Honorable mentions: Is on Fox Is on Fox for less than a decade Does a tie-in movie Moved to a spinoff channel between seasons Experiences some sort of strike (writers or actors), leading to noticeable dip in quality
Everybody that has put Fox is so right except for maybe like 4 big shows they had. Married With Children, Beverly Hills 90210, Party of 5, Melrose Place, and X Files
James smith and maybe a small small show called The Simpson’s. Not sure if you’ve heard of it, it’s pretty well unknown, but it’s only the longest-running scripted prime time television series in the United States
RobJuanDeLaNooch Well, I'm not a big fan, but I enjoyed it while it lasted. I also enjoyed Enterprise, The X Files and some animated series which never got a conclusion they deserved.
Don't forget Beverly Hills 90210. The shows where they graduate and go to college just aren't the same. DeGrassi was mentioned, at least they bring in new students to keep the teen storylines. I miss all of the mentioned, they were all amazing in their own way.
If a show doesn’t have another character that the audience prefers then it usually will suffer if the titular character decides to part ways from the show. Usually if a supporting character has the fans a show can usually pivot the focus and continue to thrive... The original 90210 and original MP for example.
I think it actually got cancelled twice. After the first one, they did a four part episodes called "Bender's Big Heist" and then the second cancellation was where Fry and Leela froze time and lived out their life.
Futurama got cancelled when it was on Fox but later on Comedy Central picked it up and it didn't really get cancelled. They gave it a good farewell episode
What about when they botch a beloved character's personality, introduce an annoying character, or even when they INTENTIONALLY end their show with a satisfying conclusion.
They did address the introducing an annoying character issue; it's both introducing a new and a child character!! iT'S CALLED "Cousin Oliver" syndrome!! When "Cousin Oliver" was introduced on "The Brady Bunch" at the start of Season 5, he spelled doom for the show!!
Nik A Not after Pierce left. Pierces last season was the worst one of the lot. It was after season 3 where it fell. Troy leaving took the biggest hit because that just destroyed the perfect dynamic.
Chang was a great replacement for pierce as the hated one. The big hit was Troy, troy and abed was life for that show. Besides in a interview Glover said Chevy was a dick to him off screen.
Ropsana Khanom Friday’s are the lowest rated night due to people not being home to watch. Thus that’s where veteran shows go cause that’s the only place for them
Does anyone remember the show Kyle XY when it was cancelled on a huge cliff hanger! and Also the show Forever was cancelled after 1 season when it had so much potential! Still can't get over it being cancelled 😭
From Fox: The Tick, Andy Richter, The Finder (rip Michael Clarke Duncan...) ABC: Selfie, Missing NBC: Undateable, Carmichael Show Netflix: Girl Boss Hulu: Difficult People CBS: The Crazy Ones (rip Robin Williams...) I would add Me, Myself, & I, but that show hasn’t been cancelled; it just. Stopped airing for months with no news on the returning episodes...they all, and especially Bobby Moynihan, deserve better...
In the case of Arrested Development, they changed time slots so many times, I never knew when the show is on, what day or time. I believe the show would have lasted if they had one, stable timeslot.
The show reaches five seasons, or sixty episodes for the Disney Channel or Nick shows. Season five is where enough episodes (22 episode seasons) are produced for the show to go into syndication, plus it’s a reachable goal for shows to get to 100 episodes. It also shows whether the show has the characters and storylines to continue, or at least assemble a big enough fan base.
Though they had much more than the time slot change. Fan favourites left, a HUGE time jump, completely new realities, ... Actually OUAT ended a year back. They should have just called it a spin-off then they would have had a bigger chance.
Actually, I think they already jumped the shark in the Wicked - halfseason. Killing off a character in a world where the most powerful wizard (= said killed character) said the one thing magic can't undo is death, and then they change the rules and bring back the character from the dead. I watched until the very end of the real realm, but ... from that point on it really got bad and illogical. A show should stay true to its own internal rules and laws of nature.
The running gags stop...like when the vase breaks on "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", Mike stops wearing his wool hat. What about when every possible solution is tried and recycled like with "Once Upon a Time"? That same curse of "forget yourselves in a new realm" is reused and reinvented by the writers roughly 6 times.
For kid shows, declining toy sales. It doesn't matter how good your ratings are. If the toys don't sell, your show's going to hell. Cartoon Network is the biggest offender of this mentality.
I love Firefly but if the amount of people who complain about it being canceled actually watched it when it aired, then it wouldn't have been canceled. The show got popular after the DVD was released.
There were more problems that would have prevented that, but sure. Nowadays its more of a "told you so" to the execs than being vindictive, since it got one of the best comebacks in TV history.
The best show that was cancelled in my opinion was Farscape. I loved that show. It had such wonderful and diverse characters. I never understood why it wasn't more popular. It was as good if not better than Star Trek.
The #1 remembered me of Once Upon a Time. Trough all of its course, OUAT was aired on sundays, but suddenly this last season was changed to friday. Yep, it got canceled.
Jared and Jensen are hot! The older they get the more sexy they get. I never noticed, they have storylines and plots? Weird I thought it was just eye candy.
I think “plot character replacements” should be added. When new characters come in who were just like the old ones before they concluded their plot. Ex: Bones, Pretty Little Liars etc. it’s so obvious
CGCentral HD lmao. It does have high ratings that are decreasing dramatically. The show runner Gimple is moving on. Maggie and Rick haven’t resigned new contexts for future seasons. Maggie is joining a new show. It’s over for the waking dead lol. AMC is going to focus on their spinoffs.
If I recall... Bones dodged that bullet on two fronts... 1. They cited a Pre-Series 'Base Hit' ... making everything that happened between them in the series 'post-kiss' so when they finally 'crossed the line' it was simply a long delayed Next Step... 2. when they did hook up it was 'obviously telegraphed' but not expressly stated to have happened at the end of Season six's penultimate episode... with the confirmation that the 'deed was done' by having Bones announce her Pregnancy and in the next season they jumped straight to co-habitation... shifting the 'tension' from Being Together to Living Together
I think only the execs like either show. If I had to guess, the entry you're looking for is "critical darling" for TTGO and "adds another character" for PPG2016.
