Chicago Fire just reached an impressive TV milestone
Chicago Fire quietly achieved a TV milestone on Monday when it became one of only two current TV shows to reach this particular marker.
One Chicago fans probably didn’t notice, but Monday saw Chicago Fire take one more step in the TV history books.
Yesterday CBS announced that its long-running crime drama Elementary, which stars Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu as a modern-day Holmes and Watson, will end after its upcoming season that premieres sometime in 2019.
What does that have to do with NBC‘s One Chicago franchise? More than you think.
The end of Elementary means that only two TV shows that debuted in the fall of 2012 are still moving forward, and both of them have One Chicago connections.
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One of them is Chicago Fire; the other is The CW‘s Arrow, which starred Colin Donnell before he joined the cast of Chicago Med.
That is some very rare real estate. To give it some context, there were more than two dozen shows that premiered that year.
Even narrowing down the focus to just broadcast series, the list includes big names like ABC‘s hit Scandal, NBC’s high-profile musical drama Smash (although that premiered in spring 2012), and FOX‘s The Mob Doctor, which featured future Chicago PD actor Jesse Lee Soffer.
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That just goes to show audiences how hard it is to put together a long-running, successful show and how much turnover there is in television. Even since the One Chicago franchise premiered in 2012, the TV landscape has changed dramatically, with the continued growth of streaming services. TV networks are quick to cancel shows. TV viewers have changed the way they watch.
So for Chicago Fire to be one of only two shows from that fall season left standing—and the only one on a “Big Four” broadcast network, since The CW is part of the CBS family and usually lumped in with them as such—that’s an impressive achievement. We’re talking about more than half of a decade on the air!
And consider this: if NBC renews the series for season 8 and if something happens to Arrow, then that might leave One Chicago’s flagship show as the only TV program from fall 2012 left standing. That would be even more trippy.
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