The way you've phrased your question means I can phrase my answer like it's good news: yes, you will get a satisfying ending to your show, which is in fact canceled.

CBS made the decision to cancel "Code Black" in late May, shortly after the show's third season began.

However, much like you, the show's writers met the cancellation with a sort of grim fatalism. Series creator Michael Seitzman said on Twitter that they sensed the end was coming and they acted accordingly.

"We always suspected this would be the last season. We wrote it to end that way."

That is to say, the current season will end in a satisfying, loose end-tying sort of way.

TVSeriesFinale.com, which makes a business of tracking the fate of TV shows, got pretty cute about its explanation for the cancellation: "The patient eventually succumbed to acute ratings anemia."

That's cute because it was a medical show, and because the show's ratings have been dropping since it started.

By the point at which CBS canceled it, it was averaging about 5.5 million viewers, which was a big drop from the seven million it averaged in its first season. And its numbers in the 18-49 demographic, which are arguably even more important in these decisions, were even worse, dropping about 25 percent from season to season since it began.

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