The Honorable Mention of "Critical Darling" is definitely a sign that a show might be on it's way out. I've seen many times where Critics love a show, constantly raving about how wonderful it is. Yet, the TV Audience finds nothing wonderful about it and completely ignores it. There have been shows where both the TV Audience and Critics have been on the same page about how good a show is, but it's rare.
Koschei it's the network that makes the decision, not the producers. The producers will do anything they can to keep the show on the air..once it's canceled, they're out of a job.
A change in network ownership is another sign. That's what killed "Reboot" and "Spectacular Spider-Man." Though "Reboot" at least got to eventually finish (before getting uncancelled AGAIN and ending on a cliffhanger), SSM wasn't so lucky. Ending your season on a cliffhanger. If I'm ever going to make it in the industry, I'm never going to end any seasons on cliffhangers. You're basically challenging the network to cancel your show.
Ok, if a show ends after 10 years, it's not cancelled, it just ends. Friends does not count toward this premise. And for the next point: straight up, Leo might have been a harbinger of doom for growing pains, people still knew him from growing pains.
... Or worse, move the show to Saturday. The only thing worse than moving a show to Friday, a death knell most of the time, is to give the program a premature burial on Saturday night, where almost no one will see it. The one notable exception is Hunter. The show that started as a semi serious rip-off of Dirty Harry,, ended up with 7 seasons and 153 episodes, all on Saturday night. But this is clearly the lone example of this in the era of color TV. Even they weren't immune to the list, however, as a lead actor leaving, notably Stepfanie Kramer, became its undoing.
Number 6 happened with Roseanne. ABC were playing with fire since Roseanne has a history of political controversy (this influenced the writing on the revived season, where one character was waterboarded!) and had been cautioned over this behaviour, yet it continued until even a blind eye couldn’t ignore the backlash.
Friday is the Death Slot now, but a few years ago, having a show on Saturday was an even worse fate--I think the last time something "successful" happened on Saturdays in Prime time was CBS's Dr. Quinn/Touched By an Angel/Walker Texas Ranger. Nowadays, Saturday is meant for Reruns, Sports and News/Murder Mystery Programs; virtually a wasteland.
Yeah, we rarely even get new episodes of cartoons on Saturdays anymore. By the way, don't forget about "Saturday Night Live," although I personally find the majority of their humor to be overly vulgar and distasteful.
Dana says- Going back even further to when I was growing up, Friday nights was a prime spot for tv shows. The ones with the strongest viewership were on then- like Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard, but back then people sat and watched tv together as a family. Maybe that's a factor in why Fridays are now the dead zone?
Dana says- Yeah, back in the 80s Friday nights housed the big ratings grabbers, like The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas, among others. That was also an era when you had lots of families sitting down to watch tv together, instead of going out and each doing their own thing, or each watching their own things on separate devices. Now Fridays are mostly where shows go to die or prove they're not going to.
Gambit2483 Back in the day Friday night was The IT night. Then you had the Saturday Morning motherload of cartoons. THAT was the weekend. Now it’s a hospice where shows go to die. Grimm is the only relevant show I can think of that started out on Friday and it was moved to Monday a bit then back to Friday that did really well, because it had 6 seasons.
One of my all time favorite shows is "Married,with children". I freaked when they knocked up Peggy. I thought for sure the show would be cancelled. Fortunately her pregnancy was written out after Kattys real life miscarriage. The show lasted a few more years.
Ted McGinley has been getting dissed for years, MARRIED WITH CHILDREN lasted for YEARS with him on it. When he came to LOVE BOAT and HAPPY DAYS those shows pretty outlasted their welcome anyway...they were done.
Besides the show ran for 11 seasons... The Big Bang Theory has for sure surpassed that but still 11 seasons is impressive. And the show did not conclude so we might have gotten 1-2 more seasons if there wasn't so much drama on the set...
How do you know a Disney show is going to cancel? (I could only think of 5.) 1) It's on it's 4th season. (The most Disney usually has a show on for is four seasons. The only way to keep the show going is for a spin off series where the characters are put in a new situation. The best examples is when The Suite Life of Zack and Cody turned into The Suite Life on Deck and Jessie turned into Bunk'd due to the previous show's rise in popularity.) 2) It isn't very popular. (Disney's had a lot of great ideas for shows, but not all of them were appreciated enough. Some shows are about to make it to a third or even (if we're lucky) a fourth season. Some shows, though, only make it through one or even two seasons.) 3) A bombshell decision is made to set the scene for the end of the series. (There are a few good examples of good bombshell decisions to wrap up a series. The best example is Gravity Falls. When creator, Alex Hirsch, reveals the author to the audience, which was the biggest mystery of the show, you know that it isn't long until it's over. It's too bad too. I'm sure a lot of fans wouldn't have minded seeing Ford for an entire new season.) 4) The plot can be wrapped up in one more season. (After a bombshell, you can guess that your favorite show doesn't have too long to live. Gravity Falls is a good example, but so is Tangled the series. When Cass takes the Moonstone at the end of the season 2 finale and season 3 starts, you can guess that it won't be long until the end, especially when the first episode of season 3 is already re-introducing old characters many of us might've long since forgotten about.) 5) The creator runs out of ideas. (The best example of this is the short-lived show Best Friends Whenever. Although it had average popularity on Disney, the creators of the show made a huge mistake by taking the main story of season one and only keeping it there. Once they got through the hurdles of the laboratory, being held captive by the company Shelby's dad works for, you would think that's the end of the series. Well, you'd be wrong because when the next season aired, the two girls take a trip to the far off past and bring back a 16th century princess into the present day. Although it's an interesting story to continue with, it didn't hold as well as the original story and just felt out of place. Once that season ended, so did the series. If they had drawn out the original story, then that probably would've made the series last longer than it did.)
Though I don't recall them coming out and saying it in the video, they did seem to acknowledge there were some exceptions to the norm. And yes Doctor Who is a fantastic exception :)
I think what helps Doctor Who is the fact that the main character (the Doctor) is changed on a pretty regular basis. So when there’s a new Doctor, it basically becomes a new show. It even kinda reboots itself when new companions are brought on.
