* DevelopmentHell: ''Quality of Life'' was filmed and left on the CBC's shelf for a ''very'' long time, before it was unceremoniously dumped on the network (on a ''[[FridayNightDeathSlot Friday]]'' no less) with [[InvisibleAdvertising little promotion]].
* ExecutiveMeddling: The cancellation of ''[=DaVinci=]'s City Hall''.
* FridayNightDeathSlot[=/=]InvisibleAdvertising: The fate of ''Quality of Life''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Acorn Media (the DVD distributor of the series) has no plans to release Seasons 4 to 7...or City Hall...or The Quality of Life, on the grounds of poor sales. This is surprising, considering that DVD sets were already printed and distributed to the cast and crew ''right after the series finished for good'', and the fact that that for most of its run, ''Inquest'' was consistently the '''most-watched series on Canadian television'''.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: For most of its seven-season run, Da Vinci's Inquest was the most-watched show on Canadian television. The second the show's ratings started to drop (when it relaunched as Da Vinci's City Hall, the show was yanked from the schedule. Better yet, a TV movie wrapping up all the plot threads from the series, The Quality of Life, was kept on hold for four years due to ExecutiveMeddling, and finally dumped on a [[FridayNightDeathSlot Friday night]] with [[InvisibleAdvertising no promotion]].