Show cancellations 2017

And then you have the shows that knew the end was coming, like "Orphan Black," "Girls," "The Vampire Diaries," "Bloodline," and "Vice Principals," which always planned on having two seasons. Amazon canceled this show about the life of Zelda Fitzgerald shortly after renewing it for a second season. Its upcoming sixth season, which has been delayed due to rewrites around the departure of Kevin Spacey, will be its last. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.

Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. One of the best buddy cartoons to ever get created -- yeah-yuh! It was quite a space-faring way to cap the series off, too, with the super-sized finale "A Regular Epic Final Battle" airing back in January, complete with Robert Englund reprising the role of Anti-Pops. The series often tackled societal issues in successful ways, and even though it was a hit with critics, there was obvious tension between Carmichael and some at NBC.

Things came to a head whenever the network delayed a shooting-centered episode after the tragedies in Virginia and San Francisco in June The actor wasn't pleased, and it wasn't long before he announced he was exiting the show, with his contract being up. NBC cancelled the show soon after. Unfortunately, the latter ran for only two episodes before getting yanked off the primetime schedule and being subsequently cancelled , making it the first big broadcast network axing of the year.

CBS later running the remaining 11 episodes on Saturday nights, without much fanfare involved. Fans of the Disney Channel original comedy Girl Meets World had their hearts broken when it was announced the channel would not be moving forward with a Season 4 order. A spinoff of the popular TGIF sitcom Boy Meets World , the Disney comedy was very good about mixing former cast members into the bunch, and it had quite a vocal fanbase.

However, the ratings dipped across its three seasons, and despite the fervent efforts of its creative team to find Girl Meets World a new home, the Matthews family adventures are a thing of the past. One of the more unique and engaging sci-fi dramas of the modern age, Orphan Black got five seasons to tell its complex and clone-filled story, with star Tatiana Maslany gaining a massive fandom for her distinct portrayals of all the different seestras.

And rather than getting to a point where the wheels were spinning empty yarns, BBC America and Space set up Season 5 to be the final batch of episodes , giving creators John Fawcett and Graeme Manson the chance to cap things off in the best way possible, although it could have used more dance parties. But there wasn't much bluster behind its mid-May debut, and six episodes into its eight-episode run, ABC cancelled Downward Dog , which aired its last two episodes a few days later.

It was one of the rarer times where a significant section of back-to-back episodes' audience stops watching after the first one ends. While reviews were on the "fine" side, the numbers were not on this show's side. For twelve mystery-driven seasons, Fox boasted one of the most successful primetime procedural dramas that wasn't created by Dick Wolf.

And though ratings drooped in later years, Bones never lost steam with its more dedicated fanbase who never tired of watching Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz being cutesy together while solving bone-related crimes. Fox decided that Season 12 would be the final one , and that shortened batch of episodes culminated in a crazy finale that ended on a heartwarming note.

And for what it's worth, Boreanaz is not interested in any future Bones reunions. It's not easy to think about any TV shows that covered the same kind of storylines as Halt and Catch Fire , which centered on the boom of personal computers in the s, as well as the early days of the World Wide Web.

Along with various forms of personal drama, of course. Halt and Catch Fire only seemed to build upon its already solid acclaim from season to season, though low ratings eventually sealed its fate, with AMC's Season 4 renewal coming with the caveat that it was the final season. And it was arguably the most well-received season of the bunch, too.

One of the more highly anticipated TV spinoffs in recent years, Fox tried to revive its hugely successful action drama 24 without the presence of leading man Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer. The results were enjoyable, but Legacy wasn't on par with the franchise's best years, and it only takes a cursory look at the ratings decline to figure out that viewers weren't so keen to find out how Corey Hawkins' Eric Carter and others saved the day.

And, though it seemed like the series might live on in an altered format, Fox called it quits after one season. While Bates Motel initially seemed like a strange idea for a series, since Norman Bates isn't your everyday primetime TV character, the drama was highly acclaimed during its five-season run. And it was mutually decided that the deadly drama was good to end after Season 5.

Based on the three novels co-authored by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, The Strain managed to stretch out the central tale of Humans vs. Strigoi for four blood-soaked seasons. That was a good sign of FX's faith in the horror drama, since viewership for The Strain fell off dramatically in its later seasons. But the channel did give the creative team the chance to end things with a purpose by announcing the show would end on Season 4. Ken may have not exactly been a ratings winner for ABC during its two seasons on the network, but it did bring in surprisingly decent and consistent numbers for a show that aired on the dreaded Friday night of the schedule.

