Flashpoint, I remember it being on one of the death slots (either a Friday or Saturday) and then not seeing any episodes for quite a while. When I saw ads again I assumed it was in syndication, but nope apparently it was just renewed for a fifth season.
I just thought of this thread when I saw a commercial for The Secret Life of the American Teenager. I remember watching the first few episodes of this show and the being surprised at some of the horrid acting (at least by one of the sisters IIRC). I had no idea that it was still on 4 years later. Not only that, I see from the commercial that Bobby from The Sopranos is on it now.
Around the time I graduated high school I was shocked to learn that they were still making new episodes of Full House. It was a show I had watched along with ABCs other TGIF shows like Just the Ten of Us, Perfect Strangers & Mr. Belvedere. I know Full House didn’t have an outrageously long production run (insert joke about bad show lasting so long), but as I got older the show completely dropped off of my radar to the point that I was surprised it was still on the air in 1994.
The Power Rangers are adapted from Japanese “Super Sentai” shows, a franchise (or maybe a whole subgenre, I’m vague on the specifics) of action shows for kids that have been produced steadily for more than 30 years. I assume it’s pretty cheap to do the American Power Rangers version, as the costumed action sequences are just re-dubbed from the Japanese shows, so as long as Power Rangers is attracting even a modest audience it probably makes good financial sense to keep it on the air.
It’s gone now but I stumbled across an episode of *Old Christine *long after I thought it was cancelled.
Good call on AFHV and Rules Of Engagement. I thought both were long gone and then, one day, there they are.
Oddly enough, the acronym for America’s Funniest Home Videos is just AFV, for some reason.
And, other than SpongeBob, which I was sure was just on reruns now, I got nothing.
Shockingly, there is a new Looney Tunes program on Cartoon Network. Bugs and Daffy live in a McMansion and Porky is a cube drone. It’s sort of hysterical.
Did you know they are still making new episodes of Barney? My kids discover it every once in a while when they are trying to watch something else.
As for PBS and This Old House our station doesn’t ever rerun past seasons of that show at least not on the main feed. They had a Create channel for a while that ran past seasons but they were still new enough to have Kevin(?) as the host. There were two or three hosts between Bob Villa and Kevin and those episodes weren’t seen either. Bob Villa hasn’t been the host of TOH for over two decades.
Well, we’ve moved beyond the era where privately-owned video cameras were expensive and something a family might have only one of, dragged out to record get-togethers and parties and whatnot. More and more, the videos will be recorded by people on cellphones, with nary a home or relative in sight.
It’s off the air now, but in its last few years I was repeatedly shocked to know that “ER” hadn’t been canceled.
Actually, Cops hasn’t been canceled, just put in hiatus for the remainder of 2012. Fox will run more profitable sports programming in its place. The show will pick back up in January 2013 with 16-20 new episodes scheduled.
The other day I was flipping though the stations and stumbled upon Campus PD, same premise, very specific locations.
(PS, I swear I wrote that before I read the first line of the page I linked to)
I think it’s because CTV seems to keep on funding it in its quest to get something good enough to play on American primetime. It’s filmed in Toronto. My mom still watches it all the time.
I feel like they repeatedly announced that the current season would be the last. (I think the same thing happened with The X-Files.) IIRC, when Parminder Naga joined the cast it was said that this would be for the show’s final season. It ran for another five years after that “final” season.
I thought that the Drew Carey show was on for an awfully long time.
It still is. And he’s giving away cars!
This Old House has a syndicated version on regular TV, with bits cut out of each show to allow for commercials. And they run the shows in order, so if you watch for 18 weeks straight you’ll get the full project. They’re currently rerunning the modern Cambridge House series. The oldest season they rerun seems to be giant Carlyle Farm House. Definitely nothing in the Steve Thomas era anymore, let alone Bob Vila. 
Yes, but unfortunately not the Batmobile. :mad:
That’s the one I came in here to say. I remember being stunned in 2003 when I heard an interview with Carey and he mentioned that it was still on. According to its IMDB page, it actually lasted until 2004, nine seasons.
The show was pretty popular in the late '90s. I never watched it regularly myself, but I knew a lot of people who did. Then around 2000, it just stopped generating buzz, and people just sort of seemed to forget about it.