Elementary cancelled after 7 seasons, will end in 2019 with a final 13 episodes as Holmes and Watson return to New York.

The drama series Elementary with Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu has been cancelled with the upcoming 7th season in 2019 that will be its last.

The 7th season of the show produced by CBS Television Studios wrapped production on Friday last week and will have 13 episodes to wrap up the series.

Elementary has been seen in South Africa and across Africa initially on M-Net and then moved to M-Net City (DStv 115).

"A lot of parties came together and talked about their positions on the show — both in terms of business and in terms of creative — and we all decided that this was an opportune time to say goodbye to a show that has been very, very good to us," says Kelly Kahl, CBS Entertainment president.

The 6th season of Elementary ended with Holmes and Watson moving from New York to London and Sherlock Holmes' iconic 221B Baker Street address to work with Scotland Yard, but they will return to New York in the 7th season.

Elementary producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe on Twitter in a statement said "Once again, just wanted to say what an incredible honor it was to work on this show".

"From creator Rob Doherty and his partner-in-crime Carl Beverly, to my fellow writers, our amazing cast and crew, our top notch editors, Elementary was a 1st class group in every way."

ELE-M-NET-ARY. M-Net grabs hot new drama Elementary to start on 16 January 2013 as its schedule rejuvenation is well under way.

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M-Net has grabbed another great new drama show, Elementary with Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes as Lucy Liu as sidekick dr Watson. Elementary will start on M-Net on Wednesday 16 January at 20:30 and follows closely on the heels of the American broadcasting date where a handful of episodes have already aired.

Elementary moves the sleuthing action from Victorian London to modern-day New York and the show is great as Jonny Lee Miller's classic literary detectives helps to solve cases with his sidekick who often has to suffer his foibles and flaws, in tow.

Elementary marks M-Net's next big get in the South African pay TV broadcaster's fight to reclaim its throne as the must-watch premiere TV channel in the country for general entertainment. Viewers tune in for shows, not channels, and in 2012  - from megabuzz shows ranging from Downton Abbey to The Walking Dead and others, viewers didn't tune to M-Net to see them.

Of the plethora of terrific Titanic programming to mark the centenary (of which M-Net had neither documentaries nor any of the dramas) not even the Titanic movie was on M-Net which was scooped by e.tv.

Already M-Net's brave new programming strategy to get American TV shows quicker and to broadcast episodes faster in South Africa have yielded spectacular results. Not in aeons has a show on a Friday night in South Africa made a blip on the viewership radar, but the awesome Arrow which M-Net acquired is doing just that: it immediately started to make the top 10 of most-watched shows on M-Net per week.

The new Chicago Fire is another good acquisition for M-Net which also started in South Africa quickly on the heels of America. That show too now makes the top 10 list of shows on M-Net viewership wise.

With programming like Elementary, Chicago Fire, Suits, Arrow, Revenge - the second season of which will start soon in 2013 and which is also a weekly M-Net Top 10 viewership hit - followed by several other new exciting shows such as The Hour, The Newsroom, and in 2013 Political Animals, The Americans and The Following as well as the end of ageing hits which ended this year such as Desperate Housewives, M-Net is rejuvenating and diversifying and moving away from the rather bland procedural dramas which blanketed the M-Net schedule and drained its buzz factor in 2012.

Finally it seems, no more lazy Law & Order Los Angeles and ooh-its-filmed-outside soap as M-Net canned the moribund The Wild. The channel is definitely making big incrementals steps to juice up its value proposition to subscribers and viewers and to stand out again after other channels and competitors started to steal its thunder.

The brand-new American TV dramas becoming new TV series: What they are about and what they'll be like.

Like new toys for Christmas they're all firmly wrapped under the tree. They will all be opened - but not all will make it: some will be discarded, some will quickly be broken, some will get scratched and dented and quickly lose their luster.

