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TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

Kdsm 17 will have some space to fill next season as they air Judge Mathis and People's Court from noon to 2pm and again from 1:30am to 3:30am and of course they air Judge Judy reruns from 10-10:30am and 2-3pm so if they keep Judge Judy reruns around then they still have 4 hours to fill for next season. After Mike & Molly and Schitts Creek left syndication last season they didn't have anything to replace it with as ICrime replaced another show from Midnight to 1am I can't remember what the other show was at the moment.

To fill the gap in late-night they aired repeats of Judge Mathis and People's Court from 1:30-3:30am.
 
Jstnpspck said:
Case closed for “Judge Mathis” AND “The People’s Court”
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crainbebo said:
This is huge for daytime TV, just like with Dr. Phil. The landscape is really changing! Congrats to Judge Greg Mathis and Judge Marilyn Milian on their retirements!
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only1moore said:
Yes, they’re putting the gavels away (thanks to Warner Brothers, who axed them too)!
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anotherguyTN said:
Hopefully not with more courtroom or trash talk shows. :rolleyes:
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I'm surprised how many years some of these "courtroom drama" shows have remained on the air. Back in the 80s there was only "The People's Court" with Wapner and "Divorce Court". Then once "Judge Judy" came onto the scene and became a ratings success and a financial cash cow, several other courtroom shows started appearing en masse.

Of course, it's similar to what happened back in the day with daytime TV talk shows that featured family infighting, exposés, paternity tests, psychics telling people if their missing relatives were alive and where they are, etc. Once those became popular, there was Donahue, Povich, Montel, Ricki Lake, Springer, Oprah, Geraldo, Sally Jessie, Richard Bey, Gayle King, Jenny Jones, etc. etc.
 
Mikey Radio said:
I'm surprised how many years some of these "courtroom drama" shows have remained on the air. Back in the 80s there was only "The People's Court" with Wapner and "Divorce Court". Then once "Judge Judy" came onto the scene and became a ratings success and a financial cash cow, several other courtroom shows started appearing en masse.

Of course, it's similar to what happened back in the day with daytime TV talk shows that featured family infighting, exposés, paternity tests, psychics telling people if their missing relatives were alive and where they are, etc. Once those became popular, there was Donahue, Povich, Montel, Ricki Lake, Springer, Oprah, Geraldo, Sally Jessie, Richard Bey, Gayle King, Jenny Jones, etc. etc.
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Same with A Current Affair when that became a hit then there was Hard Copy, Inside Edition, American Journal and it took awhile for Entertainment Tonight with shows like Extra, Access Hollywood, TMZ, and the Insider.
 
AbrahamJSimpson said:
Of course, once upon a time, Donahue did meaningful, substantive talk. Even as he sank, he never hit the depths of Richard Bey. 😉
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As some may recall, when Jerry Springer first started his talk show, he also tackled some pretty serious topics and his program, I thought, was quite good. It was on after one of the late, late shows where I lived at the time and came on the air at around 1:30 or 2 a.m. That said, it was also tanking in the ratings. That's when his producer came up with the idea of appealing to the lowest common denominator in society and turned it into the circus it became. When Springer first started doing his show, with serious, thought-provoking topics, he did his "final thoughts" bit at the end of each episode to summarize and ended it with his "take care of yourselves, and each other" line. Once his show became an over the top celebration of white trash, physical fights were breaking out and so many explantives were bleeped that you couldn't understand what was being said at times his ratings went much higher, but his show no longer resembled what it started out being - but Springer did keep the "final thoughts" sign-off at the end, which at times seemed comical, considering the show we'd just watched.
 
CommunicationsMajor said:
I liked Judge Marilyn Milian's People's Court. I've been watching it on and off since 2003. I was the only version I knew.
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There have been I believe 4 iterations of The People's Court. The original, presided over by Judge Wapner, ran from 1981 - 1993, then the show was later resurrected and overseen by former NYC mayor Ed Kotch, then Judge Judy's husband Jerry for a time before Marilyn Milian took over. The original version definitely wasn't really a "courtroom drama". It was much more dry and the proceedings were run like a standard courtroom. Wapner was serious about his duties on the original show, usually had a dry and dead pan delivery and sometimes took considerable time between the the segment where the plaintiffs and defendants stated their cases, until he "returned to render his decision", often pouring through old case law to ensure the decision he handed down was fair and correct. It certainly wasn't "justice on the fly" like Judge Judy seems to render.
 
MORE faux court cases from Byron Allen - oh joy! I'd rather watch a Judge Judy rerun as she embarrasses a REAL defendant...'where did you think you were going today, the beach?!'
 


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