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Post by Trey_Vore on Mar 29, 2017 17:05:59 GMT -5
It will be ending tonight so this is appropriate.
Duck Dynasty Original run: 2012-2017 Reason: While this series on A&E was a highly successful reality show, news came that the series would end after Season 11.
According to the Robertson family it was just a family decision to end the show.
They do claim they may consider doing specials.
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Post by Belchic on May 20, 2017 23:34:43 GMT -5
Pound Puppies Original Run: 2010-2013 Reruns: 2014-2017 on Discovery Family Reason: While it was one of the Hub Network's highest-rated and most beloved shows, its ratings were slowly dropping during its third season. The ratings were severely rivaled by those of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Littlest Pet Shop, which despite being girl-targeted shows (as opposed to Pound Puppies being gender-neutral) had a lot of male fans each. It also didn't help much that unlike its competitors, the show had a severe lack of merchandising, which was rare enough as it is. Also, even though the show was targeted at kids, most of the show's viewers were adults, most likely because the main characters were not the types of characters kids could relate to as much as adults. So with Episode 65 approaching, and taking all these problems into account, Hasbro ultimately decided to end the series after the third season was over.
I'm pretty sure that's the reason.
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Post by Trey_Vore on May 30, 2018 9:07:52 GMT -5
Roseanne Original run: 1988-1997 Reason: During season 9, the final season of the series, John Goodman, who played Roseanne's husband Dan, was barely on the show because he was filming the 1998 film The Big Lebowski. The season began with the Conner family winning the Illinois State Lottery of $108 million. The season basically characterized Roseanne to be an insufferable diva that forgot all about the little people.
The big mindf*ck came in during the series' final episode, "Into That Good Night": in truth, the Conners never won the lottery; the entire show was revealed to be fictionalization, thanks to Roseanne taking up a new job as a writer. It was basically Roseanne writing to cope with the death of her husband Dan, who we all thought survived the heart attack he suffered the prior season.
Many critics and viewers found this confusing and annoying, and it remains one of the most controversial series finales ever. The Independent even did not think of this as a send-off to the series as much as it was a Viking funeral.
Roseanne Original run: 2018 Reason: The revival of the series was warmly received, and many people liked it; in addition the majority of Season 9 was retconned out of existence. Roseanne herself even got a call from President Donald Trump to congratulate her.
Roseanne however, screwed the pooch by making a racist remark on Twitter about Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor to former President Barack Obama. She insisted it was a joke, but no one thought it was funny. She apologized for the statement, but the execs at ABC reversed the revival by re-canceling the show.
Roseanne has since left Twitter.
Oh well... at least she's not getting calls from the MLB to sing the Star-Spangled Banner.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Aug 28, 2018 16:11:08 GMT -5
Celebrity Deathmatch Original run: 1998-2002 Reason: This series was very popular back in its original run; it had a lot of humorous pop culture references and featured claymation-animated celebrities to entertain viewers. However, after 4 seasons and 75 episodes, MTV decided to cancel the show.
Celebrity Deathmatch Original run: 2006-2007 Reason: The series was revived in 2005, however series creator Eric Fogel would not be as involved in production because he was working on Starveillance for E! so the directorial duties were handled by Jack Fletcher and Dave “Canadian” Thomas. Because MTV’s original animation department shut down, the animation was done by Cuppa Coffee Studios, and it kinda showed. Johnny Gomez, Nick Diamond and Mills Lane all returned, but with different voices. Interviewer Debbie Matenopoulos was replaced by Tally Wong. All these changes caused fans to not except these newer episodes as canon.
In April 2015, MTV2 announced that Celebrity Deathmatch was returning for a new show. However in November 2016, Eric Fogel later said on Twitter that production on the new series was stopped and they would not go on with reviving the show.
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Post by Belchic on Sept 12, 2018 16:03:27 GMT -5
Boot Camp Original Run: 2001-2001 Reason: This was a short-lived reality competition game show series that was intended to be an ongoing series, but it was canceled after only one season not only due to low ratings, but also due to a lawsuit by Survivor creator, Mark Burnett, who claimed the show to be too similar to his show.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Oct 28, 2018 23:34:45 GMT -5
Father of the Pride Original run: 2004-2005 Reason: Oh boy. You may want to sit down if you aren't already.