I’m surprised The Office wasn’t mentioned as much as Community was. Especially since The Office was guilty of at least half the things on this list. (Cece, Dwight/Angela getting together, jumping the shark midway through season 6, Michael leaving, and being on the bubble when it was announced Steve Carell would be leaving)
Timeless got renewed after people got angry. So, why is it here? That shows pretty damn good I'm glad other's thought so can't wait for it to come back it's either this month or next month. I mean of course it has a chance of being canceled again, but I believe it has at least another season in it.
Dana says- NBC loved Timeless and needed that little nudge to find a way to monitarily justify keeping Timeless. The fan support was awesome and sent NBC back to the negotiating table to find a way to keep it for another season. It's 2nd season started a month ago and the numbers are not good. Unless a miracle happens and the ratings improve quickly, it will be cancelled again (this time for good). It will be a shame because it's a wonderful, fun, smart show. It costs a lot to make and it shows in it's high production quality, but it's also why the ratings need to be solid (to pay for it).
Also if a season ends on a cliffhanger. In most cases, it's a last ditch effort to try and renew people's faith in a series. This is how "My Name is Earl" ended.
Two interesting cases: My Three Sons brought Ernie into the family by adoption, Mike having left, but he was an established character. When the father married, however, bringing a daughter into the mix, the end swiftly followed. Then there was Gidget. ABC cancelled it after one season due to low ratings, but the re-runs were among the top-rated shows! Rather than reversing themselves, and desiring to keep Sally Field, ABC hastily brought out The Flying Nun, which Field hated, and whose flimsy premise barely filled out two seasons.
Sign #10 means that the office would have gotten canceled 4 seasons earlier, B99 would have gotten canceled two seasons ago, and Parks and Rec would have gotten canceled 4 seasons earlier
Re #9... Married with Children did that too and added a kid named "Seven" (in the first episode of Season 7). The kid was awful, and they knew it. Mid season the kid just disappeared with no explanation as to why he left. Funniest thing is later on they twice had his face show up on the side of a milk carton. :) Show lasted 11 seasons, so the experiment in Season 7 didn't actually kill it.
A good example of the show runner one is once upon a time. A bunch of the main characters (including Emma, Snow, Charming and Young Henry) left after season 6 and season 7 is going on right now and is the last season.
Babylon 5 actually jumped stations and lasted for 4 more seasons. Though season 5 was signed at the very last minute. What can also kill a show is producers/Executive producers wanting a change in the show when it is not needed.
Charlie’s Angels was the perfect example of three factors. It got swapped around in time slots, changing actresses, repeats of previous episodes but most of all it jumped shark big time when the main actress Kate Jackson left the show. Then it was a slow death from that point on. Fortunately it’s appreciated today, of course then the reboot happened which did not pan well.
New Girl crossed the "will they, won't they" threshold and added a kid to the cast. And the early "friends" dynamic had been changed to a more mature lifestyle. All thru need now is to move to Friday and this will certainly be their final season.
That's not what "jumping the shark" means. While the effect is similar, the moment it "jumps" is meant to describe a climax in the show's quality when it turns out that the show is never quite as good afterwards as it was up until that point. Therefore, the moment itself is usually supposed to be one of the better parts of the entire series (as it was on "Happy Days"), not a negative part.
Dana says- It was a bubble show last season, so moving to Fri. nights wasn't a good sign but it was better than being cancelled. It's still a bubble show this year, despite how amazing the show is. There are whispers and rumors that it will get a season 6, but they're just rumors for now (fingers crossed).
Here's another sign: they start bringing back one recurring guest character after another, week after week, hoping to tie up any potential loose ends before the finale. Check out most of the final season of Friends, where we got return visits from long-missing characters like Janice, Richard, David, Mark, most of the main characters' parents, and the death of Joey's agent. So that by the time the final episode airs, it's just the main six (with Phoebe's new husband Mike conveniently away) plus Gunther.
the long wait to hear about a renewal really hurts....the cast & crew of The Lying Game didn't even know for over a year that Freeform had stupidly canceled the show, and now Young & Hungry is in the same predicament :/
I don't watch Modern Family on ABC but I've been watching the reruns since they started showing them on USA and once the two girls got out of highschool it was not as good. I hope they at least explain on the final episode about the camera always filming them and show who is behind the camera because it's sort of doing what The Office did
It’s worth mentioning that “Designing Women” fulfilled the conditions of #1 and subverted #2. During its first season, CBS kept shifting it around on the schedule because they couldn’t find an audience for it, was planning to cancel it, but backed off after a letter-writing campaign by devoted fans. It ran six more seasons after that. It even managed to survive the substitution of Delta Burke and Jean Smart with Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks, staying in the top 10. But that swap-out in season 7 with Duffy for Judith Ivey was apparently too much-that finally killed it.
Honorable mentions:
Is on Fox
Is on Fox for less than a decade
Does a tie-in movie
Moved to a spinoff channel between seasons
Experiences some sort of strike (writers or actors), leading to noticeable dip in quality
Isn't a tie-in movie something that shows usually do after they've already been cancelled?
Everybody that has put Fox is so right except for maybe like 4 big shows they had. Married With Children, Beverly Hills 90210, Party of 5, Melrose Place, and X Files
James smith and maybe a small small show called The Simpson’s. Not sure if you’ve heard of it, it’s pretty well unknown, but it’s only the longest-running scripted prime time television series in the United States
MegaMichaelMan yes
usually a tie in movie acts as the series finale to a tv show.
#1: The show is actually good.
RobJuanDeLaNooch Well, I'm not a big fan, but I enjoyed it while it lasted. I also enjoyed Enterprise, The X Files and some animated series which never got a conclusion they deserved.
Jericho, revolution..
Awake
Alternatively the show absolutely sucks.
@@ambersefcik8835 Awake was AMAZING
Six seasons and a movie!!
nestor velasco hahahaha i love u
Frankly, most shows are in dire straits after 6 series, and we all love a movie, so there
So...Steven Universe is gonna end it just gotta movie
nestor velasco the simpsons
teen titans
You forgot main teenage cast graduates High School. Saved By The Bell, Boy Meets Word, Glee, etc the list goes on.
