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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized[[labelnote:*]]Sort of...when she apologized, she blamed medication that she was on...but then doubled-down and essentially reneged on her apology after her show was cancelled[[/labelnote]], it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized[[labelnote:*]]Sort of...when she apologized, she blamed medication that she was on...but then doubled-down and essentially reneged on her apology after her show was cancelled[[/labelnote]], it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.Barr; however since Roseanne owns a piece of the show's profits (since she co-created the show), there's a strong chance she will put the kibosh on these plans unless ABC rehires her.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized[[labelnote:*]]Sort of...when she apologized, she blamed medication that she was on...but then doubled-down and essentially reneged on her apology after her show was cancelled[[/labelnote]], it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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** Creator/JefferyTambor faced accusations of sexual assault and has been removed from Amazon show ''Series/{{Transparent}}'' and Disney animated show ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
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** Creator/JefferyTambor Creator/JeffreyTambor faced accusations of sexual assault and has been removed from Amazon show ''Series/{{Transparent}}'' and Disney animated show ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
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* In French sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'', the role ending misdemeanour for one actress wasn't asking for more money or being excessively [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] on set. (opinions vary). Cécile Auclert (Fanny) was exhausted by the workload, and was [[MakeAnExampleofThem deliberately dropped from the show]] after pleading for a let-up in the insane production schedule. She was followed very quickly by Hélène le Moignic (Magalie) who had simply had enough and walked out. while the door was held open for Auclert to return - she did so, briefly, before the end of the run - le Moignic was never offered the chance to return; her account is that the show completely severed its association with her after the last pay cheque and even those of her former co-stars who were sympathetic to her were ordered not to make contact. [[note]]Later in the series, Thierry Redler (Marc) dropped out of the show. like auclert, the option was kept open for him to return, which he did in the successor show. [[/note]]
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* In the French sitcom ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'', the role ending misdemeanour role-ending misdemeanor for one actress wasn't asking for more money or being excessively a [[ThePrimaDonna Prima Donna]] on set. set (opinions vary). Cécile Auclert (Fanny) was exhausted by the workload, and was [[MakeAnExampleofThem deliberately dropped from the show]] after pleading for a let-up in the insane production schedule. schedule, she was straight-up [[MakeAnExampleOfThem dropped from the show]]. She was followed very quickly by Hélène le Moignic (Magalie) who had simply had enough and walked out. while While the door was held open for Auclert to return - she did so, briefly, before the end of the show's run - le Moignic was never offered the chance to return; her account is that the show completely severed its association with her after the last pay cheque paycheck and even those of her former co-stars who were sympathetic to her were ordered not to make contact. [[note]]Later in the series, Thierry Redler (Marc) dropped out of the show. like auclert, Like Auclert, the option was kept open for him to return, which he did in the successor show. [[/note]]
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* Duane "Dog" Chapman's 1976 murder conviction (which was basically for being in the wrong place at the wrong time) scuttled his plans to appear on ''[[SeriesBigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''. The UK routinely denies travel visas to those with a murder conviction on their record, and did so in Chapman's case, making it impossible for him to take part.
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* Duane "Dog" Chapman's 1976 murder conviction (which was basically for being in the wrong place at the wrong time) scuttled his plans to appear on ''[[SeriesBigBrother ''[[Series/BigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''. The UK routinely denies travel visas to those with a murder conviction on their record, and did so in Chapman's case, making it impossible for him to take part.
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* Clayne Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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* Clayne Crawford, who played the lead character Riggs on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', ''Series/{{Lethal Weapon|2016}}'' TV series, was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sansBarr.Barr.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans
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* Before production of the seventh and last season began, ''Series/FantasyIsland'' co-star Hervé Villechaize was involved in a salary dispute. One big reason was that Villechaize not only felt underappreaciated by his co-stars but his wife Donna Camille divorced him; he requested a salary on par with Ricardo Montalban. Suffice to say, the then-40-year-old Villechaize was dropped from the series and he was unable to find any decent work aside from his philanthropist work, as he committed suicide ten years later.
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* Before production of the seventh and last season began, ''Series/FantasyIsland'' co-star Hervé Villechaize was involved in a salary dispute. One big reason was that Villechaize not only felt underappreaciated by his co-stars but his wife Donna Camille divorced him; he requested a salary on par with Ricardo Montalban.Creator/RicardoMontalban. Suffice to say, the then-40-year-old Villechaize was dropped from the series and he was unable to find any decent work aside from his philanthropist work, as he committed suicide ten years later.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment, and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment, comment (Barr's ex-husband Tom Arnold even suggested she ''wanted'' the series to get cancelled), and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories about other entertainers, which led to many believing that Barr isn't truly sorry about her racist comment, and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision.decision. ABC and the series' producers have mulled the possibility of a spin-off series that would retain the entire cast, sans Barr.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories, which evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories, theories about other entertainers, which evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular. Barr even made matters worse for herself by going on ''another'' [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/30/roseanne-barr-lashes-out-at-co-stars-blames-wanda-sykes-you-throw-me-under-the-bus Twitter tirade against members of the show's cast and crew]], and continuing to tweet out conspiracy theories, which evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season. It only took a few more hours for the three networks airing reruns of the original series (including CMT, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Nashville'') to drop them, plus Hulu eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular.
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* Gary Dourdan, who had been hinting that he might leave ''Series/{{CSI}}'', was finally written out of the show due to his personal problems; rumors that his drug charges were a direct cause are untrue.
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* Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her ''Series/{{Roseanne}} [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom'' sitcom]] after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season.
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* The 2018 revival of 90s sitcom ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' ended when star Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, single-handedly torpedoed the 2018 revival of her ''Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom'' after she made a racist tweet towards a former presidential aide to Barack Obama. She made an apology, but Although Barr apologized, it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season.
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* The 2018 revival of 90s sitcom ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' ended when star Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, made a racist tweet towards a former aide to Barack Obama. She made an apology, but it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later, despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season.
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* The 2018 revival of 90s sitcom ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' ended when star Roseanne Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, made a racist tweet towards a former aide to Barack Obama. She made an apology, but it was the final straw for ABC, who canceled the show just a few hours later, later despite it being initially renewed for an 11th season.
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* The [[Series/{{Roseanne}} 2018 Roseanne revival]] ended up cancelled after Roseanne Barr made a racist joke on Twitter to a former Obama aide. While she quickly did apologize for it, the damage was done and ABC cut all ties with her despite initially renewing the revival for another season.
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* The [[Series/{{Roseanne}} 2018 revival of 90s sitcom ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' ended when star Roseanne revival]] ended up cancelled after Roseanne Barr Barr, already infamous for her behavior on Twitter, made a racist joke on Twitter to tweet towards a former Obama aide. While she quickly did apologize aide to Barack Obama. She made an apology, but it was the final straw for it, ABC, who canceled the damage was done and ABC cut all ties with her show just a few hours later, despite it being initially renewing the revival renewed for another an 11th season.
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* Clayne Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
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* Clayne Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
* The [[Series/{{Roseanne}} 2018 Roseanne revival]] ended up cancelled after Roseanne Barr made a racist joke on Twitter to a former Obama aide. While she quickly did apologize for it, the damage was done and ABC cut all ties with her despite initially renewing the revival for another season.
* The [[Series/{{Roseanne}} 2018 Roseanne revival]] ended up cancelled after Roseanne Barr made a racist joke on Twitter to a former Obama aide. While she quickly did apologize for it, the damage was done and ABC cut all ties with her despite initially renewing the revival for another season.
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* Clayton Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
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* Clayton Clayne Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
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** Cosby himself would fatally slip up decades later; in 2014, he'd planned to return to Creator/{{NBC}} with a new sitcom. Once the project seemed to be heading to the greenlight stage, over a dozen women came forward claiming that Cosby had raped them years ago, and later a deposition from 2005 was unearthed where Cosby admitted under oath to procuring drugs so he could have sex with women who had taken them. The number of women who came forward kept going up, until [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases#Table_of_accusers'_allegations about 60 cases]] were documented in the media. The once devout fan base of Cosby began turning on him, and NBC, overwhelmed by public pressure, canceled the sitcom project before it could even reach development stage. Local stations and TV Land also began pulling reruns of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' from the airwaves in response to the allegations, with the latter going as far as [[UnPerson removing any mention of the show from their website]], and Cosby was stripped of many of his honors. A Netflix comedy special that had already been filmed was also canceled. Any chance of him making a comeback diminished severely, if not entirely, on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted in the ensuing trial, now facing the very real prospect of dying behind bars. A harbinger of how bad for him it'll be is that the last place in America still showing ''The Cosby Show'', Bounce, bounced the series from its schedule immediately after the verdict. Additionally, AMPAS sent him packing one week later, along with the aforementioned Roman Polanski. He also became the first person to be ever stripped of a Kennedy Center Honor or the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and nearly every college that gave him an honorary degree -- at one point, he was the most popular commencement speaker in the US -- took those away from him too.
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** Cosby himself would fatally slip up decades later; in 2014, he'd planned to return to Creator/{{NBC}} with a new sitcom. Once the project seemed to be heading to the greenlight stage, over a dozen women came forward claiming that Cosby had raped them years ago, and later a deposition from 2005 was unearthed where Cosby admitted under oath to procuring drugs so he could have sex with women who had taken them. The number of women who came forward kept going up, until [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases#Table_of_accusers'_allegations org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases#Table_of_accusers about 60 cases]] were documented in the media. The once devout fan base of Cosby began turning on him, and NBC, overwhelmed by public pressure, canceled the sitcom project before it could even reach development stage. Local stations and TV Land also began pulling reruns of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' from the airwaves in response to the allegations, with the latter going as far as [[UnPerson removing any mention of the show from their website]], and Cosby was stripped of many of his honors. A Netflix comedy special that had already been filmed was also canceled. Any chance of him making a comeback diminished severely, if not entirely, on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted in the ensuing trial, now facing the very real prospect of dying behind bars. A harbinger of how bad for him it'll be is that the last place in America still showing ''The Cosby Show'', Bounce, bounced the series from its schedule immediately after the verdict. Additionally, AMPAS sent him packing one week later, along with the aforementioned Roman Polanski. He also became the first person to be ever stripped of a Kennedy Center Honor or the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and nearly every college that gave him an honorary degree -- at one point, he was the most popular commencement speaker in the US -- took those away from him too.
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The Barney info regarding Salim Grant is merely a rumor, if anything. He left after being dissatisfied with the role, but other than that, it's pretty much unknown.
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* Due to offscreen tensions between Brian Eppes (Michael) and Salim Grant (Jason), among them an incident where Grant played the race card on Eppes ("It's because of my skin color, isn't it!?"), Jason lasted only three videos in the ''Barney and the Backyard Gang'' series before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome suddenly disappearing]]; his role in the series was subsequently filled by Derek (Rickey Carter) starting with the fourth video in the series, "Waiting for Santa".
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* Subverted by Dan Schneider. Though Nickelodeon dropped him following accusations of abusive behavior in April 2018, the timing happened to be coincidental, as Schneider's then-current programs with the network were all about to end anyway, and they ended up parting on amicable terms.
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* Subverted by Dan Schneider.Creator/DanSchneider. Though Nickelodeon dropped him following accusations of abusive behavior in April 2018, the timing happened to be coincidental, as Schneider's then-current programs with the network were all about to end anyway, and they ended up parting on amicable terms.
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* Clayton Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him that led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit to Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
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* Clayton Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him that led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit to if Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
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* Jeff Franklin, creator and producer of the sitcoms ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'', had his production deal not renewed by Creator/WarnerBros in February 2018 following accusations of abusive behavior both on the set as well as in the writer's room.
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* Jeff Franklin, creator and producer of the sitcoms ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'', had his production deal not renewed by Creator/WarnerBros in February 2018 following accusations of abusive behavior both on the set as well as in the writer's room.room.
* Clayton Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him that led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit to Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
* Clayton Crawford, who played the lead character on ''Series/LethalWeapon2016'', was fired from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. FOX and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him that led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit to Crawford continued with the show. He was [[TheOtherDarrin replaced]] as Riggs by Seann William Scott for the third season.
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* An anti-LGBT law in Tennessee granting immunity to counselors who redirect LGBT patients has been pointed to as a contributory factor to Creator/{{ABC}}'s surprise decision to cancel longtime survivor and cult classic ''Series/{{Nashville}}''[[note]]which had up to that point been known for being renewed each season despite constantly wavering ratings, and whose then-showrunner Dee Johnson is, ironically, an out lesbian[[/note]]; WordOfSaintPaul even hinted at the possibility of an activism-fueled axing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Which is all that needs to be said about that, really.]] The series was since picked up by Country Music Television around June 2016.
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* An anti-LGBT law in Tennessee granting immunity to counselors who redirect LGBT patients has been pointed to as a contributory factor to Creator/{{ABC}}'s surprise decision to cancel longtime survivor and cult classic ''Series/{{Nashville}}''[[note]]which had up to that point been known for being renewed each season despite constantly wavering ratings, and whose then-showrunner Dee Johnson is, ironically, an out lesbian[[/note]]; WordOfSaintPaul even hinted at the possibility of an activism-fueled axing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Which is all that needs to be said about that, really.]] The series was since picked up by Country Music Television around June 2016.2016, extending its run for a further two years before CMT moved to an all-unscripted format; the series finale is set to be broadcast in July 2018.
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Speculation. When Kristin Kreuk becomes unable to get hired on a film or a series or is prosecuted for it, we may talk about it.
