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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

The fact that they make every Goldbergs episode set in 1980-something, as they call it, means they don't really need to venture outside of the decade. It's fungible. That said, another year, maybe two, is likely about it--and that's not a criticism. It's a long run most shows don't achieve.
 
Their storyline will change with the loss of George Segal. He was a big part of the show.
As for American Housewife, I wonder if Katy Mixon will go into more films? She now has both A.H. and Mike & Molly on her resume. She has done a couple of films in the past, and did a voice role in Minions. The littlest child on American Housewife already had a role in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' and I believe she will go far too.
 
crainbebo said:
Their storyline will change with the loss of George Segal. He was a big part of the show.
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I wonder when Adam F. Goldberg really lost his grandfather.

If he didn't die in the 1980s they'll have to change some things that really happened. A lot of what they've been doing the past couple of seasons was based on real events.
 
He’s a tremendous loss, and it will require some different approaches, but as episodes in the later portion of the season have shown, it can be done (presumably following acknowledging the character’s passing). Judd Hirsch as pop-pop could become a bigger presence to provide the grandparent perspective albeit with his more curmudgeonly take.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I wonder when Adam F. Goldberg really lost his grandfather.

If he didn't die in the 1980s they'll have to change some things that really happened. A lot of what they've been doing the past couple of seasons was based on real events.
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Adam Goldberg isn’t directly involved as of this year, and much to the real Beverly’s displeasure on social media, the storylines this year have largely departed from their actual events, save for very tangential connections.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Adam Goldberg isn’t directly involved as of this year, and much to the real Beverly’s displeasure on social media, the storylines this year have largely departed from their actual events, save for very tangential connections.
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I see. I haven't watched this season. This is a show that requires me to back up a lot to get everything. So I tend to wait.
 
crainbebo said:
Their storyline will change with the loss of George Segal. He was a big part of the show.
As for American Housewife, I wonder if Katy Mixon will go into more films? She now has both A.H. and Mike & Molly on her resume. She has done a couple of films in the past, and did a voice role in Minions. The littlest child on American Housewife already had a role in Quentin Tarantino's 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' and I believe she will go far too.
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vchimpanzee said:
She has two choices on TV too. She could join her mom on "Call Me Kat" or her brother-in-law on "Bob Hearts Abishola".
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only1moore said:
Mixon would be a great fit for “Call Me Kat” now that sitcom is returning in midseason.
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I’d love to to see her on Call Me Kat. I love that show. I haven’t seen Bob Hearts Abishola but would definitely start watching if she joined that.

Other possibilities could be B Positive or United States of Al…both Lorre shows.

You’re referring to Julia Butters…she already left the show right before Season 5 started. Giselle Eisenberg replaced her. Both of them have bright futures.

Can’t wait to see how the Goldbergs addresses George Segal’s death in Season 9. They didn’t have time to do it at the end of Season 8.
 
Will_H_69_9 said:
i guess that's a nice way of saying, it's been canceled but given a second chance on a streaming service to finish the shows out or give 'em a second chance with a streaming audience for the sake of saving a show from permanent cancelation, this is gonna be the future of struggling TV shows that get canceled on traditional TV as the transition from fixed time antenna/cableline/satellite dish based broadcast TV to on demand Internet based streaming TV.
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Also isn't this another way of saying we are going where the $$ demos are at. OTA TV is subjected to pre-emptions for local news reasons.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

‘Evil’ Set to Move to Paramount+ From CBS

The series from Robert and Michelle King would join fellow network shows 'SEAL Team' and 'Clarice' in migrating to the streaming platform.
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As in the case of the TV show Evil its moving from CBS to Paramount+.
 
Preemptions of primetime are so minimal in the big picture as to be less than a rounding error. Library content is valuable to a streaming service, certainly high profile library content like Friends to HBO Max as an example. But original content is vital, even if it is something of a loss leader at the start. Moving a known quantity, even if it didn't light the world on fire on the broadcast network, gives you at least a base to build on and maybe entice some of those fans into converting to paying customers.

It won't be the path for all struggling shows, but I'm sure the powers that be are looking way beneath the surface to determine which are decent economic bets to shift to that platform. The few that make the move will get the attention, but by and large the shows discarded will simply be discarded. (\

Much the same was true for those occasional shows that jumped networks over the years--it was rarely a huge success, but those moves got disproportionate attention and fans of many canceled shows hung their hopes on "their" show being another one to be rescued by someone else.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Much the same was true for those occasional shows that jumped networks over the years--it was rarely a huge success
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I'm sure NBC had second thoughts about dumping Jag after one season, only for it to have a long, successful run on CBS, and spinning off the various equally successful NCIS shows.

My Three Sons is a long-ago example of a show that successfully switched networks, while swapping out two of the lead characters at the same time.
 


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