CBS reverses ‘S.W.A.T’ cancellation, axes ‘True Lies’ & ‘East New York’

S.W.A.T.

US Network CBS has reversed its decision to cancel drama series S.W.A.T. but has dropped True Lies and East New York.

News that all three scripted shows had been cancelled emerged on Friday, but CBS went back to the table with Sony Pictures Television and struck a deal yesterday that will see S.W.A.T. return for a seventh and final season, with star Shemar Moore being added as executive producer.

The action drama series stars Moore as a police officer and former marine recruited to lead a Los Angeles-based SWAT team.

Moore had taken to social media before the reversal to share his frustration over the show being canned – pointing out that doing so would leave US network TV without its black male led drama.

True Lies and East New York, however, have not escaped the chopping block, with the former ranking as CBS’ lowest-rating scripted show of the season.

The series, from Matt Nix, McG, James Cameron and 20th Television, and based on Cameron’s 1994 action-comedy feature of the same name, will conclude its first – and now final – season later this month.

East New York, meanwhile, will also wrap up after one season. Produced by Warner Bros. Television and hailing from creators William Finkelstein and Mike Flynn, the police drama followed the work and lives of officers of the NYPD’s 74th precinct.