So Help Me Todd might have taken its last bow, but there are still so many questions to be answered.
Series creator Scott Prendergast revealed to TVLine in a post mortem interview that the finale was written before he realized So Help Me Todd had been canceled. “By the time we got the cancellation news, the episode was long finished,” he explained. “There was no going back. We had pitched out the whole arc at the beginning of the season, including the cliffhanger, and at that time we had every reason and assurance to believe we’d someday get a season 3.
News broke in April that So Help Me Todd would not be returning for a third season. The show was one of many CBS shows to get the ax, including CSI: Vegas and NCIS: Hawai’i.“We’re all super sad,” Harden, 64, exclusively told Us Weekly at the 2024 GLSEN Respect Awards at New York City’s Gotham Hall that same month. “The whole cast and the crew and the writers and showrunners, everyone is really sad. We’ve had a great run with CBS.
Despite the series’ end, Harden told Us she knows “CBS loved our show” and that it likely “made them sad as well to have to cancel it.”