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Old 01-01-2014, 05:24 AM   #1
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Default “A.N.T. Farm” Star Confirms Series Ending

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Disney Channel’s star of A.N.T. Farm, China Anne McClain, confirmed on Twitter today that the series is ending.

A.N.T. Farm premiered in 2011 and is currently finishing its third and now final season. With only a handful of episodes left to air, the show will end with 65 episodes – a number quite familiar to classic Disney Channel fans.
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Old 03-22-2014, 01:13 AM   #2
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Ahhhhh they gave it a good shot......
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Old 03-22-2014, 02:52 AM   #3
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What an awful finale. When did this show go completely off the rails? It just feels like nobody involved with the show even cared for most of the last season. It was never that great, but it wasn't this bad and disjointed. Also it was obvious how little DC cared about saying goodbye to this show.

Only interesting thing to me was that they clearly wrote Jake Short off the show in case it magically got picked up for a fourth season, since he would have been unavailable. I also assume Roshon would have been his replacement on a fictional fourth season. Not that it was ever going to get one.

The Fletcher/Olive thing was mostly nonsensical to me because it came out of nowhere. I know these shows tend to do that sort of thing, like Lilly and Oliver on Hannah Montana. But you have to at least hint that two people have any sort of feelings for each other over the course of three seasons. This show literally had an episode where Olive broke up with her boyfriend and Fletcher was in a completely different silly plot that had nothing to do with her for most of the episode. Then they tacked on a scene at the end where they talked and suddenly wanted to date. So bad.
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It definitely struck me as not necessarily a finale. Like you said, they clearly used the story line to write Fletcher out so they could carry on without him, and brought in Roshon to replace him. The result was very little closure for the series as a whole. They really could have done a better "possible finale, possible the show goes on" and left Fletcher with the rest of them, and then, if they did get another season, they could have written him out in the first episode of the new season. (It's not like Jake Short parted ways with the network and they wouldn't be able to get him for one episode.)

This felt really unsatisfying.
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Unsatisfying is the right word. I'm not even a big fan of this show, but I'd be pretty pissed if I were and that's how the writers/producers chose to leave it. They had to know there wasn't a good chance of getting a 4th season, so they should have at least tried to give fans some sort of closure. SIU pretty much had the same situation, and while that wasn't amazing either, at least they left fans on an episode that focused on the central relationship of the show and there was some reminiscing and nods to how much they had grown up and all that. There was a little bit of emotional weight to it. This was just dumb.
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They could have done a better job for the fans, it's a shame.
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Well they are all KIDS,its no surprise they ended it so soon!!!! (Most kids dont have the same will for things.. (ESPECIALLY TODAY))
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Default Disney kinda screwed themselves with all these cancelations.

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Shake It Up, Good Luck Charlie, ANT Farm, and Fish Hooks all ending in under a six month time frame. I can understand why the ratings are in a slump. If Jessie and Austin & Ally get axed too, it's just going to worse.

Now I understand there are some necessary evils with shows ending. GLC probably couldn't have been stretched out any further, and Fish Hooks probably shouldn't have lasted as long as it did, but deciding to change everything at once is a bad idea.

If A&A and Jessie end after this season, that makes DWAB the veteran show on the network; which really never was all that popular to begin with. Meanwhile, you've got all these new shows which are still trying to establish themselves. I don't think Disney's given their situation a lot of thought.
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The original plan for AF, like most high school shows is to have 4 years and a graduation. I'll admit that AF's third season was their worst, but it's not like the first two were epic either. It's not like the dropoff was: Season's 1 and 2 it's the Cosby show, season 3 it's Homeboy's in Outer Space. But it was probably hard to defend that show if you're a DC exec. If it was a hit from start to finish, or at least at the start, they coulda made another season work even without Fletcher.

I have a feeling that mighta been the original plan for the New York episode, to write out Fletcher and continue the show. But they reconsidered.


But they left kinda gracefully. SIU gets almost no air place. One show per day at midnight and it's an old episode. But SLOD and WWOP still are getting at least two episodes a day. I'm sure AF and GLC fill those slots, or share them. Or not. They originally only wanted to run WOWP until May of 2012, but it still gets watched, enough to justify a 1-hour movie. I don't see that happening with AF. They never even got a movie or crossover. I may be wrong on the crossover, but I doubt it.

I once adamantly said DC wouldn't get rid a bunch of shows at once, but now I agree with the other side of that coin. They had to clean house. They didn't need to spend anymore time building the careers of Chyna, Bella, Zendaya, Bridgit, or Stefanie Scott for that matter. All of them are known faces and should be able to get bigger without Disney helping, because it might hold back.

And for Disney, it gives them a chance to build up the names and brands of Olivia Holt, Rowan Blanchard, G Hannelius, Sabrina Carpenter, Laura Marano and Dove Cameron. Debby is riding that wave still. But Disney needs her just as much as she needs them. Jessie will last a little longer by default. They need that knockout bombshell out in front to stay ahead of Nick.

Nick's problem, IMO, they focus too much energy into the already well-known actresses in their stable. When they should focus more on Kira Kosarin, Ryan Newman, Amber Montana and even Ciara Bravo and Audrey Whitby.

Disney trimmed some fat so newer shows can flourish. I still haven't bought into I didn't do it, but it'll probably be easier now that GLC, AF, and Siu aren't around anymore with new episodes.

And Great MASH analogy. I'm too young to know much about it, but I do know it lasted forever but the war wasn't long.
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I only like A.N.T. Farm okay- and I have steadily gotten more and more disenchanted with it as the series progressed- so it's fine with me to see this series gone. As long as Disney Channel keeps Austin & Ally going longer- I LOVE that series!
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Why hasn't A.N.T. Farm been moved to the 2000s Sitcoms Section?
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It barely ended give them time.
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Why hasn't A.N.T. Farm been moved to the 2000s Sitcoms Section?
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Technically, shouldn't it be in the 2010s Sitcoms Section (which doesn't exist yet and therefore is by default, the Current Sitcoms Section)? I mean, A.N.T. Farm debuted in the year 2011, so are you just going group shows up that premiered in the entire century (regardless of the actual decade that they premiered in)?
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What a shame for it to go too soon.
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