Why was your favorite show cancelled?

Allegedly because of the political activities of the star, Ed Asner. The show was Lou Grant(TV_series) , and it was canceled in 1982. That’s basically when I quit watching television, although there’ve been a few brief retries since then.

One way or another, it’s always going to be about money.

My most recent favorite show that was cancelled was Counterpart on the Starz channel. I think you can still see both seasons on demand. It was awesome. Takes place in Berlin, every detail in the show is meaningful. You have to watch it twice to catch everything. It was amazing.

I guess the viewership wasn’t high enough.

Lou Grant was a great show. I haven’t thought about it in years.

MASH. Guess it was time.

My favorite shows usually get cancelled because they aren’t popular enough.

Because people are rubes. That an intelligent show about classical musicians even lasted four seasons is nothing short of a miracle. Mozart in the Jungle just couldn’t compete with the brilliance of Jersey Shore. :P

Just kidding. I don’t believe those two shows were ever in direct competition.

The Punisher, on Netflix. Though I get why Netflix axed it (and it’s other Marvel shows). With Disney+ in the works, and with Disney recently acquiring 21st Century Fox, and thus a substantial ownership stake in Hulu, Netflix isn’t going to want to support a competitor. Speculation is that The Punisher, and maybe some of the other shows, will resurface on Hulu later.

My show was Houdini and Doyle, a romantic, funny “who done it” mystery show based loosesly on Arthur Conan Doyle, writer of Sherlock Holmes, and the magician Houdini, and a fictitious female investigator.

I suspect that me and my mom were the only people who were watching this delightful little mystery show.

I’m pretty sure the show we are enjoying right now, Miracle Workers will be dragged off the air with screams and protests and pitchforks pretty soon. It is blasphemously funny. It’s one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen.

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“I miss Dark Wing Duck. I don’t know why it was cancelled.”

As I recall they produced around 100 episodes of Darkwing Duck. They probably figured that was a good enough run and left it at that.

It’s a theme from my kid’s childhood…WEEOOOOO!

My favorite sitcom of the past few years was The Carmichael Show, a modern take on All in the Family. The show had a controversial episode about school violence and they were forced not to air the episode the week after a school shooting. Yet, I think it was the perfect time to play the episode.

Jerrod Carmichael basically cancelled his own show, he was tried of dealing with the network and wanted to pursue other things.

However, my favorite show of all time is Freaks and Geeks, which lasted only one season.

It was a show that was doomed from the start. Mainly because it was a comedy-drama with a very slow burn pace that focused on character development, not outrageous situations. Plus, it was a 44 minute show, a bigger commitment

Most of the shows I like stop being my favorite before they are cancelled. I lose interest when the writers get bored and start going with stupid stuff.

I was disappointed that Bones was cancelled, but I guess it was time. At least I liked the direction they took with the final episode. Each character was moving on to new things after a bomb destroyed their building. They all got to discuss what their plans were, so fans could get a sense of where things might go from there.

Because Fox TV botched the introduction so badly, cult favorite Firefly never got a fair shot.