A precious few sturdy ones will remain - here's a quick look at the brand-new American TV dramas like The Last Resort above, which has all been picked up as new TV series this weekend:

Arrow
Arrow with Stephen Amell will become television's latest new superhero drama. Billionaire playboy Oliver Queen has a philantropic alter ego as the superhero Arrow in Starling City. Smallville lasted a decade; hopefully Arrow will too.
It will be like: Smallville meets The Flash


Beauty and the Beast
Kristin Kreuk is Catherine Chandler befriending a creature in modern-day New York - a "beast" Vincent Koslow in this new version of the fantasy classic 80s TV show.
It will be like: The Vampire Diaries meets Grimm

Elementary
A modern take on Sherlock Holmes with Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock in modern-day New York. Watson is a woman, played by Lucy Liu. Aidan Quinn is also in the mix as a character.
It will be like: Fairly Legal meets Eli Stone

Revolution (pictured above)
A new drama show by J.J. Abrams. The world wakes up and discovers that electricity no longer works. 15 years past and mankind adapts, but the people responsible for it, are ready to strike again.
It will be like: Jericho meets Terminator meets Lost meets The Event


Golden Boy
From 2019 a policeman looks back to the present and his rise as a police officer from detective to police commissioner. With Theo James as the policeman.
It will be like: Blue Bloods meets Jack & Bobby


Vegas (formerly known as Ralph Lamb)
Dennis Quaid is a rodeo cowboy turned sheriff in Las Vegas in this drama show set in the 1960's and telling the story of how a man, Ralph Lamb patrols America's so-called "sin city". With Carrie-Anne Moss and Michael Chiklis.
It will be like: Mad Men meets Crime Story


Made in Jersey (formerly known as Baby Big Shot)
A legal drama around a working-class woman (Janet Montgomery) who uses her street smarts to win cases as she competes with her colleagues at a New York law firm.
It will be like: Working Girl meets Boston Legal


Hannibal
A TV drama of the movie Silence of the Lambs. The show will begin shooting all at once in July without a pilot episode. The role of Hannibal Lecter has yet to be cast.

Chicago Fire
A new drama from the Law & Order producer, Dick Wolf set at the Chicago Firehouse 51 and its firefighters.
It will be like: Chicago Hope meets Rescue Me


Do No Harm
A Dr. Jekyll/Mister Hyde type drama about dr. Jason Cole (Steven Pasquale) a neurosurgeon who - every night at the same hour - turns into a wild partying sociopath.
It will be like: Nip/Tuck meets McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy

Infamous
Socialite and notorious party girl Vivian Bowers is found dead from an overdose. Detective Joanna Locasto (Meagan Good) "infiltrates" the family to get to the truth. Twenty years ago she was Vivian's best friend and is embraced by the family when she returns, but is secretly looking for a murderer while she discovers dark secrets.
It will be like: Revenge meets Gossip Girl


Zero Hour
A sceptic is drawn into a conspiracy theory. With Anthony Edwards.
It will be like: The X-Files meets FlashForward


Nashville
A drama about the drama taking place behind the scenes of the country music business with Connie Britton.
It will be like: Smash meets Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

666 Park Avenue
A haunted New York residential complex with various residents who have their own secrets, is filled with supernatural occurences and events. Of course it gets new owners who has no idea.
It will be like: Lost meets American Horror Story meets Central Park West


The Last Resort
A renegade nuclear submarine crew goes to an island to start the world's newest independent nation.
It will be like: Lost meets Alias meets Terra Nova


Red Widow
The widow (Radha Mitchell) of a murdered crime boss is forced to take over running the business and crime syndicate.
It will be like: The Good Wife meets Dallas



Crossbones
Tom Lowe is an undercover assassin sent to go and kill Blackbeard, the feared pirate in this pirate periode drama. The closer Lowe gets, the more he can't help but admire the ideals of the pirate whose thirst for knowledge knows no bounds and no law. Blackbeard is a man with many villaneous rivals and one great weakness - a woman.
It will be like: Horatio Hornblower meets Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Carribean

The Following
An FBI agent played by Kevin Bacon is pulled from retirement to help solve a string of murders committed by a serial killer.
It will be like: 24 meets Person of Interest

The Mob Doctor
A talented doctor played by Jordana Spiro has to deal with her family's mafia connections after she agrees to pay off her brother's debt.
It will be like: Grey's Anatomy meets Nurse Jackie meets White Collar

Emily Owens, M.D.

Emily Owens (Mamie Gummer) discovers the hospital is a lot like high school when she, as a first year intern, starts working at the Denver Memorial Hospital. Justin Hartley is another doctor, Will Collins.
It will be like: A younger Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy meets Doogie Howser, M.D.