You just mentioned three of my fave shows lol
Except Degrassi. That one will never die. It will just get recycled.
OMG! I remember Saved By The Bell the New Class, and they even tried to get a character just like Screech.
Just because a show ends doesn’t mean it was canceled. I’m pretty sure Boy Meets World and Glee ended because the show runners decided it was time.
Don't forget Beverly Hills 90210. The shows where they graduate and go to college just aren't the same. DeGrassi was mentioned, at least they bring in new students to keep the teen storylines. I miss all of the mentioned, they were all amazing in their own way.
The shows plot fast forwards 5-10 years
(i.e. Desperate Housewives)
Chelsey Lilly. Didn't Fringe also go through this.
Pretty little liars.
Young Justice did it well. Still tot canned
Well, "Young Justice" is coming back.
Chelsey Lilly DH was always meant to be 8 seasons. The time leap wasn’t bad - they went out on a high, anyway.
The main cast, especially the main character, wants to leave
Remember when damn near the whole original cast of ER left, that show went to shit in it's last 3yrs, unwatchable!
Once upon a time
Vampire Diaries and Walking Dead
cough...Sliders...cough
If a show doesn’t have another character that the audience prefers then it usually will suffer if the titular character decides to part ways from the show. Usually if a supporting character has the fans a show can usually pivot the focus and continue to thrive... The original 90210 and original MP for example.
Still can’t believe Futurama was cancelled
Twiggymaster666 I’d say it was a good thing, because I didn’t want Futurama to end up like The Simpsons or Family Guy
Had a beautiful last episode. Ended on a high at least
Yup. It concluded instead
I think it actually got cancelled twice. After the first one, they did a four part episodes called "Bender's Big Heist" and then the second cancellation was where Fry and Leela froze time and lived out their life.
Futurama got cancelled when it was on Fox but later on Comedy Central picked it up and it didn't really get cancelled. They gave it a good farewell episode
i miss Community.
i can't count the reasons i shouLd stay,
one by one they aLL just fade away ..
I miss it too :(
Same here
imrajkabir six seasons and a movie!!!
#SixSeasonsAndAMovie
#1 should be "Well it's on Fox"
Solh0und family guy?
shut up
What about when they botch a beloved character's personality, introduce an annoying character, or even when they INTENTIONALLY end their show with a satisfying conclusion.
To end a show and to get cancelled are both very different things.
They did address the introducing an annoying character issue; it's both introducing a new and a child character!! iT'S CALLED "Cousin Oliver" syndrome!! When "Cousin Oliver" was introduced on "The Brady Bunch" at the start of Season 5, he spelled doom for the show!!
Ah, Flanderization.
Hoping that one entry is "It's on Fox."
That only happens for Friday.
Thepopcornator Pretty much EVERY syndicated tv channel...
yeah, but fox has a bad habbit of killing of great shows after 1 season no matter how popular.
I'm curious to see what happens to Gotham once Disney assimilates Fox.
Wait, has Orville's next season been announced? I have to check...
The most triggering for me was Community, it was so good and then just went into a downhill spiral after Pierce left.
Nik A Not after Pierce left. Pierces last season was the worst one of the lot. It was after season 3 where it fell. Troy leaving took the biggest hit because that just destroyed the perfect dynamic.
Season 4 sucked because of Chevy chase. But seasons 5 and 6 were really good. Possibly even the best of the lot!
Troy made the dynamic and the balance between characters, without him community went downhill
Chang was a great replacement for pierce as the hated one. The big hit was Troy, troy and abed was life for that show. Besides in a interview Glover said Chevy was a dick to him off screen.
i stopped watching after donglover left
The Simpsons jumped the shark over twenty years ago.
Family Guy has been cancelled before. I have no idea why these shows are still running. (Money perhaps?)
I lost interest in the Simpsons in their 15th season.
Apparently enough of the right people watch it, though...
My heart broke seeing Troy and Abed as the thumbnail
Troy and Abed in the thuuuummmbnail
Nico Sun #SixSeasonsandaMovie...
Nico Sun Methinks Abed became a duck who wears red.
same
"People love children"
*Bill Cosby stares at the kid*
Danilo not funny
Hilarious
ThenessAwesomeness no
lfieldsjr13 What ever he is,if it's true he is a monster.
Uh oh...
#11: When the show is rarely aired/has hiatuses between episodes that can last for months on end.
Number 10 made me think of Steve Urkel and Laura Winslow in "Family Matters" and Niles Crane and Daphne Moon from "Frasier"
The Friday slot is the first thing that comes to mind.
SupaPixelGirl I'm not American so what'd you mean?
Ropsana Khanom Friday’s are the lowest rated night due to people not being home to watch. Thus that’s where veteran shows go cause that’s the only place for them
Watch the #1 listing
najhoant yeah it just got to #1 now 😅😅
Why do I see you on every video?
I miss 'My name is Earl'
Leonard Velazquez same 😭
Lmao they cancled it on a cliffhanger too
I can’t believe they haven’t brought the show back after all these years. One of my favorite shows of all time
Fleece Johnson makes me mad! Same thing with George Lopez, they should have done at least two more seasons!
Man, none of these applied to that show. They just pulled the plug like nothing.
When the show is really good or is about to achieve a major cliffhanger. Hint: Spectacular Spiderman.
Same could be said for Young Justice. Right when they introduce Darkseid, show gets axed.
Spectacular spiderman
Young justice
Beware the Batman
Green lantern animated series
Sym-bionic titan
Generator rex
These were all victims
Jamel Watson I believe young justice is getting a new season this year or in 2019
RICARDO GABRIEL DIANDERAS CATERIANO it's getting a second season this winter I believe, most episodes are already done
It's coming back ;)
Does anyone remember the show Kyle XY when it was cancelled on a huge cliff hanger! and Also the show Forever was cancelled after 1 season when it had so much potential! Still can't get over it being cancelled 😭
From Fox: The Tick, Andy Richter, The Finder (rip Michael Clarke Duncan...)
ABC: Selfie, Missing
NBC: Undateable, Carmichael Show
Netflix: Girl Boss
Hulu: Difficult People
CBS: The Crazy Ones (rip Robin Williams...)
