History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / LiveActionTV

* Creator/{{Disney}} dismissed Creator/GinaCarano from her role as Cara Dune in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series ''Series/TheMandalorian'', on February 10, 2021, after Carano shared an ImageMacro comparing being a conservative in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates to [[GodwinsLaw being Jewish]] in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. Her agent United Talent Agency dropped her shortly after, and the upcoming SpinOff Creator/DisneyPlus series ''Rangers of the New Republic'', which was set to feature Cara prominently, was scrapped in development, with Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} later stating they had no intention of recasting her. Cara Dune ended up being PutOnABus on ''The Mandalorian'' Season 3 with Creator/KateeSackhoff's Bo-Katan Kryze being promoted to the co-lead of the series.

* Creator/{{Disney}} dismissed Creator/GinaCarano from her role as Cara Dune in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series ''Series/TheMandalorian'', on February 10, 2021, after Carano shared an ImageMacro comparing being a conservative in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates to being Jewish in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. Her agent United Talent Agency dropped her shortly after, and the upcoming SpinOff Creator/DisneyPlus series ''Rangers of the New Republic'', which was set to feature Cara prominently, was scrapped in development, with Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} later stating they had no intention of recasting her. Cara Dune ended up being PutOnABus on ''The Mandalorian'' Season 3 with Creator/KateeSackhoff's Bo-Katan Kryze being promoted to the co-lead of the series.

* Creator/{{Disney}} dismissed Creator/GinaCarano from her role as Cara Dune in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' series ''Series/TheMandalorian'', on February 10, 2021, after Carano shared an ImageMacro comparing being a conservative in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates to being Jewish in UsefulNotes/{{Europe}} during UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust. Her agent United Talent Agency dropped her shortly after, and the upcoming SpinOff Creator/DisneyPlus series ''Rangers of the New Republic'', which was set to feature Cara prominently, was scrapped in development, with Creator/{{Lucasfilm}} later stating they had no intention of recasting her. Cara Dune ended up being PutOnABus on ''The Mandalorian'' Season 3.

* Creator/JossWhedon suddenly stepped down from working on ''Series/TheNevers'' in the wake of an investigation by Creator/WarnerMedia about abusive behavior on the set of ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. While officially, the reason for his departure was that the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic made it too challenging for him to continue as a showrunner, it later came out that the ''Justice League'' investigation had included testimony from Creator/CharismaCarpenter that he'd repeatedly mistreated her on the set of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}'', causing many to believe that Warner had intended to fire him but allowed him to step down voluntarily to save face.

** Josh's sister Jill and her husband Derick Dillard got fired from the spin-off show ''Counting On'' because of Derick's offensive Website/{{Twitter}} posts. He had publicly tweeted bigoted remarks about three fellow TLC personalities: Jazz Jennings, a trans woman (and a minor at the time) who he misgendered on purpose, and Nate Burkes and his husband Jeremiah Brent, who he not only insulted but also implied their two children would never be normal because they had two dads. He capped it all by claiming the network had a "liberal bias" for allowing such a family to be on television--at which point the showrunners had finally had enough. ''Counting On'' would be ultimately cancelled in 2021, following Josh Duggar's arrest and eventual conviction for possession of child pornography.

** 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. She has since made a comeback on Website/YouTube.

* Creator/RussellBrand was dropped by his talent agent and had a tour postponed after an episode of ''Dispatches'' featured five women accusing him of sexual assault between 2006 and 2013. Shortly after, several more accusations came to light, leading Website/YouTube to demonetize Brand's account and Creator/TheBBC removing archived material of Brand.

* Craig Gore is a TV screenwriter for ''Series/ChicagoPD'' and ''Series/{{SWAT|2017}}'' and was slated to participate in ''[[Series/LawAndOrderOrganizedCrime Law & Order: Organized Crime]]''. In June 2020, in the midst of nationwide unrest following the murder of George Floyd by police officers (including rioting near Gore's neighborhood in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles) Gore posted a picture on Website/{{Twitter}} posing with an assault rifle, and promised to "light motherfuckers up who are trying to fuck with my property." Creator/ChristopherMeloni distanced himself from Gore while ''L&O'' creator Creator/DickWolf immediately fired him, stating that he would "not tolerate this conduct, especially during our hour of national grief."

* After coming out in 2020 as a ConspiracyTheorist who, among other things, believes the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic is an invention to implement a communist world government, that vaccines are "the mark of the beast", and supported UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's unsuccessful re-election despite his many controversies and derogatory comments about UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}}, Mexican actress/singer Patricia "Paty" Navidad was all but vetoed by the major Spanish-language networks. She would also later be booted from Website/{{Twitter}} for the same reasons in January 2021.

*** Singer and model Music/TilaTequila appeared on the 2015 series. However, she was ejected after two days in the house after making posts on Website/{{Twitter}} sympathizing with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and the Nazis (including a Hitler-themed photoshoot in front of a concentration camp).

* Website/{{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 remained active on Vine, however.

