There have certainly been some heartbreaking cancellations in 2024. There are also changes coming to the broadcast schedules, which mean we don’t see our favorite shows return in the fall. There are some crime dramas we’re more salty about missing than others.
This list is a mixture of canceled and postponed shows. This is for broadcast or cable shows. Since streaming shows don’t tend to have set seasonal dates for releases, it’s much harder to include them.
5 TV crime dramas we’d love to have back in fall 2024
Law & Order: Organized Crime
In some good news, there will be more to Elliot Stabler’s story. In some bad news, it won’t come in the fall, and it won’t be on NBC. Law & Order: Organized Crime is moving to Peacock for its fifth season, and it will be on the shorter side due to the streaming move.
This could be a good thing, though. This series is more serialized compared to the other two Law & Order shows. It works better for a streaming platform. The move to Peacock could also allow the show to get darker and more adult, a little in the way that Criminal Minds was able to with its move to Paramount+ for its revival.
Walker
While the series moved to the midseason and off-season for the last couple of years, it was originally a fall show. So, we’re including it in the list. The series was canceled abruptly after four seasons, and it wasn’t anything bad that the show did. It was all linked to Nexstar taking over and completely changing a network we once knew and loved.
The ending was written in a way that sort of works for a series finale. However, there was a cliffhanger ending with James Van Der Beek’s character dropping off some soaps on the Walkers’ porch. It clearly set up for something intriguing in Season 5, and now we won’t get to see it all play out.
CSI: Vegas
Another show abruptly canceled was CSI: Vegas. This series was a revival of CSI in a way. It brought us back to the Las Vegas crime lab, but with a new team in charge. However, they did work closely with some of the team members we’d come to know and love throughout the years.
The series brought some great character and relationship development. This was a series with a woman in charge, and her team had her back. It’s rare we get that on broadcast TV, so we need more shows like it to stick around.
So Help Me Todd
CBS made some terrible decisions in May 2024. One of those was the abrupt cancellation of So Help Me Todd. This series was a great break from the normal TV crime drama sphere. It offered us a look at the private eye side of things. We also got more civil crimes rather than criminal issues.
The season finale clearly was not set up as a series finale. It left us with a cliffhanger that we’ll never have resolved. We want answers!
NCIS: Hawaii
You didn’t think I was going to skip this one, did you? This is the TV crime drama I’m going to miss the most, and it's the CBS cancellation I hate the most because it shouldn't have happened—it was doing well in the linear ratings compared to the two above and it had a great social following. I refuse to give up a fight to bring the show back, but one thing is clear. It isn’t coming back this fall.
NCIS: Hawaii simply shouldn’t have been canceled. The series brought a wonderful team, highlighted a lot of real issues within Hawaii when it comes to police, and brought one of the best ever LGBTQ relationships to our screens. What wasn’t there to love about this show?