I would add Me, Myself, & I, but that show hasn’t been cancelled; it just. Stopped airing for months with no news on the returning episodes...they all, and especially Bobby Moynihan, deserve better...
Awake and Forever are the ones I can't get over!
Yes i remember that show but have watched only a few episodes
In the case of Arrested Development, they changed time slots so many times, I never knew when the show is on, what day or time. I believe the show would have lasted if they had one, stable timeslot.
The show reaches five seasons, or sixty episodes for the Disney Channel or Nick shows. Season five is where enough episodes (22 episode seasons) are produced for the show to go into syndication, plus it’s a reachable goal for shows to get to 100 episodes. It also shows whether the show has the characters and storylines to continue, or at least assemble a big enough fan base.
I'm surprised Once Upon a Time wasn't mentioned here since that's exactly what happened to it regarding the time slot change to Friday.
MythicTyrant I was thinking about whether it would be on here or not.
Though they had much more than the time slot change. Fan favourites left, a HUGE time jump, completely new realities, ... Actually OUAT ended a year back. They should have just called it a spin-off then they would have had a bigger chance.
OUAT jumped the shark in the Frozen season.
Agreed. That's when I stopped watching :-P
Actually, I think they already jumped the shark in the Wicked - halfseason. Killing off a character in a world where the most powerful wizard (= said killed character) said the one thing magic can't undo is death, and then they change the rules and bring back the character from the dead.
I watched until the very end of the real realm, but ... from that point on it really got bad and illogical. A show should stay true to its own internal rules and laws of nature.
The running gags stop...like when the vase breaks on "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody", Mike stops wearing his wool hat. What about when every possible solution is tried and recycled like with "Once Upon a Time"? That same curse of "forget yourselves in a new realm" is reused and reinvented by the writers roughly 6 times.
For kid shows, declining toy sales. It doesn't matter how good your ratings are. If the toys don't sell, your show's going to hell. Cartoon Network is the biggest offender of this mentality.
Thank god most if not all their current lineup has next to no toylines.
@@CNWhatImSaiyan Like Gumball for example. Brilliant show and has no toy lines :D
On Disney, it means if you get a movie then most likely that tv show will end soon
Plus they have that 60 or so episode embargo
they dont do the 65 episode thing anymore.
Number one sign: the name of your favorite show is Firefly.
I aim to misbehave
Totally agree! Stay shiny!
Being a virgin is not insulting. Try harder.
I love Firefly but if the amount of people who complain about it being canceled actually watched it when it aired, then it wouldn't have been canceled. The show got popular after the DVD was released.
There were more problems that would have prevented that, but sure. Nowadays its more of a "told you so" to the execs than being vindictive, since it got one of the best comebacks in TV history.
When Michael left the Office I cried
AyeThats Aaron We all cried when Michael left :(
JAIRLOSTXIX I honestly didn't like Michael at all. Until the final season.
Same.
harrylongbaugh1 I’d argue that The Office jumped the shark before the season where Michael left.
The best show that was cancelled in my opinion was Farscape. I loved that show. It had such wonderful and diverse characters. I never understood why it wasn't more popular. It was as good if not better than Star Trek.
I’m a simple man. I see community. I click
Fan favorite characters being killed off Should've been number one
Kristopher Jones ahem. Gabriel. Ahem. Crowley. Spn can die now
@Marie Mixon I'm Talking about The Walking Dead when Carl was killed off
The #1 remembered me of Once Upon a Time. Trough all of its course, OUAT was aired on sundays, but suddenly this last season was changed to friday. Yep, it got canceled.
And the on off couple got together, most of the actors left, the last season was basicly a spinoff, probably something else too
Oh yeah they added the new kid
It’s about time tbh, it hasn’t been good since season 4
yeah since the second half of season 4,OUAT becane shitty especially when they brought backk Zelena
#1 - It's on ABC. Every ABC show I've liked gets cancelled after one season.
Selfie, The Mayor, Missing...
The Nine and Lucky 7 for me.
Running out of ideas, and I'm not talking about WatchMojo.
Timeless is fantastic!!! I had never seen a network cancel a show then renew it just 2 days later because of fan outrage before.
Alex Townley i was one of em.
Damien Lu me too!! I’m so grateful NBC listened, and I hope season 2 does well enough for their liking.
It is a plagiarism of a spanish TV serie.
Nx57ytre sure it is 🙄
Damien Lu OMG same
Cast members leaving the show should be higher on the list.
I think two and a half men had most of these!
Jimboola Even the new younger kid?
Christopher C - Yep, just before the show folded it introduced a shy black kid adopted by Walden & Alan.
Jimboola the show w Charlie was great after that It was shit.
Supernatural survived a lot of timeslot changes ,and it's still a top rated show on the network.
ITS EVER GOING TOO DIE!
I can't see it lasting much longer. I love Supernatural but I really can't see what direction it can go in now. Hope it has alot more left in it.
There's exceptions to every rule. It's kind of impressive all the things Supernatural's managed to survive honestly.
Jared and Jensen are hot! The older they get the more sexy they get. I never noticed, they have storylines and plots? Weird I thought it was just eye candy.
SPN is also on their fourth showrunner
1 show I wish they wouldn’t have cancelled is freaks and geeks, at least 4 more seasons so we could see Sam Neil and bill finish HS
Definitely agree
Should be rename this “top ten 10 signs your life is going to end” 😰😂
I think “plot character replacements” should be added. When new characters come in who were just like the old ones before they concluded their plot. Ex: Bones, Pretty Little Liars etc. it’s so obvious
Glee did that with the last three seasons which is why I got cancelled
Put TWD in that list too
The OC, Teen Wolf...
Glee.. season 4 was a joke
meeshmeeshsun Pretty Little Liars wasn't cancelled, it had a planned ending.
yup. the walking dead is screwed.
Hannah Chamberlain Keep dreaming
Hannah Chamberlain so true. I’d put my money on it.
CGCentral HD maybe you need to keep dreaming. No one wanted the walking dead to suck. They did it to themselves.
