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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...cancel-high-end-dramas-comedies-idUSKCN1R600P

Youtube denies report to cancel shows

(Reuters) - YouTube has denied that it is cancelling high-end dramas and comedies on its paid service platform, refuting the claims made in a report earlier on Sunday.




A Bloomberg report said, citing sources, that the platform has stopped accepting new pitches for high-budget scripted shows and that it had canceled high end dramas and comedies.



YouTube, owned by Alphabet Inc’s Google, has several high-end dramas and comedies currently in production and will soon reveal new and returning series, a YouTube representative told Reuters late on Sunday in an emailed statement.

The platform also denied that its head of original productions Susanne Daniels and a former MTV executive hired by YouTube in 2015, is looking to move on from her position.
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https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/233019/cancellation-of-latino-themed-shows-spark-anger/

And this over certain shows and its connections to the diversity issue.

The departure of two Latino-themed shows — Netflix’s One Day at a Time and CW’s Jane the Virgin — demonstrates the challenges such projects still encounter on networks and streaming services. Networks may feel pressure to tap into the growing Latino population — now the largest minority group in the U.S. — but the shows often receive limited promotions and are on a short leash from executives who want to see good ratings fast.

by Russell Contreras March 29, 2019 2:18 EDT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Netflix’s cancellation of “One Day at a Time” has led to an outcry on social media by the show’s viewers. And fans of CW’s “Jane the Virgin” are preparing to say goodbye a show entering its fifth and final season.

The departure of the two Latino-themed shows demonstrates the challenges such projects still encounter on networks and streaming services. Networks may feel pressure to tap into the growing Latino population — now the largest minority group in the U.S. — but the shows often receive limited promotions and are on a short leash from executives who want to see good ratings fast. Advocates of more diversity on television say these shows are often given difficult time slots or are buried deep in the maze of streaming apps.

“It was such a bummer with ‘One Day at a Time’,” Mishel Prada, who plays Emma in the Starz series “Vida,” told The Associated Press. “Things are changing, but it hasn’t changed (enough).”

ABC faced a similar reaction when it canceled the 2014 sitcom “Cristela,” starring stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo, after one season. The show aired late on Fridays and averaged around 5 million viewers. Likewise, Fox drew criticism when it canceled the 2016 adult animated sitcom “Bordertown,” also after one season, despite its cult following in a tough Sunday timeslot.
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Page Six TV to end after 2 seasons I think low ratings or largely because the Fox O&O's getting Extra putting that in Page Six TV timeslots. I liked Page Six TV was glad it got a better timeslot this year than it's first season which was on WZZM at 10:30AM only believe they got Page Six TV because The Insider got canceled and it is now on at 11PM on WXSP.
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/gifted-rel-canceled-at-fox-1202943

The Gifted and Rel are cancelled at Fox

Both shows hail from 20th Century Fox Television, the studio now owned by Disney.
Fox has started ripping off the Band-Aid on its cancellations.

The newly independent broadcast network has opted to cancel the sophomore drama The Gifted and the rookie comedy Rel.

The cancellations mark the first to come for the newly independent Fox Entertainment. Both shows were produced by 20th Century Fox Television, the TV studio that was included in the $71.3 billion asset sale from Fox to Disney.

The Gifted, which recently wrapped its second season, was produced by Marvel Television. Its renewal was considered a long shot, given that Marvel's TV fare is almost all now exclusively on Disney-owned platforms after Netflix cut ties with the company and canceled all of the comic book giant's remaining originals. (Hulu, which has Runaways and a slate of animated series, is now majority owned by Disney, as is FX, which has the final season of Legion due.) Season two averaged fewer than 2 million viewers and just under a 0.6 rating, dropping 40 percent from its freshman run.
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WOW. Life in Pieces? I think CBS is partially to blame for cancelling their own show. Not airing it for months at a time and then voila! Five or six new episodes air. Talk about only being used for 'filler.' I thought it had an interesting storyline - four different 'stories' in one comedy program. Colin Hanks was great on there and I wish him all the best wherever he goes next.
Fam sucked. Happy Together sucked.

Speechless was a decent show, too bad ABC didn't think it was profitable enough. Those Friday Night death slots are true, in most cases. But yet CBS keeps renewing Blue Bloods...
 
Cool Kids I watched and enjoyed
Kids are Alright I started watching then it got dumb
FAM & Happy Together ended up being a RAENW...recorded all episodes....never watched. One touch nuke on Tivo all episodes and the one pass
 
And yet The Goldbergs got another season. It's getting dumber every year. Yelling Murray, stupid Barry, just-as-dumb Erica, cursing Beverly, Adam is always the outlier...YAWN. Talk about stereotypical. I'm in the minority, I believe, but I'd rather watch a real 1980s sitcom than a 'celebration of the 80s' like the Goldbergs.
Love CBS's Mom, and Modern Family's still decent going into their last season.
 
crainbebo said:
And yet The Goldbergs got another season. It's getting dumber every year. Yelling Murray, stupid Barry, just-as-dumb Erica, cursing Beverly, Adam is always the outlier...YAWN. Talk about stereotypical. I'm in the minority, I believe, but I'd rather watch a real 1980s sitcom than a 'celebration of the 80s' like the Goldbergs.
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agreed. It was good the first couple seasons then just got dumb
 
UK Tabloid Talk Show Canceled After Guest’s Death

British broadcaster ITV on Wednesday canceled a popular, long-running daytime reality show after the death of a guest who failed a lie-detector test during a recording.

ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall said “The Jeremy Kyle Show” was being scrapped “given the gravity of recent events.”

The tabloid-style talk show, which had run for 14 years, was pulled after 63-year-old Steve Dymond was found dead at a home in Portsmouth, southern England, on May 9.

Media reported that he had killed himself. Police said the death was not suspicious, and a post-mortem will be held to determine the cause.

On an episode filmed earlier this month, Dymond took a lie-detector test to convince his fiancee that he had not been unfaithful, but was told he had failed.

The episode has not been aired.
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https://tvnewscheck.com/article/more-news/235012/uk-tabloid-talk-show-canceled-after-guests-death/
 
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/syfy-cancel-deadly-class-happy-1203233408/

Syfy has cancelled some shows

Syfy has opted to cancel “Deadly Class” and “Happy!”, Variety has learned.

The former, an adaptation of Rick Remender’s comic book series, starred Lana Condor, Benjamin Wadsworth and Benedict Wong. Produced by the Russo brothers, the series revolved around an orphan who becomes a student assassin at King’s Dominion High School for the Deadly Arts.

Co-production partner Sony Pictures Television will now be shopping the show in an attempt to find it a new home. The show ran for one season.

“Even if ‘Deadly Class’ talks a tough talk about being different and darker than those other high school shows, watching it walk the walk often proves more frustrating than fascinating,” wrote Variety TV critic Caroline Framke in January.
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RadioPatrol said:
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/syfy-cancel-deadly-class-happy-1203233408/

Syfy has cancelled some shows
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i wonder if SyFy canceling their shows is a way to devaule the network where they could kill it and merge it into either USA or NBCSN to form a second channel for one of those NBC Universal Network. if SyFy dies in the next 2 years, i can see it being turned into NBCSN 2 where all the sporting events that can't air on NBC or NBCSN can air there instead of USA or CNBC.
 


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