Lucifer and The Exorcist get cancelled while iZombie gets a fifth year…

It’s been a hell of a week for TV shows with fan favourites dropping all over the place… and others, like Brooklyn Nine-Nine getting canned and renewed so fast some of us got whip-lash!

But the madness continues…

Fox has been getting backs up this week with the cancellation of The Exorcist, The Mick and The Last Man on Earth, but much like the cancellation of Constantine a couple of years ago, DC/Vertigo series Lucifer is the one that’s been causing the most uproar with a #SaveLucifer campaign already going strong and others calling for DC Universe to pick the show up.

Sadly though, it looks like it is dead in the water for reals.

I’m heartbroken, shocked and devastated over the news that our beloved show has been cancelled. All I can say is we love YOU for watching, supporting and loving #Lucifer for these past few seasons. Funny that a show about the devil has been nothing short of heaven. ❤️😈😢

— Ildy Modrovich (@Ildymojo) May 11, 2018

Even creator Neil Gaiman came online to say it was a bad idea cancelling the show:

Well, this sucks. I hope some people change their minds. Or Venusian Brainslugs with a commitment to good television take over the minds of the relevant Network Execs. Right @kimrhodes4real? https://t.co/hUeTMDDE4e

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) May 14, 2018

However, fans of DC will be happy to hear that The CW has decided to keep iZombie alive, giving it the go-ahead for a fifth season.

Every cloud, amirite?

Olivia “Liv” Moore was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out…until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Now as one of the newly undead, Liv is doing her best to blend in and look as human as possible. Her appearance passes for “Goth,” with shockingly pale skin and nearly white hair, and her demeanor has gone from exuberant to exhausted.

The change in Liv is baffling to her former fiancé, Major, her mother, Eva, and her best friend and roommate, Peyton, who still has the high-energy, Type-A personality that Liv has completely abandoned. Despite her post-traumatic ennui, Liv has devised a clever way to resist her baser urges to devour fresh human brains – she’s taken a job in the Seattle coroner’s office. In this appropriately dead-end job, Liv can secretly snack on the brains of the many Jane and John Doe corpses that make a final stop in the morgue. Despite carefully covering her tracks, Liv’s brilliant but eccentric boss, Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti, discovers her secret and is surprisingly excited about the scientific possibilities. Dr. Ravi even helps Liv in her search for Blaine, the zombie responsible for her current undead status.

Even with her boss’ enthusiasm, Liv remains resigned to an eternity as a zombie without hope or purpose – until she realizes that with every brain she consumes, she retains a portion of that person’s memories. Liv suddenly begins to experience disturbing and often violent visions from the point of view of the murder victims. Much to the surprise of Dr. Ravi and homicide detective Clive Babineaux, Liv often has detailed knowledge of crime scenes and motives that she can’t easily explain. Posing as a psychic, she works with Detective Babineaux to investigate these crimes and discover who is responsible. It’s not the same as being alive again, but at least she can find purpose in her undead existence by helping Clive solve the murders of those who are indeed fully dead.