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TMC · 01-15-2016, 06:24 AM

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Far too often television fans deal with the horror of seeing their favorite shows being cancelled long before their stories are finished. Oftentimes, the show simply isn’t getting good enough ratings to cover its costs, or the cast and crew want to move on to new projects. But every so often, there’s a show that goes away because somebody behind the scenes did something incredibly dumb.

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Tubehead · 01-17-2016, 01:17 AM

ones i can think of waS:
Quantum leap
early edition
john doe
kayle xy

jimpickens · 01-17-2016, 04:14 AM

Married With Children.

Vahan · 01-17-2016, 12:21 PM

The Ropers. It did well enough for a second season, but then some jackass at ABC thought it would be a good idea to change its timeslot.

It never recovered.

JSP · 01-17-2016, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Vahan

The Ropers. It did well enough for a second season, but then some jackass at ABC thought it would be a good idea to change its timeslot.

It never recovered.

ABC Execs made a lot of bad programming decisions during the 1979-80 season, basically ruining just about all of their hit shows.

oz615 · 01-27-2016, 11:55 PM

Just The Ten Of Us!

factsoflife · 01-28-2016, 01:20 AM

The WB's Savannah fits the bill here. Its first season was well-rated and was made it the #1 series on the WB network at the time. It aired on Sunday nights and was a big success. In season 2, the series was moved to Monday nights where it competed against Melrose Place, a big hit series on FOX which shared the same producer as Savannah, Aaron Spelling.

Ratings Fell steadily with the move and Aaron Spelling requested the WB cancel the series so it wouldn't steal any audience from Melrose Place.

So really TWO bonehead moves; moving the show to Monday and allowing a producer to control the scheduling.

factsoflife · 01-28-2016, 01:25 AM

Daytime Soaps in recent years were cancelled due to dumb moves by the networks.

First up, NBC's "Another World" was a massive success, an institution really, but somewhere along the lines NBC decided to tinker with it and made a lot of creative changes (in the early 90's) that drove fans away. Then they decided to kill off characters people LOVED (Frankie Frame!) and eventually it got cancelled in favor of dumb shows like Passions and Sunset Beach that never got a fraction of the audience AW had.

More recently, CBS cancelled Guiding Light and As The World Turns, for no reason other than sheer stupidity. GL has a big success, continued getting decent ratings (for a soap) and then they went and changed the production model (how the show is produced); changing it from a traditional soap with sets to a show filmed outside and on-location. Fans hated the new look, the new writing was a flop and the cast hated it too. It took too long, it was boring and ratings dropped massively because of this. The show was cancelled.

ATWT was still going strong in the ratings and with critics. CBS had no reason to cancel it.

ABC made the bonehead choice to cancel One Life To Live and All My Children, after spending nearly a decade trying to destroy them with bad creative decisions, slashing the budgets and giving these shows almost no promotion at all.

jimpickens · 01-28-2016, 01:53 AM

My Name Is Earl
The Rat Patrol
The Flintstones
Gilligan's Island
Lost in space
Hee Haw and all of it's rural Programming
Police Squad

Regulus · 01-28-2016, 10:53 AM

I read somewhere that Sons of Thunder, a limited-run spinoff of Walker, Texas Ranger had ratings that rivaled the show it spun off from, but instead of making it a full-fledged series they decided to go ahead with a new kind of genre, "Reality" Shows.

danderson400 · 01-28-2016, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by factsoflife

Daytime Soaps in recent years were cancelled due to dumb moves by the networks.

First up, NBC's "Another World" was a massive success, an institution really, but somewhere along the lines NBC decided to tinker with it and made a lot of creative changes (in the early 90's) that drove fans away. Then they decided to kill off characters people LOVED (Frankie Frame!) and eventually it got cancelled in favor of dumb shows like Passions and Sunset Beach that never got a fraction of the audience AW had.

More recently, CBS cancelled Guiding Light and As The World Turns, for no reason other than sheer stupidity. GL has a big success, continued getting decent ratings (for a soap) and then they went and changed the production model (how the show is produced); changing it from a traditional soap with sets to a show filmed outside and on-location. Fans hated the new look, the new writing was a flop and the cast hated it too. It took too long, it was boring and ratings dropped massively because of this. The show was cancelled.

ATWT was still going strong in the ratings and with critics. CBS had no reason to cancel it.

ABC made the bonehead choice to cancel One Life To Live and All My Children, after spending nearly a decade trying to destroy them with bad creative decisions, slashing the budgets and giving these shows almost no promotion at all.

NBC made the same mistakes with BOTH "Sale Of The Century" and "Another World"(for example the Winners Big Money Game on "SOTC" and in the case of "AW" decided to kill off characters people LOVED (Frankie Frame!) although i guess with "SOTC" it was getting tried anyway but canceling "SOTC" for shows like "Passions" and "Sunset Beach" was stupid! i could add "Santa Barbara" too NBC made a few dumb mistakes with daytime

danderson400 · 01-28-2016, 12:13 PM

i can add "China Beach" ABC made a dumb mistake putting it on opposite "Golden Girls" and "Empty Nest" it didn't stand a chance against those two shows

factsoflife · 01-28-2016, 05:10 PM

ABC was pretty dumb for cancelling Just The Ten of Us despite the fact it had pretty good ratings and was very popular.

spunkygirl · 01-28-2016, 06:02 PM

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More recently, CBS cancelled Guiding Light and As The World Turns, for no reason other than sheer stupidity. GL has a big success, continued getting decent ratings (for a soap) and then they went and changed the production model (how the show is produced); changing it from a traditional soap with sets to a show filmed outside and on-location. Fans hated the new look, the new writing was a flop and the cast hated it too. It took too long, it was boring and ratings dropped massively because of this. The show was cancelled.

