Following the final episode’s airing in January, the network kept mum about it, and the only real news that came out was that both Atwell and co-star Emily Kinney landed new projects that could likely have conflicted with the courtroom drama in some way, had it lived on.
Those numbers were enough to cause ABC to back off on adding the back nine episodes to Conviction’s 13-episode order, which itself was as good a sign of a cancellation as anything else.
No problems now, though.
Rising from the ashes of Heyley Atwell’s Marvel drama Agent Carter, the legal drama Conviction was received lukewarmly by critics and audiences when it debuted in October, and following the mild viewer turnout for said premiere, the ratings only dipped lower from that point on.