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Honorable mention: the Owl House, "it doesnt fit the Disney brand" then why did you greenlit it then?! (Not saying it should not have been cause its my favorite show, but if it doesnt fit the brand then why make it in the first place?)
The young justice toys failed because the affordable ones (4.25") was less posable and more expensive than the 3.75" G.I. Joe figures made by Hasbro. Basically Mattel expected people to pay premium for a poorly made toy and was shocked when people rejected them.
Another problem is the girls don’t really want toys from the shows- they want other kinds of merchandise (costumes, plush, bags, T-shirts). I make plush Transformers and seeing girls go for them at a convention would put to shame any notion that the series is just for boys. You can see guys with bags full of the newest figures and gals overloaded with pillows, books, and keychains.
@@heahterranier6926 Hasbro make a lot of different things for each of their bigger franchises just for that reason. This is something Mattel has yet to learn (outside of Barbie for some reason).
You said that Firefly was cancelled "after one great season." This is utterly wrong. It was cancelled before they aired all of the episodes of season one.
Fox is infamous for their Friday night death slots for certain shows. Just look at Luis, John Doe or maybe Fastlane. Just a few of these shows I have never heard of until coming across them on RU-vid.
Yes I was pissed when they cancelled the Santa Clarita Diet and I also was with The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina I mean it ended on good enough note I guess and the Riverdale crossover gave us some form of closure but still ended too soon.
Firefly was a mid-season replacement, with only 13 episodes booked for its initial run. I think something like 11 or 12 of them aired before it was canceled. And the commentator was correct, it is physically impossible to do a list like this and not include Firefly.
You missed Angel. More petty than weird but a WB exec got pissy because the cast just wanted assurances they’d be coming back for another season while they were still filming the current one instead of the “will they/won’t they” of previous years. It was CW 2nd highest rated show!
police squad was amazing. I can't stand "scary movie" or their ilk, but police squad (tv and movies) were unique. I think it was Leslie Nielsen that made it work for me. - and curious that OJ was allegedly responsible for two deaths AND a tv show...
There may already be one, but I'd love to see a kinda companion list of shows that ended when the creator(s) got sick of their networks/how their shows were being handled. The animation nerd in me can mostly think of (Disney Channel) cartoons that wrapped due to disputes between the crew and the network, like Gravity Falls and The Owl House, arguably Steven Universe would fit here from CN, but unlike GF&TOH SU got a movie and then a wrap-up season, so the show did live past CN's bullshit about Ruby&Sapphires Wedding. I'm baffled, it wasn't a shock to CN that queer themes would be included, they just eventually caved to the pressure of people who don't actually let their kids watch secular TV, and the crew said this was a line they weren't backing off of. For TOH, the same goes, Disney just, like CN, buckled to the complaints of people who do not actually watch their content. GF it wasn't JUST queer stuff Disney acted like freaks about, which is even more baffling because it was essentially pitched as a tween-version of twin peaks. The video of the creator Alex sharing some of his correspondence with dinsey censors scared me off trying to work in mainstream animation.
CBS did the same thing to Space Rangers as Fox did to Firefly, only about a decade earlier. True, the quality and budget of the show wasn't remotely the same, but when you air episodes that have a continuing story arc in random order, and the pilot as the endcap, you doom it either way.
The DC one being cancelled because it didn't sell toys make total sense and isn't weird at all. That's literally what these cartoons exist for. In the UK in the 1980s, you couldn't advertise during children's TV so there was no profit incentive for children's TV. But some clever person realised that if they sold toys related to the show they could make massive profits. The Transformers cartoons were created to sell the toys, the toys existed first. That is the model vtirually all cartoons have been using ever since.
why bother even trying to watch a show anymore. there are too many shows to choose from, and the ones you like get canceled. all this does is lower interest in shows all together. please stop shooting yourself in the foot, shows.
This is why I primarily watch anime. It is understood that no show is expected to have more than 1 season. Like American cartoons are considered by some to be 23 minute toy commercials, anime shows are 23 minute book (manga/light novel) commercials. There is no show if the primary product (toy or book) doesn't sell. Anime that get multiple seasons with no correlated book sales are an exception, not the rule. It takes massive (i.e. international) appeal to keep a show going if the book sales don't come.
Honorable mention: Witchblade was only canceled because the main star was a jerk and refused to enter rehab. The execs and network found out she had a problem with substance abuse. She was given an ultimatum: either go to rehab or the show was canceled regardless of how innocent the other cast members were. She told them no and she didn’t care so they canceled the show. She’s apologized since then and admitted it was entirely her fault but she still cost them their jobs.
As a kid in the 90s who loved Gargoyles, I HATED seeing the show cut off for the stupid Simpson trial. Kids don't care about stuff like that. And Gargoyles was a show that you had to watch pretty religiously so you didn't fall behind in the mythology. So, by missing out on episodes, you got lost pretty quickly and then you stopped watching because you didn't believe you'd ever get caught up.
