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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

It was about time to wrap it up in my opinion. The show has run its course, from a group of quirky scientists and their next door neighbor, to weddings, babies and slowly but surely, everyone spending less time in Sheldon's apartment. I wouldn't be surprised if the series finale features Sheldon and Amy giving birth. In fact, I think I predicted the cancellation at the start of this year!

*EDIT - Hey, my 9,500th post!
 
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It was about time to wrap it up in my opinion. The show has run its course, from a group of quirky scientists and their next door neighbor, to weddings, babies and slowly but surely, everyone spending less time in Sheldon's apartment. I wouldn't be surprised if the series finale features Sheldon and Amy giving birth. In fact, I think I predicted the cancellation at the start of this year!

*EDIT - Hey, my 9,500th post!
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You mean Leonard's apartment. Sheldon moved in with Amy before they got married.

This is my favorite show and I don't want it to end.
 
My wife is a huge fan of Big Bang Theory and because of that I see a lot of episodes by osmosis. Me? I don't get it. There probably is only so much the writers can continue to age the characters and keep the premise. I don't know how Young Sheldon can do as a standalone without it's parent show as a lead-in
 
https://www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/2018/9/7/tribune-slashes-newscasts

Update Tribune is going to cut newscasts in some markets.

News Fix in both Houston and Dallas was another complete blunder. It was supposed to be hip and cool, but it was really just lame.

By dropping these shows and a number of employees, Tribune hopes to make their bottom line more attractive to potential buyers.

Here is the memo obtained by FTVLive:

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From: "Wert, Larry" <[email protected]>
Date: 9/6/18 8:31 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: All Broadcasting <[email protected]>
Cc: "Wert, Larry" <[email protected]>, "Cabral, Patty" <[email protected]>
Subject: Newscasts Announcement

I want to take a moment this morning to make you aware of some strategic decisions we have made regarding newscasts in several of our markets. First, some context—while broadcasting delivered strong financial results in the second quarter, to continue being successful, we need to be constantly looking for new growth opportunities and finding new ways of improving our existing businesses. We must be nimble, innovative, and, where it makes sense to do so, be willing to re-think some of our strategies.

It is with these things in mind that we have made the decision to discontinue production of Morning Dose, News Fix in Houston and Dallas, and the late newscast at WDCW in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of a lot of talented employees, these shows haven’t delivered the ratings or the revenue we hoped for when they were launched. The decision to discontinue any show is never easy and we don’t do it lightly. We understand that these decisions affect the lives of good people who gave their best efforts to achieve success; we hope to give many of them the opportunity to transition to new roles elsewhere in our station group.

Taking these steps will enable us to reallocate the resources devoted to these shows to other areas of our broadcasting business, including the further expansion of local news in several markets. This fall we will add a new three-hour local morning newscast at KIAH in Houston and expand PHL Morning News from 90-minutes to three hours at WPHL in Philadelphia. Mornings are a time-period where we have seen growth, and by shifting resources we believe we can better serve our local audiences.

Tribune continues to make strategic investments. We’re also devoting significant capital to improve the infrastructure at many of our stations and their newsrooms. As Peter mentioned, we’ll be building a new set/studio at WDAF in Kansas City, and in Arkansas, we recently broke ground on a state-of-the-art facility for KFSM and KXNW. KFOR’s new stormproof building in Oklahoma City is now complete and nine of our newsrooms kicked off substantial capital improvements in infrastructure, sets and building renovation this year.

We need to work to make these investments pay dividends for our viewers and advertisers, and ultimately for the company. This year, our broadcast group will produce roughly 84,000 hours of local news across our station group. In the last 5 years, we have expanded our news hours by 34 percent, more than any other station group in the U.S. Of our 27 news producing markets with full news operations, 21 of our stations are ranked #1 or #2 in the market among adults aged 25 to 54. Many markets have reached new rating milestones in 2018 through ratings growth and expansion. Finally, Tribune Media continues to be the #1 broadcast group online and one of the top-20 providers of online news in America. Our strength in local news has allowed our sales departments to drive significant share growth in political advertising, helping to offset the softness in the overall core market.

Peter has challenged us to find growth opportunities and improve our businesses while we navigate the current industry trends. To date we can all be proud of our collective performance, and for that I am grateful. As we close out Q3, let’s continue to play offense, focus on innovation and redirect our thinking to find opportunities that make our company better every day. I thank you for your hard work and dedication to your stations and to Tribune Broadcasting.
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https://www.wired.com/story/netflix-cancellations-orange-is-the-new-black/

Now an Article on Netflix and cancelling shows

Orange Is the New Black’s sentence is up. Netflix announced this week that the show’s seventh season, hitting the streaming service next year, would be its last. After that, it’s dunzo. For many viewers, this is sad news—the inmates of Litchfield have been a part of the conversation for a long time now. But for everyone else, and for the future of TV broadly, it’s a move that’s long overdue.

For quite some time, it looked as though Netflix, with its seemingly bottomless coffers and try-anything attitude, would never cancel anything. The company habitually renewed shows as soon as they hit the platform; it was only expensive deadweights like The Get Down that ever saw the axe. Recently, though, that’s began to change. The streaming service just pulled the plug on the Marvel show Iron Fist after two seasons, and Everything Sucks after one—and comedian Michelle Wolf’s talk show The Break after only 10 episodes. Netflix’s laissez-faire approach to programming, it seems, is coming to an end.

But wait!, you say. It's not like Orange Is the New Black is getting unceremoniously axed. Seven seasons is a long run! Yes, that’s true; and compared to something like Everything Sucks, OITNB got more than enough time in the sun. But that’s what makes this news even more surprising: It was a popular show, and one of Netflix’s flagship original programs. It’s partially responsible for binge-watching becoming a thing. Coupled with the news that House of Cards will be ending after the season set to launch next month, the old guard is slowly being phased out. (Yes, HoC is maybe ending for other, Kevin Spacey-related reasons, but if The Conners has taught us anything, popular TV shows can survive problematic stars.) And frankly, Netflix—and its subscribers—are better off.

It's not that OITNB and HoC aren’t laudable shows, it’s just that their time has passed. Both were better in their first few seasons, and unlike with the network TV model where successful shows can limp along way past their prime, Netflix is pulling the plug. People think of the streaming service’s $8 billion content budget—85 percent of which is earmarked for original programming—like it’s a Scrooge McDuck money pit, but it's not. And now that it’s not the only big player in the streaming game, it’s got to practice austerity. Amazon and Hulu are already spending billions on content, and Apple likely won’t be too far behind when it launches its original offerings. Also, now that other streaming services are competing with Netflix for Emmys and Golden Globes, Netflix’s margin of error is even smaller.
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Part of Netflix Response is to go after competitors like Hulu and Amazon Prime.
 


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