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| 9 | Due to the inherently high costs of animation and many executives often viewing animation as being [[AnimationAgeGhetto "lesser" and more "expendable"]] than live-action media (especially if it isn't MerchandiseDriven and [[AnimationAgeGhetto aimed at kids]]), cartoons are amongst the most prone to this from networks and studios, and not even highly successful shows are safe from being screwed over for whatever reason. Whether it's because the AnimationAgeGhetto kicked in, the show became too costly to maintain, the [[ScrewedByTheMerchandise merchandise wasn't making enough money]] (if it had TheMerch at all), or some other reason, there is no shortage of promising cartoons that got ScrewedByTheNetwork. |
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| 11 | [[AC:The following networks have their own pages.]] |
| 12 | * [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/CartoonNetwork Cartoon Network]] |
| 13 | * [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/DisneyNetworks Disney]] |
| 14 | * [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Nickelodeon}} Nickelodeon]] |
| 15 | * [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Fox}} Fox]] |
| 16 | ** [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/FoxKids Fox Kids]] |
| 17 | * [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{Netflix}} Netflix]] |
| 18 | * [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/{{PBS}} PBS]] |
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| 20 | ABC is split in two, due to its ownership by Disney. Prime-time SBTN events [[ScrewedByTheNetwork/AmericanBroadcastingCorporationLiveActionShows have their own page]]. Everything else is on the Disney page linked above. |
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| 25 | [[folder:CBS]] |
| 26 | * In 1998, Creator/{{CBS}} had a block of Saturday Morning cartoons, ''CBS This Morning'' for two hours, then another two-hour cartoon block led off by ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdz}}''. Creator Larry Jacobs wrote on the Website/{{IMDb}} [[http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0221020/reviews that his show got canceled because of its terrible time slot]]. Complicating the situation, in some markets, it was actually seen much earlier, for example, WLNS in Lansing, Michigan ''aired the show at 7:00 AM''. Ouch. Replacing ''Birdz'' was a cartoon based on Fisher-Price's ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes'' toys. |
| 27 | * The history of Creator/CookieJarTV is rife with this, thanks to CBS's increasing apathy: |
| 28 | ** It premiered in 2006 as ''KOL Secret Slumber Party'' after America Online's children platform and Creator/DiCEntertainment's in-house girl group ''The Slumber Party Girls''; prior to this, the block was a rerun dumping ground for Creator/NickJr shows. Once CBS split from Nick's parent company Viacom, they would just wait for the rights to lapse. While the group breaking up after just one year and a single album[[note]]Which didn't even chart.[[/note]]is obviously not CBS's fault, the network still shot itself in the foot by failing to actively promote it, instead having [=DiC=] do all the heavy lifting. Additionally, it wasn't acknowledged that America Online was at the time a subsidiary of [[Creator/{{WarnerBrosDiscovery}} TimeWarner]]-with whom CBS had just formed Creator/TheCW that same year giving them a stake in Creator/KidsWB in addition to KOLSSP. Instead of invoking their stock and demanding for [=DiC=] and Warner Bros. to jointly program/market their respective blocks as a single brand, they let both companies do their own thing: Kids' WB stuck with a boy-centric block, which they'd been very successful with in the past, while [=DiC=] ran with a girl-centric block that was mainly focused on fulfilling the E/I requirements. CBS ended up being largely uninvolved with either block. The result: A Saturday morning joint venture that was actively fighting with itself, each side refusing to even recognize the other. While Time Warner must share much of the blame for failing to invoke the corporate synergy that might've let it stand a chance (which was sadly par for the course for the company prior to its sale to AT&T), it was ultimately CBS refusing to pull rank[[note]]These were their first new Saturday morning shows since''Rescue Heroes'' in 1999[[/note]] that enabled this disaster in the first place. In the end, KOL pulled out of the block after a season, as its ratings cratered compared to the aforementioned Nick Jr. reruns. The block relaunched the following year with a new branding partnership with now-defunct teen magazine KEWL (which [=DiC=] had a stake in), becoming [=KEWLopolis=]. |
| 29 | ** And when Cookie Jar Entertainment bought [=DiC=] in 2008, the latter company's cartoons including ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' got the short stick. While most of the shows have already ended production and fully aired at least once when [=KEWLopolis=] got rebranded as Cookie Jar TV, ''Strawberry Shortcake'' had just finished airing its third season and was about to air season 4, the final season, when it got the boot. Adding to the complication was the four-way lawsuit between American Greetings, [=DiC=], Cookie Jar, and Moonscoop over the franchise' ownership. Luckily though, the DVD releases did not stop — and it became the only way Americans could watch the fourth season, which only wrapped up in 2012, 5 years after the GrandFinale aired in Europe. |
| 30 | * [[TroubledProduction Two years of production issues and delays]], along with the failure of ''WesternAnimation/FishPolice'' during that time, killed CBS's interest in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyDog''. By the time it was finally ready to air, they ran it on Wednesdays opposite ''Series/UnsolvedMysteries'' reruns in the little-watched summer months. Five weeks and ten episodes later, and it was off the air for good. |
| 31 | * Creator/{{CBS}} screwed over its cartoon lineup in 1994 with budget cuts, so it could have a live-action line-up to compete with TNBC. It was really bad in the case of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' which was still going strong in the ratings after seven seasons, the show's creators decided to end the show rather then letting it suffer from budget cutbacks, especially since the strong ratings of its syndicated reruns made pushing forward new episodes under a reduced budget seem like an unnecessary hassle. These budgetary cuts were spoofed in "The Discount of Monte Cristo", one of the segments aired on the show that season. For unknown reasons the planned live-action block never materialized, with a revamped cartoon block taking over. In a bit of irony, the show that replaced ''Garfield and Friends'' in its time slot, according to producer Mark Evanier, "cost about a third of what our show cost them and got about a third of the ratings". |
| 32 | * All shows fell prey to this on CBS when their Saturday morning block was {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} themed. |
| 33 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}'', both of whom were part of the inaugural line-up, were subject to being pre-empted by the channel’s NFL coverage. ''Pelswick'' lasted '''two months''' on the block before being replaced with a second ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode. When the football season ended on February 1, 2003, ''Nick on CBS'' (the name of the network’s Saturday morning children’s block at the time) removed the second ''Hey Arnold!'' and ''Ginger'' in favor of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' as part of a schedule overhaul. |
| 34 | ** ''Rugrats'' itself only lasted five months on the block, thanks to so much misfortune being flung at it: to begin with, its default timeslot was 7AM, when its target audience was still asleep. Second, its initial CBS broadcast on February 1, 2003 was preempted 15 minutes in on the East Coast for breaking news coverage on the breakup of Space Shuttle Columbia, pushing its full nationwide debut back a week. Third, not all stations aired ''Rugrats'' at the 7AM timeslot, for instance, San Francisco owned-and-operated station KPIX aired it in the afternoon at 3:30PM, while KIRO in Seattle aired it ''at 5AM on Sunday mornings'', when absolutely no one would be awake. In certain markets, CBS' ''Rugrats'' airings had to ''compete directly with Nickelodeon's'' Rugrats ''airings'', one of these markets was Buffalo, New York, where WIVB aired the show at 8AM, the same time as the Nickelodeon broadcast. Finally, CBS only aired the same few ''Rugrats'' episodes, consisting of seven regular-rotation episodes[[note]]"Finsterella" ([[BookEnds the first and last episode to air on CBS]], and the only episode to air more than thrice), "[[Recap/RugratsS7E4SisterActSpikesNightscareCuddleBunny Sister Act/Spike's Nightscare/Cuddle Bunny]]", "Changes for Chuckie/The Magic Show/A Lulu of a Time", "Dayscare/The Great Unknown/Wash/Dry Story", "Day of the Potty/Tell-Tale Cell Phone/The Time of their Lives", "[[Recap/RugratsS6E27ChuckiesNewShirtCavebabies Chuckie's New Shirt/Cavebabies]]", and "Discover America"[[/note]] and four seasonal-broadcast episodes[[note]]"Be My Valentine", "[[Recap/RugratsS3E23Passover Passover]]", "[[Recap/RugratsS8E3BowWowWeddingVows Bow Wow Wedding Vows]]", and "[[Recap/RugratsS4E2MothersDay Mother's Day]]"[[/note]]. |
| 35 | ** Additionally, due to the tenuous nature regarding the E/I-compliant content within them, some of the older-skewing Nickelodeon shows on the block were frequently preempted by certain CBS affiliates (for example, WUSA 9 in Washington D.C. refused to air ''WesternAnimation/AllGrownUp'' and ''Series/TheBrothersGarcia'' during their runs on ''Nick on CBS'', despite them still being advertised within the block’s promos) in favor of broadcasting more educational programming syndicated from other studios. |
| 36 | * ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'' did well in the ratings, but cancellation came because it had the misfortune of airing right before the FCC's new EdutainmentShow rules came into effect. CBS tried to pass the show around as an E/I program, but the FCC declined to classify it as such, resulting in CBS not renewing the series for a second season. |
| 37 | * ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes'' received [[InvisibleAdvertising no advertising]] whatsoever, and aired right after what was now ''The Early Show'' on the 11:00 AM time slot. Combine the two together, and you have confused-as-hell kids wondering when the show was going to air, and wondering if the episode was new or not. And just like its time-slot predecessor, it also faced early airings in some markets, this was exactly what WWJ in Detroit ''(an owned-and-operated station!)'' did, airing the show at 8:00 AM. Needless to say, CBS killed the series among others when their contract with Nelvana expired. While the show was later renewed for a second season prior to cancellation, it would take over a year for Creator/TheWB [[NetworkToTheRescue to take notice]] and save it. |