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** It's safe to say that Allison Mack, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', had her career ruined after she got arrested for being a second-in-command in a sex trafficking cult. Things only got worse when it was revealed that she had also tried to get Creator/EmmaWatson (a known feminist) and Music/KellyClarkson on board in said cult as well (neither of whom responded), and Samia Shoaib [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ck4JTbYA said Allison "love-bombed" and "mirrored" her to trick her into joining this group]]. Time will tell whether or not the Mack scandal brings down the reputation of ''Smallville'' with it. Not only that but also, Lana's actress Kristin Kreuk was revealed to be a former member of NXIVM, and although she has made it clear that she had no involvement in the sex trafficking operation and has publically denounced the organization, it is very likely that her career will be permanently tarnished like Mack.
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** It's safe to say that Allison Mack, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', had her career ruined after she got arrested for being a second-in-command in a sex trafficking cult. Things only got worse when it was revealed that she had also tried to get Creator/EmmaWatson (a known feminist) and Music/KellyClarkson on board in said cult as well (neither of whom responded), and Samia Shoaib [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ck4JTbYA said Allison "love-bombed" and "mirrored" her to trick her into joining this group]]. Time will tell whether or not the Mack scandal brings down the reputation of ''Smallville'' with it. Not only that but also, Lana's actress Kristin Kreuk was revealed to be a former member of NXIVM, and although she has made it clear that she had no involvement in the sex trafficking operation and has publically denounced the organization, it is very likely that her career will be permanently tarnished like Mack.
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* Isaiah Washington's contract to the show ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' was not renewed for the show's fourth season as a result of some offensive homophobic remarks he made to [=T. R. Knight=], along with the cast's embarrassment over his remarks, including denying it (while using the exact word, which really didn't help) in a post-awards show press conference. He returned in an episode near the end of the tenth season as part of Sandra Oh's departure from the series.
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* Isaiah Washington's contract to the show ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' was not renewed for the show's fourth season as a result of some offensive homophobic remarks he made to [=T. R. Knight=], along with the cast's embarrassment over his remarks, including denying it (while using the exact word, which really didn't help) in a post-awards show press conference. He returned in an episode near the end of the tenth season as part of Sandra Oh's Creator/SandraOh's departure from the series.
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** Cosby himself would fatally slip up decades later; in 2014, he'd planned to return to Creator/{{NBC}} with a new sitcom. Once the project seemed to be heading to the greenlight stage, over a dozen women came forward claiming that Cosby had raped them years ago, and later a deposition from 2005 was unearthed where Cosby admitted under oath to procuring drugs so he could have sex with women who had taken them. The once devout fan base of Cosby began turning on him, and NBC, overwhelmed by public pressure, canceled the sitcom project before it could even reach development stage. Local stations and TV Land also began pulling reruns of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' from the airwaves in response to the allegations, with the latter going as far as [[UnPerson removing any mention of the show from their website]], and Cosby was stripped of many of his honors. A Netflix comedy special that had already been filmed was also canceled. Any chance of him making a comeback diminished severely, if not entirely, on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted in the ensuing trial, now facing the very real prospect of dying behind bars. A harbinger of how bad for him it'll be is that the last place in America still showing ''The Cosby Show'', Bounce, bounced the series from its schedule immediately after the verdict. Additionally, AMPAS sent him packing one week later, along with the aforementioned Roman Polanski.
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** Cosby himself would fatally slip up decades later; in 2014, he'd planned to return to Creator/{{NBC}} with a new sitcom. Once the project seemed to be heading to the greenlight stage, over a dozen women came forward claiming that Cosby had raped them years ago, and later a deposition from 2005 was unearthed where Cosby admitted under oath to procuring drugs so he could have sex with women who had taken them. The number of women who came forward kept going up, until [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_cases#Table_of_accusers'_allegations about 60 cases]] were documented in the media. The once devout fan base of Cosby began turning on him, and NBC, overwhelmed by public pressure, canceled the sitcom project before it could even reach development stage. Local stations and TV Land also began pulling reruns of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' from the airwaves in response to the allegations, with the latter going as far as [[UnPerson removing any mention of the show from their website]], and Cosby was stripped of many of his honors. A Netflix comedy special that had already been filmed was also canceled. Any chance of him making a comeback diminished severely, if not entirely, on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted in the ensuing trial, now facing the very real prospect of dying behind bars. A harbinger of how bad for him it'll be is that the last place in America still showing ''The Cosby Show'', Bounce, bounced the series from its schedule immediately after the verdict. Additionally, AMPAS sent him packing one week later, along with the aforementioned Roman Polanski. He also became the first person to be ever stripped of a Kennedy Center Honor or the Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and nearly every college that gave him an honorary degree -- at one point, he was the most popular commencement speaker in the US -- took those away from him too.
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** It's safe to say that Allison Mack, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', had her career ruined after she got arrested for being a second-in-command in a sex trafficking cult. Things only got worse when it was revealed that she had also tried to get Creator/EmmaWatson (a known feminist) and Music/KellyClarkson on board in said cult as well (neither of whom responded), and Samia Shoaib [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ck4JTbYA said Allison "love-bombed" and "mirrored" her to trick her into joining this group]]. Time will tell whether or not the Mack scandal brings down the reputation of ''Smallville'' with it.
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** It's safe to say that Allison Mack, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', had her career ruined after she got arrested for being a second-in-command in a sex trafficking cult. Things only got worse when it was revealed that she had also tried to get Creator/EmmaWatson (a known feminist) and Music/KellyClarkson on board in said cult as well (neither of whom responded), and Samia Shoaib [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ck4JTbYA said Allison "love-bombed" and "mirrored" her to trick her into joining this group]]. Time will tell whether or not the Mack scandal brings down the reputation of ''Smallville'' with it. Not only that but also, Lana's actress Kristin Kreuk was revealed to be a former member of NXIVM, and although she has made it clear that she had no involvement in the sex trafficking operation and has publically denounced the organization, it is very likely that her career will be permanently tarnished like Mack.
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* Gary Dourdan, who had been hinting that he might leave ''Series/{{CSI}}'', was finally written out of the show due to his personal problems; rumors that his drug charges were a direct cause are untrue.
** Another time, Jorja Fox was fired for skipping an episode due to a pay dispute. This proved unfortunate for George Eads who overslept that day and was also fired because they thought he was doing the same thing. Fox was later rehired when she worked out her dispute with the production company as was Eads when they realized it was a misunderstanding.
* After four great seasons writing and producing ''Series/TheWestWing'', Creator/AaronSorkin was asked to leave his position as Executive Producer after his drug scandal leaked out.
* Creator/ShannenDoherty's notoriously prickly personality has led to several examples of this:
** Her character on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' being killed off was heavily rumored to have been done at the request of her co-star Creator/AlyssaMilano, as it was well known that they [[HostilityOnTheSet hated each other]]. The writers notably included an episode where she spent most of the running time transformed into a [[JustForPun female dog]]. The message was certainly on the wall...through which Prue was then lethally thrown, making the season finale also [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a dropped bridge]]. And, given the show's universe, full of FridgeLogic, rendering it all even more obvious. Earlier at the end of Season 1, TW King was written out of the series - and a rumour was that it was because Doherty didn't like him.
** This was also why her character was ousted from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. She reportedly didn't get along with the remaining cast members, and thus, she was fired at the end of the fourth season and replaced with a new character played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.
* ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Two key characters were in limbo after being caught up in the fall-out from the Creator/JimmySavile business. Actors Michael [=LeVell=] (Kevin Webster) and Bill Roache (Ken Barlow) were temporarily written out of the show pending resolution of alleged under-age sex offences. Michael [=LeVell=]'s character came back, after spending a ''very'' long time visiting family. William Roache's character is now back as well. Les Battersby was also PutOnABus after his actor was overheard drunkenly complaining about the show in a pub.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the [[Series/DoctorWho Ninth Doctor]]: The showrunners and head writer Creator/RussellTDavies would have loved to keep a highly talented and famous[[note]](in British TV and theatre)[[/note]] actor like him, but Creator/ChristopherEccleston left the production after only one season. For a long time, he refused to publically say why and so wild rumors abounded - from the possible (the too stressful / badly organized filming schedule; one of the first season directors not taking the work on a kid's show seriously enough), to the ridiculous (Eccleston supposedly disliking Davies - when he'd specifically asked to be considered for the role because he'd enjoyed working with Davies so much on a previous project), to the downright defamatory (a ''Daily Mail'' gossip column claiming that he'd left because he didn't like the show having out gay characters). Several years later, Eccleston finally let slip during an acting class he was giving [[note]](with no official press in attendance; but many people have cameras nowadays...)[[/note]] that he left because some of the "higher-ups" (no names were named) treated the low-ranking members of the behind-the-camera crew very badly, and he didn't want to condone that behavior by renewing his contract and continuing to make money for them. Apparently the production team cleaned up their act afterwards, because the main actors of the following seasons had no such complaints.
* ''Series/EastEnders'':
** Melissa Suffield (Lucy Beale) got sacked after being caught going into London nightclubs while underage and getting unruly drunk. Her rather colorful social network sites might also have had something to do with it. The character was eventually reinstated with [[TheOtherDarrin a new actress]].
** Rob Kazinsky (Sean Slater) got a temporary ban from EE for sending photos of his nude self around.
** Leslie Grantham ("Dirty" Den Watts) narrowly evaded this at the start when it was revealed that the actor had served a "life" sentence (paroled after ten years) for murder. Creator/TheBBC stood by him, arguing that he'd learnt his lesson and every former criminal deserves rehabilitation, and he lasted several years on the show before leaving of his own volition. (The fact that he was playing a villainous, semi-criminal character rather than any kind of role model also may have helped.) However, he did suffer this at the end of his [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated second stint]] as a regular character on the show, forced to quit after Internet footage was released of him performing indecent acts in front of a webcam for what he thought was a single-person audience.
** Zigzagged by Danniella Westbrook (Sam Mitchell). In 1996 her character was axed from the show due to the controversy surrounding Westbrook's cocaine addiction. However, she returned to the role in 1999... [[HistoryRepeats only to be axed again the following year]] after her continued addiction ''completely eroded her septum''. Sam was brought back ''again'' in 2002, [[TheOtherDarrin with Kim Medcalf in the role]], then written out in 2005. When the character returned briefly in 2009 and 2010, Westbrook, who had by now cleaned up her act and had reconstructive surgery on her nose, was handed the role back.
* Sasha Mitchell's character Cody from ''Series/StepByStep'' was PutOnABus because of real-life domestic abuse allegations from Mitchell's wife. The worst part is that it turns out [[AllAbusersAreMale SHE was actually the violent one]] and he was trying to protect the kids.
* Glenn Quinn was removed from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' earlier than intended because of fears that his drug habit would rub off on Creator/DavidBoreanaz. He died from a heroin overdose three years afterward. They really had bad luck, since the character was originally meant to be Whistler from ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'', but that actor also had drug problems. WordOfGod is that they had planned to bring Quinn back in Season 3 but he had already passed away.
* Creator/JulieBenz was removed early on from the show ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' in part due to tensions on set during Season 1. Creator/AlysonHannigan has hinted in interviews that Benz was very mean towards her in particular. The incident prompted Benz to clean up her act, and [[SubvertedTrope she reappeared on the spinoff]] ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and was brought back for a few more ''Buffy'' episodes. Years later, she was regarded by the cast and crew of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' as one of the nicest and most agreeable cast members.
* Anonymous reports from crew members claim both Creator/MichaelPitt and Paz de la Huerta were written off of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' for prima donna behavior on the set, with de la Huerta's character PutOnABus and Pitt's being KilledOffForReal.
* On the Dick Van Patten show ''Series/EightIsEnough'', regular cast member Willie Aames was fired because of his drinking problem.
* Yancy Butler had to leave ''Series/{{Witchblade}}'' because of her alcoholism. Since she played title character Det. Sara Pezzini, the show left with her.
* While it had already ended production, ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' had its reruns cut short by Creator/{{CBS}}, thanks to Paul Reubens' indecent exposure. Kinda hard to reconcile that fact with Pee Wee Herman, [[IAmNotSpock no matter the protests]] [[ContractualPurity to the contrary]]. The rumors that circulated at the time that Reubens had done it deliberately to invoke this trope and finally get rid of his [[IAmNotSpock career-starting but then career-limiting character]] didn't help matters.
* Angus Deayton was presenter of ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' until lurid tales of drugs and [[HoneyTrap disguised prostitutes]] came to light. He was mocked relentlessly on the show, then booted out. Paul Merton later claimed that it wasn't Deayton's behavior itself that led to his dismissal, but rather that it would make it near-impossible for him to fulfill his role of skewering politicians and other public figures for the exact same behavior; the few episodes he filmed after the story broke suffer for that very reason. The format relies on his playing the StraightMan, and he'd become the ButtMonkey. He later hosted ''Series/WouldILieToYou'' for its first two series before being replaced from it as well.
* ''Series/BluePeter'':
** Subverted with Richard Bacon, who was dismissed for doing cocaine. He has since done a lot of other, grown-up television since getting kicked off the show, even on the BBC itself.
** Subverted with Peter Duncan, whose appearance in a soft porn movie was revealed soon after he joined ''Blue Peter'', but Creator/TheBBC stood by him and he remained on the show for several years.
* Isaiah Washington's contract to the show ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' was not renewed for the show's fourth season as a result of some offensive homophobic remarks he made to [=T. R. Knight=], along with the cast's embarrassment over his remarks, including denying it (while using the exact word, which really didn't help) in a post-awards show press conference. He returned in an episode near the end of the tenth season as part of Sandra Oh's departure from the series.
* On ''Series/{{Scandal}}'', Columbus Short's Harrison Wright ended up KilledOffForReal after his last appearance in the third season finale after continual domestic violence allegations made it untenable for Shonda Rhimes to keep him on the series further.
* Yeoman Rand from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', if Creator/WilliamShatner is to be believed. While Grace Lee Whitney did have alcohol/drug issues, others say Rand was transferred to another starship due to the writers not wanting a love interest for Kirk on the ship, while others claim that she was fired after threatening to expose her sexual assault by a studio executive. However, Grace Lee Whitney did get to reprise her role as Rand in two of the Star Trek movies (''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' as the transporter operator and ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' as a member of the ''Excelsior'''s crew) and returned for the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Flashback", taking place during ''VI''.
