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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

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I realized that. Landtuna was looking for "ordinary" names and, while that may have been ordinary in 19th century Germany, it certainly wasn't in mid-20th century England, or America for that matter.
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Yep, not ordinary. I always thought they picked it to be different from the very ordinary Tom Jones. Since Decca (London in the US) had emerged as a major classical label, they would have been very familiar with the operatic composers and their names.
 
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‘Mercy Street’ Wraps After Two Seasons On PBS

Mercy Street will not be back for a third season, PBS and producers announced days after airing the Civil War era drama’s Season 2 finale, citing funding and “the complicated nature of aligning production timelines.”

PBS’ first original American drama in more than a decade, Mercy Street followed doctors, nurses, soldiers, as well as free, enslaved and contraband African Americans just south of the Mason Dixon Line, in Alexandria, VA, during the Civil War. Josh Radnor starred as Dr. Jedediah Foster and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Nurse Mary Phinney.

The first season reached 14 million viewers over six episodes (Live + 7), making it the second-highest-rated drama for the 2015-16 TV season on PBS, behind jet-fueled lead-in, Downton Abbey. Season 2, which premiered on January 22 and ended on March 5, has attracted 6.5 million L+7 viewers for the first three episodes.
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https://deadline.com/2017/03/mercy-street-canceled-pbs-civil-war-drama-1202039391/
 
CTListener said:
I realized that. Landtuna was looking for "ordinary" names and, while that may have been ordinary in 19th century Germany, it certainly wasn't in mid-20th century England, or America for that matter.
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Englebert Humperdinck (the singer's) birth name was Arnold George Dorsey - born in India in 1936.
 
Exclusive: Tegna’s ‘BOLD’ to Replace ’T.D. Jakes’

Tegna’s new show BOLD (Broadcast Online Live Daily) will replace the group’s talker T.D. Jakes on Tegna-owned stations this fall.

“We are really proud of T.D. Jakes,” said Bob Sullivan, Tegna senior VP of programming. “The economics of daytime, not Jakes or the quality of the show itself, is what has taken us out of play for the second season, which is frustrating.”

T.D. Jakes will finish airing this season on stations.
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http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/distribution/exclusive-tegna-s-bold-replace-td-jakes/164112
 
Not surprise that TD Lakes got cancelled wasn't doing good in the ratings but to be fair it was only on TENGA and a few other stations. Guessing that TENGA wants Bold to be on in the mornings & afternoons I thought it would have taken The Insider slot in the fall guess I was wrong on that. Maybe WZZM will have 7PM newscast come the fall but will not know until a few months from now.
 
12 Monkeys Renewed (and Cancelled)

12 Monkeys is getting 86’d at Syfy, but there’s a twist (and it’s a pretty good one).

The cabler announced on Thursday that it has renewed the time travel-themed drama for a 10-episode fourth and final season, to debut in 2018. Additionally, the series’ 10-episode third season will air (get this) over three consecutive nights beginning Friday, May 19 and concluding Sunday, May 21 (the first four episodes will bow on Friday, with three episodes airing Saturday and the final three airing on Sunday).

Loosely based on the 1995 feature film, 12 Monkeys launched on Syfy in 2015.
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https://tvline.com/2017/03/16/12-monkeys-cancelled-season-4-syfy/
 
Cinemax's 'The Knick' Canceled After Two Seasons

Cinemax is discharging The Knick.

The period medical drama from Steven Soderbergh has been canceled after two seasons, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The news is not surprising and comes 15 months after the season-two finale, which killed off star Clive Owen.

"After a critically acclaimed two-season run of The Knick on Cinemax, we will not be going forward with additional episodes of the series," said HBO miniseries and Cinemax programming president Kary Antholis in a statement. "Despite our pride in and affection for the series as well as our respect for and gratitude toward Steven Soderbergh and his team, we have decided to return Cinemax to its original primetime series fare of high-octane action dramas, many of which will be internationally co-produced."

The series, which marked Owen's first series-regular role, was acclaimed by critics but drew a small viewership. In addition to exec producing, Soderbergh directed all 20 episodes and was one of his first forays into television. Soderbergh has since moved on to exec produce and direct Amazon's Red Oaks and Starz's The Girlfriend Experience.

Cinemax showed early faith in the drama, picking up a second season before its series premiere. The Knick hailed from creators Jack Amiel and Michael Begler, who exec produced with Soderbergh, Owen, Gregory Jacobs and Michael Sugar.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/knick-canceled-2-seasons-988297
 
Doubt, the CBS drama which was supposed to be a TV comeback vehicle for Katherine Heigl, was cancelled earlier this month after only airing two episodes. For all of it's success, CBS seems to have had trouble getting a new 10PM drama to click.
 
Doubt will be burned off on Saturdays in the summer as CBS always seems to burn off the remaining EP's of cancelled shows on Saturday. I doubt that Ransom will be renewed as that was aired on a Saturday by CBS I think there a network that could air new shows on Saturday if they tried harder. I remember when the networks programmed Saturdays when I was a kid I would watch Facts Of Life, Golden Girls, I think Miami Vice was aired on Saturdays and get why the networks gave up on airing programs on Saturday and is now just repeats & sports.
 
‘The Mindy Project’ To End After Six Seasons

The Mindy Project‘s sixth season will be its last. Hulu just announced the series starring Mindy Kaling will wrap after Season 6 which premieres on the streaming service in September.

The Mindy Project premiered in 2012 and has aired 107 episodes. It debuted on the Fox network and aired for three seasons before being canceled and then picked up by Hulu in 2015 as one of the streaming service’s first marquee original scripted series. The comedy was recently sold into syndication on VH1 and Freeform.
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https://deadline.com/2017/03/the-mindy-project-end-after-six-seasons-1202054753/
 
‘Time After Time’ Canceled After Five Episodes at ABC

ABC has pulled the plug on “Time After Time” after just five episodes, TheWrap has learned.

The Kevin Williamson time-travel drama, starring Freddie Stroma and Josh Bowman, has officially been pulled from the network’s schedule. It will be replaced on the schedule by Alec Baldwin’s “Match Game.”

The series premiered soft on March 5 with two episodes and just 2.5 million viewers. Subsequent episodes declined in viewership, with the most recent outing getting a 0.4 rating among adults 18-49 and 1.9 million viewers.
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http://www.thewrap.com/time-time-canceled-five-episodes-abc/
 
Time After Time was a good concept, but Chicago Justice was also new and had more momentum in the same time slot.

I'm shocked that 'The Mindy Project' last nearly as long as it did, even allowing for the fact that it was on distribution system even below syndication for most of its existence.
 
umfan said:
Time After Time was a good concept, but Chicago Justice was also new and had more momentum in the same time slot.

I'm shocked that 'The Mindy Project' last nearly as long as it did, even allowing for the fact that it was on distribution system even below syndication for most of its existence.
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Yes - it's hard to think of any producer in TV history that has a better "batting average" than Dick Wolf. Aaron Spelling, perhaps? First New York, now Chicago. What's next in the 'teens, I wonder. LA, Miami...
 
No wonder - a newbie in a crowded field of entertainment magazine shows.
 


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