CBS is sticking it to the Man: The Eye network has cancelled the Matt LeBlanc-fronted sitcom Man With a Plan after four seasons, TVLine has learned.

The family comedy launched its current fourth season on April 2, filling CBS’ Thursday-at-8:30 void left by Walton Goggins’ rookie entry The Unicorn (which has been renewed, along with 22 other series).

Man With a Plan joins Carol’s Second Act, Broke, Tommy and God Friended Me in CBS’ cancellation heap.

Through this season’s first seven airings, Man With a Plan is averaging a 0.73 demo rating and 6.2 million total viewers (in Live+Same Day numbers), down 16 percent in the demo versus last year while delivering a 17-percent bigger audience. Among the eight comedies CBS has aired this TV season, it ranks fifth in the demo and No. 4 in total audience.
https://deadline.com/2020/05/man-with-a-plan-tommy-carols-second-act-broke-canceled-cbs-1202927138/

I couldn't watch it. Had some big names though.

I hate to hear this. I thought it was a funny show, better than The Unicorn in my opinion, which did get renewed.

I'll miss it

I liked it and was hoping it might edge by again. It and The Neighborhood are the only two current sitcoms I was watching. It felt like they were the only sitcoms that were connected to the classic sitcom style. They aren't trying to be edgy or trendy. They were done by people who knew classic TV and were just trying to do a quality show. We very seldom see that anymore and the odds we won't see anything worth watching that replaces it.

Somehow, I'm not surprised. As for the other shows, I'm kind of sorry I didn't watch "Carol’s Second Act."

I've always held Man with a Plan (and two other short-lived shows, Superior Donuts and Living Biblically) responsible for 2 Broke Girls getting cancelled with no series finale. CBS had really been trying to punish MwaP since then: First using it as spackle, then cutting seasons 3 and 4 to 13 episodes and delaying them to midseason. I've been thinking and joking that it should change its name to Man with No Future. Putting MwaP in the 8:30 PM timeslot after Young Sheldon (the best possible slot even with The Big Bang Theory gone) was the last hope CBS had in keeping it on the air. An April start date for MwaP's season 4 certainly didn't help matters.

Plus, how can Man with a Plan be considered expensive if it's produced by CBS Studios? Ultimately, it was the re-merger of CBS Corporation and Viacom in late 2019 that likely doomed MwaP, and the network had been looking to cut costs since then. Some were hoping for at least one more season of MwaP to give it a decent-sized syndication package of over 80-90 episodes, but sadly, it just wasn't to be, and now, Man with a Plan, just like 2 Broke Girls, is dead without a proper sendoff itself.