* Michael Moriarty claims that he was written off of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' because of his open criticism of then-Attorney General Janet Reno, who had cited ''Law & Order'' as offensively violent, which Moriarty considered meant that she would attempt to censor the show. Dick Wolf for his part claims that his reaction to Reno was just the latest and most public example of Moriarty's "erratic behavior", which included Moriarty basically bungling a meeting he, Wolf, and other television executives had with Reno to dissuade her from supporting any law that would censor the show when Moriarty overreacted to any effect the law was likely to have on the show, and it was his on-set behavior (which included the filming of an episode during which Moriarty was unable to deliver any of his lines with a straight face) that got him canned. He later fled to Canada and publicly declared himself a "political exile" (over [[SmallNameBigEgo an acting gig?]]).
* Allegedly happened twice in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. First Brody was allegedly written out because Max Perlich had drug and arrest issues. Then, more controversially, it's been rumored that Howard was dropped because of press stories about unpleasant events involving Melissa Leo and her then ex-partner, despite the fact that she was most likely the victimized party in the situation. Notably, Max Perlich played Whistler from the above ''{{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' example, and was not carried over to ''Series/{{Angel}}'' because of his issues.
* By some accounts, Creator/LindsayLohan's stint on ''Series/UglyBetty'' was cut short due to [[SmallNameBigEgo outrageous diva behavior]] on her part. Other sources claim it was due to CreativeDifferences (if this is true, we might presume Lohan was upset that her character was set up as a FallenPrincess only to be turned into a jerk for no reason).
* Alastair Stewart, British newsreader and host of documentary series ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' had his contract terminated in 2003 for a drink-driving offense (his second one, he'd referred to the first one previously in a November 1994 episode, the show's ''second episode'') and was relegated to intro and outros in the [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]] version of it, which was now presented by Alastair Stewart and Adrian Simpson, as of September 2007. Surprisingly, he was allowed to present the special edition episode ''Ultimate Pursuits'' in September 2007.
* Carl Anthony Payne was allegedly fired from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' for [[DisproportionateRetribution refusing to cut his hair]].
** Some sources say that Lisa Bonet was exiled from the show to its SpinOff ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' after doing an explicit sex scene in the movie ''Film/AngelHeart''. Others say Bonet (who apparently is an even bigger {{Cloudcuckoolander}} than her character, Denise) constantly butted heads with Creator/BillCosby, who used ''Film/AngelHeart'' as a "last straw" excuse.
** Cosby himself would fatally slip up decades later; in 2014, he'd planned to return to Creator/{{NBC}} with a new sitcom. Once the project seemed to be heading to the greenlight stage, over a dozen women came forward claiming that Cosby had raped them years ago, and later a deposition from 2005 was unearthed where Cosby admitted under oath to procuring drugs so he could have sex with women who had taken them. The once devout fan base of Cosby began turning on him, and NBC, overwhelmed by public pressure, canceled the sitcom project before it could even reach development stage. Local stations and TV Land also began pulling reruns of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' from the airwaves in response to the allegations, with the latter going as far as [[UnPerson removing any mention of the show from their website]], and Cosby was stripped of many of his honors. A Netflix comedy special that had already been filmed was also canceled. Any chance of him making a comeback diminished severely, if not entirely, on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted in the ensuing trial, now facing the very real prospect of dying behind bars. A harbinger of how bad for him it'll be is that the last place in America still showing ''The Cosby Show'', Bounce, bounced the series from its schedule immediately after the verdict. Additionally, AMPAS sent him packing one week later, along with the aforementioned Roman Polanski.
* Chris Langham was written out of ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', despite playing the main character. Being arrested for downloading kiddie porn will do that to you. [[BreakoutCharacter Malcolm Tucker]] (Creator/PeterCapaldi) became the de facto main character from the 2007 specials onward.
* Rebecca Gayheart's involvement in a 2001 vehicular manslaughter may have contributed to her departure from ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' after 5 episodes. In that series, she [[FunnyAneurysmMoment played the role of a "Grim Reaper"]], helping the dead pass on to the afterlife. According to [[http://tviv.org/Dead_Like_Me/Betty_Rhomer this]], Gayheart's character Betty was written out by the fifth episode intentionally, though the series creator, Bryan Fuller, had to fight with studio execs to prevent Gayheart from being replaced by another actress. If Fuller hadn't left the series early in the first season, Betty would have returned by the beginning of the second season, which is what he had intended. Once he left, the studio execs changed the plotline for the second season so that Betty would never return.
* Julie [=McCoy=] was written out of ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' after Lauren Tewes's cocaine addiction made it impossible to perform her job. It didn't help that she started making very bizarre claims to reporters, such as the claim that she could tie knots with her toes.
* Kevin Lloyd played the very popular Tosh Lines in ''Series/TheBill'' from 1988 to 1998. He was known as a drinker, but sadly, throughout this period, his drinking gave way to full-blown alcoholism. It affected his professionalism, and the series dropped him after it caused him to arrive late for work one time too many. If the decision to fire him was intended to help him, it backfired tragically: Kevin Lloyd's drinking problem cost him his life a mere week after he was sacked.
* Actor Jim Fitzpatrick, who played Pierce Riley on the U.S. soap opera ''Series/AllMyChildren'' was fired abruptly in early 1996 after an incident in a New York City bar which involved him assaulting a woman--groping her and trying to drag her off into an empty hallway where he would no doubt have likely raped her had other bar patrons not intervened. Similarly, actor Michael Nader was fired from his role as Dimitri Marick in early 2001 after a ''second'' arrest for drug use. Producers had bought his excuses for a previous arrest for drunk driving and had attempted to make allowances for him to attend rehab, but his second arrest was the last straw for them.
* Initially played straight by actress Melissa Reeves, who played Jennifer Horton in ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', after she quit the show in late 1995. It was later discovered that her husband, Scott Reeves, had walked in on her and her co-star Jason Brooks having sex in her dressing room and had demanded that she quit ''Days'' if she wanted to save their marriage. The result was a tearful early-morning phone call to the show's producers informing them that she would not be reporting to work that day or any time in the near future. After several years of considerable uproar--along with the personal fallout, ''Days'' sued her for breach of contract--not only was their marriage saved (they're still together as of November 2014), but the trope was eventually averted when she returned to the show in 2000 for six years, and returned again in 2010.
* Chicago sportswriter Jay Mariotti, a regular panelist on the ESPN show ''Series/AroundTheHorn'', was fired from the show in 2010 after he was arrested for domestic assault. He would return to ESPN in a reduced capacity in 2013, one that didn't include his return to ''Around the Horn''.
* ''Series/AmericanIdol'':
** When racy (though not nude) pictures of Frenchie Davis emerged, she was dismissed from the show.
** Both Corey Clark and Jermaine Jones were also removed for having criminal records that they lied about.
* After boosting viewer figures for ''Series/AllyMcBeal'', Creator/RobertDowneyJr was fired from the show (and his character Larry Paul written out) after being arrested for violating his parole. It soon became apparent that this was actually worse than just a ''Role'' Ending Misdemeanor as ratings went back down again and the show was cancelled at the end of the fifth season, making the parole violation a ''Show'' Ending Misdemeanor in the process.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'':
** Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, where do we ''begin'' with Creator/CharlieSheen? Allegations of domestic abuse didn't cut it. Getting arrested and put in jail in Aspen for violating a restraining order didn't cut it. No, for him to get kicked off of the show, it took: Sheen getting sent to the hospital for suffering a hernia while engaging in what was, by all accounts, a cocaine-fueled orgy; taking a leave of absence to go into rehab, putting the show on hiatus in the process; calling up Creator/AlexJones and complaining about the show's co-creator and executive producer, Creator/ChuckLorre, his co-stars, and the higher-ups at Creator/{{CBS}}; and demanding ''$3 million per episode'' once he returned (compared to his previous salary of $1.8 million per episode, already a rather staggering amount) for the show to finally drop him, [[McLeaned killing his character]] ([[DroppedABridgeOnHim and making sure Sheen himself could never,]] ''[[DroppedABridgeOnHim ever]]'' [[DroppedABridgeOnHim come back to the show]]), and replacing him with Creator/AshtonKutcher. It should be noted, however, that Lorre had actually made repeated attempts to fire Sheen long before the grand event happened, and only didn't succeed because CBS always thwarted the attempts to can Sheen out of fear that Sheen's absence would severely damage the show's ratings base.
** Angus T. Jones, who played Jake Harper in the series, found the show's crude subject matter to be conflicting toward his religious upbringing. It all boiled over when Jones told ''Christianity Today'' that he was a "paid hypocrite" and that the show was "filth". Once the comments were made public, CBS suspended Jones and announced that his character would be reduced to a recurring role in the eleventh season. It was then decided to have his role completely written off the series, and he did not appear at all in the eleventh season. The fallout from the controversy led Jones to be blacklisted from any Hollywood work aside from ''Two and a Half Men'' and he retired shortly after his character was written off the series.
** Both Jones and Sheen were eventually invited back for the GrandFinale. Only the former accepted, however; the latter insisted on a [[SequelHook hook]] for a SequelSeries, which was rejected.
* Sheen went on to star on FX's ''Series/AngerManagement''. While he's pulled some prima donna behavior there as well, he was able to get Creator/SelmaBlair fired for complaining about it, so he seems to be invulnerable for now. [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/charlie-sheen-no-shows-delay-687040 Although...]]
* Adrienne Bailon staged a [[WhatAnIdiot fake nude photo controversy]] involving a stolen laptop with her agent and then-boyfriend Rob Kardashian in order to boost her fading career. The controversy caused a cancellation of Film/TheCheetahGirls performance at the 2008 UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade, and eventually led to the Cheetah Girls' dissolution. Previously, Bailon's recurring character was also dropped from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' because of backstage catfights with Creator/RavenSymone. Raven eventually left the Cheetah Girls as well (she was never an official member and only worked with the group for their first two films).
* Artie Lange was fired from the original cast of ''[[Series/MADtv [=MAD=]tv]]'' after season two due to his cocaine addiction (ironically FOX did allow Artie to do a cameo on a latter episode, where they make fun of the reason he was kicked off). After his dismissal, he caught on as a regular on Creator/HowardStern's radio show, but lost that job in 2009 because of his continued drug and alcohol problems. Lange was clean for several years following his 2010 suicide attempt, but his bad behavior and poor work ethic has continued: In 2014, he was banned from appearing on ESPN programming after a string of racist, sexual tweets that he made about ''First Take'' host Cari Champion. He was arrested for drug possession in 2017, but the incident did not result him losing his role on the HBO sitcom ''Crashing''.
* Creator/JessicaBiel did a racy photo shoot specifically to get out of wholesome family drama ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' because she felt her [[ContractualPurity squeaky-clean image]] was making her miss out on serious dramatic roles. It didn't quite get her fired, but it did drastically reduce her screen time.
* Averted by Tommy Chong on ''Series/That70sShow'' following his arrest for drug paraphernalia possession (i.e. the FBI had raided his bong manufacturing business) and nine-month jail term. The producers told him he was chosen for his role ''because'' he was a stoner when he worried about his future on the show; true to their word, his character was PutOnABus for the duration of Chong's sentence and returned from a vacation when Chong was released.
* After Mitchell Musso's DUI bust, his character on ''Series/PairOfKings'' moved to Chicago and was replaced by a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, as Disney has a rather hardline stance toward reckless behavior (see the Adrienne Bailon example above). His hidden camera show ''[=PrankStars=]'' was similarly killed four episodes into its run, with the remainder of the episodes that had not aired burned off in the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom solely to get copyright protection. On a side note, he did not lose his other Disney job, voicing Jeremy on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''; it helped his case that it's one of their most popular shows and, unlike ''[=PoK=]'', would be extremely noticeable and difficult if they recast or got rid of the character, and also that the creators spoke on his behalf to let him stay.
* Creator/BrettRatner resigned from producing the 2012 Oscars under public pressure after he made a gay slur and bragged about his alleged sexual encounters with Creator/OliviaMunn and Creator/LindsayLohan. This led to the scheduled host, Creator/EddieMurphy, resigning as well because he didn't want to perform without Ratner. Billy Crystal replaced Murphy.
* A ''series'' ending one: HBO had agreed to give ''Series/{{Luck}}'' a second season very early in its run, but then quickly cancelled it after the public relations nightmare of [[RuleOfThree three horses being killed on set]]. However, all three deaths were purely accidental, and something HBO was trying much harder to prevent than other producers of horse-riding TV shows.
* Eventually averted with William Talman, who portrayed D. A. Hamilton Burger on ''Franchise/PerryMason''. He was arrested under circumstances which CBS decided violated the morals clause in his contract and subsequently fired. He was found innocent at trial, however, and thanks to vigorous campaigning by his co-stars, was eventually rehired.
* Rip Torn's character on ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Don Geiss, died of a heart attack between seasons after Torn's increasingly bizarre behavior culminated in him [[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20001423-504083.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody breaking into a bank]] in 2010. His character in the ''Film/MenInBlack'' franchise was similarly McLeaned in ''Men in Black III'' for the same reasons.
* ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' series co-star Howard Rollins was eventually dropped from the show after repeated legal problems, including cocaine possession and a DUI.
* Actor and comedian Fred Willard [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fred-willard-loses-pbs-job-after-arrest/ lost his job]] as the narrator of PBS show ''Market Warriors'' after being arrested for lewd acts in a pornography theatre, and his ABC series was also yanked off the air prematurely, resulting in a pair of {{Missing Episode}}s.
* Duane "Dog" Chapman's 1976 murder conviction (which was basically for being in the wrong place at the wrong time) scuttled his plans to appear on ''[[SeriesBigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''. The UK routinely denies travel visas to those with a murder conviction on their record, and did so in Chapman's case, making it impossible for him to take part.
