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Suggestion For My Name Is Earl: Syndicate It!

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Here's a suggestion for the TV show My Name Is Earl, which was recently cancelled by NBC: If repeats are to take place this fall, why not just produce all-new episodes for first-run syndication? If no other network wants it, syndication is the only way to go! It certainly wouldn't be the first primetime show to take this route (look at Baywatch). The first-run eps could air concurrently with the repeats!
 
Because it's not a viable economic model for that show now?
 
There are going to be four first run episodes of King of the Hill to be air in syndication.

ABC Studio Legend of the Seeker doing well. For the time being.

Trying to meet the salary demands of the cast and crew would be near impossible. Fox turn down their own show due to money issues. BTW 20th Television produced the series.
 
Knock-knock! Who's there? Cliff. Cliff who? Cliff Hanger! As in NBC left us with one, and of nothing else, at least produce an ending....
 
The King of the Hill episodes weren't produced for syndication, though. Fox just didn't air all that they produced. Earl wasn't the first show to end its life with an unresolved story, and it won't be the last. If they cancelled it, they're not going to produce an ending. It's just plain old done. (And I wish it weren't, but c'est la vie.)
 
Even if some synidcation company or another network wanted to pick up "My Name is Earl", I have my doubts series star Jason Lee would even bother. Afterall earlier this year the tabolids like the Globe, National Enquier and the Star made a big deal about Lee saying that TV was "retarded", how the DTV switch was "an NBC ripoff" and that Jason doesn't even allow TV at his house , etc.. The Enquier's Mike Walker also reported back in January that Jason even hated doing his own show.

Now did Jason Lee really say any of this ? Well so far I haven't heard of Lee denying any of it so perhaps he may really feel that TV ( including "My Name is Earl" ) is nothing but "garbage".
 
Well it has 96 episodes and the goal for rerun syndication is 100 episodes, so I think it'd be reasonable to get one last episode to conclude the series, if it's an hour long special that would add two more 1/2 hours to the syndie package.

But for first run syndication? As other posters said, the cost wouldn't offset the profit, most likely
 
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