Shemar Moore is expressing gratitude for a 31-year career at CBS but at the same time is sending signals to competitors that the twice-canceled S.W.A.T. would “love to come play.”
In a video for his 4 million-plus followers on Instagram, Moore told CBS “I don’t think you’re making the right choice” by canceling S.W.A.T. again but added he’s still not ready to say goodbye to Hondo and Co.
“Hey Netflix, how you doing?” he said on IG. “Let me just remind you that in a very short period of time, once upon a time ago …it only took us about two weeks to go from number 15 … to number one. And then we stayed in your top 10, top 15 for about six months, nine months, maybe a year. So Netflix, if you’re interested in a show that is on autopilot that the world is watching, we’d love to come play. NBC, Fox, ABC, hey, you want to come flirt with me? You’re invited to the barbecue. Pick your favorite restaurant. I will pay the bill.”
“Trust me, all of us, the family over at SWAT, we ain’t done chasing bad guys and [performing] helicopter chases and motorcycle chases and car chases and blowing up stuff. We ain’t done,” he continued.
On Thursday, CBS revealed that it has once again pink-slipped the police drama that’s now in its eighth season. This is the second time the net cut the yellow tape around Moore’s show; it was dramatically canceled in May 2023 after six seasons, only for CBS to reverse the decision days later with a pickup of what was announced at the time as a seventh and final season.
Then last May, S.W.A.T. was renewed for an eighth season.
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“We were canceled twice, two years in a row,” Moore said on IG. “Now I don’t know my history, but how many shows get to say that? I’m gonna say none, or I’m gonna say that we’re close to one of the none,” Moore continued. “But we did that. We are so proud … we defied the odds, and we made a hit television show that the world loved to watch. So I say to CBS, if you’re done, I know it’s about money, optics, politics. I don’t think you’re making the right choice. I’ll say that. But if you are done, I say thank you, genuinely, honestly from my heart.”
S.W.A.T. will wrap its run in May.
