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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

crainbebo said:
No wonder - a newbie in a crowded field of entertainment magazine shows.
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FOX stations tested Hollywood Today Live in summer 2014, HTL went national in fall of 2015 on FOX stations & Media General which owned Bites size that made HTL. Was surprise that Nexstar didn't sign on for HTL for there stations that didn't already have HTL which was mainly aired late at night on MG stations HTL is on WOTV at 5PM. Wonder if HTL repeats will remain after there last EP APR 28 or if FOX & Nexstar will air something else I just hope it isn't 24 hour News 8 at 5PM & 5:30PM or paid programming.
 
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/programming/wgn-america-cancels-outsiders/164928

WGN America to Cancel outsiders

WGN America has pulled the plug on its sophomore drama series Outsiders, the network confirmed Friday.

The series, which follows a family clan defending their mountain land and their way of life from the town below, is currently in its second season. While the show has done well from a ratings perspective, Peter Kern, interim president and CEO of WGN parent Tribune Media, said in a statement that the company will be “reallocating our resources to a more diverse programming strategy.”

The network has been on a ratings roll, posting this past March its best primetime monthly viewing audience in network history—led by Outsiders and sophomore series Underground.

The series finale of Outsiders will air on April 25.
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as already covered in the Bill O'Reilly scandal thread over at the pay TV section, Fox News has fired Bill O'Riley and now the O'Reilly Factor (formerly known as "The Bill O'Reilly Report" from 1996-1998) is canceled after 20 years. as of now, no replacement has been named and the show has been or will be relaunched as "The Factor" for now until a replacement is named.
 
Girl Meets World Is Officially Dead

Riley and Maya took on the world… and the world won.

Girl Meets World creator Michael Jacobs used the show’s writers’ Twitter account on Wednesday to confirm that, despite his best efforts, a new home has not been found for the canceled Disney Channel sitcom.

The show’s season-turned-series finale aired in January, culminating with the largest Boy Meets World reunion in GMW history; Shawn, Mr. Feeny and more fan-favorite characters — including both Morgans — returned to help the Matthews figure out if they should move to London. (Spoiler alert: They did not move to London.)
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https://tvline.com/2017/05/03/girl-meets-world-not-returning-cancelled-official-statement/
 
mvcg66b3r said:
'Pitch' Canceled After One Season at Fox
The baseball drama, produced in partnership with Major League Baseball, will not return for a second season.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/pitch-canceled-one-season-at-fox-999300
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'Pitch' was the single Fox show I liked but I wondered after the first couple of episodes.....what would constitute a continuing story line? I didn't see it and apparently neither did others. Too bad, because the stories it did air were reasonably good and the cast was entertaining to watch.
 
‘Emerald City’ Canceled By NBC After One Season

Along with its first two new series pickups, Rise and For God & Country, NBC made its first official pre-upfront cancellation tonight, axing the Wizard of Oz-themed drama Emerald City after one season.

The series, executive produced by Shaun Cassidy and David Schulner, never connected with viewers or critics and was not expected to go to Season 2.
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https://deadline.com/2017/05/emerald-city-canceled-nbc-one-season-1202084785/
 
After the last "Superstore" episode, it looks like the end of that show with the tornado scene, unless they move in to the vacant former Super K-Mart building right down the street.
 
kenrayc said:
After the last "Superstore" episode, it looks like the end of that show with the tornado scene, unless they move in to the vacant former Super K-Mart building right down the street.
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that's a clever way to end the show if it was to be canceled due to poor ratings.
 
CMT Turns Off Sun Records

CMT has axed the musical period drama, Sun Records, after just one eight-episode season, writes Deadline.com.

The show was based on the real-life Sun Records studio/company in Memphis, Tennessee that gave birth to such recording legends as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis. Drake Milligan starred as the King of Rock n’ Roll while Christian Lees played Lewis.

Sun Records had some fans among TV critics with RottenTomatoes.com giving it a score of 60 out of a possible 100. Six out of 10 critics in the site’s survey gave the show a favorable review.

But the show’s ratings sharply declined from its debut on February 23. 2017 when it captured nearly one million viewers. For what is now the series finale on April 13, 2017, fewer than 500,000 people tuned in.
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https://tvanswerman.com/2017/05/07/cmt-turns-off-sun-records/
 
mvcg66b3r said:
https://tvanswerman.com/2017/05/07/cmt-turns-off-sun-records/
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Sun Records should have been a miniseries that ran no longer than 4 hours total, cut the soap opera elements, and speed up the storyline to end at the point where the Million Dollar Quartet happened. Instead the storyline dragged out on the beginning of Elvis's career and they never even got far enough into Johnny Cash or Jerry Lee Lewis coming to Sun, and Carl Perkins was only in the last episode for a few minutes. I'm not surprised it was cancelled.
 


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