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If you're a 40-something like yours truly, you first learned about Robin Williams through ABC's Mork and Mindy, which ran from 1978 to 1982. According to what I've read, the show was a ratings powerhouse in its first season, then ABC messed with it, moving it to different time slots and going for more "adult" plots, which caused the ratings to plummet. In that same era, Lou Grant was at least a moderate success on CBS but was cancelled, allegedly because of star Ed Asner's controversial politics. Can you think of any other shows that were "dry gulched" by their networks and the reasons why?
Harry's Law...a classic case, sure ratings were not all that high, but good enough to get renewed after the first season. And there were very devoted fans that loved it. The second season, they had messed with it! Whole different show then. Season one: combination shoe store/law office in a run-down neighborhood, with a quirky lawyer who wanted to make a difference & her team that were willing to take on challenges that other law firms didn't want to touch to season 2: something that was a poor imitation of many other lawyer shows, been there, done that, seen it done much better. Changed the cast quite a bit, suddenly even the neighborhood looked different...WTH! Suddenly it was a more successful, but boring law firm, lost its mojo entirely! It tanked! Should have given it just a few slight changes, keeping all the great original parts!
A&E pulled the plug on Longmire because the viewing audience was "to old" for them. The age group they are trying to target with TV shows are the ones with the least amount of disposable income.
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Unfortunately for "Longmire," it has the wrong audience and the wrong owner. A&E said it pulled the plug on "Longmire" because it appeals primarily to older viewers—the median age of the show's viewers is 60 versus 48 for the network as a whole—and it doesn't have an ownership stake in the show. A&E is a unit of A+E Networks, a joint-venture between Walt Disney Co. DIS -0.33% and Hearst Corp.
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"Longmire" was A&E's second-most popular show behind the reality hit "Duck Dynasty," averaging 5.6 million viewers this season, according to Nielsen
I enjoyed Longimre. Too bad. A&E was at one time a genuine Arts & Entertainment network. Too bad. The character Longmire is portrayed as being a real man in the sense that is under disparagement by current popular culture. His presence will be missed.
WKRP in Cincinnati. Never ending war between the producers and CBS over the show's content. As a result the show spent it's last 2 years subjected to multiple schedule changes despite being one of CBS' most popular shows
Lee W.
Agree completely on Harry's Law. Loved season 1. Season 2 was an L.A. Law/Boston Legal/Allie McBeal ripoff. Totally went away from what made it so good
Jaxson and Felix C
Agree on Longmire. Network execs prove once again how stupid they are. If the show gets strong ratings season after season who cares who's watching? A&E's stupidity should be another network's gain. I'm surprised none of the former big 3 have thrown their hats in the ring to gain ownership of this gem. If not for the parent network for their cable equivalents
I think Fox pulled the rug out from under Married with Children either by not giving it the sendoff it deserved or just by cutting its funding and hampering production through the last couple of seasons even though ratings were still decent.
A&E pulled the plug on Longmire because the viewing audience was "to old" for them. The age group they are trying to target with TV shows are the ones with the least amount of disposable income.
Here I am watching a little Duke football and chillin' on C-D and I come across this nonsense. This was one of my must-see first-run TV shows. I can understand cancelling because it's bad and few are watching, but this reason is ridiculous.
Soap opera The Edge of Night was unique in soapland. It was reportedly viewed by the largest segment of male viewers of any soap, likely due to its mystery/crime focus rather than romantic melodrama. It aired at 3:30pm eastern, a pretty late slot for a "daytime" soap (thus the name) but perfect for men returning home from work to "pick it up". It had gangbusters ratings, usually #2 among over a dozen soaps. In 1972 Edge got moved to a much earlier time slot (I think it was 1:30) by CBS and was sandwiched between more "conventional" soaps. It lost a lot of its male audience that had been watching it after work. The darker tone also didn't "fit" with the surrounding shows very well, either. The ratings dropped noticeably, but rather than trying to correct the mistake, CBS let the show slide so badly that Edge ultimately left CBS entirely in late 1975, moving to ABC to run for another nine years but never regaining its top-rated status.
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The age group they are trying to target with TV shows are the ones with the least amount of disposable income.