| 38 | * According to ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' fansite ''[[http://rugratonline.free.fr/kc6.html Rugrats Online]]'', ''WesternAnimation/SantoBugito'' spent much of its only season being shuffled around the CBS Saturday morning schedule, when affiliates didn't preempt it for sports, making it hard for audiences to catch it. |
| 39 | * ''WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa'' got the ax after two seasons on CBS, not because of ratings issues or anything, but because Disney bought Creator/{{ABC}} by the time the second season started airing. Not helping matters was that the two seasons were split into "mini-seasons" of sorts, with one episode per week on Disney's syndicated weekday block ''WesternAnimation/TheDisneyAfternoon'', and another for CBS on Saturdays.[[note]]This wasn't the first time something like this happened, though. Similar arrangements occurred with ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' and ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', all three of which also aired on ABC Saturdays[[/note]] A third season, produced two years after the show left CBS and considerably longer, was only made due to the show's popularity overseas, being dumped to Toon Disney in the US for most of 1999 with virtually no promotion. |
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| 42 | [[folder:Comedy Central]] |
| 43 | * The syndicated version of ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' started off with a decent amount of on-air advertising (though the show was advertised primarily as a comedy, obscuring the [[{{Dramedy}} darker aspects]] that made the show popular), one premiere a week at 10:30PM following new episodes of ''South Park'', and one rerun late at night. The episodes were EditedForSyndication, which resulted in some dialogue being cut out, as well as the theme song. By the second and third seasons, however (which premiered the following spring), network premieres had been pushed past midnight. This may be justified as most Netflix viewers had already binge-watched the show to that point a couple years prior, but for non-subscribers who'd never seen the show before, it made the acquisition practically pointless. By the next year, ''[=BoJack=]'' wasn't even included on Comedy Central's "Destination Animation" block with their other syndicated programs, with reruns being practically nonexistent. |
| 44 | * The network abruptly stopped airing ''WesternAnimation/DrKatzProfessionalTherapist'' in July, 1999. On Christmas Eve of that year, the network ran a marathon of 9 new episodes, which then never aired in the US again. Three final episodes were finally aired ''two years later'' on February 13, 2002. For many, these last 12 episodes, which represents 2/3rds of the series' sixth and final season, went unseen until the complete series was eventually released on DVD in 2007. |
| 45 | * Comedy Central's broadcast schedule for season three of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' was quite erratic. When new episodes were not being screened, the show would often be off the schedule for months. Many viewers assumed the show was canceled long before it actually was. |
| 46 | %% * ''Freakshow'', starring H. Jon Benjamin, David Cross, and Jeanine Garofalo, suffered from this severely. |
| 47 | * Many of their recent shows such as ''WesternAnimation/JeffAndSomeAliens'' and ''WesternAnimation/MoonbeamCity'' became screwed by the network because they weren't doing well either critically or commercially, which is why they were both canned after their first seasons, or in the case of ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'' and ''WesternAnimation/TripTank'', two seasons. |
| 48 | * ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill's'' treatment on Comedy Central was horrific compared to how [[Creator/FXNetworks FX]] and Creator/AdultSwim treated the show when both networks had the rights to the show. Comedy Central frequently put reruns of the show either on the mornings or the really late hours of the night. The network gave up the rights to the show a year later and instead chose fellow failed Fox cartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'' to be a permanent part of the schedule, despite that show having far less episodes and way less acclaim than ''King of the Hill'' ever had, and no other network bothered picking up the cable rights to the show until the show's new corporate owners at Creator/{{Disney}} decided to air the series on one of their own channels. As a result of this, Creator/{{FXX}} began airing the series on September 20, 2021, and so far, the series has been given much better treatment on that channel. Adult Swim was able to reacquire a portion of the show's cable rights, leading to the series' return to AS in November 2021. |
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| 51 | [[folder:Corus Networks (YTV and Teletoon)]] |
| 52 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' caught a case of this on YTV in Summer 2016. Unlike Nick, which shuffled reruns over to Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, YTV still aired the show... at 5 in the morning. |
| 53 | * ANY [[WesternAnimation/MarvelUniverseDisneyXD Marvel]] show from Creator/DisneyXD that airs on Teletoon may qualify. Those looking forward to ''[[WesternAnimation/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2015 Guardians of the Galaxy]]'' enjoyed being able to watch new episodes on Disney XD Canada day-and-date with the American channel. Meanwhile, season four of ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' debuted on Teletoon seven months after its U.S premiere, while season three of ''WesternAnimation/AvengersAssemble'' premiered in November. While this is common for international broadcasts, what really makes this jarring is the fact that Corus Entertainment owns '''both''' channels. |
| 54 | * ''WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches'' aired on YTV for two years in one timeslot. While the later seasons made a brief return on Nickelodeon in the US (only to be quickly pulled due to controversy) anything past season 1 remains unaired in Canada. |
| 55 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeMe'' is infamous for having many detractors, but there may have been more bitterness coming from Teletoon's part over this show, given the fact that it was delayed for over a year, and then given only a short run when kids were in school, and in some nondescript Saturday afternoon time slot. Every episode was burned off in one month, and the show was swiftly removed from the schedule in short time afterwards. |
| 56 | ** Consider ''WesternAnimation/{{Metajets}}'', which was given a rare early morning repeat on Teletoon and Cartoon Network Canada, whereas ''My Life Me'' didn't return to the schedule until 2017, where it aired in a post-Teletoon at Night timeslot. |
| 57 | * ''WesternAnimation/PirateExpress'' was only on the air for '''a single week''' in April 2015, in which Teletoon dumped the entire series in episode blocks aired in the middle of the day, and they haven't aired it again since. |
| 58 | ** The same thing happened to several episodes of ''WesternAnimation/{{Endangered Species|2015}}'', and the second season of ''WesternAnimation/OhNoItsAnAlienInvasion'', after its ChannelHop from YTV; dumping multiple episodes of both shows in the afternoon. While Teletoon kept ''Endangered Species'' on the schedule, neither the dumped episodes nor ''Oh No!'' have aired again since. |
| 59 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Freaktown}}'' suffered the same fate. After airing the show on Mondays during the Summer of 2016, Teletoon suddenly aired multiple episodes of the show on the last Saturday of August before going on hiatus. The rest of the show's only season was dumped onto Saturday afternoons in October 2016, appropriately enough, with the last episodes being aired on a lone Sunday afternoon. |
| 60 | * An ''entire network'' was screwed over in Fall 2015, when Creator/TeletoonRetro was shut down to make room for the newly launched Creator/DisneyChannel and [[Creator/DisneyXD its siblings]], as well as increase distribution for Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/AdultSwim. However, as a result, Teletoon returned to airing classic cartoons and introduced modern versions of classics (like ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'', and ''WesternAnimation/ALVINNNAndTheChipmunks''). Plus, Creator/TeletoonAtNight was pushed back to a shorter runtime on Mondays-Thursdays, allowing Teletoon to air more action cartoons, some of which (like ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' and ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'') have previously been screwed over. Though they ended up screwing over ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', Teletoon would bring back '''the original''' ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series in reruns, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools so at least something good came out of it]]. |
| 61 | ** As part of the Fall 2015 switch, Creator/CorusEntertainment (Teletoon's parent company) moved all of Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/AdultSwim's shows over to their recently expanded Canadian counterparts. However, for some reason, reruns for Creator/CartoonCartoons and other contemporary shows from CN were removed from Cartoon Network Canada's schedule for a whole year. [[note]]they did bring back the classic shows for March Break 2016 and ''WesternAnimation/{{Mad}}'' and ''[[WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange]]'' returned in Summer 2016[[/note]] Instead, Corus used the channel to burnoff recent Teletoon programming (to fulfill [=CanCon=] requirements). Even worse, for months after the switch, the channel never aired ''one single episode'' of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' nor ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow''. |
| 62 | ** Another downside to the switch was that, while Cartoon Network now has wider carriage, it was still a higher-tier network on some providers. This means that if CN wasn't in their current package, subscribers would have to pay extra. Plus, whereas Creator/AdultSwim launched their own (now-defunct) SVOD app in Canada to allow Canadian fans to legally watch their original programming, including shows that weren't being aired on the Canadian version or Teletoon at Night [[note]]Mostly the live-action shows, but also earlier shows that Corus didn't get the rights to the first time around[[/note]], Cartoon Network programming couldn't be streamed anywhere. Perhaps realizing this, Corus would slowly phase Cartoon Network programming back to Teletoon over the next year. |
| 63 | ** The seventh season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' [[ChannelHop was originally planned to air on]] Creator/AdultSwim. But because ''Archer'' was the only major show Teletoon at Night had left, it was decided at the last minute the show would remain on Teletoon at Night. |
