History ReplacementScrappy / LiveACtionTV

* At the beginning of season 4 on ''Series/LittleMosqueOnThePrairie'', [[TheVicar Reverend Magee]], who isn't entirely competent but at least tries to be a GoodShepherd, is PutOnABus and replaced by Reverend Thorne, who is like a more AffablyEvil SinisterMinister (it's CanadaEh, so he's more polite about it). Many of the fans who liked the lighthearted exchanges between Amaar and Duncan [[http://www.tv-eh.com/2009/09/18/little-mosque-on-the-prairie-returns-sept-28-with-a-new-arrival/ were not very happy]].

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'' Season III, Creator/NormanLovett was replaced by Creator/HattieHayridge as Holly. The in-show explanation was that Holly got a face-sex change. The new Holly for a some fans was never quite as funny to watch as the old Holly, and the show began to feature Holly less and less.

* ''Series/OneTreeHill'' Season 7 introduces main characters Clay Evans and Quinn James after former protagonist Lucas Scott and his OneTrueLove Peyton Sawyer were PutOnTheBus in the previous SeasonFinale. As both characters being a pastiche of various characteristics that Lucas and Peyton had, they didn't really enjoy the popularity of their predecessors.

* In ''Series/RedDwarf'' Season III, Creator/NormanLovett was replaced by Creator/HattieHayridge as Holly. The in-show explanation was that Holly got a face-sex change. The new Holly was never as funny to watch as the old Holly, and the show began to feature Holly less and less.

** Additionally, Kochanski in Season VII replaced Rimmer. Apart from the fact that she replaced the best character in the show, Kochanski herself wasn't funny or interesting at all. The fact that Kochanski had been fairly popular as a guest character, but was now a regular played by TheOtherDarrin didn't help.

* Happened in the [[MultiNationalShows Philippine edition]] of ''Series/{{Survivor}}''. After its second season, original host Paolo Bediones opts to change networks and was ultimately replaced by [[WTHCAstingAgency actor Richard Gutierrez for the role]]. Suffice to say, Gutierrez appeared ''way'' out of his league as the host. It doesn't help that the network [[CharacterShilling shilled Gutierrez]] in every given chance leading up to the third Season premiere.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Captain Roy Montgomery was replaced with Gates, who initially seemed pointlessly hostile towards Castle, behaved abrasively towards everybody, and to many fans seemed more two-dimensional and much less interesting. [[CharacterDevelopment She got better]].

* After Creator/ThomasHaydenChurch left ''{{Series/Wings}}'' to star in ''Series/NedAndStacy,'' his role as mechanic for the terminal was taken over by Budd Bronski, played by comedian Brian Haley. Budd was pretty much [[FlatCharacter unmemorable]] and had none of Lowell's CloudcuckooLander tendencies or really any foibles to exploit for comedy [[note]] (save for having been responsible for a plane crash in his past, which was dropped after its' only mention). [[/note]] Despite Haley being PromotedToOpeningTitles, Budd did very little for the next season and a half and was [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome eventually dropped from the show with no explanation]] with no one missing him.

* Rose on ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'' being portrayed by Shirley Stelfox in Series 1, then Mary Millar in all subsequent series (though this might actually be an improvement...).

* The numerous changes on ''Series/AreYouBeingServed'' resulted in a few ReplacementScrappy cases. Many fans despise Mr. Grainger's first replacement, Mr. Tebbs, even though cast members and numerous other fans have said that he did a brilliant job. More serious was Mr. Spooner's replacement of popular Mr. Lucas after the seventh series, though in the fans' defense, Mr. Spooner's personality was never developed beyond rudeness. Even more-hated was Old Mr. Grace for Young Mr. Grace, which was justifiable since it was tackily executed by pasting a middle-aged actor with loads of old-age makeup.

