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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Dec 17, 2019 17:17:18 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. I think that's the typical reaction to its existence.
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2019 17:21:14 GMT -5
The infamous UK franchise 'round of the early 90s which brought about the slow decline and erasure of regional television. Can we add, tape erasure in general?
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Dec 17, 2019 17:26:08 GMT -5
It ultimately didn’t hurt the show, but remember that Fox canceled Family Guy while it was getting reliable ratings to try their hands at a bunch of other expensive projects that failed.
They ended up having to eat crow, bring it back, and pay the creator Scrooge McDuck money for the privelige.
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Post by chrom on Dec 17, 2019 17:28:57 GMT -5
This far and no one's mentioned My Mother The Car
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Post by DASH 243✅ on Dec 17, 2019 17:30:26 GMT -5
Putting jon lovitz on news radio after the murder of Phil Hartman. Should have just cancelled the show after the funeral episode.
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Post by H-Virus on Dec 17, 2019 18:07:45 GMT -5
It ultimately didn’t hurt the show, but remember that Fox canceled Family Guy while it was getting reliable ratings to try their hands at a bunch of other expensive projects that failed. They ended up having to eat crow, bring it back, and pay the creator Scrooge McDuck money for the privelige. Twenty-nine of them, apparently.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 17, 2019 18:18:13 GMT -5
It ultimately didn’t hurt the show, but remember that Fox canceled Family Guy while it was getting reliable ratings to try their hands at a bunch of other expensive projects that failed. They ended up having to eat crow, bring it back, and pay the creator Scrooge McDuck money for the privelige. Twenty-nine of them, apparently. Wow. That was a laser-guided "You f***ed up" missile.
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Post by I'm Team Bayley and Indi on Dec 17, 2019 18:20:45 GMT -5
Probable thing that happened Simon Cowell - "need a new judge for my TV talent show, who could I get? Thinking... thinking... oh I know Piers Morgan, I mean he's shown no talent himself, unless you count being a newspaper editor who has printed false stories and that's putting it all nicely... What's the worst that could happen? It's not as if this will launch a career in front of the camera..." {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}can you tell I'm not a Piers fan?
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Post by y4j1981 on Dec 17, 2019 18:32:28 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. Cinema Snob did a video bout this under his "DVD-R Hell" series:
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Post by badkarma on Dec 17, 2019 19:31:21 GMT -5
Canceling the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. after only one season was a massive mistake by Fox. The show became cult hit during its rerun on TNT, proving the show just needed a little more exposure to find its audience.
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Post by Totorob101 on Dec 17, 2019 20:01:38 GMT -5
Pushing Daisies being cancelled, i loved that show and there was plenty more that could have been done with it
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Post by James Fabiano on Dec 17, 2019 20:04:15 GMT -5
Pushing Daisies being cancelled, i loved that show and there was plenty more that could have been done with it All I can say about the above is...."The facts are these." Same channel, another short-lived show: The Real O'Neals. And second season looked like a new start for many stories (older son going to college, Kenny's friend moving in presumably, Aunt Jody being pregnant...) And you can't say Last Man Standing was singled out for [BANNED TOPICS ON FAN]. As the O'Neals were cancelled the same season.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Dec 17, 2019 21:31:41 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" But ... there was build up. For the past couple of seasons there were hints she was turning into the mad queen--notably when she torched Dickon.
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Post by Glitch on Dec 17, 2019 21:49:57 GMT -5
Clerks the animated series getting delayed in its debut and eventually airing unannounced and out of order. All because ABC couldn't properly plan around the success of Who Wants To be a Millionaire.
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Post by Tenshigure on Dec 17, 2019 22:27:13 GMT -5
Haven't watched it in over a decade, but everything post- "Exodus" from Battlestar Galactica was some pretentious bullshit, when they leaned heavy into the mystical bullshit and turned into a Science Fiction "Law and Order".
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Post by bob on Dec 17, 2019 22:37:17 GMT -5
that WTF ending on The Sopranos series finale
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on Dec 17, 2019 23:44:10 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). In an alternate world, CBS never picked up JAG after NBC canned it, meaning no NCIS and its many spinoffs.
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Post by Shark on Dec 18, 2019 0:35:52 GMT -5
Putting jon lovitz on news radio after the murder of Phil Hartman. Should have just cancelled the show after the funeral episode. Tempted to include 8 Simple Rules with that after the death of John Ritter. Though I admit, I did still enjoy the show and thought James Garner and David Spade were fun additions.
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Post by King Boo on Dec 18, 2019 0:36:19 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) I still miss All My Children :(
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2019 0:43:05 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) I still miss All My Children That was my mom's joint back in the day.
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