| 64 | ** While all of the other Cartoon Network shows aired on Teletoon were treated well by the channel. ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' was screwed HARD by Teletoon. Not only was it only on the channel for a month (shortest amount of time any Cartoon Network show aired on Teletoon) its timeslot was at 7AM on weekends, where almost no kid would be awake to see it. |
| 65 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretFilesOfTheSpyDogs'' only aired on YTV at 7:30 AM on weekends, a time where hardly any kids would be awake to see it. |
| 66 | * ''WesternAnimation/GrowingUpCreepie'' only aired on YTV in an early morning timeslot on Sundays (since they wanted to focus more on Nickelodeon shows on Sundays) and only for a few months. As such, most of the series was unaired in Canada. |
| 67 | * After giving it decent timeslots on Sunday mornings and weekday afternoons in The Zone, YTV gave one heck of a goodbye to ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' when they aired the final episodes in the fall of 2007, the show was aired 12:00 weekday afternoons-a time where the show's target audience would be in school. |
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| 70 | [[folder:The CW]] |
| 71 | * Pretty much every show that wasn't from Creator/FourKidsEntertainment got screwed over by Creator/KidsWB[='=]s transition to [[Creator/{{Toonzai}} TheCW4Kids]]. From 2007 to 2008, shows including ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTales'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', ''[[Animation/IronKid Eon Kid]]'', ''WesternAnimation/MagiNation'', ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu'', ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfQuest'', ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Legion Of Super Heroes|2006}}'' were all purged, moved to graveyard slots or pulled abruptly in preparation for the switchover. Some shows, such as ''World of Quest'', ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' were allowed to finish their seasons before they were kicked off the network. Spidey eventually [[NetworkToTheRescue found a new home]] [[ChannelHop at]] Creator/DisneyXD, where it stayed for another season. ''Johnny Test'', meanwhile, was canceled following its run on [=TheCW4Kids=], but got UnCanceled by Creator/CartoonNetwork a year later. |
| 72 | * [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 The 2000s version]] of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' got screwed over during production, after Creator/{{Viacom}} acquired the ''TMNT'' property. A [[ScrewedByTheLawyers condition of the sale required the termination of every licensing deal]] except for Playmates' toy license, thus causing 4Kids to relinquish the TV rights for ''TMNT''. Thankfully, Nickelodeon was nice enough to let them rerun the final season for the next year until they began work on [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 their own turtles]]. |
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| 75 | [[folder:Discovery Kids/The Hub/Discovery Family]] |
| 76 | The problem with shows failing or being screwed on The Hub and Discovery Family is so prevalent it's much easier to list the ''exceptions''. Let's generally say that anything that wasn't ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' or even [[WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012 closely related]] to it was sure to have a pretty short shelf life one way or another on either network. ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' was shown sparingly on the network after its finale, ''Littlest Pet Shop'' was only able to last for four seasons, and ''Friendship is Magic'' had a robust run but couldn't carry it forever, finally calling it a wrap after nine seasons. |
| 77 | * After the second relaunch, it was revealed that ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsWelcomeToCareALot'' had been put on the chopping board despite decent ratings, possibly because Hasbro has lost the master license rights to Just Play, most likely for mistreating the license (they obtained the rights to the franchise along with Strawberry Shortcake in late 2008, but didn't have a show until 2012, and toys only appeared in late 2013, and even then it was only distributed in the US, Europe and the Pacific, despite Hasbro having a worldwide presence). The show was rescued by Netflix however, who commissioned the SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsAndCousins'', as well as acquiring the repeat rights to the show. |
| 78 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'', despite high ratings, just ''stopped'' after 13 episodes in season 3. It was stated there would be a season 4 later in 2013, but Dan's VA, Creator/CurtisArmstrong, later confirmed otherwise on Website/{{Facebook}}. |
| 79 | ** On October 6, 2014, just a week before The Hub would become Discovery Family, the network stopped airing it entirely, took it off their website, and its single spot on early weekday mornings was replaced with a second episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow''. Creator/{{Starz}} Media would later put up every episode of the show on Website/YouTube before taking them down a few months later, and as of 2017 [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes only season 1 is available on DVD]] (though they are all available on [=iTunes=], Google Play, and Creator/PrimeVideo). |
| 80 | * ''[[ComicStrip/DennisTheMenaceUK Dennis and Gnasher]]'' was given a decent treatment at first, but later on it was then pushed to awkard hours and was given little to no advertising and was eventually taken off American air-waves completely by October 6, 2013. In fact it was screwed over so badly, many people don't even remember it airing on the channel at all, even people who watched it religiously back then. |
| 81 | * Reruns of ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' were taken off the schedule, thanks in no small part to [[Film/JemAndTheHolograms2015 its film adaptation]] [[BoxOfficeBomb tanking]]; its time slot was handed over to ''Transformers Prime''. The only silver lining was that its 2015 comic book adaptation did well. |
| 82 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}}'', after having been previously swept under the rug, only lasted for one particular weekend before it was taken off the schedule after the relaunch, a fate it shared with ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'' at the same time (the latter would later get an hour-long spot on weekday mornings before being replaced with the original ''[[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero G.I. Joe]]'' series). |
| 83 | ** The relaunch also saw the end of reruns of shows such as ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow''[[note]]which might have got screwed out of its rumored third season thanks to the relaunch[[/note]], ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''[[note]]its predecessor ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' would get shuffled around over the next few months[[/note]], ''Series/FraggleRock'', and every single live-action sitcom the network had. Some events that were supposed to happen if The Hub stayed on the air, including another Hub Halloween Bash and the additions of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'', ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'', were scrapped. |
| 84 | * ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' proved to be a viable counterpart to ''My Little Pony'' and initially ran for a solid three seasons, but the fourth season ended up being the last because of its toyline not doing well enough. The franchise would then be rebooted with ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShopAWorldOfOurOwn'', which didn't fare much better and only lasted three seasons in total. |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Believe it or not, the show was hardly the poster child for Discovery Family (then known as Hub Network) during its first season; the show aired on Fridays when most of its target demographic was in school and was barely advertised, with ''Transformers Prime'' getting plenty of attention (and inexplicable logo bugs counting down to its next airing). This all changed shortly after the first season finale, when Discovery Family's schedule changed and ''MLP'' moved to a much better timeslot, only gathering more air time from there and a steady stream of advertising. |
| 86 | ** After four seasons of successful ratings, the fifth season is said to have fallen to this territory, [[BrokenBase though fans have contested this designation]]. There was a hiatus from season four to season five that lasted ''a full year'', despite a relatively strong advertising campaign. By that time, the network was relaunched from The Hub to Discovery Family (which may have played a role in the hiatus). Later episodes were very rarely promoted on the channel, aside from episode clips posted online. Despite this, the season 5 premiere promo ran nonstop ''every time'' a new episode was broadcast, weeks after the premiere originally aired. [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord The seventh episode]], which aired after a week-long hiatus to show ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'', ended up posting the what was then the lowest ratings ever for the series[[note]]A record later surpassed by "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E10PrincessSpike Princess Spike]]", itself a highly divisive episode among fans[[/note]]. After the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E8TheLostTreasureOfGriffonstone eighth episode]] it took a three week hiatus before the show's [[MilestoneCelebration 100th episode]] was shown, after which ratings again took a hit[[note]]Despite actually being promoted properly this time compared to the other episodes[[/note]]. Ratings did start to stabilize after that, but then the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E25TheCutieRemarkPart1 season]] [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 finale]] beat out the seventh and tenth episodes of season five as the lowest ratings ever for the series, which is incredibly unusual for past season finales in general (though some can also blame the fact that it aired on a Thanksgiving weekend). |
| 87 | ** Adding salt to the fans' wounds, the popular episode streaming website [=CinemaQuestria=] [[http://www.horse-news.net/2015/05/discovery-family-losing-viewers-c.html was struck with the legal hammer]] following the release of the seventh episode's ratings, and later on Hasbro began taking down episodes off Dailymotion. |
| 88 | ** In July of 2015 it was announced that season 6 would be starting before the end of the year. This turned out to be a mistake: season 5 was being split in two with the second half airing at the end of the year. Reaction from the fanbase has been predictably negative, though it's unclear if this situation is more the fault of Discovery or Hasbro. Fortunately, unlike season 5, Discovery Family began promoting season 6's premiere weeks before it aired. Later seasons of the show went through mid-season hiatuses every summer. |
