# Any shows cancelled despite good ratings? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 14, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912 "2007-03-14T17:04:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/41 "2007-03-15T20:37:46Z")
_Seinfeld_ could have gone on for at least one more season, but Jerry Seinfeld declined doing another one. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/42 "2007-03-15T21:00:07Z")
“Soap” was still a big hit show when it was canned. In fact, the producers were so sure of it being renewed, that the final episode of the fourth season ended with three major cliffhangers. In an interview, Katherine Helmond stated that a script for at least the first episode of a fifth season was written (in which her character would be rescued from the firing line). But the religious right were gaining in strength at the time and effectively pressured the network into discontinuing it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/43 "2007-03-15T21:18:03Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] [The Single Guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Single_Guy) was one of the highest rated shows to be cancelled. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but the show sucked. _Paint Drying Extreme_ could have gotten the same ratings in that time slot. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/44 "2007-03-15T22:03:58Z")
I didn’t know _Rome_ had gotten cancelled - rather, when _Deadwood_ got the axe I heard that it was because they were both expensive shows and HBO decided to keep _Rome_. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/45 "2007-03-16T01:36:33Z")
Reba was the highest rated sitcom on the WB/CW’s entire network and was cancelled last month although there is some talk that it may still get picked up by another network. [Linky](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reba_(TV_series)) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/46 "2007-03-16T03:01:11Z")
The Jamie Lee Curtis/Richard Lewis sitcom, **Anything but Love** , was cancelled by the studio because they believed they couldn’t sell it in syndication. **Joan of Arcadia** was cancelled by CBS because of demographics–the average age of viewers was 53. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/47 "2007-03-16T12:51:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I didn’t know _Rome_ had gotten cancelled - rather, when _Deadwood_ got the axe I heard that it was because they were both expensive shows and HBO decided to keep _Rome_. [/QUOTE] _Rome_ was also responsible for the cancelling of _Carnivale_, wasn’t it? Dear og, that _Rome_ show has done a lot of damage, and it wasn’t even very good. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/48 "2007-03-16T13:00:29Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] **Joan of Arcadia** was cancelled by CBS because of demographics–the average age of viewers was 53. [/QUOTE] Well, my daughter and I were trying to bring down the average. We watched every show, and I still cry a little inside. **Scoundrel Swanswater** , bite your tongue. _Rome_ is most excellent. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/49 "2007-03-16T13:55:09Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] The original **Battlestar Galactica** was cancelled for high production costs even though it was very popular. Then it was majorly retooled and brought back due to public demand and became **Galactica 1980** - which kept Lorne Greene and some minor characters but ditched everyone else with almost no explanation). G1980 flopped in the ratings while still being expensive to produce. [/QUOTE] What parallel universe do you live in? There was never any such thing as **Galactica 1980**. Never existed. Nope. Never, never, ever existed. ---
**Author:** ![Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Scoundrel\_Swanswater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoundrel_Swanswater)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912/50 "2007-03-16T14:45:49Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] Well, my daughter and I were trying to bring down the average. We watched every show, and I still cry a little inside. **Scoundrel Swanswater** , bite your tongue. _Rome_ is most excellent. [/QUOTE] _Rome_ can’t hold a candle next to the brilliance that was _Carnivale_. I liked it enough, but I don’t think it deserved the hype it got. It was pretty much a boring soap opera placed in Rome. (Then I only saw the first season to be honest) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-cancelled-despite-good-ratings/395912.md?page=2)