molly had a great run.However i think the show might have been known this was coming since CBS cut their episodes.So the show has had time to make sure everything is wrapped up.

I very much enjoy Mike and Molly! They totally crack me up! Humor without vulgar! Please reconsider!!! I am so sick to death of all the reality shows!

As much as I like the show and Melissa McCarthy, I never thought she was the strongest draw. Billy Gardell had far more heart and funny lines. But she’ll be fine without the show.

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