* Annie, the protagonist of ''Series/SoWeird'' Season 3, due to the fact that her existence is a direct result of ExecutiveMeddling depriving fans of the conclusion that the writers had been building up to for the previous two seasons.
* ''Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand'', mostly to TheOtherDarrin for specific characters.
** Lead star Creator/AndyWhitfield was diagnosed with Cancer immediately after the inaugural SeasonFinale, which ultimately forced production to recast the titular role. Creator/LiamMcIntyre was ultimately cast, but he had an uphill battle with fan appreciation thanks to Whitfield's performance being a ''very'' ToughActToFollow. Fortunately, [=McIntyre=] [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap stepped his game up during the final season and made the role his own]].
** Actress Creator/LesleyAnnBrandt opted not to return to the series after money disputes - so Creator/CynthiaAddaiRobinson took over as Naevia. The switch in actress unfortunately coincided with the time Naevia went through a massive character change. She TookALevelInJerkass and alternated between BloodKnight and DamselScrappy, causing many fans to abandon her. General consensus seems to be that Brandt would have been able to make viewers sympathise with Naevia's reaction to her TraumaCongaLine, but that the new actress and the switch in personality made her feel like a different character. It should be noted that it's not specifically due to actor consistency. If Addai-Robinson played Naevia from the beginning the case would be different.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' has a bit of this due to a refocus of the show. As a {{Long Runner|s}} set in a High School they had to either move up to college episodes or lose the older members of the cast... they eventually decided on the latter dropping most of the old cast and bringing in a bunch of new young cast members. Between Season 8 being a very weak season and the loss of so many fan favorites, the new cast was not taken well. Most have grown into their own but several never got past this and were dropped from the show. [[SatelliteLoveInterest Blue]] and [[FlatCharacter Leia]] being the poster children for this issue.

* Larry King and ''Larry King Live'' getting replaced by Piers Morgan and ''Piers Morgan Tonight'' on Creator/{{CNN}}. ''Larry King Live'' was ''the'' television interview program since 1985, a continuation of Larry King's radio program which ran since 1978. There was no way CNN could find a replacement who could live up to that legacy when they did not bother to renew King's contract in 2010, but going with the already controversial Piers Morgan was not a great choice (his show was axed after a mere three years).

** Paige is a notable aversion. True she was brought onto the show to replace Prue but she was fleshed out into a completely different character than Prue and is quite popular among fans. Most people who say they prefer the episodes with Prue and dislike the later seasons don't have a problem with Paige herself but rather the difference in tone.

*** Gavin Park was seen as an inferior replacement for Lindsay [=McDonald=] as Lilah Morgan's rival at Wolfram & Hart due to how smug and incompetent he was and just not being as effective a foil for Lilah as his predecessor.

*** In season five the simpering [[SmugSnake Eve]] replaced the vastly superior [[ManipulativeBastard Lilah]], to much dismay from the fans. Her role is also completely superfluous, as she's supposed to be the intermediary between the protagonists and the Senior Partners.....a role already taken by the Conduit. She was quickly replaced by [[TheDragon Marcus Hamilton]], who made no attempt to act as an ersatz-Lilah. Cordelia lampshades this trope in "You're Welcome", referring to Eve as "Lilah Jr."

*** Gavin Park was seen as an inferior replacement for Lindsay [=McDonald=] due to how smug and incompetent he was and just not being as effective a foil for Lilah as his predecessor.

*** Wesley joined the cast right after Doyle died. Doyle's popularity with fans, combined with the fact that fans weren't exactly eager for Wesley to come back, led to some serious anti-Wesley backlash. There was even a border-line lamp-shading moment where Wesley is called by Doyle's name accidentally and everyone suddenly feels very awkward. By the end of the season, however, he was generally accepted by fans and characters alike.
*** Spike's abrupt inclusion into the main cast, clearly a replacement for the similarly blunt Cordelia, was met with strong reactions with many of the longtime fans. After the overwhelmingly negative reception for the storyline that put Cordelia in the coma (that led to her exclusion from the main billing), many saw this as the last nail in the coffin for the series, fearing that Spike had only been brought in so that his fans would come over from ''Buffy'' and that [[SpotlightStealingSquad all the plots would end up being about him]]. This, however, wasn't a general consensus among fans, as some enjoyed Spike's role in the series, and the worst fears of him taking over the show weren't realized.