| 89 | ** When ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' premiered in May 2023, the My Little Pony franchise's broadcast time on weekends was reduced to 90 minutes per day. Ironically, this did ''not'' prevent the network from airing Equestria Girls movies or Rainbow Roadtrip, thus resulting in the show sometimes not airing ''at all'' in one day. |
| 90 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyPonyLife'' was doomed to fail. Its American release date was postponed by five months; shortly after it premiered in 2020 on Discovery Family, it quietly faded into the background and ended after its second season. |
| 91 | * ''WesternAnimation/SecretMillionairesClub'' had sporadic airings, with the episodes being aired as much as months apart on a seemingly random basis, despite advertisements saying new episodes every Saturday. The series didn't finish its run by the time the relaunch happened, with only 22 out of 26 episode having aired. The final four episodes wouldn't see the light of day until Creator/{{Qubo}} picked up the series two years later, with the remaining episodes airing in 2017. |
| 92 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'' got screwed pretty badly by The Hub: it had limited airings during its initial run, then after it was dropped from the schedule entirely in April 2014, it later came back airing only on Sundays as reruns. It later found a place at 9:30 AM EST on weekdays, thankfully around June so the problem of its target audience not being able to watch it was mostly circumvented, with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageFairytaleDropouts'' taking its spot on Sundays, then in July it lost that spot too and was pushed to a 4:00 AM EDT graveyard slot on weekends. |
| 93 | ** Made even worse by the fact that a second season was commissioned by The Hub in October of 2013, before they reversed the decision only a month later. The network dropped the show in October of 2014, and the slot it had left was replaced with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaijudo}}''. Though not renewed, it was later brought back in an early morning slot on Sundays in November 2015, where it stayed until a few months into 2016. |
| 94 | * Despite airing no new Hasbro-owned programs after Pony Life, Discovery Family is still refusing to sell its distribution rights of older programming from Hasbro. Their current contract with the company is not scheduled to expire until March 31, 2025. This has resulted in all of Hasbro's shows (except Pony Life) to be the oldest programming still airing on the channel as of 2023. |
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| 97 | [[folder:MTV]] |
| 98 | * The MTV[=/=]Creator/WarnerBros co-production ''3 South'' fared no better than the other college-themed ''Undergrads'', as it was given no advertising for the network, hence why it suffered from such low-ratings and was eventually canceled after one season. |
| 99 | * The Canadian co-productions ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Undergrads}}'' both were canceled after only a few of their 13 episodes aired in the U.S., the former receiving complaints from Indian citizens about the depiction of Gandhi. Only eight episodes have aired in the United States. Both series were minor cult hits in Canada as Creator/{{Teletoon}} frequently aired the shows on their now-defunct late-night block in order to fulfill Canadian content laws, with an ''Undergrads'' movie being in the works after a successful crowdfunding project and ''Clone High'' was revived in 2020 by MTV Studios, premiering on Creator/{{Max}} three years later. |
| 100 | * The horrific treatment ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' got at the hands of MTV. No consistent time slot, frequently preempted by an episode of ''Series/TheRealWorld'' or ''Series/RoadRules'', and finally buried, seemingly never to be released on DVD (save for the releases of the TV movies ''Is It Fall Yet?'' and ''Is It College Yet?''). It ''was'' rerun on the teen channel The N, but nearly all the episodes were edited for content or banned. It wouldn't be until many years (and many hours of trying to edit out the music due to copyright/licensing issues that were preventing the series from getting released in the first place) later that ''Daria'' would get the DVD release it deserved. |
| 101 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Downtown}}'' received rave reviews and was nominated for an Emmy in 2000, but its last episode aired in November 1999 after frequent time slot changes and subsequent iffy ratings. Creator/{{MTV}}'s dicking around annoyed co-creator George Krstic to the point that he stuck a bunch of thinly veiled {{Take That}}s to MTV in a later series he co-created, ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR''. |
| 102 | * In late 2011, MTV started to redeem themselves with ''WesternAnimation/GoodVibes'' and brand-new episodes of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead''. It didn't last for long though, as of 2012, both of them were taken off the air so MTV could make room for more reality shows. ''Good Vibes'' was on Thursdays, but it was aired at a time in [[FridayNightDeathSlot which most people would be away from home or possibly asleep]]. All episodes of the latter from the second episode onwards were aired OutOfOrder rather than in chronological order. |
| 103 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheNewAnimatedSeries'' saw a good chunk of the episodes for its only season burned through by MTV debuting two episodes on the same night for weeks in addition to little promotion by MTV. |
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| 106 | [[folder:NBC/Universal/[=NBCUniversal=]/Sprout]] |
| 107 | * During the final three years of Creator/{{NBC}}'s orignal Saturday morning block, all of its programming outside of ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' suffered constant ExecutiveMeddling. First, NBC canceled ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'', at one time considered NBC's staple animated program, and gave it the rerun treatment for a year while struggling to headline newer shows, like ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' and the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Film/TheKarateKid'', the latter of which was promptly axed due to low ratings. Both shows had to rely on word-of-mouth as NBC chose to spend their resources headlining ''Saved by the Bell''. Then, a year later, ''WesternAnimation/{{Kissyfur}}''[[note]]Which was initially canceled after one season in 1987, but got UnCancelled a year later following fan protests[[/note]] was axed and its time slot replaced by ''NBA Inside Stuff'', a recap program of NBA basketball games[[note]]The premiere of that show was timely, as NBC had secured the broadcast rights to NBA games from CBS the year prior[[/note]]. At the same time, NBC exhausted more advertising revenue toward ''Saved by the Bell'', causing drastic budget cuts for cartoons airing on the block. Potential viewers would either move to other blocks, such as newcomer Creator/FoxKids, or watch Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} instead. Then, in the block's final year, ''Captain N'' was shortened from an hour to a half-hour, and both ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'' and the obscure ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'' were canceled in favor of new shows like ''WesternAnimation/ProStars'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoYogi'', both of which were critically panned and proved to be the final straw. As a result of the persistent ratings failures and continued pressure within the children's television market, NBC ordered all Saturday morning programs canceled, save for only ''Saved by the Bell'' since it was the most successful show of the block. They continued airing reruns of the shows until August 1st, 1992, when a teen-oriented live-action block named ''TNBC'' and a Saturday morning edition of ''Series/{{Today}}'' took its place. ''Saved by the Bell'' and ''NBA Inside Stuff'' were the only programs to survive the transition. NBC's decision to drop their SaturdayMorningCartoon block is widely viewed as the beginning of the [[GenreKiller end for the format]]. |
| 108 | * When [=NBCUniversal=]'s parent company, Comcast, purchased Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, they received ownership of the children's-oriented [=DreamWorks=] Channel in Southeast Asia, resulting in a shift to airing more mainstream family programming and animated films. The fixed daylight hours time slot for preschooler programs was broken up and made completely random and unintelligible (with most of the preschool shows scheduled for past midnight, and only small chunks between 9-11 AM and 2-4 PM weekdays), with daytime slots dedicated to shows that they think will be popular, like ''Noddy: Toyland Detective''. SliceOfLife fans are not pleased with this change. |
| 109 | * ''WesternAnimation/GodTheDevilAndBob'' received rather favorable reviews and had quality comparable to Fox's animated sitcoms like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. Sadly, NBC canceled it after only four episodes due to a combination of lackluster ratings and pressure from Christian conservative groups, who saw it as mocking Christianity. The network, who reportedly never liked the series, used the controversy as a convenient excuse to kill off the series. The remaining nine produced episodes were doled out to Creator/AdultSwim, eleven years later. |
| 110 | * They somehow managed to screw up a partnership with Hallmark, causing the shuttering of Hallmark Channel Asia. Back in the early 2000s, Hallmark and [=NBCUniversal=] had a joint-venture and they carried a whole lot of Creator/PBSKids programming as part of the "Hallmark Kids" block on the channel, including ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}''. While a lot of the programming managed to find new homes in Asia upon the channel shuttering (notably, most went to Playhouse Disney Asia when that channel was launched), ''Caillou'' couldn't find a new network and thus has not aired in the region since, although one could stream Caillou on-demand since 2017, when DHX via the [=WildBrain=] subsidiary made the streaming app available in the region. The shuttering also had a proactive reaction in the region, as many Hallmark holiday animated specials produced since are not screened in the region simply because there is no outlet to screen them. |
| 111 | * NBC managed to screw over ''an entire western animation network''. Namely, [=KidsCo=], which was a joint-venture between [=NBCUniversal=] (NBC's global arm), Creator/{{Nelvana}} and Creator/CookieJar[[note]]the original deal was with Creator/DiCEntertainment, which Cookie Jar originally maintained when they bought over [=DiC=][[/note]]. Shortly after Creator/DHXMedia bought over Cookie Jar and made them pull out of the deal[[note]]DHX wanted to put more focus on [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily The Hub]] in the US. The main reason of the purchase was to bolster content for The Hub by filling their portfolio with Cookie Jar's library. This was ultimately pointless since The Hub was revamped into Discovery Family just months later, after Discovery Communications bought back its shares on the channel to make itself the majority stakeholder.[[/note]], NBCU pulled out as well. Instead of [=KidsCo=], NBCU wanted to focus their efforts on Creator/{{Sprout}} back in the US, which they bought off Creator/{{PBS}} just a few weeks before. This led Nelvana to shutter the operations as they determined that it is infeasible to continue solo, due to financial issues and lack of variety in content. To rub salt on the wound, they had just moved the operations into a new high-tech broadcasting facility just months prior to the shuttering. Granted though, DHX is also a major culprit here[[note]]their actions cost the channel two-thirds of its show library.[[/note]], but it was NBC's withdraw from the operations which led to the final decision to shutter the channel. |