Dan H whatever you say kid guess whats coming back for season 9 and still has one of cables highest ratings
CGCentral HD lmao. It does have high ratings that are decreasing dramatically. The show runner Gimple is moving on. Maggie and Rick haven’t resigned new contexts for future seasons. Maggie is joining a new show. It’s over for the waking dead lol. AMC is going to focus on their spinoffs.
Bones survived #10....and Supernatural has survived most of these!! Even being moved to Friday! :)
If I recall... Bones dodged that bullet on two fronts...
1. They cited a Pre-Series 'Base Hit' ... making everything that happened between them in the series 'post-kiss' so when they finally 'crossed the line' it was simply a long delayed Next Step...
2. when they did hook up it was 'obviously telegraphed' but not expressly stated to have happened at the end of Season six's penultimate episode... with the confirmation that the 'deed was done' by having Bones announce her Pregnancy and in the next season they jumped straight to co-habitation... shifting the 'tension' from Being Together to Living Together
unless I mis-remember, they actually cited it in season 1 (Angela has been 'shipping' them the whole time because of it)
*starts watching Teen Titans Go & PPG 2016 to see if any of these things are happening*
Daniel Attrell It was DOA
I think only the execs like either show. If I had to guess, the entry you're looking for is "critical darling" for TTGO and "adds another character" for PPG2016.
cable cartoons tend to have a little bit more longevity if theyre hits. look at spongebob
I still cry over the cancelation of Faking It and Eye Candy. At least Sense 8 will have a final 3rd season
Community, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks. Those were the days.
C.Dat.GuyOverThere arrested development is still going
The Honorable Mention of "Critical Darling" is definitely a sign that a show might be on it's way out. I've seen many times where Critics love a show, constantly raving about how wonderful it is. Yet, the TV Audience finds nothing wonderful about it and completely ignores it. There have been shows where both the TV Audience and Critics have been on the same page about how good a show is, but it's rare.
I guess it was kinda miraculous that Hannibal got 3 seasons on NBC. I wish a premium cable network would pick it up for a 4th season.
#1 when the producers say so
Koschei it's the network that makes the decision, not the producers. The producers will do anything they can to keep the show on the air..once it's canceled, they're out of a job.
The tv show THe middle on abc. the writers ended it not the network.
"Once Upon a Time", nooooooooo!!!!! 😭😭😭😭 I love that show. We are in our last season. 😭😭
it hhas became so shitty since sesaon 4 when they brought Zelena back
When the characters start showing up in ludicrous or unrealistic outfits, the show has gone down the drain.
I’m a simple dude, I see Troy and abed in the morning! I click
A change in network ownership is another sign. That's what killed "Reboot" and "Spectacular Spider-Man." Though "Reboot" at least got to eventually finish (before getting uncancelled AGAIN and ending on a cliffhanger), SSM wasn't so lucky.
Ending your season on a cliffhanger. If I'm ever going to make it in the industry, I'm never going to end any seasons on cliffhangers. You're basically challenging the network to cancel your show.
Ok, if a show ends after 10 years, it's not cancelled, it just ends. Friends does not count toward this premise. And for the next point: straight up, Leo might have been a harbinger of doom for growing pains, people still knew him from growing pains.
The JEFFERSONS was cancelled and that show lasted 11yrs...they didn't even get a last farewell episode.
bigbabysld there are exceptions to every rule and I'm gonna go out on a limb and say racism was involved somewhere in that case!
Someone as pasty as you definiteIy wouId say that.
... Or worse, move the show to Saturday. The only thing worse than moving a show to Friday, a death knell most of the time, is to give the program a premature burial on Saturday night, where almost no one will see it. The one notable exception is Hunter. The show that started as a semi serious rip-off of Dirty Harry,, ended up with 7 seasons and 153 episodes, all on Saturday night. But this is clearly the lone example of this in the era of color TV. Even they weren't immune to the list, however, as a lead actor leaving, notably Stepfanie Kramer, became its undoing.
Always wondered where "jumped the shark" came from lol that's ridiculous
Taylor jay Happy Days
West Coast Emerald Bull I know, they say it in the video. That’s why I said I always wondered but now I know
Those of us who knew the origin without needing an explanation are ... not exactly young ;)
I'm fairly young & I knew that expression. What's our definition of "not young?"
*your
Number 6 happened with Roseanne. ABC were playing with fire since Roseanne has a history of political controversy (this influenced the writing on the revived season, where one character was waterboarded!) and had been cautioned over this behaviour, yet it continued until even a blind eye couldn’t ignore the backlash.
The lead actors leave after x amount of seasons and the network tries to replace them
Friday is the Death Slot now, but a few years ago, having a show on Saturday was an even worse fate--I think the last time something "successful" happened on Saturdays in Prime time was CBS's Dr. Quinn/Touched By an Angel/Walker Texas Ranger. Nowadays, Saturday is meant for Reruns, Sports and News/Murder Mystery Programs; virtually a wasteland.
Yeah, we rarely even get new episodes of cartoons on Saturdays anymore.
By the way, don't forget about "Saturday Night Live," although I personally find the majority of their humor to be overly vulgar and distasteful.
Dana says- Going back even further to when I was growing up, Friday nights was a prime spot for tv shows. The ones with the strongest viewership were on then- like Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard, but back then people sat and watched tv together as a family. Maybe that's a factor in why Fridays are now the dead zone?
All these signs are just the usual for Sherlock...
Elora Maxwell I hope sherlock carries on though
How true!
Elora Maxwell
Unfortunately, when a lead character crucial to the story is basically done...don't expect much of a return with no John Watson.
My condolences to your fandom
Lunar Wolf I hope not. Season four sucked since they got rid of the writer (forgot his name but he wrote the sign of three) and moffat went crazy.
This list is helping TWD fans realize it is going to be ending soon.
TWD ending??Nevah!!! Not with new show runners looking new TWD spin off ideas.
Hayden Stevens no
Show has been doomed for a couple of years now. Its in its twilight years.
Hayden Stevens What does TWD stands for?
crazybutcrazy 1919, The Walking Dead.
Ah community love that show
Luc Nijmeijer hey, finally found another Luc
Luc so Wich country are you from
The show died after Troy & Shirley left, I didn't like their replacements and rest of the crew (except Abed & Chang) were fucking annoying and boring.
