MolotovMocktail
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 17, 2019 12:45:26 GMT -5
Police Squad being canceled because viewers had to actually pay attention.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Dec 17, 2019 12:59:23 GMT -5
Nick letting Adventure Time slip through their fingers.
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Ultimo Gallos
Grimlock
Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 17, 2019 13:21:35 GMT -5
NBC first putting Freaks and Geeks on Saturday nights. Then moving it to Monday and cancelling it after a few episodes aired in the new time slot. Then replacing it with a gameshow that lasted maybe 4 episodes.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 17, 2019 13:25:14 GMT -5
"Let's have one of the main protagonists suddenly turn into a maniac who burns children alive with no build up with only 2 episodes left in our show" Those final episodes of Rhoda are weird
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Post by crowley1986 on Dec 17, 2019 13:26:46 GMT -5
slightly better than an idea to say that he was Eric, back from Africa a new man
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2019 13:42:05 GMT -5
"Let's have one of the main protagonists suddenly turn into a maniac who burns children alive with no build up with only 2 episodes left in our show" Those final episodes of Rhoda are weird They really were, actually. And it reminds me... Unmarrying Rhoda and writing Joe off completely because she was "more interesting" single fits in this list.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2019 13:47:46 GMT -5
I'm back! - Rushing and cancelling Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes just so they could get an Avengers cartoon that looked more like the MCU versions. - Continuing Laverne and Shirley WITHOUT Shirley. - Card Sharks 2001. Just....Card Sharks 2001. - Having Bowzer from Sha-Na-Na as Peter Marshall's replacement when they combined Hollywood Squares with Match Game. Yeah, Bauman wasn't an AWFUL host, and him, Marshall, whoever wouldn't have overcome Mark Goodson's changes to the HS format. Still it was a random choice. - Like the Dallas example, I'd mention the St. Elsewhere one, but hey, it gave us the Tommy Westphall Multiverse. - Mike and Molly wasn't a deep TV show, but was enjoyable before they soft rebooted it so Melissa McCarthy could do...Melissa McCarthy things on TV too. - American Housewife shoehorning musical episodes in cause one of the stars recorded an album. Have yet to resume watching the show because of this, honestly. - Once Upon A Time goes for one more season despite losing half the cast. (and before then getting stuck in a rut where most of the supporting characters were underused, every season is just "Curse is here/find the magic to defeat it," everything is about Mr. Gold...) - YMMV, but some would put Drew Carey hosting Price is Right under here as well. - I'll defend Sesame Street needing to change to capture what children in each generation want or need, and that it goes against the show's purpose to only cater to people who grew up watching it in the 70s and 80s. Will even partially defend making Elmo the star because of this. But condensing the show to a half hour on HBO now? - Sabotaging Justice League Unlimited with excuses on how they couldn't use certain characters because of other shows WB wanted pushed. It didn't really matter in the long run, but it was annoying. - ABC (and to a lesser extent, CBS) Soap-pocalypse. - Ending The Middle (okay, I know the creators wanted to end it, but it was so good I can't defend it not going on forever)
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2019 13:49:01 GMT -5
Season 9 of 'Roseanne'. Complete and utter garbage. Ab Fab episode notwithstanding.
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Ben Wyatt
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I don't get it. At all. It's kind of a small horse, I mean what am I missing? Am I crazy?
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Dec 17, 2019 13:50:31 GMT -5
'Married with Children' the show that arguably put Fox on the Map, not getting a proper finale. f*** you, Fox.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2019 14:03:54 GMT -5
'Married with Children' the show that arguably put Fox on the Map, not getting a proper finale. f*** you, Fox. The CBS version of Match Game deserved a better sendoff too. Just cause it was friggin' Match Game. (only the Ross Shafer version got to at least say goodbye, IIRC)
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Post by Cela on Dec 17, 2019 14:18:16 GMT -5
Dawn Summers.
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ToyfareMark
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Post by ToyfareMark on Dec 17, 2019 14:29:58 GMT -5
CBS losing NFL rights to Fox in 1993. It killed them until they got them back.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 17, 2019 14:38:05 GMT -5
Fred Silverman not having a sense of humor and not letting Al Franken take over SNL after Lorne left.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Dec 17, 2019 15:24:19 GMT -5
Heil Honey I'm Home a British sitcom that was a parody of 50's American sitcoms where Hitler and Eva Braun are your typical of the time comedy wife and couple who have Jewish neighbours, "hilarity" ensures I could understand it as the orginal intent of being like a 5-10 minute sketch on an SNL style show, with the framing of "Man, they put out anything in the 50s, look at this tape we found", but drag the premise into what was supposed to be 8 episodes? What were they thinking?
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Post by mike1287 on Dec 17, 2019 15:35:47 GMT -5
NBC cancelling JAG after one season, after which it moved to CBS and ran for another nine (as well as spawning the NCIS franchise).
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Post by Cyno on Dec 17, 2019 15:38:03 GMT -5
Anything Jeff Zucker has ever touched turns to rot and death.
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fw91
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Post by fw91 on Dec 17, 2019 15:44:29 GMT -5
VH1 not renewing “Hindsight.”
They had something special.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Dec 17, 2019 15:51:47 GMT -5
Killing off the wife character in that "Kevin Can Wait" show so they could basically reboot The King of Queens, but without Arthur.
Totally bizarre and destined to fail.
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Johnny B. Decent
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 17, 2019 16:22:16 GMT -5
The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer. It's slavery, but funny, see? I would have hoped the network heads pulled a Vince hearing about unfrozen nazi Heidenreich, and just silently getting up and walking out of the room. Woah, that's real? I thought that was just a joke from Clerks.
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Post by thechase on Dec 17, 2019 16:53:51 GMT -5
The infamous UK franchise 'round of the early 90s which brought about the slow decline and erasure of regional television.
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