| 112 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/NoddysToylandAdventures Make Way For Noddy]]'' and ''Zou'' both got this treatment on the NBC Kids block. They aired at the very end of the block, and often got pre-empted for sports. Even worse, both shows never aired their full run of episodes. |
| 113 | * PBJ, a joint venture network of Classic Media (part of Creator/DreamWorksAnimation) and broadcaster Luken Communications, was aired on 19 affiliates nationwide, but cable providers found the channel to be worthless and refused to carry it. The network shut down abruptly after five years of operations due to catastrophic ratings, and any talk of the network being resurrected was silenced when [=NBCUniversal=] took over [=DreamWorks=], taking Classic Media with them. |
| 114 | * ''Sammy'', initially being greenlit as a sister show to ''God, the Devil and Bob'', was treated even worse. After the latter show crashed and burned, NBC had no interest in prime-time animation and kept delaying the premiere until August, gave it little advertising, and quietly gave the show the boot after only airing two of its thirteen produced episodes, with some affiliates not even bothering to air those two episodes. |
| 115 | * NBC's handling of the UK/New Zealand production ''WesternAnimation/StressedEric'' consisted of removing nearly every trace of the show's cultural identity and turning it into a ripoff of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Burned off into the summer of 1998 (and banned by some NBC affiliates), it was lambasted by critics and died quickly. The second season never aired in the US. |
| 116 | * Back when they had a Creator/{{qubo}} block, ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' was treated this way after two seasons, despite it being the second-highest-rated show on the block after ''WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins'' A third season of the show was planned and created, but never aired;[[note]] Said season didn't show up until 2016 in first-run syndication[[/note]] NBC decided to re-run the first two seasons for the 2008-09 season instead. The show was pulled from the block a year later; coincidentally, all this happened ''before'' NBCU ended up owning both shows after snapping up [=DreamWorks=] Animation. |
| 117 | * In addition to NetworkDecay, some already considered the Creator/{{Sprout}} channel's rebrand as Universal Kids in September of 2017 as this. Sprout remained on the new channel as a preschool programming block that aired from 3am to 6pm, taking up the majority of the channel's airtime, while Universal Kids programs the remaining hours; similar to how Creator/CartoonNetwork and Creator/AdultSwim operate. [[note]] To an extent, this is also how Discovery Family is programmed, with Hasbro programming the daytime hours.[[/note]] Most Sprout viewers had already given up hope, considering NBCU's horrible tendency to screw over their networks [[ExecutiveMeddling or make changes to their programming]] [[NetworkDecay that just makes things worse for everyone]], and coming off a more extreme instance of this happening with the now defunct [=NickMom=] block on Creator/NickJr. |
| 118 | ** Case in point: the Sprout branding was retired in January 2018, yet preschool programming still dominates Universal Kids' schedule. |
| 119 | * While WesternAnimation/FifiAndTheFlowertots was adored by Sprout for some time, it eventually fell prey to this. Sprout only had the rights to the first two seasons; in the later years they held the rights to the show, they barely did anything to promote it other than telling viewers that it was up next. |
| 120 | * ''WesternAnimation/LittlePeopleEgmont'': The new series apparently became the first casualty of ''Universal Kids'', with the show vanishing off the network's schedules, mentions of the show disappearing from the website, and Creator/FisherPrice dumping the episodes in a timed manner onto Youtube. In reality, trouble had been brewing for the show since February 2017, with the show being constantly pre-empted up until its removal immediately after the Universal Kids rebranding. |
| 121 | * ''School of Roars'' had the misfortune of premiering at the exact same time Sprout re-branded. As a result, the show was shoved into an early-morning time slot to make room for the tween-oriented programming, and was pulled from the schedule by the end of the year. |
| 122 | * ''Terrific Trucks'', which also premiered around the same time as ''School of Roars'', got poorer treatment than that show. The episodes were burned off in marathon blocks before vanishing off the schedule for repeats of ''Caillou'', ''Kody Kapow'' and ''Noddy, Toyland Detective''. |
| 123 | * On Sprout, ''Yaya and Zouk'' was first aired with a marathon of episodes on a Saturday afternoon. After those episodes, Sprout moved it to a 6 am time slot weekday mornings, and the show got removed later. |
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| 126 | [[folder:UPN]] |
| 127 | * UPN started airing ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', an animated adaptation of Scott Adams's mega-hit comic strip. At first they seemed very proud of it, the series premiere was their highest rated of the season and all advertisements for all their network shows ended with "On UPN: Dilbert's network". In its' second season, ''Dilbert'' moved to Tuesdays following a show called ''Series/ShastaMcNasty'', which, in the words of Scott Adams, drew the kind of audience "likely to die in a bowling ball cleaning accident"; both series went on a temporary hiatus during the spring. The show not fitting in with UPN's then-current demographics (12-34 males and minorities) didn't help. |
| 128 | * Another show affected by the ''Dilbert'' screw, by virtue of airing right after it, was ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies''. Its original run on UPN started in a bad time to start a series, in late-April 1999 and ratings were very low. This would carry on for 4 more weeks until UPN ultimately decided to cancel it with only 5 episodes aired. |
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| 131 | [[folder:The WB]] |
| 132 | * After being AdoredByTheNetwork for a couple years, ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' suffered this near the end of their original runs. Jamie Kellner, who was at the helm of The WB at the time (and thus Creator/KidsWB as well), apparently ignored the very high ratings among older audiences both shows had and used the low ratings with younger audiences to justify cancellation. The former was canceled entirely and the latter was [[{{Retool}} retooled]] into ''WesternAnimation/PinkyElmyraAndTheBrain'' featuring Elmyra from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''. The low ratings caused the show to get canceled after airing ''five episodes'' and was moved into an installment show called ''[[OverlyLongName The Cat & Birdy Warneroonie Pinky Brainy Big Cartoonie Show]]''. The fact that Creator/WarnerBros found out they could license ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', which became a big hit for Creator/KidsWB, on a discount instead of continuing to produce expensive productions like ''Animaniacs'' and ''Pinky and the Brain'' certainly didn't help matters either. |
| 133 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' was terribly screwed over due to being popular with [[PeripheryDemographic attracting the wrong demographics]] -- at least, in the eyes of the network executives. As noted in the first episode's audio commentary: |
| 134 | -->'''Paul Rugg:''' The WB. Can we talk about how supportive they were? No. |
| 135 | ** The executives didn't like how the ratings skewed much higher than they intended. It ultimately ended after two seasons when a regime change in studio management decided to clear just about everything out of their SaturdayMorningCartoon lineup. To justify this, they instituted an ad gimmick called "Big Kids Come First", where all the adult-skewing cartoons were aired earlier than the ones skewing for younger kids, making sure that nobody watched anything and ensuring that ratings dropped low enough to justify a massive overhaul. Not just it led to the cancellation of that show, the same happened to ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'' as well. |
| 136 | * Both ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'' were quickly axed by the network before finishing their first-and-only season due to low ratings, although ''The Oblongs'' was by far the most successful of the network's failed attempts of an hit adult-animated series, although not by a long shot. Like with ''Mission Hill'', the remaining episodes of both shows would later air on Creator/AdultSwim in 2002. |
| 137 | * The WB wasn't very kind to ''WesternAnimation/ChannelUmptee3'', which was co-produced by legendary TV producer Creator/NormanLear. After 13 episodes, The WB declined to renew the series for a second season, resulting in its abrupt cancellation. Some speculate that the depiction of network executives [[CorruptCorporateExecutive as villains]] may have offended The WB's censors (despite the fact that several [[WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain of their]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} shows]] mocked them to no end and got off scot-free, though given that they were in-house productions, bias may have played a part in that), but no official reasoning for its cancellation has ever been made public. |
| 138 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvasionAmerica'', the second TV work from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation (the first being ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'' on FOX) before their jump to movies, was given a thirteen-episode order by The WB. Since the show's content was too dark for it to air on the network's Creator/KidsWB block, they decided to burn off the series for prime time in the summer of 1998. With mediocre reviews and poor ratings, the series was quickly canceled, and after a second run on the Kids' WB! block (albeit with some content edited to fit the block's guidelines) the network forgot that it existed. |