* Alexa Nikolas was removed from ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'' because she didn't get along with Jamie Lynn Spears.
** Though contrary to popular belief, this is not what happened to the show itself. Filming of the last season was completed by the time Jamie Lynn announced her pregnancy. Nickelodeon decided to show support and air the show despite complaints.
* Jay Thomas was fired from ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' after someone called him on his radio show asking what it was like working there and he replied "Ugh, it's horrible. For one thing, I have to kiss Rhea Perlman." While Perlman ''[[ImStandingRightHere happened to be listening]]'', no less.
* In a sort of amusing irony, ''Series/{{Watchdog}}'' and ''Rogue Traders'' co-host Dan Penteado was apparently fired after being arrested for benefit fraud and jailed. Considering the shows are meant to be about rip offs and con artists, this ended up being mentioned by one of the rogues confronted on the show afterwards.
* E4 have tried to deny it, but it's widely believed that Kelly being PutOnABus between two seasons of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' with no proper farewell scene was due to Lauren Socha's conviction for racially aggravated assault on a cab driver in 2012.
* In an example similar to that which happened on ''Sries/TheCosbyShow'', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had a CuteClumsyGirl character named Sonya Gomez, played by Lycia Naff. She was intended to be a recurring character and appeared in two early episodes, but the character was never mentioned again because Naff took a role as the triple-breasted hooker in ''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
* After the death of one of its participants during production on the second season, MTV executed ''Buckwild'' by canceling it ''and'' clamping down tightly on the rights, going so far as to outright refuse to allow its producers to shop the series to another network.
* Creator/FoodNetwork examples:
** Paula Deen's long-running show was canceled [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/paula-deen-fired-food-network-cancels-show-after-racism-scandal_n_3480517.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular after audio of her using the "N word" and making off-color jokes concerning minorities and Jews was discovered.]] After her admittance to using racial slurs with no regrets whatsoever and the resulting backlash against her, the network chose not to renew Paula Deen's contract and ceased any and all involvement with her. Shortly after, Deen's endorsement deals began to rapidly fall from the sky. At least one article has been written that suggests that the N-word incident was just the final nail in the coffin, and Food Network had already been trying to get rid of her anyway because she didn't draw the 18-49 crowd advertisers love.
** Robert Irvine was suspended from his first series, ''Series/DinnerImpossible'', after it was discovered that he had padded his resume rather outrageously (including claiming to have worked on Charles and Diana's wedding cake and having been a White House chef), and he was replaced by Series/IronChef Michael Symon. However, [[SubvertedTrope this trope ended up being subverted in Irvine's case in the end]], since a combination of his popularity with viewers and his eating humble pie brought him back to the show after seven months out in the cold.
** Have you ever wondered why Lenny [=McNab=], winner of ''Series/TheNextFoodNetworkStar'''s tenth season, never wound up with his show? Shortly afterward, allegations of him being racist, sexist, and otherwise rude toward various Food Network personalities behind everyone's backs cropped up. As a result, Lenny wound up being let go and so far is the only winner on the show to be denied his Food Network program.
* Jeff Conaway's drug problems got him fired from ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' after he was discovered in his trailer too strung out to work. His character Bobby Wheeler's lines were divided among other characters, causing the producers to realize they didn't need Conaway and the headaches he caused at all. His career had a slight bounce with a recurring-then-permanent character in ''Series/BabylonFive'', but his habits kicked in harder after that series, with only bit parts in films and movies, including a HarsherInHindsight guest role in ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' before his death in 2011.
* Bob Vila, the host of the Creator/{{PBS}} series ''Series/ThisOldHouse'', was a real pain in the neck for the show's construction crew to deal with. Among other things, he ended up [[SpotlightStealingSquad hogging the spotlight]]. However, the last straw was when, before the 1989 season, he appeared in ads for Rickel Home Centers, a competitor to series sponsor Home Depot. He was shortly fired for endangering the series, as Home Depot had dropped its sponsorship as a direct result of the ads.
* RKO General was permanently banned from broadcasting in 1987 due to a wide variety of licensing misconducts dating back to 1965. The FCC vowed to reject any appeals on the decision; however, it gave RKO General the opportunity to wind down its operations peaceably, which it did by 1991, after which it went out of business. An epic case of a Company Ending Misdemeanor if there ever was one.
* Due to offscreen tensions between Brian Eppes (Michael) and Salim Grant (Jason), among them an incident where Grant played the race card on Eppes ("It's because of my skin color, isn't it!?"), Jason lasted only three videos in the ''Barney and the Backyard Gang'' series before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome suddenly disappearing]]; his role in the series was subsequently filled by Derek (Rickey Carter) starting with the fourth video in the series, "Waiting for Santa".
* Before production of the seventh and last season began, ''Series/FantasyIsland'' co-star Hervé Villechaize was involved in a salary dispute. One big reason was that Villechaize not only felt underappreaciated by his co-stars but his wife Donna Camille divorced him; he requested a salary on par with Ricardo Montalban. Suffice to say, the then-40-year-old Villechaize was dropped from the series and he was unable to find any decent work aside from his philanthropist work, as he committed suicide ten years later.
* Stephen Collins' career was already flagging following the cancellation of ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', along with his highly-publicized divorce with Faye Grant. The straw that finally broke the camel's back, however, came when TMZ leaked an audio recording of Collins admitting to Grant during a therapy session that he had molested several underage girls for years. The massive media and public fallout directly resulted in multiple stations, TV Guide Network and Up TV pulling reruns of ''7th Heaven'' from circulation (CBS Drama in the UK also abruptly pulled the show from its schedule), Creator/SethMacFarlane firing him from production of the sequel to ''Film/{{Ted}}'', being forced to resign from his post in the Screen Actors Guild Board, his character in ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' getting McLeaned after announcing his intent to return in Season 4, and all of his agents dropping him.
* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'', Superboy's first actor John Haymes Newton was fired and replaced by Gerard Christopher after a DUI arrest and because Newton demanded a 20% pay raise.
* Within the course of a year, Discovery Communications, parent company of Creator/{{TLC}} and the Creator/DiscoveryChannel, was hit with ''three'' child abuse controversies, leading to the cancellation of all three shows:
** TLC's reality show ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' was promptly canceled after TMZ revealed that Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson's mother June Shannon ("Mama June" in the series) was dating a man convicted of child molestation a decade before. What made things more shocking was the later revelation that the victim of the molestation was June's '''daughter''', Anna, and that ''she'' was the one that blew the whistle.
** Two months before, the Discovery Channel canceled ''Series/SonsOfGuns'' after star Will Hayden was arrested and charged with multiple child rape offenses. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere His firearms company promptly severed all ties with him in an attempt to clean their hands of the matter]].
** Josh Duggar [[TakingYouWithMe took his whole family with him]] after he confessed to molesting several girls, ''including his sisters'', when he was a teenager. He resigned from his position at the Family Research Council and TLC pulled repeats of ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' from their lineup, before finally canceling it after several weeks of uncertainty as to the show's future.
* Before he began hosting ''[[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Real Time]]'' on Creator/{{HBO}}, Bill Maher had ''Politically Incorrect'', a politically centered late-night talk show exploring controversial topics and subject that were unusual for a typical talk show. It was so successful on Creator/ComedyCentral that after five years at that network it moved to Creator/{{ABC}}, where it gained even higher ratings. However, it all came to an end in an episode airing just six days after 9/11, in which Maher agreed with conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza over disputing then-U.S. President George W. Bush's claim that the 9/11 hijackers were "cowards", stating that "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." The massive public outcry resulted by the offending comments led to the show bleeding sponsors and viewers, enough that ABC canceled the series in July of the following year due to continued loss of advertiser support[[note]]Which countered popular belief that the comments were a direct cause for the cancellation[[/note]]. However, HBO, who co-produced and co-owned ''Politically Incorrect'', stood by Maher's side and offered him another go on their own channel with ''Real Time'', a similar talk show that years later would prove to be more successful than ''Politically Incorrect'' ever was.
* Tony Rosato, formerly of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and ''Series/{{SCTV}}'', barely averted this. After his domestic violence incident and arrest in 2005 he took a leave from show business in order to treat his mental health problems, much of which stemmed with his divorce. Although he came clean and was offered small roles in various Canadian indie movies in the years that followed, he died of a heart attack in 2017 without ever regaining any of his former glory.
* WebOriginal/{{Vine}} star Curtis Lepore was dropped from Creator/RainnWilson's TV show, ''Hollywood and Vine'' after Lepore was accused of raping his girlfriend in early 2014. He's still very active on Vine, however.
* ''Series/TopGear'' host Jeremy Clarkson's contract with the BBC was not renewed after he got into an offstage argument over catering arrangements with an assistant producer that eventually resulted in Clarkson punching said producer in the face. He was initially suspended after the highly-publicized incident, but when a BBC investigation concluded that he indeed did punch the producer[[note]]Physical violence between employees is an unendurable breach of rules in the BBC's employee ethics code[[/note]], the hammer was ultimately dropped; his contract, which was up for renewal, would not be picked up.[[note]]Notably, he was not banned from the BBC, going on to appear on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' and ''Series/{{QI}}'' a few months afterward.[[/note]] Co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond, also looking at contract renewals, [[TrueCompanions decided not to go on without Clarkson]] and left the series as well, although they have continued to present BBC programmes here and there. The BBC decided to continue ''Top Gear'' without them, hiring several new presenters to replace them. Meanwhile, Clarkson, Hammond, and May (along with long-time friend and producer Andy Wilman), ended up getting an impressive deal with Amazon to create ''Series/TheGrandTour'', a SpiritualSuccessor to their version of ''Top Gear''.
* Probably the most famous example of a Career Ending Misdemeanour in the British media came in 1970 when former pirate radio DJ turned TV chat show host Simon Dee killed his career in spectacular fashion. First, he was overheard making an off-colour guess as to how his line-manager's daughter had secured a plum job at the BBC, involving the word "blow-job". Second, he attempted to spike a friend's pre-broadcast drink with LSD prior to going on air with the London Weekend Television programme he hosted; unfortunately the drink was "snaffled" by his studio guest, Film/JamesBond film actor Creator/GeorgeLazenby, who consequently went before the cameras high as a kite, rambling incoherently about having a list of American Senators who were in on the conspiracy to kill UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, to the utter confusion of Dee and the recording's other guests, Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno. Though the episode was pre-recorded rather than broadcast live, this incident was the last straw for LWT, and Dee's contract was not renewed. Lazenby did make other movies and TV shows, but ultimately went to California where he became a successful and wealthy property developer; Dee was last seen washing buses for London Transport and making ''very'' occasional appearances on "Whatever happened to...?" programmes before his death in 2009.
* Devon Anderson, who played the original Sonny Valentine on ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'', was dismissed for "time-keeping issues". Sonny was hastily written out and not seen again until the character was re-cast seven years later.
* Subverted in the case of Creator/SoupySales, who was suspended from his locally-broadcast live program in New York for asking children to send him money (which he infamously described as "green pieces of paper" in the broadcast) as a result of him being upset for having to work on a holiday[[note]]Specifically, New Years Day in 1965[[/note]]. Although Sales intended this to be a joke, money did actually start coming to the television station (though ''not'' as much as originally thought) after the broadcast, and both station management and outraged parents were not pleased. [[WhatAnIdiot Perhaps listing the address of his station wasn't such a good idea]].\\\
Ironically, this ended up ''helping'' his career, as numerous children began protesting his suspension outside the station in the days that followed. Ratings for the show began skyrocketing following the end of his suspension and remained on the air for another year. His autobiography ''Soupy Sez! My Life and Zany Times'' from 2001 explains it all perfectly.
* Rich Fields, TheAnnouncer on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' between 2004-2010, left the show in September 2010 for reasons that were never made truly clear. The producers claimed that they wanted to find an announcer with skill in improv comedy to play off Drew Carey (who took over hosting from Bob Barker in 2007), and got such an announcer in George Gray a few months later. Other sources claim that Rich had personal problems, including identity theft, that made him unable to continue the job (although he followed Drew over to ''Series/DrewCareysImprovAGanza'' a year later, and filled in for a short time on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' following the death of that show's longtime announcer). Around the same time, the show lost many behind-the-scenes staff, including a producer and director, under equally mysterious circumstances.
* In what ended up as a show ending event, Creator/ChristopherTitus admitted that he was the one responsible for ''Series/{{Titus}}'' getting canceled, outlined in one of his comedy specials. He had spent three seasons fighting the ExecutiveMeddling at every turn, not helped that the FOX network had a short turnover for its president during this period. In a meeting for season three, the new network president offered a direction the show could go, which he opposed on a fundamental level. But instead of playing nice, he tried calling out her out for the stupid suggestion and he expected Film/{{Braveheart}}-esque support behind him. Instead the season contract finished out, and he was told at the last possible ''legal'' moment that they were not renewed. He admits now that if you call your boss an idiot enough times, they will fire you.
* Maine's Fox affiliate used to have a pair of spokespeople for their kids' lineup: a human and a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom guy in a fox costume.]] The first human was fired on charges of pedophilia... then, eventually, so was his replacement.
* Rumor has it that Creator/OrlandoJones' character on ''Series/SleepyHollow'' was written out in season 2 because the actor openly criticized the new showrunners.
* ''The Frugal Gourmet''[='=]s slot on PBS's Saturday afternoon schedule[[note]]1:00 PM[[/note]] was given to other shows (most recently, reruns of ''This Old House'') after the former's host, Jeff Smith, got caught up in sexual abuse allegations; though he was able to settle out of court, the damage had been done, and his television career was in ruins.