1: This series was made after Jeffery Katzenberg was wondering what life would probably be like for the big cats that star in Siegfried and Roy's show in Las Vegas, which they agreed to be Executive Producers. In October 2003, Roy was attacked by one of his white tigers. However, they still liked the series and wanted to go with it, but it was a bit awkward watching an animated series about Siegfried and Roy's show with their big cats so soon.
2: Being that it was a digitally-animated show, episodes were very time-consuming and costly to make; one episode needed 9 months to complete and cost $2,000,000-2,500,000 (an episode of a series like The Simpsons by contrast only would need 6 months and cost $750,000).
3: The show was frequently getting interrupted by updates from the then-running 2004 Presidential Campaign.
4: DreamWorks ran promotions for this series up the wazoo during the 2004 Summer Olympics, it got to the point where by the time the series premiered people were completely sick of hearing about it.
5: They got in trouble with the Parents Television Council because despite the fact it was tooted as "From the producers of Shrek", a family friendly animated film, this series was intended to be a mature cartoon.
6: The series had an uncertain audience. While it was indeed promoted as from the producers of Shrek and even had one episode where Donkey guest-stars as a DreamWorks celebrity (with Eddie Murphy to boot), the humor (many jokes are generally off-color or about homosexuals) is too raunchy for kids. At the same time a lot of said humor is too immature and childish for anyone older than 12.
Pretty sure there are other reasons, but that's some major reasons to cancel it.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Jun 2, 2019 4:08:15 GMT -5
The Pitts Original run: 2003-2003 Reason: This series was a seemingly normal American family sitcom; the twist was that it was about the Pitt family as they deal with issues as a family while they seem to have the worst luck in the universe. It was spearheaded by Mike Scully, one of the writers of The Simpsons (1997-2001).
This series was not popular--it only lasted for about 7 episodes, and only 5 of those aired on TV. Criticisms were directed at the fact it felt more like a live-action cartoon than a sitcom as episodes had plots that even David Lynch would have found odd (an example of which being the daughter loses her shot at appearing in a music video after a pipe goes through her head. Under normal circumstances wouldn't that have killed her?), the characters being Stepford Smilers throughout and just not being remotely redeemable, and the show as a whole was too over-the-top to be believable.
Ironically, one of the production companies was "Nothing Can Go Wrong Now Productions"; it was cancelled in less than a month.
In 2007, Fox announced that there would be plans to revive The Pitts as a mature cartoon series. Dylan Baker and Lizzy Caplan, who respectively played Bob Pitt and Faith Pitt, the father and daughter, were set to reprise their roles. Andy Milonakis was to replace David Henrie as the son Petey Pitt as he jumped ship and was already on Disney Channel's The Wizards of Waverly Place.
Appropriately enough and befitting the family's terrible luck, Allison Janney was cast to replace Kellie Waymire as Liz Pitt, the mom, since she died in November 2003.
About as appropriate, in July 2008 Fox announced the animated series was taken out of production as the proposed pilot failed to impress.
The series' only lasting value now seems to be its handwave it got following the return of Family Guy.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Jun 3, 2019 5:53:21 GMT -5
the muppets. Original run: 2015-2016 Reason: After the box-office underperformance of Muppets Most Wanted, Disney announced that there would be a new Muppet series to air on ABC. The set-up was it would follow the Muppets in Los Angeles depicting their everyday lives and doing their classic shtick doing a mockumentary series as they worked on a late night talk show called Up Late with Miss Piggy.
Dissonance set in soon after its debut. For one, Jim Henson's colleague Frank Oz did not much like the series and felt it was not true to the characters. Steve Whitmire, who more or less inherited the role of Kermit the Frog after Jim Henson's passing, reportedly rebelled against the empire by passing out notes to colleagues saying Kermit lying to Robin about breaking up with Miss Piggy was an insult to Henson's vision. He would end up bounced, ending his career with the Muppets.