The Ken Jeong comedy, which focused on the former actual doctor mining that profession for laughs, had numbers that were just good enough for Fridays, that is, until May when ABC decided to cut the show loose.

At least Dr. Ken was able to bring on Community creator Dan Harmon for an awesomely meta cameo in what turned out to be the series finale. The half-live-action, half-animated comedy about a barbarian from a mythical land who moves to Orange County, California got great debut numbers, but lost viewers in droves afterwards. When the Season 1 finale drew only 1. The show, which focused on a professional critic who reviewed real life experiences, was much loved by critics, but audiences never really found the show, with Season 2 numbers dipping to an average of , viewers.

What was a surprise was the announcement in March that the show would be ending with its fifth season, and that the network had already replaced the show with yet another version of the same story.

The current Ninja Turtles series will wrap up with a slightly shortened Season 5 run this November, and fall of will see the debut of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Here's a case of simple bad timing leading to the cancellation of a series. While Underground had solid ratings and good buzz along with notable critical praise for its two seasons on WGN America, the show was dropped as part of a move in a different direction for the network.

After four seasons of watching Matt LeBlanc play, well, Matt LeBlanc, in the send-up of Hollywood that was Episodes , Showtime and the creators of the comedy decided that their story was told.

The series was praised by critics and netted 10 Emmy nominations during its time on the air, and also a Golden Globe win for Matt LeBlanc in Season 5 of Episodes debuted in August and the series wrapped its run in early October. Most cancellations come down to either money or ratings, and in the case of the CBS comedy 2 Broke Girls , both factors seem to have been in play.

By the time Season 6 came to an end in April, the ratings were nothing to write home about, with only 5. Those numbers, coupled with the fact that CBS had to foot the bill for production on the show without seeing any of the syndication profits, probably led to the cancellation.

After reports came out that host Bill O'Reilly had paid five women to keep quiet about allegations of sexual harassment, the ratings for The O'Reilly Factor went up by about 20 percent. But, then, O'Reilly went on vacation, and with the bigwigs at Fox likely really, really tired of all the allegations of sexual misconduct coming to light in recent months, they decided not to welcome the host back from his time off and gave Tucker Carlson his spot.

O'Reilly's ousting brought an end to his time with the network, where he'd been a mainstay since Streaming service Hulu stepped in to save the day, and after three additional seasons of Mindy's complicated love-life and work-life, The Mindy Project is saying goodbye once again, this time for good.

Hulu made the announcement whenever Season 6 was ordered, so Kaling and her creative team had ample time to figure out how Mindy's story will wrap up. Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is one of the most beloved books of all time, and its timeless story got expanded in a big way for Black Sails , a swashbuckling drama that appeared to have a bottomless budget at Starz. After three seasons of high seas drama, Starz put in a renewal for Season 4 and simultaneously announced Black Sails would end after that batch of episodes.

Bittersweet for the show's dedicated if not enormous fanbase, but at least its ending was pre-planned and intentional. Back in , WGN America decided to get into the scripted programming game in a rather unintuitive way, by ordering up the supernatural period horror Salem , centering on the notorious Salem Witch Trials that took place in the s.

While the first season was celebrated for bringing in the channel's biggest viewership ever at the time, WGN America chose to later cancel Salem in the middle of its third season, which finished airing back in January.

For what it's worth, though, Salem actually outlasted all of WGN America's other original shows, such as Manhattan and two other shows on this very list. One of the most contentious cancellations of happened when ABC shocked millions of fans by dropping the axe on Last Man Standing , the post- Home Improvement sitcom from comedian Tim Allen.

Last Man Standing was performing about as well as a comedy could in Friday night primetime, but ABC explained the decision by saying they were shifting away from Friday night comedies in the future. Still, fans protested the choice, calling it a political decision to hurt the conservative-leaning Allen. There was a small chance the comedy could have ended up on CMT, but apparently Last Man Standing was too pricey, and so its six-season run is all we've got.

Along with Justified , Longmire will likely long be celebrated as one of TV's best neo-westerns, telling the story of Robert Taylor's archetypical Walt Longmire and all the ups and downs of life in Absaroka County. Unfortunately, that partnership will soon be coming to an end, as Netflix's Season 6 order was coupled with the news that it would be the show's last one with the streaming giant. Back in , it's likely that not a lot of people would have expected Workaholics ' trio of weed-schmoking slackers to turn the show into one of cable's longest-running comedies in recent years.

