# What caused that TV show to end? (real life reasons) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 28, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229 "2005-06-28T17:27:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229/101 "2005-08-12T02:40:30Z")
> [@sleeepy2](#): > > If puberty is what killed Pete and Pete, well that’s just a freakin’ travesty. That show was at it’s creative peak when it was killed. > > **Batman: The Animated Series** was a critical and financial hit, but the network figured they had enough episodes in the can, and re-runs are cheaper than new episodes, and what the hell, it’s only kids watching and kids don’t care about re-runs, so they axed an enormously succesful show. > > YOU BASTARDS! It’s funny that the reason you give for the cancellation of **Batman: The Animated Series** was _exactly_ the same reason I saw given when **The Adventures of Pete and Pete** was cancelled. I remember reading an article at the time **Pete and Pete** went off the air that some Nick executive said it would be too costly to do a new season when their research showed that kids will watch the same episodes over and over. I thought that was a pinhead point of view then and I still think so. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229/102 "2005-08-12T20:33:32Z")
Step By Step (ABC / Part of Classic TGIF Block) Pretty much couldnt recover from Sasha Mitchell’s ( Cody ) Domestic Abuse. Hard for me to picture the Code-Man hitting his wife/GF but apparently, if memory serves me, he did, and got arrested. This was explained I bet, and Suzanne Sommers and Patrick Duffy had a kid, (Libby?) and Branson Pinchot (Unlce Luc) were called in. For me, the show lost nearly everything at that point. Family Matters (ABC Also Part of TGIF) stopped I think because Jaleel White ( Urkel // Stephan ) wanted to stop. And good call on his part. Urkel ((Which was to be a one episode chracter)) carried the show just past its shelf life. ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229/103 "2005-08-12T20:41:22Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > Family Matters (ABC Also Part of TGIF) stopped I think because Jaleel White ( Urkel // Stephan ) wanted to stop. And good call on his part. Urkel ((Which was to be a one episode chracter)) carried the show just past its shelf life. IIRC, the show got bumped over to CBS for its last season, they replaced the actress who played Harriette (but not the character, a 'la Becky on Roseanne), and I’ve read several bits of trivia that said the cast was unaware the show would be ending after the ninth season and only found out after CBS had destroyed the sets. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229/104 "2005-08-12T22:07:01Z")
I’ve never heard a satisfactory reason for why **My So-Called Life** was canceled … frickin’ loved that show. ---
**Author:** ![cruel\_butterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@cruel\_butterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cruel_butterfly)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229/105 "2005-08-12T22:55:22Z")
> [@liberty3701](#): > > I’ve never heard a satisfactory reason for why **My So-Called Life** was canceled … frickin’ loved that show. What are some of the _un_satisfactory reasons? I loved that show too. Now I have to be awake at 2:00 in the morning to catch it on some obscure teeny-bopper channel. Ugh! ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229/106 "2005-08-13T18:15:16Z")
Kind of off topic, but Arrested Developement has been sentenced to death with it’s Monday 8pm timeslot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-caused-that-tv-show-to-end-real-life-reasons/310229.md?page=5)