| 139 | * ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill'' had a nasty case of this from The WB. According to the producers, the show staff was told their upfronts "didn't matter", and so they slapped together a poorly edited two minute preview of the show and submitted it. Advertisers panned it, and when The WB failed to prepare an episode for their schedule preview event, critics demolished the show, going off of the terrible two minute clip. Then, like salt in the wound, The WB placed it in the "death slot" for the target audience, 8 PM on Friday evening, directly before the beginning of a block of black sitcoms, which was a ''completely'' different audience then ''Mission Hill's'' demographic. Even worse, The WB then put the show on hiatus after only two episodes, sat on it for eight months, then re-premiered it during the summer, aired another three episodes, then finally canceled it. The remaining episodes were unaired until Creator/AdultSwim aired them in 2002. |
| 140 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhantomInvestigators'': According to series co-creator Stephen Holman, the show was doing very well in the ratings, but Kids' WB! gave it the axe after running for a month in June 2002. The reason being that they were number one in the ratings with males in the six-to-eleven demographic, but ''Phantom Investigators'' was doing better with girls instead of boys. WB, not wanting to lose its number one spot with young boys, canceled the show after thirteen episodes and it has [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes never aired on television again, nor received any VHS or DVD releases]]. |
| 141 | * After getting [[{{Pun}} rescued]] [[NetworkToTheRescue from CBS]], ''WesternAnimation/RescueHeroes'' ended up getting this treatment from their new home at Creator/KidsWB. By the time it premiered on the block in July 2001, it had the same time slot as originally on CBS (11:00 AM on Saturday morning), but had a nice advertising campaign and variety of other Kids' WB programs to go with it, giving it a much better treatment. But two months later, the series moved to Wednesdays at 3:00 PM, this time with little advertising. This was to make up for [[WesternAnimation/TheMummyTheAnimatedSeries the batch]] [[Anime/YuGiOh of new series premieres]] for the block that were preempted by 9/11 (they eventually premiered on September 29th of that year, two weeks after planned airdates). ''RH'' returned to Saturdays at 8:00 AM for repeats in May 2002, then was pulled again to conclude the second season of ''WesternAnimation/TheZetaProject''. It was canceled later that year due to low ratings generated by its Wednesday afternoon slot, a time where most of its target demographic are still at school. |
| 142 | * The final episode of ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'', "E-Scream", was supposed to air on Kids' WB on April 23rd, 2005, but ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' ended up pre-empting it. The episode never saw the light of day until it was included on the DVD volume "Zoinks! Camera! Action!" in February 2006, and finally had its television premiere on Creator/CartoonNetwork in July 2006, ''over a year'' after the series wrapped up production and was already in reruns. |
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| 145 | [[folder:Other/Miscellaneous]] |
| 146 | * Virtually every non-Fox animated sitcom such as ''WesternAnimation/FatherOfThePride'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodeFamily'' gets this. Seriously, try to find the one that lasted over a season. [[note]]It was ''Dilbert''.[[/note]] |
| 147 | * Russian channel 2x2 started out as a 24-hour adult animation channel. In the beginning, their main selling point was the premiere of an ''Creator/AdultSwim'' block, which was treated like a separate block with localized Cyrillic ''[эдалт свим]'' bug, and was heavily promoted along with an English block. Some time later all promotion died down, the block was kicked to 1:10am and reduced to a half-hour, the English block was pushed even further and became a backburner for shows they don't care to even dub, and now the block is no more. As a result, several shows sat on the sidelines '''for years''' without new episodes. When 2x2 finally came around, they couldn't deliver the same voices and ended up skipping seasons. |
| 148 | ** ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' received this treatment despite Carl from the series being the channel's mascot. The original order was 4 seasons, then they got a movie and season 5 a few years later (minus the episode "Bible Fruit", due to religious content). Then, a whopping ''4 years later'', they delivered seasons 7 and 8, losing season 6 along with half of the voice actors, notably Master Shake and Meatwad. ''Another'' 4 years later they delivered all of the final seasons ''except'' season 9. |
| 149 | ** With the block on decline, 2x2 gave ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' [[AdoredByTheNetwork special treatment]] by bringing two fairly famous Russian rappers on board to dub certain characters. The show was broadcasted on primetime and was a big success. When season 3 became available, said rappers quit halfway through the dubbing, which resulted in the other half being finished without them. 2x2 dumped the season premiere on air without any prior announcements whatsoever (you had to check the schedule on their website to notice), and stopped dubbing past season 3. |
| 150 | ** ''Metalocalypse'' got 14 episodes from the first season repeated ad nauseam for 4 years. Fortunately, 2x2 woke up and gave people the rest of season 1, season 2 and season ''4''. |
| 151 | ** ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', starting from season 7 (the Adult Swim episodes), got a really small you-blink-you-missed run, to the point there are no recordings of any dubbed episodes on the Internet. |
| 152 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'' dubbing never went past the first two seasons. |
| 153 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' didn't go beyond the original two-season order for a solid four years. When they did, they dubbed season ''4''. That's right, no season 3, no original voices. In this case fans of the show hated both dubs anyway, since half of the jokes were lost in translation. |
| 154 | ** As of 2019 the only [adult swim] things they care about are ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. The rest of the schedule is non-stop marathons of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' with an odd premiere here and there. |
| 155 | ** Surprisingly averted in 2020, when 2x2 launched an [adult swim] streaming service where they managed to finally close almost all the season gaps. |
| 156 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTeddyRuxpin'' was only shown in time slots when the target audience wouldn't be able to watch the show. It would usually air anywhere from 4:00 AM in the morning to 3:00PM in the afternoon. It was quickly forgotten and canceled, and was supposed to air in syndication again for the 1998-99 television season but nobody was willing to pick it up. Teletoon did air reruns in Canada in 1999...but at 10:00 AM on weekdays, when the target demographic was in school. |
| 157 | * Any non-educational cartoon aired on AFN Family (excluding ''WesternAnimation/{{Littlest Pet Shop|2012}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ScaredySquirrel'') will only air at ''best'' once every few weeks; at worst ''once a month''. While most networks that air ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' [[AdoredByTheNetwork treat it with lots of love]], AFN rarely airs this show.[[note]]Not helping is the fact that they only air the first six seasons. This could be either a good thing or a bad thing for fans of the show.[[/note]] And if you're a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fan in the military, it sucks to be you for this reason. Not only that, their run is '''four years behind''', even though they aired ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls Equestria Girls]]''. However, Thursday nights usually consist of Marvel cartoons and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', while Friday nights air multiple Nickelodeon and Disney Channel cartoons, along with ''My Little Pony''. |
| 158 | ** In the summer of 2019, AFN removed ''[=SpongeBob=]'' and ''WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer'' from its' schedule without warning, replacing them with the reboot of ''[[Series/DoubleDare1986 Double Dare]]'' and a third rerun of ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'' respectively. |
| 159 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerAndEggs,'' despite being received with critical acclaim upon its release and winning a Daytime Emmy, only ever received a single season. No announcement was made as to whether the show was canceled by Amazon or not, but one of the show's creators, Shadi Petosky, spoke out against the company's decision to bring Jeffrey Tambor back onto the cast of another show, ''Transparent,'' even after a set of abuse allegations emerged. (Much of the show's crew, including Petosky, would move on to Netflix's ''Twelve Forever.'') |
| 160 | * Due to failed ratings and copyright claims, the Spanish company Creator/NeptunoFilms struck down ''[[WesternAnimation/TheUglyDuckling2000 El patito feo]]'', removing it from its catalogue. All ensuing foreign broadcasts did the same, and now the show is LostMedia. |
| 161 | * In December 2014, Italian channel [=RaiGulp=] started airing ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' and then dropped it after a week, replacing it with reruns of ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. |
| 162 | ** Later, in 2017, they aired ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' at ''4 AM''. While most of the programming in that timeframe is reruns of older shows (such as ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' or ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery''), this was ''Korra'''s '''first airing''' outside of pay-TV and DVD releases. |
| 163 | * By 2005, ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' was at its peak, and Creator/{{G4TV}}, which at this point was already broadcasting the internet shorts (some of which had just been seen on ''Series/AttackOfTheShow''), picked up a TV adaptation of the show, which premiered in 2006. In the months leading up to the TV series' premiere, G4 and the ''Happy Tree Friends'' website both comfortably gave it plenty of advertising, with a small number of the TV series' episodes even being given early previews that were sent to subscribers of the show's now-defunct email fan club. Unfortunately, G4 placed first-run episode broadcasts at the highly inconvenient time slot of midnight Eastern Time on Monday nights[[note]]even the encore reruns were no better treated, airing as ''late as 2:30 AM'' on Saturday nights[[/note]] with extremely poor promotion, which translated into low ratings, which not only ensured the TV series' cancellation after 13 episodes and the scrapping of a planned second TV season, but also indirectly caused [[AudienceAlienatingEra the show's popularity to crash]]. Making matters worse, the TV series was removed entirely from G4's schedule as soon as the final episode aired, as if it never existed. While it did live on in the internet shorts, those too eventually petered out, with the last handful of episodes being released for purchase in 2016 and for free in 2018. |