The 65 episode rule is because after so many episodes it stops making sense to make more episodes when the reruns will make you more money for no additional cost.
I wonder if anyone has written a book about the historically bad decisions going on at Fox in the late 90s-early 2000s. They cut so many great shows off at the knees, including Firefly, Arrested Development, Futurama, Freaks & Geeks, and Family Guy. That’s like Decca signing the Beatles, letting them produce an album or two, and then never letting them play music again, only with like five groups of Beatles instead of just one. In reality, Decca passed on the Beatles, which somehow pales in comparison with the blunders Fox made.
The thing that has always baffled me about Firefly not being given a chance was whose it was and what history he had. It was a Whedon creation. He had established he can make profitable shows after Buffy. One would think any network would pretty much give him free reign while expecting another multi year successful run hit.
To be honest, I think even the network executives knew their given reason for cancelling Police Squad was a pile of BS. I think the actual reason was that they saw what Airplane! had done to the disaster movie genre, and with police procedurals being such a huge genre for network television, they didn't want to take the risk of Police Squad rendering viewers unable to take them seriously.
Im surprised Stranger Things still hasnt ended yet with how much the show costs now, how much its actors are getting paid, and how long it takes for them to get production going while trying to do a bunch of workaround to not make it look like the cast has aged too much
The 65 episode thing is one of the most ridiculous rules I've ever heard and I can't believe how many good shows have gotten canceled because of it when they definitely had a lot of potential to keep going.
It is a ridiculous rule, but it has a foundation. On broadcast TV, a show needs to have 100 episodes (about 4 calendar years) to qualify for syndication. While broadcasters make their money on the first run, everyone else associated with a show usually didn't make money until syndication (some actors started to get paid decently for 1st runs during the 1990s due to shows like "Friends"). Since cable shows originally didn't go to syndication all that often, they didn't need as many episodes produced to qualify for on-network reruns. Networks like Disney Channel all figured out that a show only needed to run about 3 calendar years (65 episodes) to get the same effect for their reruns as broadcast syndications. It used to be common for the cast and crew of a broadcast network show to have a 100-episode celebration because at that point, the show could then go to syndication and they would start to get residual checks. If their original contract was a good one, the residual checks could be a difference maker for the years when work would be scarce.
Batman does not belong on this list. The show was not cancelled because the sets were destroyed. It was already cancelled by ABC and just not picked up by NBC
Kiernan was perfect for Sabrina RAS refuses to write show with coherent plots of anything that resembles a storyline. I can’t stand the teenage the swallowed a dictionary dialogue.
Land speaking of Batman I never saw firefight, but if I had a time machine. Some of those baddies.... I don't know how to say this politely So I'll just say rest in peace Adam West and I love cats
Speaking of the BBC there's a certain Loop that a time traveler and there's this girl that like she can't control her powers and I'm thinking about Misfits
Yeah you feel invisible I would use that to rob banks to give gifts to a certified Walking Date rape untouchable. I mean , she didn't pick her powers.c but I will pick the power to be able to you know not be completely entranced
Not a TV Show But The Beverly Hills Chihuahua Franchise Is cancelled because the Taco Bell Chihuahua died In 2012 even a Disney Junior pilot that got uploaded on RU-vid
Gargoyles was not good, it's that simple. I don't care how much this guy wants to blame everything and everybody else. I had three channels and no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't make it through an episode and pay attention. I was the demographic, and I found it corny, absurd, and completely boring. Gargoyles was trying to cash in on the current trend of the time and it showed. O.J. had nothing to do with it.
What happened to being human too like I if I'm going to be a ghost I'm going to be that one that gets to like you know feel like if I put my hands in their brains
It's strange to me that so many people loved Firefly so much. I honestly thought it was ok. After rewatching it a couple years back, I actually thought it was bad. It did not age well.
How are you going to reduce Sabrina and not make it free on ABC right after honey I shrunk the kids the TV series I grew up on Sabrina and you guys wdo it and I have to pay for it😢 LAME
Fox's first mistake with Firefly was thinking everything Whedon craps out is gold. Its just a turd of a show (and movie) with a rabid fan base wining that it's just misunderstood. The misunderstanding that a Whedon turd is still just a piece of human waste and belongs in a toilet and not on the dinning room table.
I never understand the complaint about the Firefly order - I think it helped. I probably wouldn't have watched if the corny setup episode was first; it worked much better as a flashback. moving the days and times, however...
1:05 forget all that I learned that we went to the moon in 1969. Not the year 1968 But the year after. Not only did she execute her lines but she did it in a pretty sounding and Tall package 10 out of 10 and she played a drill instructor....
