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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...ger-tv-ratings-wednesday-april-8-2020-1289530

Series finale for Modern Family Ratings are out,

The series finale of Modern Family brought in quite a few nostalgic viewers, as the ABC comedy bowed out with its biggest total audience in more than three years. It also had the show's best 18-49 rating since September 2018.

The big audience for Modern Family also helped Jimmy Kimmel's Who Wants to Be a Millionaire revival get off to a solid start. NBC's Chicago dramas and Fox's Masked Singer also continued their strong runs of late.

The hourlong Modern Family finale drew 7.43 million viewers, the most for the show since January 2017. Its 1.6 rating in the 18-49 demographic was a high since the season 10 premiere in fall 2018. A retrospective special prior to the finale also drew healthy numbers (6.72 million viewers, 1.3 in the demo). Who Wants to Be a Millionaire opened with 6.3 million viewers and a 1.1, well ahead of ABC's 10 p.m. Wednesday average for the season.
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Neither hour long finale episode won its slot. Nor did Millionaire at 10PM. Pretty weak showing for ABC for such a special, and much hyped, event.
 
No, not really. When a heavily hyped finale can only do this well, in a time when far more people are watching TV anyway, those numbers are clearly a disappointment, having considered all factors.
 
Yes, because doing the best in three years is bad. Not in any real world, anyway.

This isn't the era of M*A*S*H. Bringing back what they did was quite impressive here in 2020. People don't completely disrupt their viewing patterns the way they did years ago. They hear about a finale and DVR it. Or Hulu it. Or many other options. This mindset that things work they way they once did is just unrealistic.

NBC has a formidable lineup with the Chicago trio. CBS gets its share. You don't dislodge all those--you get some, and ABC did. Mission accomplished.
 
I thought the Modern Family finale was good. Especially seeing Cam and Mitchell adopting a baby boy.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Yes, because doing the best in three years is bad. Not in any real world, anyway.

This isn't the era of M*A*S*H. Bringing back what they did was quite impressive here in 2020. People don't completely disrupt their viewing patterns the way they did years ago. They hear about a finale and DVR it. Or Hulu it. Or many other options. This mindset that things work they way they once did is just unrealistic.

NBC has a formidable lineup with the Chicago trio. CBS gets its share. You don't dislodge all those--you get some, and ABC did. Mission accomplished.
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Well, as you're clearly not an expert on the real world, I'll enlighten you. Finales generally do see increased ratings as to the recent baseline. It's built into the expectations. When ABC used the resources they did to promote this, clearly they felt the ratings should rival the highest the series had ever gotten. Winning the timeslot was supposed to be a given. Neither of these benchmarks were met. A total flameout, no, but clearly didn't meet expectations.

Try to be an Honest Abe.
 
Sure, dude. Nowhere did ABC put out that they felt it should be the highest rated in the shows history. Because that’s not how things work here in 2020. I’m not sure what frozen-in-time limbo you choose to reside in, but it’s not the, um, modern world.
 
umfan said:
Well, as you're clearly not an expert on the real world, I'll enlighten you. Finales generally do see increased ratings as to the recent baseline. It's built into the expectations. When ABC used the resources they did to promote this, clearly they felt the ratings should rival the highest the series had ever gotten. Winning the timeslot was supposed to be a given. Neither of these benchmarks were met. A total flameout, no, but clearly didn't meet expectations.
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You should take into consideration that at least 47% of the viewing audience DVR's programs, or catches up via VOD web stream. It isn't fair to assume anymore that just because the scheduled episode overnights wasn't huge, that the final episode was a complete flop.

Appointment-viewing is nice for an overnight ratings buzz, but not a realistic expectation anymore and pretty rare. Networks are more interested in playing the long-game now.
 
The decision to end God Friended Me is surprising considering the number of viewers it drew. I know this will disappoint a lot of people.
 
This sucks. One has to wonder if we’ll see a backlash over this cancellation just like what happened to “Joan of Arcadia.” It had everything going for it and a good cast too.
 
only1moore said:
The “Party” is over for “Party of Five” at Freeform...
https://deadline.com/2020/04/party-of-five-reboot-canceled-freeform-one-season-series-1202910922/
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Dang the Last Time Party of Five was on was because Fox had the broadcast rights to that show back in the 1990's with the show's owners Columbia Tri-Star Television at the time though. Gradual shedding of the audience was a factor here. But at the same time Disney (The ones the signed the broadcast contract with Sony)was under pressure to make cuts and furloughs in response to the COVID-19 Shelter in place orders and the non essential business shutdown order.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Five

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Five_(2020_TV_series)

Hailing from the original series’ creators Chris Keyser and Amy Lippman, the immigration-themed update revolved around the five Acosta children as they navigate daily life struggles to survive as a family unit after their parents suddenly are deported back to Mexico.

The series, which was developed and greenlighted by Freeform’s previous regime, was a modest ratings performer, averaging 252K total viewers in Live+Same Day, starting with 442K for the premiere and gradually shedding audience to 143K who tuned in for the finale. The downtrend carried over to Live+3, ratings, from 652K viewers for the debut to 350K-360K in the show’s last weeks.
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TEGNA has canceled Sister Circle this week is its final week on air. The reason couldn't get the TV ratings up kinda surprised it lasted as long as it did WZZM aired it from day one first year for 30 minutes in 2017 then a full hour in the fall of 2018 at 10AM.
 


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