* An anti-LGBT law in Tennessee granting immunity to counselors who redirect LGBT patients has been pointed to as a contributory factor to Creator/{{ABC}}'s surprise decision to cancel longtime survivor and cult classic ''Series/{{Nashville}}''[[note]]which had up to that point been known for being renewed each season despite constantly wavering ratings, and whose then-showrunner Dee Johnson is, ironically, an out lesbian[[/note]]; WordOfSaintPaul even hinted at the possibility of an activism-fueled axing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Which is all that needs to be said about that, really.]] The series was since picked up by Country Music Television around June 2016.
* Thomas Gibson (Agent Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner) saw his contract terminated in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' after allegedly attacking a writer over creative differences in an episode he was directing.
* Japanese television star Becky lost several of her hosting gigs and most of her sponsors after it was revealed that she had an affair with Enon Kawatani, the frontman for the MathRock band Gesu no Kiwami Otome. On the other hand, Kawatani's career was largely unaffected because of what Western observers have described as [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/downfall-japan-tv-becky-industry-sexism a double standard in Japanese celebrity culture]]. In this culture, the fallout from such an affair would be more harmful to the career of a [[ContractualPurity girl-next door TV host]] than to the male lead singer of an indie rock band.
** Gesu No Kiwami Otome lost out on only a single job due to the controversy: The opportunity to record a theme song for the latest ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' film. Despite the news breaking shortly before the release of their second album ''Ryōseibai'', the album still debuted at number one in the Japanese charts. In 2018, The band would release a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfjdz-gaS4 scathingly satirical music video]] attacking Japanese tabloid culture and the public's obsession with celebrity scandals that had many parallels with what happened to Becky and Kawatani.
* ''Series/TheXFactor'' has had numerous controversies which have led to contestants being forced to withdraw from the competition, leaving the show as a result:
** During Season 3 Avenue, one of the groups, was booted from the show by their mentor Louie Walsh after it was discovered they were already in a contract with a record label whose boss tried to exploit the show for publicity. Luckily they weren't far enough that another band couldn't be brought in to replace them.
** Emily, one of Season 4's contestants, was kicked out on the second episode of the live shows after a video of her Happy Slapping[[note]]Attacking someone else with the intention of catching it on camera[[/note]] a teenage girl was discovered on YouTube.
** Frankie Cocozza was booted from the show during Season 8 after boasting about doing cocaine in the house where contestants stayed for the competition.
** Brooks Way, a group participating in Season 13, were put on suspension mere hours before the first live show and kicked out before the results show[[note]]The live shows are split in two - the Saturday Singing where everyone presents their acts, and Sunday Results where the votes from the fans are counted and a contestant is eliminated[[/note]] after it emerged that one of them had violently assaulted his ex-girlfriend as well as evidence that he regularly beat up his own brother, the other half of the band.
** Not even the judges are safe. Tulisa Contostavlos was removed from the competition after an exposé was published about her dealing cocaine but her legal case collapsed after the reporter was caught lying in court.
* ''Series/TheTribe'': The teenage actors playing Ved and Chloe in season 4 reportedly held up production by going AWOL for a whole day during scheduled filming hours. This annoyed the producers enough that both characters ended up getting McLeaned.
* Gugu Liberato is a famous TV host in Brazil known for his variety show ''Domingo Legal'' (Cool Sunday) on SBT in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was the biggest competitor to Fausto Silva and his similar show ''Domingão do Faustão'' (Big Fausto's Big Sunday) on Rede Globo, but his career derailed when in 2003, a fake interview with the Brazilian criminal organization PCC was aired. Not only was it completely staged, but the fake criminals also issued threats to Brazilian politicians and celebrities. He faced legal problems, his show was taken off air for some time, and ratings plummeted. He claimed he had nothing to do with it but it didn't work, and years later he was replaced and he left his network to do a similar show on another network; that show also failed.
* The original announcer of ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'' was Scott Beach. During commercial breaks, he would entertain the audience by singing war protest songs which supposedly didn't fly with the producers. Beach was fired and replaced by Johnny Jacobs, who would go on to have a lasting career for Creator/ChuckBarris.
* It's no exaggeration to say that Michael Barrymore was the ''king'' of light entertainment in the UK during TheNineties with a string of hit GameShows and [[TalkShow Chat Shows]] - he was essentially the UK equivalent of Regis Philbin in terms of his profile and popularity. It stopped abruptly after a man was found dead in his swimming pool after a party. The British tabloids pounced and stories of drug fuelled gay orgies and other lurid and salacious behaviour filled their pages. While Barrymore was never charged or convicted for any criminal offence, his contract with [=ITV=] (the UK's main commercial network) was terminated, his shows were all cancelled and his career went into freefall. Since then Barrymore's only real high profile work since was as a housemate on ''Celebrity Big Brother'' in the mid 2000s.
* Diane Neal began appearing on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' as CGIS Special Agent Abigail starting in season 7, and rapidly became a very popular character. As such, Neal made once-a-year appearances until Season 12--and those guest stints stopped abruptly after she made allegations on Twitter rant about how unsafe the working conditions were on the set of its SpinOff ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'', where she also made several appearances.
* Comedy writer Katie Rich was fired from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' after Tweeting a joke that President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's son Barron would become "the world's first homeschool shooter." Rich later deleted the tweet and apologized, but the backlash from Trump's supporters forced NBC to fire her. Fortunately for her, Creator/DanHarmon swooped in and hired her as a writer on ''Series/RickAndMorty'', all the while arguing the irony that the same people that voted for Trump to rally against treating people with respect also wanted her fired, and that they considered Rich's comments to be worse than Trump's even though Trump has made countless controversial remarks compared to just one for Rich, the office of President was held to a ''much'' higher standard than that of a comedy TV writer.
* The live-action TV business certainly wasn't left untouched by the aforementioned Weinstein Effect, with numerous actors and producers seeing themselves booted from prominent shows as a result of sexual misconduct allegations.
** Creator/{{Netflix}} announced the [[http://deadline.com/2017/10/house-of-cards-canceled-kevin-spacey-scandal-netflix-season-six-1202197604/ cancellation]] of ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'' immediately after it came out that Creator/KevinSpacey, who played the VillainProtagonist Frank Underwood, had made sexual advances on a then-14 Anthony Rapp in 1986. The initial plan was to finish production on the sixth season to give the show a proper SeriesFinale, but more accusations against Spacey began to spill out, including multiple incidents during the production of the show. This led Netflix to [[https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16605494/kevin-spacey-netflix-house-of-cards-fired suspend production indefinitely and fire Spacey]], with the producers eventually reaching the decision to make Creator/RobinWright the sole lead for the final season.
** PBS programs ''Charlie Rose'' and ''Charlie Rose: The Week'' ended after the eponymous host of both shows got caught up in his own sexual assault scandal on November 20, 2017 (the first scheduled airing since Rose's fall was replaced with a rerun of ''Antiques Roadshow''). He also lost his gig with CBS as the co-host of ''CBS This Morning'' in the fallout, being officially fired by both networks the day after. Rose was ultimately replaced by PBS with Christiane Amanpour and on CBS with John Dickerson, effectively confirming that his 45-year long media career was over.
** Andrew Kreisberg, creator of the television series ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'', ''Series/Supergirl2015'', ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' was first suspended and then definitely fired after several sexual harassment allegations were made against him. It was rumored that there were threats of massive walkout from the cast and crew if he was allowed to return.
** Danny Masterson was fired from Netflix's ''Series/TheRanch'' after accusations of rape against him began to surface. He also took Netflix exec Andy Yeatman with him in the fallout.
** Celebrity chef Mario Batali quit ABC's ''The Chew'' after several women accused him of "inappropriate touching."
** Mere weeks after Charlie Rose lost his jobs, fellow PBS late-night stablemate Tavis Smiley was also fired by PBS following the investigation of multiple sexual misconduct allegations which were found to be credible enough to justifying showing him and his program the door.
** Mark Schwahn, creator of the CW's ''Series/OneTreeHill'' and developer of [=E!=]'s ''Series/TheRoyals'', had allegations of sexual harrassment made against him from cast and crew members of '''both''' shows - resulting in his being suspended from ''The Royals'' in November 2017 - and ultimately fired the following month.
** Jeffery Tambor faced accusations of sexual assault and has been removed from Amazon show ''Series/{{Transparent}}'' and Disney animated show ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
** It's safe to say that Allison Mack, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', had her career ruined after she got arrested for being a second-in-command in a sex trafficking cult. Things only got worse when it was revealed that she had also tried to get Creator/EmmaWatson (a known feminist) and Music/KellyClarkson on board in said cult as well (neither of whom responded), and Samia Shoaib [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ck4JTbYA said Allison "love-bombed" and "mirrored" her to trick her into joining this group]]. Time will tell whether or not the Mack scandal brings down the reputation of ''Smallville'' with it.
* Actor Jean-François Harrisson was fired from the French-Canadian sitcom ''Une grenade avec ça?'', his character [[PutOnABus hastily written out]] and all episodes featuring him taken out of circulation following his arrest on child pornography ownership charges in 2011.
* Subverted by Dan Schneider. Though Nickelodeon dropped him following accusations of abusive behavior in April 2018, the timing happened to be coincidental, as Schneider's then-current programs with the network were all about to end anyway, and they ended up parting on amicable terms.
* Jeff Franklin, creator and producer of the sitcoms ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'', had his production deal not renewed by Creator/WarnerBros in February 2018 following accusations of abusive behavior both on the set as well as in the writer's room.
** Another time, Jorja Fox was fired for skipping an episode due to a pay dispute. This proved unfortunate for George Eads who overslept that day and was also fired because they thought he was doing the same thing. Fox was later rehired when she worked out her dispute with the production company as was Eads when they realized it was a misunderstanding.
* After four great seasons writing and producing ''Series/TheWestWing'', Creator/AaronSorkin was asked to leave his position as Executive Producer after his drug scandal leaked out.
* Creator/ShannenDoherty's notoriously prickly personality has led to several examples of this:
** Her character on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' being killed off was heavily rumored to have been done at the request of her co-star Creator/AlyssaMilano, as it was well known that they [[HostilityOnTheSet hated each other]]. The writers notably included an episode where she spent most of the running time transformed into a [[JustForPun female dog]]. The message was certainly on the wall...through which Prue was then lethally thrown, making the season finale also [[DroppedABridgeOnHim a dropped bridge]]. And, given the show's universe, full of FridgeLogic, rendering it all even more obvious. Earlier at the end of Season 1, TW King was written out of the series - and a rumour was that it was because Doherty didn't like him.
** This was also why her character was ousted from ''Series/BeverlyHills90210''. She reportedly didn't get along with the remaining cast members, and thus, she was fired at the end of the fourth season and replaced with a new character played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen.
* ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Two key characters were in limbo after being caught up in the fall-out from the Creator/JimmySavile business. Actors Michael [=LeVell=] (Kevin Webster) and Bill Roache (Ken Barlow) were temporarily written out of the show pending resolution of alleged under-age sex offences. Michael [=LeVell=]'s character came back, after spending a ''very'' long time visiting family. William Roache's character is now back as well. Les Battersby was also PutOnABus after his actor was overheard drunkenly complaining about the show in a pub.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with the [[Series/DoctorWho Ninth Doctor]]: The showrunners and head writer Creator/RussellTDavies would have loved to keep a highly talented and famous[[note]](in British TV and theatre)[[/note]] actor like him, but Creator/ChristopherEccleston left the production after only one season. For a long time, he refused to publically say why and so wild rumors abounded - from the possible (the too stressful / badly organized filming schedule; one of the first season directors not taking the work on a kid's show seriously enough), to the ridiculous (Eccleston supposedly disliking Davies - when he'd specifically asked to be considered for the role because he'd enjoyed working with Davies so much on a previous project), to the downright defamatory (a ''Daily Mail'' gossip column claiming that he'd left because he didn't like the show having out gay characters). Several years later, Eccleston finally let slip during an acting class he was giving [[note]](with no official press in attendance; but many people have cameras nowadays...)[[/note]] that he left because some of the "higher-ups" (no names were named) treated the low-ranking members of the behind-the-camera crew very badly, and he didn't want to condone that behavior by renewing his contract and continuing to make money for them. Apparently the production team cleaned up their act afterwards, because the main actors of the following seasons had no such complaints.
* ''Series/EastEnders'':
** Melissa Suffield (Lucy Beale) got sacked after being caught going into London nightclubs while underage and getting unruly drunk. Her rather colorful social network sites might also have had something to do with it. The character was eventually reinstated with [[TheOtherDarrin a new actress]].
** Rob Kazinsky (Sean Slater) got a temporary ban from EE for sending photos of his nude self around.
** Leslie Grantham ("Dirty" Den Watts) narrowly evaded this at the start when it was revealed that the actor had served a "life" sentence (paroled after ten years) for murder. Creator/TheBBC stood by him, arguing that he'd learnt his lesson and every former criminal deserves rehabilitation, and he lasted several years on the show before leaving of his own volition. (The fact that he was playing a villainous, semi-criminal character rather than any kind of role model also may have helped.) However, he did suffer this at the end of his [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated second stint]] as a regular character on the show, forced to quit after Internet footage was released of him performing indecent acts in front of a webcam for what he thought was a single-person audience.
** Zigzagged by Danniella Westbrook (Sam Mitchell). In 1996 her character was axed from the show due to the controversy surrounding Westbrook's cocaine addiction. However, she returned to the role in 1999... [[HistoryRepeats only to be axed again the following year]] after her continued addiction ''completely eroded her septum''. Sam was brought back ''again'' in 2002, [[TheOtherDarrin with Kim Medcalf in the role]], then written out in 2005. When the character returned briefly in 2009 and 2010, Westbrook, who had by now cleaned up her act and had reconstructive surgery on her nose, was handed the role back.
* Sasha Mitchell's character Cody from ''Series/StepByStep'' was PutOnABus because of real-life domestic abuse allegations from Mitchell's wife. The worst part is that it turns out [[AllAbusersAreMale SHE was actually the violent one]] and he was trying to protect the kids.