The Parents Television Council didn't like it either as instead of having the Muppets be 100% family friendly it had them do more adult activities like discuss plastic surgery or go to a bar to drink.
Due to co-creator Bob Kushnell being fired and replaced by Kristen Newman, a retool was ordered midway through Season 1 to address some of the series' problems. But beyond Miss Piggy being less antagonistic, more focus on the talk show production and less on their personal lives and Kermit's new girlfriend Denise being dropped, not a lot was changed. Viewer reception was much more positive, but the execs at ABC didn't seem to care and stopped running promotions for the show, which hurt ratings. Two months after Season 1 ended, the Muppets' new series was cancelled.
On the upside, the new Muppet Babies series on Disney Junior seems to be doing well, and Disneyworld is rumored to get more Muppet-themed attractions so the Muppets' future may not be so bleak after all.
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Post by RaceFanX on Jun 3, 2019 9:49:18 GMT -5
That show sadly had "audience-alienating premise" written all over it. The big marketing push focused on Kermit and Miss Piggy's breakup certainly had to hurt it.
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Post by Belchic on Jun 9, 2019 0:16:16 GMT -5
RugratsOriginal run-1991-2003 Reruns-2004-2008 (Nick), 2004+(Nicktoons) Reason: After Kimi joined the show, many fans disliked the fact with another kid joining and becoming a permanent cast member (this also happened with Dil, but he didn't do much). Also after "Rugrats Go Wild" was released into theaters, the movie recieved poor feedback, and thus, the downfall began. Another reason could be because of "All Grown Up". AnimaniacsOriginal run-1993-1998 Reruns-1999-2001 (CN and Nick), 2003-2005 (Nicktoons) Reason: With so many episodes made, the writers probably ran out of ideas. So the last few episodes turned out to be random music videos and the finale being a clip show. Invader ZIMOriginal run-2001-2003 Reruns-2003-2007 Reason: The second Nicktoon to be canned because of content (the next was DP, the first you can just guess). Nick didn't like the violence and of course, bloody Gir. `nuff said. The real reason why Rugrats was canceled was because...well, several reasons: 1. Show creator, Arlene Klasky, and writer, Paul Germain, didn’t see eye to eye when working on the show. Klasky wanted the babies to act more like babies while Germain wanted them to act more like adults. Eventually, the arguments led to Germain leaving the show along with the rest of the writing staff. 2. When Spongebob Squarepants hit the scene and became a much bigger hit than Rugrats did, kids who grew up watching Rugrats thought they had outgrown it and decided to start watching Spongebob viewing it as a more mature show.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Jan 25, 2020 9:09:35 GMT -5
After watching a few episodes online, reading about it on TV Tropes and being that this was #10 on the Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Nostalgic Cartoons, I have this as an entry:
Fox's Peter Pan and the Pirates Original run: 1990-1991 Reason: While it was a very creative expansion of a classic story and probably extremely faithful to James M. Barrie's text, there were a few factors that stopped its production. Peter Pan rarely went on adventures with all the Darling children and Lost Boys at once partly because of how expensive TMS could be was one example, but also it had a bit of an Audience-Alienating Premise. Because the show had a more dark tone (there were even episodes where it could seem like characters could actually die, for one) it didn't command attention from older kids (plus The Simpsons was a brand new show), and it scared little kids away who probably expected this series to be more like the lighthearted Disney film. The second season of the show tried to rectify this problem by having the episodes be lighter and softer, but it didn't gain ratings to compete with classic 1980s cartoons such as Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jim Henson's Muppet Babies or The Real Ghostbusters, or other recent, more popular shows like Tiny Toon Adventures or Bobby's World.
This series also never got a legitimate DVD release partly because it's a bit too niche for mainstream audiences outside England, and having nothing to do with Disney or Steven Spielberg doesn't help. Not to mention Disney also has their own Peter Pan series in the form of Jake and the Neverland Pirates.
A shame really because it was a very creative and rather mature show for its time.
