Seinfeld could have gone on for at least one more season, but Jerry Seinfeld declined doing another one.
“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.
Yeah, but the show sucked. Paint Drying Extreme could have gotten the same ratings in that time slot.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
What parallel universe do you live in? There was never any such thing as Galactica 1980. Never existed. Nope. Never, never, ever existed.
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)