* Glenn Quinn was removed from ''Series/{{Angel}}'' earlier than intended because of fears that his drug habit would rub off on Creator/DavidBoreanaz. He died from a heroin overdose three years afterward. They really had bad luck, since the character was originally meant to be Whistler from ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'', but that actor also had drug problems. WordOfGod is that they had planned to bring Quinn back in Season 3 but he had already passed away.
* Creator/JulieBenz was removed early on from the show ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' in part due to tensions on set during Season 1. Creator/AlysonHannigan has hinted in interviews that Benz was very mean towards her in particular. The incident prompted Benz to clean up her act, and [[SubvertedTrope she reappeared on the spinoff]] ''Series/{{Angel}}'' and was brought back for a few more ''Buffy'' episodes. Years later, she was regarded by the cast and crew of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' as one of the nicest and most agreeable cast members.
* Anonymous reports from crew members claim both Creator/MichaelPitt and Paz de la Huerta were written off of ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' for prima donna behavior on the set, with de la Huerta's character PutOnABus and Pitt's being KilledOffForReal.
* On the Dick Van Patten show ''Series/EightIsEnough'', regular cast member Willie Aames was fired because of his drinking problem.
* Yancy Butler had to leave ''Series/{{Witchblade}}'' because of her alcoholism. Since she played title character Det. Sara Pezzini, the show left with her.
* While it had already ended production, ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' had its reruns cut short by Creator/{{CBS}}, thanks to Paul Reubens' indecent exposure. Kinda hard to reconcile that fact with Pee Wee Herman, [[IAmNotSpock no matter the protests]] [[ContractualPurity to the contrary]]. The rumors that circulated at the time that Reubens had done it deliberately to invoke this trope and finally get rid of his [[IAmNotSpock career-starting but then career-limiting character]] didn't help matters.
* Angus Deayton was presenter of ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' until lurid tales of drugs and [[HoneyTrap disguised prostitutes]] came to light. He was mocked relentlessly on the show, then booted out. Paul Merton later claimed that it wasn't Deayton's behavior itself that led to his dismissal, but rather that it would make it near-impossible for him to fulfill his role of skewering politicians and other public figures for the exact same behavior; the few episodes he filmed after the story broke suffer for that very reason. The format relies on his playing the StraightMan, and he'd become the ButtMonkey. He later hosted ''Series/WouldILieToYou'' for its first two series before being replaced from it as well.
* ''Series/BluePeter'':
** Subverted with Richard Bacon, who was dismissed for doing cocaine. He has since done a lot of other, grown-up television since getting kicked off the show, even on the BBC itself.
** Subverted with Peter Duncan, whose appearance in a soft porn movie was revealed soon after he joined ''Blue Peter'', but Creator/TheBBC stood by him and he remained on the show for several years.
* Isaiah Washington's contract to the show ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' was not renewed for the show's fourth season as a result of some offensive homophobic remarks he made to [=T. R. Knight=], along with the cast's embarrassment over his remarks, including denying it (while using the exact word, which really didn't help) in a post-awards show press conference. He returned in an episode near the end of the tenth season as part of Sandra Oh's departure from the series.
* On ''Series/{{Scandal}}'', Columbus Short's Harrison Wright ended up KilledOffForReal after his last appearance in the third season finale after continual domestic violence allegations made it untenable for Shonda Rhimes to keep him on the series further.
* Yeoman Rand from ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', if Creator/WilliamShatner is to be believed. While Grace Lee Whitney did have alcohol/drug issues, others say Rand was transferred to another starship due to the writers not wanting a love interest for Kirk on the ship, while others claim that she was fired after threatening to expose her sexual assault by a studio executive. However, Grace Lee Whitney did get to reprise her role as Rand in two of the Star Trek movies (''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' as the transporter operator and ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' as a member of the ''Excelsior'''s crew) and returned for the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Flashback", taking place during ''VI''.
* Michael Moriarty claims that he was written off of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' because of his open criticism of then-Attorney General Janet Reno, who had cited ''Law & Order'' as offensively violent, which Moriarty considered meant that she would attempt to censor the show. Dick Wolf for his part claims that his reaction to Reno was just the latest and most public example of Moriarty's "erratic behavior", which included Moriarty basically bungling a meeting he, Wolf, and other television executives had with Reno to dissuade her from supporting any law that would censor the show when Moriarty overreacted to any effect the law was likely to have on the show, and it was his on-set behavior (which included the filming of an episode during which Moriarty was unable to deliver any of his lines with a straight face) that got him canned. He later fled to Canada and publicly declared himself a "political exile" (over [[SmallNameBigEgo an acting gig?]]).
* Allegedly happened twice in ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet''. First Brody was allegedly written out because Max Perlich had drug and arrest issues. Then, more controversially, it's been rumored that Howard was dropped because of press stories about unpleasant events involving Melissa Leo and her then ex-partner, despite the fact that she was most likely the victimized party in the situation. Notably, Max Perlich played Whistler from the above ''{{Series/Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' example, and was not carried over to ''Series/{{Angel}}'' because of his issues.
* By some accounts, Creator/LindsayLohan's stint on ''Series/UglyBetty'' was cut short due to [[SmallNameBigEgo outrageous diva behavior]] on her part. Other sources claim it was due to CreativeDifferences (if this is true, we might presume Lohan was upset that her character was set up as a FallenPrincess only to be turned into a jerk for no reason).
* Alastair Stewart, British newsreader and host of documentary series ''Series/PoliceCameraAction'' had his contract terminated in 2003 for a drink-driving offense (his second one, he'd referred to the first one previously in a November 1994 episode, the show's ''second episode'') and was relegated to intro and outros in the [[ContinuityReboot rebooted]] version of it, which was now presented by Alastair Stewart and Adrian Simpson, as of September 2007. Surprisingly, he was allowed to present the special edition episode ''Ultimate Pursuits'' in September 2007.
* Carl Anthony Payne was allegedly fired from ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' for [[DisproportionateRetribution refusing to cut his hair]].
** Some sources say that Lisa Bonet was exiled from the show to its SpinOff ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' after doing an explicit sex scene in the movie ''Film/AngelHeart''. Others say Bonet (who apparently is an even bigger {{Cloudcuckoolander}} than her character, Denise) constantly butted heads with Creator/BillCosby, who used ''Film/AngelHeart'' as a "last straw" excuse.
** Cosby himself would fatally slip up decades later; in 2014, he'd planned to return to Creator/{{NBC}} with a new sitcom. Once the project seemed to be heading to the greenlight stage, over a dozen women came forward claiming that Cosby had raped them years ago, and later a deposition from 2005 was unearthed where Cosby admitted under oath to procuring drugs so he could have sex with women who had taken them. The once devout fan base of Cosby began turning on him, and NBC, overwhelmed by public pressure, canceled the sitcom project before it could even reach development stage. Local stations and TV Land also began pulling reruns of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' from the airwaves in response to the allegations, with the latter going as far as [[UnPerson removing any mention of the show from their website]], and Cosby was stripped of many of his honors. A Netflix comedy special that had already been filmed was also canceled. Any chance of him making a comeback diminished severely, if not entirely, on April 26, 2018, when he was convicted in the ensuing trial, now facing the very real prospect of dying behind bars. A harbinger of how bad for him it'll be is that the last place in America still showing ''The Cosby Show'', Bounce, bounced the series from its schedule immediately after the verdict. Additionally, AMPAS sent him packing one week later, along with the aforementioned Roman Polanski.
* Chris Langham was written out of ''Series/TheThickOfIt'', despite playing the main character. Being arrested for downloading kiddie porn will do that to you. [[BreakoutCharacter Malcolm Tucker]] (Creator/PeterCapaldi) became the de facto main character from the 2007 specials onward.
* Rebecca Gayheart's involvement in a 2001 vehicular manslaughter may have contributed to her departure from ''Series/DeadLikeMe'' after 5 episodes. In that series, she [[FunnyAneurysmMoment played the role of a "Grim Reaper"]], helping the dead pass on to the afterlife. According to [[http://tviv.org/Dead_Like_Me/Betty_Rhomer this]], Gayheart's character Betty was written out by the fifth episode intentionally, though the series creator, Bryan Fuller, had to fight with studio execs to prevent Gayheart from being replaced by another actress. If Fuller hadn't left the series early in the first season, Betty would have returned by the beginning of the second season, which is what he had intended. Once he left, the studio execs changed the plotline for the second season so that Betty would never return.
* Julie [=McCoy=] was written out of ''Series/TheLoveBoat'' after Lauren Tewes's cocaine addiction made it impossible to perform her job. It didn't help that she started making very bizarre claims to reporters, such as the claim that she could tie knots with her toes.
* Kevin Lloyd played the very popular Tosh Lines in ''Series/TheBill'' from 1988 to 1998. He was known as a drinker, but sadly, throughout this period, his drinking gave way to full-blown alcoholism. It affected his professionalism, and the series dropped him after it caused him to arrive late for work one time too many. If the decision to fire him was intended to help him, it backfired tragically: Kevin Lloyd's drinking problem cost him his life a mere week after he was sacked.
* Actor Jim Fitzpatrick, who played Pierce Riley on the U.S. soap opera ''Series/AllMyChildren'' was fired abruptly in early 1996 after an incident in a New York City bar which involved him assaulting a woman--groping her and trying to drag her off into an empty hallway where he would no doubt have likely raped her had other bar patrons not intervened. Similarly, actor Michael Nader was fired from his role as Dimitri Marick in early 2001 after a ''second'' arrest for drug use. Producers had bought his excuses for a previous arrest for drunk driving and had attempted to make allowances for him to attend rehab, but his second arrest was the last straw for them.
* Initially played straight by actress Melissa Reeves, who played Jennifer Horton in ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'', after she quit the show in late 1995. It was later discovered that her husband, Scott Reeves, had walked in on her and her co-star Jason Brooks having sex in her dressing room and had demanded that she quit ''Days'' if she wanted to save their marriage. The result was a tearful early-morning phone call to the show's producers informing them that she would not be reporting to work that day or any time in the near future. After several years of considerable uproar--along with the personal fallout, ''Days'' sued her for breach of contract--not only was their marriage saved (they're still together as of November 2014), but the trope was eventually averted when she returned to the show in 2000 for six years, and returned again in 2010.
* Chicago sportswriter Jay Mariotti, a regular panelist on the ESPN show ''Series/AroundTheHorn'', was fired from the show in 2010 after he was arrested for domestic assault. He would return to ESPN in a reduced capacity in 2013, one that didn't include his return to ''Around the Horn''.
* ''Series/AmericanIdol'':
** When racy (though not nude) pictures of Frenchie Davis emerged, she was dismissed from the show.
** Both Corey Clark and Jermaine Jones were also removed for having criminal records that they lied about.
* After boosting viewer figures for ''Series/AllyMcBeal'', Creator/RobertDowneyJr was fired from the show (and his character Larry Paul written out) after being arrested for violating his parole. It soon became apparent that this was actually worse than just a ''Role'' Ending Misdemeanor as ratings went back down again and the show was cancelled at the end of the fifth season, making the parole violation a ''Show'' Ending Misdemeanor in the process.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'':
** Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, where do we ''begin'' with Creator/CharlieSheen? Allegations of domestic abuse didn't cut it. Getting arrested and put in jail in Aspen for violating a restraining order didn't cut it. No, for him to get kicked off of the show, it took: Sheen getting sent to the hospital for suffering a hernia while engaging in what was, by all accounts, a cocaine-fueled orgy; taking a leave of absence to go into rehab, putting the show on hiatus in the process; calling up Creator/AlexJones and complaining about the show's co-creator and executive producer, Creator/ChuckLorre, his co-stars, and the higher-ups at Creator/{{CBS}}; and demanding ''$3 million per episode'' once he returned (compared to his previous salary of $1.8 million per episode, already a rather staggering amount) for the show to finally drop him, [[McLeaned killing his character]] ([[DroppedABridgeOnHim and making sure Sheen himself could never,]] ''[[DroppedABridgeOnHim ever]]'' [[DroppedABridgeOnHim come back to the show]]), and replacing him with Creator/AshtonKutcher. It should be noted, however, that Lorre had actually made repeated attempts to fire Sheen long before the grand event happened, and only didn't succeed because CBS always thwarted the attempts to can Sheen out of fear that Sheen's absence would severely damage the show's ratings base.
** Angus T. Jones, who played Jake Harper in the series, found the show's crude subject matter to be conflicting toward his religious upbringing. It all boiled over when Jones told ''Christianity Today'' that he was a "paid hypocrite" and that the show was "filth". Once the comments were made public, CBS suspended Jones and announced that his character would be reduced to a recurring role in the eleventh season. It was then decided to have his role completely written off the series, and he did not appear at all in the eleventh season. The fallout from the controversy led Jones to be blacklisted from any Hollywood work aside from ''Two and a Half Men'' and he retired shortly after his character was written off the series.
** Both Jones and Sheen were eventually invited back for the GrandFinale. Only the former accepted, however; the latter insisted on a [[SequelHook hook]] for a SequelSeries, which was rejected.
* Sheen went on to star on FX's ''Series/AngerManagement''. While he's pulled some prima donna behavior there as well, he was able to get Creator/SelmaBlair fired for complaining about it, so he seems to be invulnerable for now. [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/charlie-sheen-no-shows-delay-687040 Although...]]
* Adrienne Bailon staged a [[WhatAnIdiot fake nude photo controversy]] involving a stolen laptop with her agent and then-boyfriend Rob Kardashian in order to boost her fading career. The controversy caused a cancellation of Film/TheCheetahGirls performance at the 2008 UsefulNotes/MacysThanksgivingDayParade, and eventually led to the Cheetah Girls' dissolution. Previously, Bailon's recurring character was also dropped from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' because of backstage catfights with Creator/RavenSymone. Raven eventually left the Cheetah Girls as well (she was never an official member and only worked with the group for their first two films).