And Comedy Central likely would have wanted to keep it going for even longer, but creators Adam DeVine, Anders Holms, Blake Anderson and Kyle Newacheck actually came to the decision themselves that Season 7 would be the last. As such, they got to wrap things up in a way that both kept the status quo intact, and also kept things open-ended enough for a potential return in the future. In the past few years, Syfy has made a dedicated effort to return to the kind of science fiction programming that it was named for, and while the futuristic space drama's weekly audience was never the most impressive, its fanbase was as faithful as they come.

But after three seasons, Dark Matter was cancelled by Syfy, and co-creator Joseph Mallozzi later revealed that one of the main reasons the show got cancelled is because it was an acquisition and not a proper Syfy original series, making it less financially lucrative for the network.

There are hopes that someone else will head to space with a fourth season of Dark Matter , but it hasn't happened yet. Being executive produced by an NBA superstar LeBron James, to be exact almost certainly helped generate buzz for Survivor's Remorse when it debuted in , but the dramedy never really caught on with fans the way some of Starz other recent offerings did.

The show, which followed a recent NBA recruit and his family as they adjusted to the high-rolling lifestyle his professional athlete status now allowed for, only managed to get over a million viewers once across four seasons, and, in the end, that just wasn't enough for the network. The series was cancelled just a few days before the Season 4 finale aired. Game shows aren't automatic winners like they once were, even when they have big names attached as host like Craig Ferguson.

The former late night talk show host who won consecutive Daytime Emmy Awards for best game show host for the first two seasons helped guide two, two-person teams, each with a celebrity guest player, through the process of trying to guess the names of a variety of pop culture subjects like fictional characters and celebrity names. While fun, Celebrity Name Game didn't connect with viewers quite as well as FremantleMedia North America, which distributed the show internationally, had hoped and the show was cancelled during Season 3 last December.

Seven seasons is a good, long run that those involved with any TV show would hope for, so when Vampire Diaries creator Julie Plec announced that the supernatural drama would end after its eighth season at San Diego Comic-Con in , few were totally surprised. The series had lost one of its main characters when star Nina Dobrev left the show a few seasons prior, and ratings were not as strong as they had been.

Before the official announcement, there had been rumors that the end was nigh, but at least an agreement between the network and the show's creative team meant that fans were able to get a real ending to a show they helped support for so many years. While not a ratings or critical failure, Season 1 of Chicago Justice was middling, at best, in both respects, so it does make some sense that NBC would want to cut ties with the show before things went from so-so to out right bad.

Imaginary Mary had quite a few good things working for it when it came together at ABC. It was co-created by former Just Shoot Me! With obvious similarities to Drop Dead Fred , It starred Jenna Elfman as a woman reconnecting with her imaginary friend from childhood, Mary, as voiced by Rachel Dratch. But the final product was less than ideal, and ABC seemed to know it, delaying the project and slicing its episode order before its debut -- which was supposedly tied to animation issues -- and Imaginary Mary was cancelled after seven of its nine episodes aired.

As the longest-running comedy on Freeform, it seems that Baby Daddy was another casualty of changing network tides when the series was cancelled just a few days before the Season 6 finale.

Her current affair program began airing there in Notorious ABC The alphabet network has found ratings success with many of their Thursday night dramas.

Unfortunately, this show was a disappointment from the start. The Odd Couple CBS Thanks to disappointing ratings, this remake lasted for three seasons but generated just 38 episodes. Orphan Black BBC America The creators say that they wanted to end the show on their own terms and five seasons was all they wanted to do.

Series creator Josh Thomas later announced that season four is the end. Pretty Little Liars Freeform After months of rumors and speculation, the cable channel finally confirmed that season seven is the end for their popular drama series. Pure Hulu This Canadian drama series was cancelled after one season of six episodes.

Quarry Cinemax This story, about a Marine veteran who is shunned when he returns home from Vietnam in , has been cut short. The ratings fell in season two so it was cancelled.

Six months later, it was confirmed that that would be the end for the series. Regular Show Cartoon Network The eighth season of this animated series is the end. Reign The CW The network announced that season four is the end of this period drama series. Review Comedy Central The cable channel revealed that season three is the end of the road for reviewer Forrest MacNeil.

Rosewood FOX This series about a crime-fighting pathologist did well in its first season but the season two ratings took a nose-dive. Salem WGN America The cable channel cancelled this drama following a dramatic drop in the ratings year-to-year.

It was dropped after two low-rated seasons. The ratings saw a big drop in season four so the drama was cancelled.

So Cosmo E! This docu-series follows the lives of young people who work for the Cosmopolitan magazine. It lasted for one short season. Steve Harvey syndicated The daytime series is ending but Harvey is expected to return with a new talk show in the fall of The cable channel cancelled it a month after the finale aired. It was confirmed to be the final season in March The last episodes were delayed until