• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

TV Show Cancellation Thread (including ending ones)

Cool_guy81 said:
The Fantasy is over....Fantasy Island cancelled after 2 seasons on Fox.
Click to expand...
Having its second season pushed back twice (summer ’22>>fall ’22>>spring ’23) probably didn’t do anything to help retain an audience.

This was actually the second reboot of the original series. Anyone remember the Malcolm McDowell version during the 1998-99 ABC season?
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Having its second season pushed back twice (summer ’22>>fall ’22>>spring ’23) probably didn’t do anything to help retain an audience.

This was actually the second reboot of the original series. Anyone remember the Malcolm McDowell version during the 1998-99 ABC season?
Click to expand...
Yes I remember watching it
 
Fantasy Island - yawn. Glad to see it go. The show has had no relevance in today's culture, the last time it was trending was the early 1980s, with Richard Montalban.
East New York was a decent show and I'm sorry that CBS had to cut it. But yet they still have three (or four?) spin-offs of NCIS, plus FBI. When good ideas go to streaming, broadcast TV becomes more and more irrelevant besides sports.
 
crainbebo said:
But yet they still have three (or four?) spin-offs of NCIS, plus FBI. When good ideas go to streaming, broadcast TV becomes more and more irrelevant besides sports.
Click to expand...
There’s two spin-offs only this season, one next. They’ve never had three spin-offs running concurrently.

The shows work. Whether one individual likes them, doesn’t like them makes no difference. If the viewers are there (and they are) and the economics work, the shows aren’t irrelevant. When borderline calls are to be made, the economics of the network owning the show (via the parent company) vs not owning it will sway some of those calls.
 
My mistake. I thought there were three.
There's very little that I watch on broadcast TV, even in this post-Covid era and normality becoming the way of the world again. Too much redundancy, and formulas done a million times before. The medical dramas are still in that habit of jumping the shark to relationships and love scenes, rather than surgery scenes.
I watch Shark Tank, Abbott Elementary, and maybe a game show here and there. Sports, in season. Of course, any new fall shows are up in the air, streaming, broadcast, or otherwise, because of the writers' strike. If it keeps going into the fall, expect game shows, reality shows, and live sports to be the norm on broadcast TV.
 
lukesams said:
UPDATE: Will "Walker: Independence" pull a S.W.A.T. on us soon?

tvline.com

Walker Independence 'Aggressively' Looking For New Home Following CW Cancellation, EP Jared Padalecki Says - TVLine

'Walker Independence' exec producer Jared Padalecki says an aggressive effort is underway to find the cancelled CW series a new network.
tvline.com tvline.com
Click to expand...

That's what their saying about East New York also but I doubt their going to find new homes.

tvline.com

East New York Boss Hints at Possible New Home for Cancelled CBS Series: 'Our Journey Doesn't Have to End Here'

While there’s little chance CBS will pull another S.W.A.T. and un-cancel East New York, all hope is not lost for the axed procedural
tvline.com tvline.com
 
Might as well fold the network now. They've lost eight major-market affiliates. What can save the CW in this age of streaming? Making it a Paramount+ showcase for older, linear audiences? News programming? Live sports? I'd love it if ABC could do the same (Disney+ showcase) if the writer's strike continues going into the late summer and fall. Hey, they have lasted longer than The WB and UPN!

Can the Canadian shows bring any type of audience? My guess is no.
 
crainbebo said:
Might as well fold the network now. They've lost eight major-market affiliates. What can save the CW in this age of streaming? Making it a Paramount+ showcase for older, linear audiences? News programming? Live sports? I'd love it if ABC could do the same (Disney+ showcase) if the writer's strike continues going into the late summer and fall. Hey, they have lasted longer than The WB and UPN!

Can the Canadian shows bring any type of audience? My guess is no.
Click to expand...

I agree with acquisitions from Canada, U.K, and Australia I don't think people will be tuning in. If they think that's going to tune viewers in and bring up ratings by 2025 I think they have a rude awakening. They will most likely have no other options but to close the channel down as all the imported shows they get only have about 10 episodes a season which won't fill much of the schedule.
 


Back
Top Bottom