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Post by Belchic on Jan 25, 2020 12:13:16 GMT -5
Flowgli might like this one: Match GameThis game show actually had several different incarnations over the decades that have aired on different networks. Here’s why each incarnation was canceled to the best of my knowledge: Version 1 (1962-1969)The producers of the show just felt its run its course. Version 2 (1973-1979)This was the most popular incarnation of the show, but by 1979, it was abruptly canceled mainly because its ratings were being rivaled by more popular game shows at the time, largely the then new Family Feud. Version 3 (1990-1991)There are numerous reasons why this version was canceled. It was mostly because it aired weekdays at 11AM on ABC following The Price is Right on CBS. Most network television stations dedicated that time slot to show news and soap operas. To make matters worse, the show was frequently getting interrupted by news reports during its run. All of the above lead to low ratings and its ultimate cancellation. The host of this version, Ross Shaffer, announced that the show would continue production on a different station at a different time slot, but that never happened. Version 4 (1998-1999)Mostly because of low ratings, and fans of the previous incarnations of Match Game were dissatisfied with how drastically they changed the way the game was played. Version 5 (2016-?)As of today, this current incarnation hosted by Alec Baldwin is still in production with a fifth season on the way.
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Post by Lucky on Jan 26, 2020 22:10:20 GMT -5
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?Original Run: 2002-2003 (CN) Reason: The show only lasted a few episodes. During it's original run, Robot Jones had the voice of one of the robotic voices found on a lot of Macintosh computers. Later on, his voice on all the episodes was replaced with an actual actor doing his voice. Supposedly, this was because Macintosh was passing some lawsuits with the creators doing this. Also, the show was canceled and only ran for a few episodes mainly due to a lack of support from Cartoon Network. Actually it didn't last a few episodes, this actually lasted for thirteen, while the first season was as you said Jones was voiced by Macintosh, the second season had him be voiced by a boy as well as the first season removing the Macintalk voice. Hope that clears things up.
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Post by Belchic on Jan 27, 2020 12:44:43 GMT -5
Whatever Happened to Robot Jones?Original Run: 2002-2003 (CN) Reason: The show only lasted a few episodes. During it's original run, Robot Jones had the voice of one of the robotic voices found on a lot of Macintosh computers. Later on, his voice on all the episodes was replaced with an actual actor doing his voice. Supposedly, this was because Macintosh was passing some lawsuits with the creators doing this. Also, the show was canceled and only ran for a few episodes mainly due to a lack of support from Cartoon Network. Actually it didn't last a few episodes, this actually lasted for thirteen, while the first season was as you said Jones was voiced by Macintosh, the second season had him be voiced by a boy as well as the first season removing the Macintalk voice. Hope that clears things up. I actually found out on MeltingMan234’s Forgotten Media of this show, the real reason Jones’ voice was changed to a real child actor is because the producer of the show found his robot voice to be too creepy. Also, 13 episodes is a few compared to most TV shows.
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Post by Belchic on Feb 23, 2020 13:17:12 GMT -5
The Brady Bunch Original Run: 1969-1974 Reruns: TV Land and Nick at Nite in the 90’s, currently in reruns on MeTV. Reason: There are actually numerous reasons why it was canceled. During its run, it was insanely popular, but the show’s final season is where everything went downhill: 1. The show’s ratings were being rivaled by the then new Sanford & Son. 2. Barry Williams was about to graduate high school and go off to college making it nearly impossible for him to commit to filming. 3. Susan Olsen had just become a teenager and no longer had the same child-like charm and innocence she had in the previous seasons. 4. Probably the biggest issue was Robert Reed. He hated working on the show so much largely because he was a professional Shakespearean actor and felt the role of Mike Brady was below him. When the crew was working on what would become the show’s final episode, Reed was so appalled by the script that he refused to even be in the episode. This wasn’t even intended to be the series finale. The team was planning to do one more episode where Mike Brady dies, but all of the conflicts stated above lead to them ultimately pulling the plug on the whole thing. It was an unfortunate way to end such a highly successful series.
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