Luc Nijmeijer America lol living in California
Doctor who has nearly all if this and is still going, black sails had none of this and was cancelled
Dana says- He he. We all know that Doctor Who is the Energizer Bunny of shows. It just keeps going and going and going...
Wasn't there a time Friday was actually good? I seem to recall that being when Family Matters came on...
Gambit2483 I think you're talking about TGIF! Thank God It's Friday! They showed the best shows doing that block!
Dana says- Yeah, back in the 80s Friday nights housed the big ratings grabbers, like The Dukes of Hazzard and Dallas, among others. That was also an era when you had lots of families sitting down to watch tv together, instead of going out and each doing their own thing, or each watching their own things on separate devices. Now Fridays are mostly where shows go to die or prove they're not going to.
TGIF started airing when I was not in grade school yet but I do remember always watching it with my mom. I tried to never miss it
Gambit2483 Back in the day Friday night was The IT night. Then you had the Saturday Morning motherload of cartoons. THAT was the weekend. Now it’s a hospice where shows go to die. Grimm is the only relevant show I can think of that started out on Friday and it was moved to Monday a bit then back to Friday that did really well, because it had 6 seasons.
Gambit2483 I was Eddie Winslow body guard for like 2 hours at a night club in Hollywood lol. He smoked weed. Lame
They mentioned freaks and geeks 👏🏻🖤
They made me sad
A show like that reminds me of the show My So Called Life or Arrested Development because they have the backing of the critics but still get cancelled
This really needs a “spoiler disclaimer” 😂
Cody Whitlock yes if shows new characters that you probably didn’t know
One of my all time favorite shows is "Married,with children".
I freaked when they knocked up Peggy. I thought for sure the show would be cancelled. Fortunately her pregnancy was written out after Kattys real life miscarriage. The show lasted a few more years.
- When Ted McGinley is in the cast
- When the cost of keeping a show is more than what it brings in for the network
Ted McGinley has been getting dissed for years, MARRIED WITH CHILDREN lasted for YEARS with him on it. When he came to LOVE BOAT and HAPPY DAYS those shows pretty outlasted their welcome anyway...they were done.
Besides the show ran for 11 seasons...
The Big Bang Theory has for sure surpassed that but still 11 seasons is impressive.
And the show did not conclude so we might have gotten 1-2 more seasons if there wasn't so much drama on the set...
How do you know a Disney show is going to cancel? (I could only think of 5.)
1) It's on it's 4th season. (The most Disney usually has a show on for is four seasons. The only way to keep the show going is for a spin off series where the characters are put in a new situation. The best examples is when The Suite Life of Zack and Cody turned into The Suite Life on Deck and Jessie turned into Bunk'd due to the previous show's rise in popularity.)
2) It isn't very popular. (Disney's had a lot of great ideas for shows, but not all of them were appreciated enough. Some shows are about to make it to a third or even (if we're lucky) a fourth season. Some shows, though, only make it through one or even two seasons.)
3) A bombshell decision is made to set the scene for the end of the series. (There are a few good examples of good bombshell decisions to wrap up a series. The best example is Gravity Falls. When creator, Alex Hirsch, reveals the author to the audience, which was the biggest mystery of the show, you know that it isn't long until it's over. It's too bad too. I'm sure a lot of fans wouldn't have minded seeing Ford for an entire new season.)
4) The plot can be wrapped up in one more season. (After a bombshell, you can guess that your favorite show doesn't have too long to live. Gravity Falls is a good example, but so is Tangled the series. When Cass takes the Moonstone at the end of the season 2 finale and season 3 starts, you can guess that it won't be long until the end, especially when the first episode of season 3 is already re-introducing old characters many of us might've long since forgotten about.)
5) The creator runs out of ideas. (The best example of this is the short-lived show Best Friends Whenever. Although it had average popularity on Disney, the creators of the show made a huge mistake by taking the main story of season one and only keeping it there. Once they got through the hurdles of the laboratory, being held captive by the company Shelby's dad works for, you would think that's the end of the series. Well, you'd be wrong because when the next season aired, the two girls take a trip to the far off past and bring back a 16th century princess into the present day. Although it's an interesting story to continue with, it didn't hold as well as the original story and just felt out of place. Once that season ended, so did the series. If they had drawn out the original story, then that probably would've made the series last longer than it did.)
I love how half of these apply to Doctor Who but it's still going and will always come back 😂
same with Supernatural!
Though I don't recall them coming out and saying it in the video, they did seem to acknowledge there were some exceptions to the norm. And yes Doctor Who is a fantastic exception :)
Dr who rocks!!!!
DW is possible because the main cast rotates... more like when those things start to show up we now that the Doctor will reborn soon.
I think what helps Doctor Who is the fact that the main character (the Doctor) is changed on a pretty regular basis. So when there’s a new Doctor, it basically becomes a new show. It even kinda reboots itself when new companions are brought on.
I’m surprised The Office wasn’t mentioned as much as Community was. Especially since The Office was guilty of at least half the things on this list. (Cece, Dwight/Angela getting together, jumping the shark midway through season 6, Michael leaving, and being on the bubble when it was announced Steve Carell would be leaving)
Timeless got renewed after people got angry. So, why is it here? That shows pretty damn good I'm glad other's thought so can't wait for it to come back it's either this month or next month.
I mean of course it has a chance of being canceled again, but I believe it has at least another season in it.
+Snow Anaya It's going to be tonight and I can't wait.
Dana says- NBC loved Timeless and needed that little nudge to find a way to monitarily justify keeping Timeless. The fan support was awesome and sent NBC back to the negotiating table to find a way to keep it for another season. It's 2nd season started a month ago and the numbers are not good. Unless a miracle happens and the ratings improve quickly, it will be cancelled again (this time for good). It will be a shame because it's a wonderful, fun, smart show. It costs a lot to make and it shows in it's high production quality, but it's also why the ratings need to be solid (to pay for it).
Chuck should of had way more seasons!!
Ummm. Jane the Virgin was moved to Fridays!! 😣😣😣😢😢😢😢😭😭😭😭😭
Also if a season ends on a cliffhanger. In most cases, it's a last ditch effort to try and renew people's faith in a series. This is how "My Name is Earl" ended.