* Artie Lange was fired from the original cast of ''[[Series/MADtv [=MAD=]tv]]'' after season two due to his cocaine addiction (ironically FOX did allow Artie to do a cameo on a latter episode, where they make fun of the reason he was kicked off). After his dismissal, he caught on as a regular on Creator/HowardStern's radio show, but lost that job in 2009 because of his continued drug and alcohol problems. Lange was clean for several years following his 2010 suicide attempt, but his bad behavior and poor work ethic has continued: In 2014, he was banned from appearing on ESPN programming after a string of racist, sexual tweets that he made about ''First Take'' host Cari Champion. He was arrested for drug possession in 2017, but the incident did not result him losing his role on the HBO sitcom ''Crashing''.
* Creator/JessicaBiel did a racy photo shoot specifically to get out of wholesome family drama ''Series/SeventhHeaven'' because she felt her [[ContractualPurity squeaky-clean image]] was making her miss out on serious dramatic roles. It didn't quite get her fired, but it did drastically reduce her screen time.
* Averted by Tommy Chong on ''Series/That70sShow'' following his arrest for drug paraphernalia possession (i.e. the FBI had raided his bong manufacturing business) and nine-month jail term. The producers told him he was chosen for his role ''because'' he was a stoner when he worried about his future on the show; true to their word, his character was PutOnABus for the duration of Chong's sentence and returned from a vacation when Chong was released.
* After Mitchell Musso's DUI bust, his character on ''Series/PairOfKings'' moved to Chicago and was replaced by a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, as Disney has a rather hardline stance toward reckless behavior (see the Adrienne Bailon example above). His hidden camera show ''[=PrankStars=]'' was similarly killed four episodes into its run, with the remainder of the episodes that had not aired burned off in the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom solely to get copyright protection. On a side note, he did not lose his other Disney job, voicing Jeremy on ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''; it helped his case that it's one of their most popular shows and, unlike ''[=PoK=]'', would be extremely noticeable and difficult if they recast or got rid of the character, and also that the creators spoke on his behalf to let him stay.
* Creator/BrettRatner resigned from producing the 2012 Oscars under public pressure after he made a gay slur and bragged about his alleged sexual encounters with Creator/OliviaMunn and Creator/LindsayLohan. This led to the scheduled host, Creator/EddieMurphy, resigning as well because he didn't want to perform without Ratner. Billy Crystal replaced Murphy.
* A ''series'' ending one: HBO had agreed to give ''Series/{{Luck}}'' a second season very early in its run, but then quickly cancelled it after the public relations nightmare of [[RuleOfThree three horses being killed on set]]. However, all three deaths were purely accidental, and something HBO was trying much harder to prevent than other producers of horse-riding TV shows.
* Eventually averted with William Talman, who portrayed D. A. Hamilton Burger on ''Franchise/PerryMason''. He was arrested under circumstances which CBS decided violated the morals clause in his contract and subsequently fired. He was found innocent at trial, however, and thanks to vigorous campaigning by his co-stars, was eventually rehired.
* Rip Torn's character on ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Don Geiss, died of a heart attack between seasons after Torn's increasingly bizarre behavior culminated in him [[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20001423-504083.html?tag=contentMain;contentBody breaking into a bank]] in 2010. His character in the ''Film/MenInBlack'' franchise was similarly McLeaned in ''Men in Black III'' for the same reasons.
* ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' series co-star Howard Rollins was eventually dropped from the show after repeated legal problems, including cocaine possession and a DUI.
* Actor and comedian Fred Willard [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fred-willard-loses-pbs-job-after-arrest/ lost his job]] as the narrator of PBS show ''Market Warriors'' after being arrested for lewd acts in a pornography theatre, and his ABC series was also yanked off the air prematurely, resulting in a pair of {{Missing Episode}}s.
* Duane "Dog" Chapman's 1976 murder conviction (which was basically for being in the wrong place at the wrong time) scuttled his plans to appear on ''[[SeriesBigBrother Celebrity Big Brother]]''. The UK routinely denies travel visas to those with a murder conviction on their record, and did so in Chapman's case, making it impossible for him to take part.
* Alexa Nikolas was removed from ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'' because she didn't get along with Jamie Lynn Spears.
** Though contrary to popular belief, this is not what happened to the show itself. Filming of the last season was completed by the time Jamie Lynn announced her pregnancy. Nickelodeon decided to show support and air the show despite complaints.
* Jay Thomas was fired from ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' after someone called him on his radio show asking what it was like working there and he replied "Ugh, it's horrible. For one thing, I have to kiss Rhea Perlman." While Perlman ''[[ImStandingRightHere happened to be listening]]'', no less.
* In a sort of amusing irony, ''Series/{{Watchdog}}'' and ''Rogue Traders'' co-host Dan Penteado was apparently fired after being arrested for benefit fraud and jailed. Considering the shows are meant to be about rip offs and con artists, this ended up being mentioned by one of the rogues confronted on the show afterwards.
* E4 have tried to deny it, but it's widely believed that Kelly being PutOnABus between two seasons of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' with no proper farewell scene was due to Lauren Socha's conviction for racially aggravated assault on a cab driver in 2012.
* In an example similar to that which happened on ''Sries/TheCosbyShow'', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' had a CuteClumsyGirl character named Sonya Gomez, played by Lycia Naff. She was intended to be a recurring character and appeared in two early episodes, but the character was never mentioned again because Naff took a role as the triple-breasted hooker in ''Film/TotalRecall1990''.
* After the death of one of its participants during production on the second season, MTV executed ''Buckwild'' by canceling it ''and'' clamping down tightly on the rights, going so far as to outright refuse to allow its producers to shop the series to another network.
* Creator/FoodNetwork examples:
** Paula Deen's long-running show was canceled [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/paula-deen-fired-food-network-cancels-show-after-racism-scandal_n_3480517.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular after audio of her using the "N word" and making off-color jokes concerning minorities and Jews was discovered.]] After her admittance to using racial slurs with no regrets whatsoever and the resulting backlash against her, the network chose not to renew Paula Deen's contract and ceased any and all involvement with her. Shortly after, Deen's endorsement deals began to rapidly fall from the sky. At least one article has been written that suggests that the N-word incident was just the final nail in the coffin, and Food Network had already been trying to get rid of her anyway because she didn't draw the 18-49 crowd advertisers love.
** Robert Irvine was suspended from his first series, ''Series/DinnerImpossible'', after it was discovered that he had padded his resume rather outrageously (including claiming to have worked on Charles and Diana's wedding cake and having been a White House chef), and he was replaced by Series/IronChef Michael Symon. However, [[SubvertedTrope this trope ended up being subverted in Irvine's case in the end]], since a combination of his popularity with viewers and his eating humble pie brought him back to the show after seven months out in the cold.
** Have you ever wondered why Lenny [=McNab=], winner of ''Series/TheNextFoodNetworkStar'''s tenth season, never wound up with his show? Shortly afterward, allegations of him being racist, sexist, and otherwise rude toward various Food Network personalities behind everyone's backs cropped up. As a result, Lenny wound up being let go and so far is the only winner on the show to be denied his Food Network program.
* Jeff Conaway's drug problems got him fired from ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' after he was discovered in his trailer too strung out to work. His character Bobby Wheeler's lines were divided among other characters, causing the producers to realize they didn't need Conaway and the headaches he caused at all. His career had a slight bounce with a recurring-then-permanent character in ''Series/BabylonFive'', but his habits kicked in harder after that series, with only bit parts in films and movies, including a HarsherInHindsight guest role in ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' before his death in 2011.
* Bob Vila, the host of the Creator/{{PBS}} series ''Series/ThisOldHouse'', was a real pain in the neck for the show's construction crew to deal with. Among other things, he ended up [[SpotlightStealingSquad hogging the spotlight]]. However, the last straw was when, before the 1989 season, he appeared in ads for Rickel Home Centers, a competitor to series sponsor Home Depot. He was shortly fired for endangering the series, as Home Depot had dropped its sponsorship as a direct result of the ads.
* RKO General was permanently banned from broadcasting in 1987 due to a wide variety of licensing misconducts dating back to 1965. The FCC vowed to reject any appeals on the decision; however, it gave RKO General the opportunity to wind down its operations peaceably, which it did by 1991, after which it went out of business. An epic case of a Company Ending Misdemeanor if there ever was one.
* Due to offscreen tensions between Brian Eppes (Michael) and Salim Grant (Jason), among them an incident where Grant played the race card on Eppes ("It's because of my skin color, isn't it!?"), Jason lasted only three videos in the ''Barney and the Backyard Gang'' series before [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome suddenly disappearing]]; his role in the series was subsequently filled by Derek (Rickey Carter) starting with the fourth video in the series, "Waiting for Santa".
* Before production of the seventh and last season began, ''Series/FantasyIsland'' co-star Hervé Villechaize was involved in a salary dispute. One big reason was that Villechaize not only felt underappreaciated by his co-stars but his wife Donna Camille divorced him; he requested a salary on par with Ricardo Montalban. Suffice to say, the then-40-year-old Villechaize was dropped from the series and he was unable to find any decent work aside from his philanthropist work, as he committed suicide ten years later.
* Stephen Collins' career was already flagging following the cancellation of ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', along with his highly-publicized divorce with Faye Grant. The straw that finally broke the camel's back, however, came when TMZ leaked an audio recording of Collins admitting to Grant during a therapy session that he had molested several underage girls for years. The massive media and public fallout directly resulted in multiple stations, TV Guide Network and Up TV pulling reruns of ''7th Heaven'' from circulation (CBS Drama in the UK also abruptly pulled the show from its schedule), Creator/SethMacFarlane firing him from production of the sequel to ''Film/{{Ted}}'', being forced to resign from his post in the Screen Actors Guild Board, his character in ''Series/{{Scandal}}'' getting McLeaned after announcing his intent to return in Season 4, and all of his agents dropping him.
* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'', Superboy's first actor John Haymes Newton was fired and replaced by Gerard Christopher after a DUI arrest and because Newton demanded a 20% pay raise.
* Within the course of a year, Discovery Communications, parent company of Creator/{{TLC}} and the Creator/DiscoveryChannel, was hit with ''three'' child abuse controversies, leading to the cancellation of all three shows:
** TLC's reality show ''Series/HereComesHoneyBooBoo'' was promptly canceled after TMZ revealed that Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson's mother June Shannon ("Mama June" in the series) was dating a man convicted of child molestation a decade before. What made things more shocking was the later revelation that the victim of the molestation was June's '''daughter''', Anna, and that ''she'' was the one that blew the whistle.
** Two months before, the Discovery Channel canceled ''Series/SonsOfGuns'' after star Will Hayden was arrested and charged with multiple child rape offenses. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere His firearms company promptly severed all ties with him in an attempt to clean their hands of the matter]].
** Josh Duggar [[TakingYouWithMe took his whole family with him]] after he confessed to molesting several girls, ''including his sisters'', when he was a teenager. He resigned from his position at the Family Research Council and TLC pulled repeats of ''Series/NineteenKidsAndCounting'' from their lineup, before finally canceling it after several weeks of uncertainty as to the show's future.
* Before he began hosting ''[[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Real Time]]'' on Creator/{{HBO}}, Bill Maher had ''Politically Incorrect'', a politically centered late-night talk show exploring controversial topics and subject that were unusual for a typical talk show. It was so successful on Creator/ComedyCentral that after five years at that network it moved to Creator/{{ABC}}, where it gained even higher ratings. However, it all came to an end in an episode airing just six days after 9/11, in which Maher agreed with conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza over disputing then-U.S. President George W. Bush's claim that the 9/11 hijackers were "cowards", stating that "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." The massive public outcry resulted by the offending comments led to the show bleeding sponsors and viewers, enough that ABC canceled the series in July of the following year due to continued loss of advertiser support[[note]]Which countered popular belief that the comments were a direct cause for the cancellation[[/note]]. However, HBO, who co-produced and co-owned ''Politically Incorrect'', stood by Maher's side and offered him another go on their own channel with ''Real Time'', a similar talk show that years later would prove to be more successful than ''Politically Incorrect'' ever was.
* Tony Rosato, formerly of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and ''Series/{{SCTV}}'', barely averted this. After his domestic violence incident and arrest in 2005 he took a leave from show business in order to treat his mental health problems, much of which stemmed with his divorce. Although he came clean and was offered small roles in various Canadian indie movies in the years that followed, he died of a heart attack in 2017 without ever regaining any of his former glory.
* WebOriginal/{{Vine}} star Curtis Lepore was dropped from Creator/RainnWilson's TV show, ''Hollywood and Vine'' after Lepore was accused of raping his girlfriend in early 2014. He's still very active on Vine, however.
* ''Series/TopGear'' host Jeremy Clarkson's contract with the BBC was not renewed after he got into an offstage argument over catering arrangements with an assistant producer that eventually resulted in Clarkson punching said producer in the face. He was initially suspended after the highly-publicized incident, but when a BBC investigation concluded that he indeed did punch the producer[[note]]Physical violence between employees is an unendurable breach of rules in the BBC's employee ethics code[[/note]], the hammer was ultimately dropped; his contract, which was up for renewal, would not be picked up.[[note]]Notably, he was not banned from the BBC, going on to appear on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' and ''Series/{{QI}}'' a few months afterward.[[/note]] Co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond, also looking at contract renewals, [[TrueCompanions decided not to go on without Clarkson]] and left the series as well, although they have continued to present BBC programmes here and there. The BBC decided to continue ''Top Gear'' without them, hiring several new presenters to replace them. Meanwhile, Clarkson, Hammond, and May (along with long-time friend and producer Andy Wilman), ended up getting an impressive deal with Amazon to create ''Series/TheGrandTour'', a SpiritualSuccessor to their version of ''Top Gear''.