*** Willow's season seven girlfriend Kennedy was not well-received by fans, and not just because of her replacing [[EnsembleDarkhorse Tara]]. First off, introducing a new love interest for Willow so soon after [[spoiler:Tara's death]] was questionable; secondly, she came across as bratty, egotistical and selfish: she lied to get Willow to date her, never behaved sensitively re: the Tara issue, [[SatelliteLoveInterest talked about nothing other than herself and being gay]], etc. She also indirectly helped cause the suicide of one of the Potentials with her DrillSergeantNasty act; it was the [[BigBad First Evil]] that actually caused it, but Kennedy at least scores an assist (although given that Buffy's response was a "eulogy" about how pathetic the girl was, she probably wasn't alone in that). In the Season 8 comics, the writers finally wised up and had Willow break up with her. She was actually voted the most annoying TV character of 2002-2003 in a couple polls and was included on the list of most annoying TV characters ever by EW. The dislike wasn't universal however: Some reviewers at the time considered Kennedy one of the more interesting and likable aspects of the Potentials storyline, while the last volume of the unlicensed guide book ''Slayer'' provided a more even-handed look at Willow and Kennedy's relationship while acknowledging the flaws that caused many fans to reject it.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'''s Elizabeth Lochley was doomed to be disliked, as she was the replacement for the widely beloved Susan Ivanova. Combined with her [[AmicablyDivorced short-lived past marriage to Sheridan]] being seen as an implausible piece of melodrama that had never been so much as hinted at before, and the fact that Season 5 is considered the show's weakest, she couldn't really avoid it. It didn't help that Ivanova had been expected to continue on to season 5 as the new station commander so Lochley was going through storylines that had almost certainly been written for Ivanova. She became much more interesting in the spin-off ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' where no other main characters were carried over from Babylon 5 and she had a chance to become her own character rather than a {{suspiciously similar substitute}}.
* Tory Foster in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' was regarded as this after she replaced Billy who got killed in a terrorist attack.
** There are several shades to the story, though: Part of the reason why Tory was considered a scrappy was because Billy was seen as a very nice guy and a son figure for Roslin. On the other hand, some people took a liking for Tory precisely because she seemed cold and ruthless. So, she could have gone both ways. Unfortunately, bad writing and the lack of CharacterDevelopment ruined her. She got barely any exposition on her darker motivations, her relationship with the rest of the [[spoiler: Final Five]] or her past.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'''s Elizabeth Lochley was doomed to be disliked, as she was the replacement for the widely beloved Susan Ivanova. Combined with her [[AmicablyDivorced short-lived past marriage to Sheridan]] being seen as an implausible piece of melodrama that had never been so much as hinted at before, and the fact that Season 5 is considered the show's weakest, she couldn't really avoid it. It didn't help that Ivanova had been expected to continue on to season 5 so Lochley was going through storylines that had almost certainly been written for Ivanova. She became much more interesting in the spin-off ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' where no other main characters were carried over from Babylon 5 and she had a chance to become her own character rather than a {{suspiciously similar substitute}}.

* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': When Creator/ShelleyLong left the show at the end of the Fifth Season--and, therefore, Diane left Boston--the show brought in Rebecca. The writers made it a point to make Rebecca the exact opposite of Diane in nearly every single way: Self-centered and shallow (where Diane was kindhearted and caring), an obsessive gold-digger (where Diane had ''rejected'' her family inheritance to seek her own way), and ultimately, emotionally unstable (where Diane's problem was over-thinking things). ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and Rebecca was brunette and voluptuous as opposed to the blonde and slender Diane]].) Fan reaction was pretty icy, at first--until the writers stopped trying to make her an IceQueen StraightMan to Sam and more of a NervousWreck ButtMonkey (seemingly as though to provide catharsis for the fans of Diane).