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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

My thought process is the NBC owned stations would do better expanding existing newscasts into that slot (where several are already running one) revenue wise with less expenditure vs maintaining the infrastructure of AH. More profitable for that division at the end of the day.

No doubt there are other affiliates who might well keep it if available and that would contribute revenue and that’s not meaningless. But the big picture looks from the outside like a prioritization of certain core assets, and when all is said and done, the extra news blocks would fit into that strategy.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
My thought process is the NBC owned stations would do better expanding existing newscasts into that slot (where several are already running one) revenue wise with less expenditure vs maintaining the infrastructure of AH. More profitable for that division at the end of the day.
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That could work with KNBC here, because they do a live 30-minute newscast between NBC Nightly News and Access Hollywood. KABC is the opposite as they have the Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune duo between the second airing of ABC World News Tonight and prime time. KCBS runs Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight back-to-back in that hour, and KTTV runs Extra and TMZ.

AbrahamJSimpson said:
No doubt there are other affiliates who might well keep it if available and that would contribute revenue and that’s not meaningless. But the big picture looks from the outside like a prioritization of certain core assets, and when all is said and done, the extra news blocks would fit into that strategy.
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Again, as the market size gets smaller, the less possibility of expanding local news into that slot.
 
K.M. Richards said:
That could work with KNBC here, because they do a live 30-minute newscast between NBC Nightly News and Access Hollywood. KABC is the opposite as they have the Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune duo between the second airing of ABC World News Tonight and prime time. KCBS runs Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight back-to-back in that hour, and KTTV runs Extra and TMZ.
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It looks at a glance like the majority of the NBc O and Os split the prime access hour between news and Access. One looks like it runs in the middle of the night, one perhaps not at all.
K.M. Richards said:
Again, as the market size gets smaller, the less possibility of expanding local news into that slot.
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Oh no question. But the owned affiliates can do it, and beyond those I sense it’s just not the current business priority to care. Those owners can do what they will, the owned stations mostly would end up being able to grow the news. There doesn’t seem to be any reason the owned stations would bother expending the effort on preserving AH when the parent company is exiting the syndication business.
 
I think it wasn't until year 4 until Access Hollywood was cleared in West Michigan on WOTV was at 5:30PM in the fall of 99 moved to WZZM from 2000-2004 and that was aired on a 1 day delay at 10:30AM and moved to 7:30PM where it aired most of it's run 2001-2016 & 2023-Present on WXMI FOX17. Which Access Hollywood was on for 19 years on WOTV/WOOD TV 2004-2023 from 2016-2019 was aired at 7PM on WOTV as WOOD TV decided to air a 7PM newscast.

Then WOTV in 2019 moved Access Hollywood to 5:30PM 2019-2022 & it's final year on LIN/Media General/Nexstar at 4PM. Easy for anyone to take Access Hollywood which Scripps got FOX17 in fall of 2023 at 7:30PM, which I'm guessing will be Modern Family takes the full hour come fall 2026 in my opinion. Yeah, I hope that someone will swoop and get the Access Hollywood name. Access Daily was aired on WZZM at 9AM ever since COVID in 2020.
 
only1moore said:
“Watson” and “DMV” are both done!
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‘Watson’ and ‘DMV’ Canceled at CBS

CBS has canceled 'Watson' after two seasons and 'DMV' after one.
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That’s too bad, but not unexpected. I enjoyed Watson as it had extremely interesting medical mysteries while avoiding most of the soap opera subplots that plague the medical show genre. The Sherlock Holmes angle was totally superfluous, however. The show did an excellent job having one actor play twins and integrating both characters into the same shots and scenes.

I watched DMV and found it “okay” but knew it was on the bubble. How many shows set in southern California are filmed in Montreal?🤣 Harriet Dyer can’t catch a break on American television as her other two recent series (The InBetween and American Auto) didn’t last long. We will see her later this year in season three of her Australian series Colin From Accounts.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
That’s too bad, but not unexpected. I enjoyed Watson as it had extremely interesting medical mysteries while avoiding most of the soap opera subplots that plague the medical show genre. The Sherlock Holmes angle was totally superfluous, however. The show did an excellent job having one actor play twins and integrating both characters into the same shots and scenes.

I watched DMV and found it “okay” but knew it was on the bubble. How many shows set in southern California are filmed in Montreal?🤣 Harriet Dyer can’t catch a break on American television as her other two recent series (The InBetween and American Auto) didn’t last long. We will see her later this year in season three of her Australian series Colin From Accounts.
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I gave both shows an earnest try and just couldn't stay into them. I wish those affect the best.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
That’s too bad, but not unexpected. I enjoyed Watson as it had extremely interesting medical mysteries while avoiding most of the soap opera subplots that plague the medical show genre.
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It had good plots, that's for sure.
Mediafrog+ said:
The Sherlock Holmes angle was totally superfluous, however.
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I liked Sherlock and he got me to watch the show again. The actor was a villain and a clown on "Once Upon a Time". On this show, he was a more positive character.
Mediafrog+ said:
The show did an excellent job having one actor play twins and integrating both characters into the same shots and scenes.
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I never understood why they wanted to go to the trouble.
 


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