* Probably the most famous example of a Career Ending Misdemeanour in the British media came in 1970 when former pirate radio DJ turned TV chat show host Simon Dee killed his career in spectacular fashion. First, he was overheard making an off-colour guess as to how his line-manager's daughter had secured a plum job at the BBC, involving the word "blow-job". Second, he attempted to spike a friend's pre-broadcast drink with LSD prior to going on air with the London Weekend Television programme he hosted; unfortunately the drink was "snaffled" by his studio guest, Film/JamesBond film actor Creator/GeorgeLazenby, who consequently went before the cameras high as a kite, rambling incoherently about having a list of American Senators who were in on the conspiracy to kill UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, to the utter confusion of Dee and the recording's other guests, Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno. Though the episode was pre-recorded rather than broadcast live, this incident was the last straw for LWT, and Dee's contract was not renewed. Lazenby did make other movies and TV shows, but ultimately went to California where he became a successful and wealthy property developer; Dee was last seen washing buses for London Transport and making ''very'' occasional appearances on "Whatever happened to...?" programmes before his death in 2009.
* Devon Anderson, who played the original Sonny Valentine on ''Series/{{Hollyoaks}}'', was dismissed for "time-keeping issues". Sonny was hastily written out and not seen again until the character was re-cast seven years later.
* Subverted in the case of Creator/SoupySales, who was suspended from his locally-broadcast live program in New York for asking children to send him money (which he infamously described as "green pieces of paper" in the broadcast) as a result of him being upset for having to work on a holiday[[note]]Specifically, New Years Day in 1965[[/note]]. Although Sales intended this to be a joke, money did actually start coming to the television station (though ''not'' as much as originally thought) after the broadcast, and both station management and outraged parents were not pleased. [[WhatAnIdiot Perhaps listing the address of his station wasn't such a good idea]].\\\
Ironically, this ended up ''helping'' his career, as numerous children began protesting his suspension outside the station in the days that followed. Ratings for the show began skyrocketing following the end of his suspension and remained on the air for another year. His autobiography ''Soupy Sez! My Life and Zany Times'' from 2001 explains it all perfectly.
* Rich Fields, TheAnnouncer on ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' between 2004-2010, left the show in September 2010 for reasons that were never made truly clear. The producers claimed that they wanted to find an announcer with skill in improv comedy to play off Drew Carey (who took over hosting from Bob Barker in 2007), and got such an announcer in George Gray a few months later. Other sources claim that Rich had personal problems, including identity theft, that made him unable to continue the job (although he followed Drew over to ''Series/DrewCareysImprovAGanza'' a year later, and filled in for a short time on ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' following the death of that show's longtime announcer). Around the same time, the show lost many behind-the-scenes staff, including a producer and director, under equally mysterious circumstances.
* In what ended up as a show ending event, Creator/ChristopherTitus admitted that he was the one responsible for ''Series/{{Titus}}'' getting canceled, outlined in one of his comedy specials. He had spent three seasons fighting the ExecutiveMeddling at every turn, not helped that the FOX network had a short turnover for its president during this period. In a meeting for season three, the new network president offered a direction the show could go, which he opposed on a fundamental level. But instead of playing nice, he tried calling out her out for the stupid suggestion and he expected Film/{{Braveheart}}-esque support behind him. Instead the season contract finished out, and he was told at the last possible ''legal'' moment that they were not renewed. He admits now that if you call your boss an idiot enough times, they will fire you.
* Maine's Fox affiliate used to have a pair of spokespeople for their kids' lineup: a human and a [[UsefulNotes/FurryFandom guy in a fox costume.]] The first human was fired on charges of pedophilia... then, eventually, so was his replacement.
* Rumor has it that Creator/OrlandoJones' character on ''Series/SleepyHollow'' was written out in season 2 because the actor openly criticized the new showrunners.
* ''The Frugal Gourmet''[='=]s slot on PBS's Saturday afternoon schedule[[note]]1:00 PM[[/note]] was given to other shows (most recently, reruns of ''This Old House'') after the former's host, Jeff Smith, got caught up in sexual abuse allegations; though he was able to settle out of court, the damage had been done, and his television career was in ruins.
* An anti-LGBT law in Tennessee granting immunity to counselors who redirect LGBT patients has been pointed to as a contributory factor to Creator/{{ABC}}'s surprise decision to cancel longtime survivor and cult classic ''Series/{{Nashville}}''[[note]]which had up to that point been known for being renewed each season despite constantly wavering ratings, and whose then-showrunner Dee Johnson is, ironically, an out lesbian[[/note]]; WordOfSaintPaul even hinted at the possibility of an activism-fueled axing. [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment Which is all that needs to be said about that, really.]] The series was since picked up by Country Music Television around June 2016.
* Thomas Gibson (Agent Aaron "Hotch" Hotchner) saw his contract terminated in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' after allegedly attacking a writer over creative differences in an episode he was directing.
* Japanese television star Becky lost several of her hosting gigs and most of her sponsors after it was revealed that she had an affair with Enon Kawatani, the frontman for the MathRock band Gesu no Kiwami Otome. On the other hand, Kawatani's career was largely unaffected because of what Western observers have described as [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/08/downfall-japan-tv-becky-industry-sexism a double standard in Japanese celebrity culture]]. In this culture, the fallout from such an affair would be more harmful to the career of a [[ContractualPurity girl-next door TV host]] than to the male lead singer of an indie rock band.
** Gesu No Kiwami Otome lost out on only a single job due to the controversy: The opportunity to record a theme song for the latest ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' film. Despite the news breaking shortly before the release of their second album ''Ryōseibai'', the album still debuted at number one in the Japanese charts. In 2018, The band would release a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qfjdz-gaS4 scathingly satirical music video]] attacking Japanese tabloid culture and the public's obsession with celebrity scandals that had many parallels with what happened to Becky and Kawatani.
* ''Series/TheXFactor'' has had numerous controversies which have led to contestants being forced to withdraw from the competition, leaving the show as a result:
** During Season 3 Avenue, one of the groups, was booted from the show by their mentor Louie Walsh after it was discovered they were already in a contract with a record label whose boss tried to exploit the show for publicity. Luckily they weren't far enough that another band couldn't be brought in to replace them.
** Emily, one of Season 4's contestants, was kicked out on the second episode of the live shows after a video of her Happy Slapping[[note]]Attacking someone else with the intention of catching it on camera[[/note]] a teenage girl was discovered on YouTube.
** Frankie Cocozza was booted from the show during Season 8 after boasting about doing cocaine in the house where contestants stayed for the competition.
** Brooks Way, a group participating in Season 13, were put on suspension mere hours before the first live show and kicked out before the results show[[note]]The live shows are split in two - the Saturday Singing where everyone presents their acts, and Sunday Results where the votes from the fans are counted and a contestant is eliminated[[/note]] after it emerged that one of them had violently assaulted his ex-girlfriend as well as evidence that he regularly beat up his own brother, the other half of the band.
** Not even the judges are safe. Tulisa Contostavlos was removed from the competition after an exposé was published about her dealing cocaine but her legal case collapsed after the reporter was caught lying in court.
* ''Series/TheTribe'': The teenage actors playing Ved and Chloe in season 4 reportedly held up production by going AWOL for a whole day during scheduled filming hours. This annoyed the producers enough that both characters ended up getting McLeaned.
* Gugu Liberato is a famous TV host in Brazil known for his variety show ''Domingo Legal'' (Cool Sunday) on SBT in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was the biggest competitor to Fausto Silva and his similar show ''Domingão do Faustão'' (Big Fausto's Big Sunday) on Rede Globo, but his career derailed when in 2003, a fake interview with the Brazilian criminal organization PCC was aired. Not only was it completely staged, but the fake criminals also issued threats to Brazilian politicians and celebrities. He faced legal problems, his show was taken off air for some time, and ratings plummeted. He claimed he had nothing to do with it but it didn't work, and years later he was replaced and he left his network to do a similar show on another network; that show also failed.
* The original announcer of ''Series/TheNewlywedGame'' was Scott Beach. During commercial breaks, he would entertain the audience by singing war protest songs which supposedly didn't fly with the producers. Beach was fired and replaced by Johnny Jacobs, who would go on to have a lasting career for Creator/ChuckBarris.
* It's no exaggeration to say that Michael Barrymore was the ''king'' of light entertainment in the UK during TheNineties with a string of hit GameShows and [[TalkShow Chat Shows]] - he was essentially the UK equivalent of Regis Philbin in terms of his profile and popularity. It stopped abruptly after a man was found dead in his swimming pool after a party. The British tabloids pounced and stories of drug fuelled gay orgies and other lurid and salacious behaviour filled their pages. While Barrymore was never charged or convicted for any criminal offence, his contract with [=ITV=] (the UK's main commercial network) was terminated, his shows were all cancelled and his career went into freefall. Since then Barrymore's only real high profile work since was as a housemate on ''Celebrity Big Brother'' in the mid 2000s.
* Diane Neal began appearing on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' as CGIS Special Agent Abigail starting in season 7, and rapidly became a very popular character. As such, Neal made once-a-year appearances until Season 12--and those guest stints stopped abruptly after she made allegations on Twitter rant about how unsafe the working conditions were on the set of its SpinOff ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'', where she also made several appearances.
* Comedy writer Katie Rich was fired from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' after Tweeting a joke that President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's son Barron would become "the world's first homeschool shooter." Rich later deleted the tweet and apologized, but the backlash from Trump's supporters forced NBC to fire her. Fortunately for her, Creator/DanHarmon swooped in and hired her as a writer on ''Series/RickAndMorty'', all the while arguing the irony that the same people that voted for Trump to rally against treating people with respect also wanted her fired, and that they considered Rich's comments to be worse than Trump's even though Trump has made countless controversial remarks compared to just one for Rich, the office of President was held to a ''much'' higher standard than that of a comedy TV writer.
* The live-action TV business certainly wasn't left untouched by the aforementioned Weinstein Effect, with numerous actors and producers seeing themselves booted from prominent shows as a result of sexual misconduct allegations.
** Creator/{{Netflix}} announced the [[http://deadline.com/2017/10/house-of-cards-canceled-kevin-spacey-scandal-netflix-season-six-1202197604/ cancellation]] of ''Series/{{House of Cards|US}}'' immediately after it came out that Creator/KevinSpacey, who played the VillainProtagonist Frank Underwood, had made sexual advances on a then-14 Anthony Rapp in 1986. The initial plan was to finish production on the sixth season to give the show a proper SeriesFinale, but more accusations against Spacey began to spill out, including multiple incidents during the production of the show. This led Netflix to [[https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/3/16605494/kevin-spacey-netflix-house-of-cards-fired suspend production indefinitely and fire Spacey]], with the producers eventually reaching the decision to make Creator/RobinWright the sole lead for the final season.
** PBS programs ''Charlie Rose'' and ''Charlie Rose: The Week'' ended after the eponymous host of both shows got caught up in his own sexual assault scandal on November 20, 2017 (the first scheduled airing since Rose's fall was replaced with a rerun of ''Antiques Roadshow''). He also lost his gig with CBS as the co-host of ''CBS This Morning'' in the fallout, being officially fired by both networks the day after. Rose was ultimately replaced by PBS with Christiane Amanpour and on CBS with John Dickerson, effectively confirming that his 45-year long media career was over.
** Andrew Kreisberg, creator of the television series ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', ''Series/TheFlash2014'', ''Series/Supergirl2015'', ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' was first suspended and then definitely fired after several sexual harassment allegations were made against him. It was rumored that there were threats of massive walkout from the cast and crew if he was allowed to return.
** Danny Masterson was fired from Netflix's ''Series/TheRanch'' after accusations of rape against him began to surface. He also took Netflix exec Andy Yeatman with him in the fallout.
** Celebrity chef Mario Batali quit ABC's ''The Chew'' after several women accused him of "inappropriate touching."
** Mere weeks after Charlie Rose lost his jobs, fellow PBS late-night stablemate Tavis Smiley was also fired by PBS following the investigation of multiple sexual misconduct allegations which were found to be credible enough to justifying showing him and his program the door.
** Mark Schwahn, creator of the CW's ''Series/OneTreeHill'' and developer of [=E!=]'s ''Series/TheRoyals'', had allegations of sexual harrassment made against him from cast and crew members of '''both''' shows - resulting in his being suspended from ''The Royals'' in November 2017 - and ultimately fired the following month.
** Jeffery Tambor faced accusations of sexual assault and has been removed from Amazon show ''Series/{{Transparent}}'' and Disney animated show ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.
** It's safe to say that Allison Mack, best known for playing Chloe Sullivan in ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', had her career ruined after she got arrested for being a second-in-command in a sex trafficking cult. Things only got worse when it was revealed that she had also tried to get Creator/EmmaWatson (a known feminist) and Music/KellyClarkson on board in said cult as well (neither of whom responded), and Samia Shoaib [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF8ck4JTbYA said Allison "love-bombed" and "mirrored" her to trick her into joining this group]]. Time will tell whether or not the Mack scandal brings down the reputation of ''Smallville'' with it.
* Actor Jean-François Harrisson was fired from the French-Canadian sitcom ''Une grenade avec ça?'', his character [[PutOnABus hastily written out]] and all episodes featuring him taken out of circulation following his arrest on child pornography ownership charges in 2011.
* Subverted by Dan Schneider. Though Nickelodeon dropped him following accusations of abusive behavior in April 2018, the timing happened to be coincidental, as Schneider's then-current programs with the network were all about to end anyway, and they ended up parting on amicable terms.
* Jeff Franklin, creator and producer of the sitcoms ''Series/FullHouse'' and ''Series/FullerHouse'', had his production deal not renewed by Creator/WarnerBros in February 2018 following accusations of abusive behavior both on the set as well as in the writer's room.