| 164 | * People who live in Portugal and like ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' are very unlucky. It only aired ''once'' on SIC in the second half of 2011, around 7:30am. |
| 165 | * When Showcase Cinemas brought back the Kidtoon Films children's matinee series in 2016, they changed 7 of the TV shows/movies they were going to show. Their ''[[WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts Octonauts]]'' screening became a ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'' screening, the ''[[WesternAnimation/DorasExplorerGirls Dora And Friends: Into The City!]]'' screening became a screening of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', the ''WesternAnimation/ZackAndQuack'' screening became a ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'' screening, a screening of ''Babar'' became ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill: The Movie'', the ''WesternAnimation/BarbieStarlightAdventure'' screening became a screening of the 2014 ''Literature/MayaTheBee'' movie, a screening of the 2014 movie of ''Literature/TheBoxcarChildren'' got replaced by both ''Barbie and Her Sisters in A Puppy Chase'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas & Friends: The Great Race]]'', and a screening of ''WesternAnimation/TheSnowman'' was cancelled with no replacement film before the program went into a brief hiatus. No reasons have been revealed for why the first four were changed or why the screening of ''The Snowman'' was cancelled, but there are reasons for why ''Barbie Starlight Adventure'' and ''The Boxcar Children'' got changed. ''Starlight Adventure'' changing was because Fathom Events screened the movie in late July, and the screening of ''The Boxcar Children'' got cancelled due to a partnership between Mattel and Kidtoons making one of their films to be replaced with ''Barbie and Her Sisters in a Puppy Chase''. |
| 166 | * Many animated or kids series airing on Malaysian free-to-air TV are bound to suffer this. Privately-owned [=NTV7=] and the government-owned [=RTM=] stations do this very often. Examples: |
| 167 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' lasted only one season on [=RTM1=], airing around the start of 1995, being aired only once a week at an inconvenient time slot of Sundays at 5:30PM, and being yanked by the end of the year. |
| 168 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': Did not make it past season four (though part of season five did air on Disney Channel Asia before canning the show entirely). In other countries, the show has made it to season 20 as of late 2016. |
| 169 | ** ''Series/BetweenTheLions'': Episodes skipped, random pre-empting of slots and '''the master tapes were not paused when cutting into ads, causing large amounts of scenes to go missing'''. Halfway through airing, its slot was preempted for a whopping 6 months. It was on [=RTM2=]. |
| 170 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'' was screwed by [=NTV7=], with only the original five -minute shorts aired. The 40 episodes in-between were dropped and the show was quickly replaced by ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''. |
| 171 | ** ''Literature/CharlieAndLola'': Stopped halfway through season 1 and [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain never mentioned again.]] It was on [=RTM2=]. |
| 172 | ** ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'': Same reason as ''Between the Lions'', and they did not bother bringing in Season 2 onwards. |
| 173 | ** [[AdoredByTheNetwork After treating]] ''Literature/{{Franklin}}'' [[AdoredByTheNetwork well]] for 5 seasons (to give an idea on how well the show was treated, [[ShortRunInPeru season 5 aired a whopping 2 months before they did on Nick Jr. in the US]]), [=TV2=] abruptly decided to screw it over and ignored Season 6 as well as its spin-off, ''Franklin and Friends''. |
| 174 | ** ''Literature/LittlePrincess'' was screwed over by [=NTV7=] after two seasons and the third season remained unaired in the country. |
| 175 | ** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the dubious honor of not only being screwed by [=NTV7=], but also to be screwed ''before'' it could even air: it was replaced with ''Lily the Witch'' in the last minute on the day and the slot it was supposed to premiere. The show ID overlay still read ''My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'' even though the airing show was something different. The show finally started airing in July 2012, but with the same problem that US viewers faced with the Hub two years ago taken to extremes: not only it's aired at 8:30 AM on Saturdays, that's its only one time slot in the week. Missed it? God help you, especially with various online file lockers blocked by the MCMC's internet censorship. Eventually subverted- the network eventually came to ''adore'' the show. After the producers caved in to the bronies and dumped all slice of life content, a move which alienated slice of life lovers in the country who were following the news of the production online. |
| 176 | *** Speaking of ''My Little Pony'', [=NTV7=] was supposed to air ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'', but at the last minute, replaced it with ''Manga/SgtFrog'' and ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''. |
| 177 | ** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': When they moved to [=NTV7=] from [=MetroVision=] (now [=8TV=]) after a four-year hiatus, episodes were randomly censored (the infamous ''Zoo Story'' episode has all scenes containing pigs cut off[[note]] as Malaysia has a large Muslim population and pigs (whether used as food or not) are seen as highly taboo in the Islam religion, although there is no written law stating that pigs must be cut, some TV stations do that anyway[[/note]] - despite the same episode airing on Nickelodeon Asia, which is available in Malaysia, uncut). The show stopped airing on Terrestrial TV in Malaysia four years before Nickelodeon would end the show once and for all. |
| 178 | ** [=TV9=] screwed over the 2003 ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake series right after airing Season 3''. This nearly happened on the Playhouse Disney network as well, but a letter-writing campaign in Asia organized by upset fans made Disney bring in the rest of the final season of the show, [[LateExportForYou albeit 3 months after it aired in Europe]]. However, this was played after the rights of the franchise shifted to Cartoon Network. |
| 179 | ** The Malay dub for ''WesternAnimation/TimothyGoesToSchool'' only aired on Astro's[[note]]The only Pay TV provider at that time, having just killed rival Mega TV months prior and becoming a monopoly[[/note]] in-house channel in 2001. The rest of the series later got screwed over and hasn't been aired in that country since then. |
| 180 | ** In 2021, Astro decided to drop Disney Channel Asia and Disney Junior Asia from their channel lineup ''purely out of spite'' from Disney planning to launch Creator/DisneyPlus in the country in the near future. Problem is, they had previously monopolized the channels and no other providers had the channels at the time they were dropped… |
| 181 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' suffered greatly from this in Germany thanks to a case of PoorCommunicationKills. Creator/{{Hasbro}} licensed the show to Viacom Europe, who intended to have it aired on Nickelodeon about a year after the American one. By the time that Viacom started working on the German dub, both [[Creator/DHXMedia Studio B]] and Creator/TheHub were fully aware of the [[PeripheryDemographic bronies]] and had already started catering to them. Hasbro, however, had no idea what to do with the unprecedented brony phenomenon which was still "underground" in 2011. Hasbro didn't inform Viacom about the bronydom, nor did Studio B or The Hub because it was probably none of their business. In fact, Viacom wasn't even informed that Creator/LaurenFaust had changed ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'''s target audience from 4-7 year-old girls to 5-12 year-old girls in addition to their parents. Viacom in turn couldn't inform Nickelodeon Germany, the station to air the show, about any of this. Nickelodeon Germany ended up with a show they didn't know what to do with, much less that it had become a CultClassic in North America. |
| 182 | * Cinémoi seems to be doing this with all of the cartoons on their channel, especially ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfLuckyLuke'': they've been showing the same 26 episodes (out of a total of 56) since the channel debuted on [=DTV=] in the US, the title of "A Better World for the Daltons" [[note]]an episode that deals with a Communist trying to recruit the Dalton brothers[[/note]] was inexplicably changed to "Flower Power for the Daltons" [[note]]a title that implies the Daltons become hippies; nothing remotely like that happens in the episode[[/note]], "The Daltons' Treasure" has sound-syncing problems, "Indian Roulette" and "The Last of the Buffalo" have commercials airing in the middle of the episode (most episodes wait until ''after'' the show ends to air the ads), and "For a Fistful of Daltons" is shown twice whenever the lineup reaches it. The episodes are [[OutOfOrder aired in a completely random order, as opposed to the original series' episode listings,]] and [[MissingEpisode half the series still hasn't aired]] (including the episode that "For a Fistful of Daltons" replaces), meaning that, ever since Cinémoi joined DTV's lineup in September 2012, they've aired the exact same episodes at least ''ten times''. |
| 183 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'' got screwed on Cinémoi when its time slots were bumped up an hour earlier, in favor of giving ''Contraptus'' a full hour instead of three ten-minute shorts before ''Lucky Luke''. In addition, both shows have fallen victim to the same eternal rerun cycle as ''Lucky Luke'' has. Not helping is the fact that these are the '''only cartoons''' on Cinémoi, and they only air in the morning. |
| 184 | *** ''Contraptus'' is listed as airing for around a full hour on Fridays, even though ''Lucky Luke'' still has the timeslot. Looks like Cinémoi doesn't know what to do with the poor lonesome cowboy. |
| 185 | * The BBC tried to sell ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'' to the German and Italian markets in the 90s, but failed. The show finally aired in those markets in 2005-2006. |
| 186 | * German free-TV channel KIKA at one point commisioned a dub of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', but changed their mind and decided not to air the show. In 2001, Super RTL aired the series instead. |