ATWT was still going strong in the ratings and with critics. CBS had no reason to cancel it.

It's not ratings it's DEMOS and ATWT wasn't doing well in them. You expect a network to keep a show on the air that is costing them money? Seriously?

I love ATWT and miss it still but it's ratings weren't good nor were it's demos same with AMC and OLTL.

I know people are upset and rightly so but seriously be realistic at least

irehtman · 01-28-2016, 06:16 PM

The Wb cancelled the shows until its shutdown in 2006:

Popular
Maybe It's Me
Do Over
Greetings From Tucson
Run Of The House

01-17-2016, 01:17 AM	#2
Tubehead Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Feb 12, 2007 Location: chattanooga.tn Posts: 5,139	shows canceled by idiot misket ones i can think of waS: Quantum leap early edition john doe kayle xy

01-28-2016, 01:20 AM	#7
factsoflife Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Sep 11, 2000 Posts: 8,747	The WB's Savannah fits the bill here. Its first season was well-rated and was made it the #1 series on the WB network at the time. It aired on Sunday nights and was a big success. In season 2, the series was moved to Monday nights where it competed against Melrose Place, a big hit series on FOX which shared the same producer as Savannah, Aaron Spelling. Ratings Fell steadily with the move and Aaron Spelling requested the WB cancel the series so it wouldn't steal any audience from Melrose Place. So really TWO bonehead moves; moving the show to Monday and allowing a producer to control the scheduling.
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01-28-2016, 10:53 AM	#10
Regulus Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 07, 2011 Location: Port Orange, Florida Avatar - Poiuyt Posts: 3,374	I read somewhere that *Sons of Thunder, a limited-run spinoff of Walker, Texas Ranger* had ratings that rivaled the show it spun off from, but instead of making it a full-fledged series they decided to go ahead with a new kind of genre, "Reality" Shows.
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01-17-2016, 04:14 AM	#3
jimpickens Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2007 Location: weston,wv Posts: 1,391	Married With Children.

01-17-2016, 12:21 PM	#4
Vahan Member Senior Member Join Date: Jan 14, 2008 Posts: 2,712	The Ropers. It did well enough for a second season, but then some jackass at ABC thought it would be a good idea to change its timeslot. It never recovered.

01-27-2016, 11:55 PM	#6
oz615 Sitcoms Online Thread Killer Frequent Poster Join Date: Oct 06, 2007 Location: Nashville,TN Posts: 268	Just The Ten Of Us!

01-28-2016, 01:25 AM	#8
factsoflife Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Sep 11, 2000 Posts: 8,747	Daytime Soaps in recent years were cancelled due to dumb moves by the networks. First up, NBC's "Another World" was a massive success, an institution really, but somewhere along the lines NBC decided to tinker with it and made a lot of creative changes (in the early 90's) that drove fans away. Then they decided to kill off characters people LOVED (Frankie Frame!) and eventually it got cancelled in favor of dumb shows like Passions and Sunset Beach that never got a fraction of the audience AW had. More recently, CBS cancelled Guiding Light and As The World Turns, for no reason other than sheer stupidity. GL has a big success, continued getting decent ratings (for a soap) and then they went and changed the production model (how the show is produced); changing it from a traditional soap with sets to a show filmed outside and on-location. Fans hated the new look, the new writing was a flop and the cast hated it too. It took too long, it was boring and ratings dropped massively because of this. The show was cancelled. ATWT was still going strong in the ratings and with critics. CBS had no reason to cancel it. ABC made the bonehead choice to cancel One Life To Live and All My Children, after spending nearly a decade trying to destroy them with bad creative decisions, slashing the budgets and giving these shows almost no promotion at all.

01-28-2016, 01:53 AM	#9
jimpickens Member Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2007 Location: weston,wv Posts: 1,391	My Name Is Earl The Rat Patrol The Flintstones Gilligan's Island Lost in space Hee Haw and all of it's rural Programming Police Squad

01-28-2016, 12:13 PM	#12
danderson400 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Jan 24, 2015 Location: danderson400 Posts: 652	i can add "China Beach" ABC made a dumb mistake putting it on opposite "Golden Girls" and "Empty Nest" it didn't stand a chance against those two shows

01-28-2016, 05:10 PM	#13
factsoflife Member Forum Fanatic Join Date: Sep 11, 2000 Posts: 8,747	ABC was pretty dumb for cancelling Just The Ten of Us despite the fact it had pretty good ratings and was very popular.

01-28-2016, 06:16 PM	#15
irehtman Member Forum 4000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 15, 2013 Location: Montgomery County, Maryland Posts: 4,826	The Wb cancelled the shows until its shutdown in 2006: Popular Maybe It's Me Do Over Greetings From Tucson Run Of The House