TV Shows Cancelled for Pretty Dumb Reasons: "Freaks and Geeks"

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Another victim of scheduling, this NBC comedy was launched in fall 1999 on a Saturday night, when its target audience was likely at the movies or, you know, studying. From there, its run was interrupted at least four times over five months, and sometimes for weeks at a time.

But perhaps most damning, NBC execs simply didn’t “get” the premise and tried hard to change what made it special. As EP Judd Apatow and consulting producer Jake Kasdan have revealed in interviews, they regularly clashed with the network regarding the “lack of victories” enjoyed by its title characters, whom NBC execs also wished could be more “cool.”

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