| 187 | * A supposed, '''very''' brief-lived attempt to air ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' on the Italian RAI happened from 1996-1997. Nobody knows exactly when the series aired, the voice actors of the characters, or ''anything'' about the series' Italian version. The only thing known is that some episodes were aired by RAI 2 at 7AM, and then the show, because of either a low audience or MoralGuardians, was swiftly canceled before it could have had a little popularity. There is no trace of an Italian dub on the Internet (save for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qra0-7jFVgU Happy Happy Joy Joy's song introduction]], which at least demonstrates that it ''was'' dubbed), and the little information that ''can'' be found about the series in Italy is very vague. ''[[WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon Adult Party Cartoon]]'' aired some years later on the Italian version of Fox, but even there it got rapidly canceled. The original series ''finally'' aired on Nickelodeon Italy in June 2016, but with subtitles, which implies that the Italian dub of the series has been lost. |
| 188 | * ''WesternAnimation/RickAndSteveTheHappiestGayCoupleInAllTheWorld'' received solid ratings and favorable reviews for its first 2 seasons and had a third in the works, only to be canceled as part of Creator/{{LOGO}}'s shift in programming from LGBT material to mainstream content. |
| 189 | * Creator/{{TBS}} treated ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes'' pretty poorly. Not only did it air in a Saturday morning time slot with no promotion whatsoever (instead, the network premiere of ''Uncle Drew'' was promoted), TBS dropped the film from its' dedicated app two weeks after the film premiered on TV (but it would be added back two months later). Its’ second airing was [[WeInterruptThisProgram delayed by an airing of a baseball game going overtime]] and was joined in progress, leading it to be replaced on the West feed by ''Lost Resort'', and the third airing aired at 4:15am. This was averted for the fourth airing, which aired the same day as the third airing at 11:00AM, replacing an airing of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies''. |
| 190 | * Russian channel REN TV went through a management shuffle and rebranding, and ended up deciding that they didn't want ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' anymore. Unfortunately, they had a contractual obligation to air seasons 17 and 18. They burned them off in early mornings and did the cheapest dub possible in-house. Season 17 was somewhat tolerable, although all of the voice actors were replaced. Season 18 had one of the laziest excuses for a dub on Russian television, with all the voice actors replaced ''again'' and the scripts reduced to a horrible translation that was (allegedly) done in one take. |
| 191 | ** Another channel, 2x2, picked up the rights and treated the series pretty well, up until it was time to air seasons 17-18. Sure enough, they outright refused to redub REN TV's half-assed efforts because it costs money. They ''did'' bring back the original crew for season 19 and beyond. |
| 192 | ** At some point, REN TV had their hands on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. They jerked around with voice actors and time slots, and it never really gained any ground. MTV Russia later picked up the series, and it became a smash hit for the network. |
| 193 | * Dutch channel RTL Telekids severely screwed over "WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012". They ''refused'' to air seasons 3 and 4 (eventually that also became the case with season 2), and it wasn't even allowed to co-exist on the channel with ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShopAWorldOfOurOwn'', which took over the timeslot that the 2012 series used. |
| 194 | * ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' had this treatment in the US on the syndication block, Bohbot Kids Network (BKN). Episodes aired on weekdays very early in the morning [[note]] The time-slots varied by time zone; it aired in the Eastern Time Zone at 7:00 AM, the Central Time Zone at 6:00 AM, and in the Hawaii-Aleutian Time Zone at 1:00 AM. [[/note]] at a time when its target audience were either still asleep or getting ready for school. To make matters worse, the episodes that were originally scheduled to air on Fridays were skipped and replaced with ''WesternAnimation/DoubleDragon1993'' [[note]]which was later replaced with ''WesternAnimation/KingArthurAndTheKnightsOfJustice''. [[/note]] instead. As a result, only 32 of the 40 episodes produced aired. |
| 195 | * Animax Japan used to play ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' for two hours; one hour aired from 7-8AM, and the other hour airing from 3-4PM. Then, they only aired the show ''twice'' a day at 8AM (a time when most kids are leaving for school) and 3PM. Then they replaced ''[=SpongeBob=]'' with ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' and ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' reruns and moved it to 6AM on Thursdays, when most kids are asleep, and on Fridays at 7:00AM, competing with TV Tokyo's Oha Suta. Later, it was replaced by [[AdoredByTheNetwork its two main darlings]], ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' and ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan''. |
| 196 | * Italian network Boing used to play ''[=SpongeBob=]'' four times every day. Then ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' came along, and they now don't air it at all. |
| 197 | * Hungary's RTL Klub kept endlessly shuffling the airtime of the first season of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', at times pushing it back to the early hours or just neglecting to air episodes entirely, completely ignoring their advertised cartoon programming. Not only that, the {{media watchdog}}s also lobbied to get the series ''banned'' because they deemed its content unsuitable for a Sunday morning time slot (and for other, absurd reasons). Although the rest of the series apart from season 6 did air on Creator/CartoonNetwork, there was a severe drop in dubbing quality due to CN's more limited budget. It's not unreasonable to think that the 6th season would have been dubbed much faster as well, had the show stayed on RTL. Instead, it debuted only in December 2015 on yet another channel (AXN), by which time several of the voice actors were unavailable. |
| 198 | * In the Netherlands, WesternAnimation/FiremanSam was treated rather poorly when it premiered in 1990 on the VARA. The broadcaster aired the series on sunday mornings, when most people would be sleeping in. As a result, after each of the 15 episodes had aired, there was no need to air reruns, and the series was cancelled and not aired again in the country for a full decade. When it came back on Kindernet after 10 years, it did see two years of airing, but was ultimately screwed over once again in 2002 after Nickelodeon took over the channel. |
| 199 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'' got screwed over by Spike ''majorly''. It aired on a late night block with ''WesternAnimation/GaryTheRat'' and ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon''. The show was praised for its intelligent humor and well-done animation and was generally liked by those who had seen it, but the fact that Spike had hyped up the show for its nudity turned potential viewers off. Spike started pushing nudity even ''more'' in the second half when the ratings were declining (replacing the pixelation with a soft blur over nude scenes), canceled it after 13 episodes, and then gave it a poorly-mastered[[note]] As in, some people reported the pixelation ''still being there''.[[/note]] "uncensored" DVD. |
| 200 | %%* The little-known French cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WheelSquad''. It reaches ''The Brothers Flub'' levels of this. |
| 201 | * In Latin America, ''WesternAnimation/WordGirl'' premiered in August 2009 on the preschooler-oriented Discovery Kids channel. Although the channel gave it heavy promotion during the rest of 2009 and most of 2010, by the end of that year they suddenly decided to move the series to a late-night timeslot on weekends. The series [[AmericansHateTingle received a ]]''[[AmericansHateTingle lot ]]''[[AmericansHateTingle of criticism]] from Latin American MoralGuardians that felt it was too "violent" and that it encouraged children to lie to their parents (due to the obvious element of Becky having to tell an excuse to her adoptive parents whenever she needs to become [=WordGirl=] to save the city), and constantly complained on the channel's now-defunct message boards. This may have been the reason for the channel to move the series to late-nights, until removing it completely in June 2012, with only the first two seasons dubbed and aired. |
| 202 | * The sad fate of short lived series ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarantula}}''. Originally intended to be part of an animation block on Creator/{{TBS}} with fellow shows ''WesternAnimation/CloseEnough'', ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' and ''The Cops'', the entire block fell apart when Creator/LouisCK (Who was to voice the lead in ''The Cops'') came under fire for several sexual misconduct incidents. With ''The Cops'', the lynchpin of the block, cancelled, the other three shows fell into limbo. While ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'' would eventually air and ''Close Enough'' would find a home on HBO Max 3 years later, ''Tarantula'' got the shaft. With the entire season dumped online with zero promotion from TBS. Not shockingly, it was done after 1 season. |
| 203 | * In France, after Canal+ finished airing the third season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' on October 10, 1992, the show stopped airing on the channel completely and was replaced by the French premiere of ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'' (in one of it's earliest international broadcasts) the following saturday on October 17. It's possible ''Simpsons'' remained off the air in France until season 4 premiered on September 4, 1993. |
| 204 | * Family Channel (the Canadian equivalent to Disney Channel until 2015 when Canada launched its own version of Disney Channel and all rights for Disney shows in Canada went to Corus) only aired ''WesternAnimation/BrandyAndMrWhiskers'' on weekday afternoons at 12:00, a time where the target audience would still be in school. As such it didn't last long on the channel. |
| 205 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' was not initially released in Japan due to the failure of the preceding ''Anime/BeastWarsNeo'' and ''Beast Wars Metals'' (the dub of the last two seasons of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''), and when it did get released four years later as ''Beast Wars Returns'', it was clear that Takara was not too enthusiastic about releasing a series that had flopped in America. As opposed to airing on TV Tokyo like prior series, ''Beast Wars Returns'' aired on satellite networks, ensuring it would get far less coverage, and the dub lacked new a new opening and credits theme along with discarding various plot elements [[GagDub for the sake of comedy]]. The show was eventually aired on Cartoon Network Japan and other networks... after its accompanying toyline had already been released, which had been exclusive to Toys"R"Us Japan with each figure being limited to 3,000-4,000 units each. |
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