The same can be said of a book series, most infamously, Animorphs. The series is still well-liked, but is infamous for that ending.
If you had control of a tv channel, what time slot would you personally give to shows when a new episode premiers?
Two interesting cases: My Three Sons brought Ernie into the family by adoption, Mike having left, but he was an established character. When the father married, however, bringing a daughter into the mix, the end swiftly followed.
Then there was Gidget. ABC cancelled it after one season due to low ratings, but the re-runs were among the top-rated shows! Rather than reversing themselves, and desiring to keep Sally Field, ABC hastily brought out The Flying Nun, which Field hated, and whose flimsy premise barely filled out two seasons.
Troy and Abed in the morning!
i could never understand why The Great Indoors was cancelled.... I AM ABSOLUTELY COMPLETELY in love with Joel McHale!!!!
#0: Actors with no production role get Producer credit.
Sign #10 means that the office would have gotten canceled 4 seasons earlier, B99 would have gotten canceled two seasons ago, and Parks and Rec would have gotten canceled 4 seasons earlier
Don't Forget 7 From Married With Children
Everyone else did
Gim Bob Jenkins That milk carton gag, tho!
Except Married with Children ran for four more seasons after the one with 7
Number 3.5 When the show kills off a fan favorite character in the season finale
Victorious showed none of these signs :(
Re #9... Married with Children did that too and added a kid named "Seven" (in the first episode of Season 7). The kid was awful, and they knew it. Mid season the kid just disappeared with no explanation as to why he left. Funniest thing is later on they twice had his face show up on the side of a milk carton. :) Show lasted 11 seasons, so the experiment in Season 7 didn't actually kill it.
I kinda feel that it was a parodic move 😅
Longer breaks than usual ?
Thank goodness you dont the plight of anime fans
Have you ever seen One punch man , Attack on Titan or Berserk
Have you read the mangas?
Don't forget DB. Got a long break, then DBZKai and DBS came.
And don't forget Tokyo Ghoul.
Anime takes a while to create
Show from other countries don't count when talking about canceling TV shows on US networks
kzarkage omg attack on titan and one punch man are killing me 😭
A good example of the show runner one is once upon a time. A bunch of the main characters (including Emma, Snow, Charming and Young Henry) left after season 6 and season 7 is going on right now and is the last season.
Babylon 5 actually jumped stations and lasted for 4 more seasons. Though season 5 was signed at the very last minute. What can also kill a show is producers/Executive producers wanting a change in the show when it is not needed.
Yeah, and plot twists can cause a show to end too, even on a cliffhanger, as was the case with Moesha back in the early 2000s.
Correction: Babylon 5 was in first-run syndication during the first 4 seasons. It moved to TNT for Season 5.
Charlie’s Angels was the perfect example of three factors. It got swapped around in time slots, changing actresses, repeats of previous episodes but most of all it jumped shark big time when the main actress Kate Jackson left the show. Then it was a slow death from that point on. Fortunately it’s appreciated today, of course then the reboot happened which did not pan well.
Random celebrity guests usually let's me know they trying to draw in viewers and will probably be gone soon... surprised it wasn't up there
The inverse of that is true when it comes to "The Simpsons."
Will & Grace, anyone?
Friends often used guest stars and it wasn't under threat of getting cancelled
New Girl crossed the "will they, won't they" threshold and added a kid to the cast. And the early "friends" dynamic had been changed to a more mature lifestyle. All thru need now is to move to Friday and this will certainly be their final season.
I wonder if any or all of these signs apply to cartoons as well.
Many of us "Old guard" quit Scooby Do when Scrappy was added :)
I think Fred and Velma quit being regulars at some point too.
For Scooby and Shaggy get a clue they did :p
Family Guy isn't going anywhere any time soon.
That's not what "jumping the shark" means. While the effect is similar, the moment it "jumps" is meant to describe a climax in the show's quality when it turns out that the show is never quite as good afterwards as it was up until that point. Therefore, the moment itself is usually supposed to be one of the better parts of the entire series (as it was on "Happy Days"), not a negative part.
Damn. Agents Of Shield got moved to Fridays. That can't be good.
Nope... being delayed wasn't a good sign either... it was never going to beat NCIS on Tuesdays but it was holding it's own
Dana says- It was a bubble show last season, so moving to Fri. nights wasn't a good sign but it was better than being cancelled. It's still a bubble show this year, despite how amazing the show is. There are whispers and rumors that it will get a season 6, but they're just rumors for now (fingers crossed).
With the advent of DVR and streaming the Friday night death slot doesn't mean what it used to.
Here's another sign: they start bringing back one recurring guest character after another, week after week, hoping to tie up any potential loose ends before the finale. Check out most of the final season of Friends, where we got return visits from long-missing characters like Janice, Richard, David, Mark, most of the main characters' parents, and the death of Joey's agent. So that by the time the final episode airs, it's just the main six (with Phoebe's new husband Mike conveniently away) plus Gunther.
TGI Friday?
the long wait to hear about a renewal really hurts....the cast & crew of The Lying Game didn't even know for over a year that Freeform had stupidly canceled the show, and now Young & Hungry is in the same predicament :/
Damn feels like modern family is only a couple years away from being done.
damitri moore The creators said they want next season to be the last.
I was surprise Modern Family and Supernatural are still on air. I haven't watch either show since the first 3 seasons.
I don't watch Modern Family on ABC but I've been watching the reruns since they started showing them on USA and once the two girls got out of highschool it was not as good. I hope they at least explain on the final episode about the camera always filming them and show who is behind the camera because it's sort of doing what The Office did
Modern family shouldn't have gone past the pilot
It’s worth mentioning that “Designing Women” fulfilled the conditions of #1 and subverted #2. During its first season, CBS kept shifting it around on the schedule because they couldn’t find an audience for it, was planning to cancel it, but backed off after a letter-writing campaign by devoted fans. It ran six more seasons after that. It even managed to survive the substitution of Delta Burke and Jean Smart with Julia Duffy and Jan Hooks, staying in the top 10. But that swap-out in season 7 with Duffy for Judith Ivey was apparently too much-that finally killed it.