* Creator/DianeNeal began appearing on ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' as CGIS Special Agent Abigail Borin 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 Website/{{Twitter}} ranting about how unsafe the working conditions were on the set of its SpinOff ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'', where she also made several appearances.
* In the wake of her cookware line being dropped by Macy's, Target, and Bloomingdale's, Chrissy Teigen stepped down from her planned voice role in the second season of Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Series/NeverHaveIEver'' when old tweets from 2011 resurfaced and revealed that she had engaged in vicious cyberbullying towards model Courtney Stodden on Website/{{Twitter}}, following the latter's marriage to 51-year-old Doug Hutchinson at the age of 16. Considering how Teigen used to be praised for being outspoken on social media, her outspoken personality has become a lot HarsherInHindsight as more old tweets, where she targeted other celebrities like former ''Series/TeenMom'' star Farrah Abraham and Creator/LindsayLohan, were also uncovered.

* Creator/RoseanneBarr, no stranger to controversy on Website/{{Twitter}}, torpedoed the 2018 revival of her [[Series/{{Roseanne}} eponymous sitcom]] after making a racist tweet towards UsefulNotes/BarackObama's former adviser Valerie Jarrett. Creator/{{ABC}} 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 Creator/{{CMT}}, who'd earlier ''saved'' the above-mentioned ''Series/{{Nashville}}'') to drop them, plus Creator/{{Hulu}} eliminating the show from its library, despite that show still being extremely popular.[[note]]The show returned to syndication after the backlash died down; as of August 2021, it can be seen on [=FilmRise=], Creator/{{Peacock}} and Cozi TV, among others.[[/note]] She later went 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 she isn't truly sorry about her racist comment, and evaporated any chance of ABC reconsidering their decision. That fall, ABC premiered ''Series/TheConners'', a continuation of the series starring the rest of the Conner family ''without'' Roseanne; her character was killed off in the new show's first episode.

** Emily Nakanda, 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 Website/YouTube.

* Paul "Des" Ballard, from GMTV's ''Disney Club'' and ''Diggit'' blocks in the [[UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom UK]]. After he left ''Diggit'' when it rebranded as ''Diggin' It'' in 2003, he seemingly disappeared from the face of the Earth, with family and even friends like his former co-presenter Fearne Cotton not knowing his whereabouts, or if he was even still alive. Fearne herself said that she was interested in finding his whereabouts and would love to reunite with him. The anonymity went as far as for Website/{{Facebook}} groups to be created to find his whereabouts.

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** Shane Gillis (a stand-up comic who was hired alongside Creator/ChloeFineman and Creator/BowenYang) was fired just ''one week'' after being chosen as a new cast member for Season 45, when a clip of him making horribly racist and sexist statements on a podcast a few years earlier was unearthed, and he didn't help at all by defending it as being edgy.

** Celebrity chef Mario Batali quit Creator/{{ABC}}'s ''The Chew'' after several women accused him of "inappropriate touching". Whatever impact the show would have had without Batali was minimized when the show was cancelled later that season.

* Spanish ParanormalInvestigation journalist Santiago Vázquez Jr., despite being the son of a very prestigious journalist himself, had a history of those which eventually got his career derailed forever. His national radio show ''La Sexta Dimensión'' was cancelled in 2008 among rumors that he was difficult to work with, which may be true given that he spent the last episode openly criticizing the producers while on air. In 2014, when he seemed to have refloated his career in the popular TV show ''Series/CuartoMilenio'' (whose directors had rumoredly even tried to intervene to save his radio show years earlier), he was fired from the latter due to a highly embarrassing scene where he tried to summon Jesus in a haunted house (MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext) and faked noises supposedly made by ghosts. This was followed by an internet podcast interview where he showed up completely drunk to complain about fates, and from there his career spiraled down until fading into obscurity.

* Producer, writer and actor Creator/DanSchneider was involved in over 20 years of live-action comedies on {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} including ''Series/AllThat'', ''Series/TheAmandaShow'', ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', ''Series/Zoey101'', ''Series/ICarly'', ''Series/SamAndCat'', ''Series/GameShakers'', and ''Series/HenryDanger''. In 2018, Schneider and Nickelodeon decided not to extend their production deal. The network had received complaints about Schneider being verbally abusive toward crew members during a stressful period of shooting upward of 50 episodes of his shows a year, crossing lines with staff that included requesting massages and contacting actors outside of work hours. He was also accused of having a sexual fetish for feet and drew controversy when he asked for child-age fans to shows their excitement for ''Sam & Cat'' premiering by painting messages on their feet and tweeting out pictures. It would ultimately come to ahead when ''iCarly'' actress Creator/JennetteMcCurdy's autobiography released in August 2022 where she accused him of creating a sexually hostile work environment on the sets of all his shows. He would have no involvement in the ''Henry Danger'' SequelSeries ''Series/DangerForce'' and the 2021 Creator/ParamountPlus [[Series/ICarly2021 revival]] of ''iCarly'', but would still be billed in the credits as the creator of the shows.

* Gross Telecasting, the owner of Lansing, UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}'s Creator/{{CBS}} affiliate, then known as WJIM, sold the station off and went out of business in 1984 following years of allegations by the American Civil Liberties Union that the company blacklisted several prominent political figures from appearing on the station, going back to 1973. After the FCC caught wind of these allegations, the station's license was revoked in 1981, only to be reversed the following year. Under new ownership, the station became WLNS, call letters that the station retains as of 2022, along with its CBS affiliation.

* Angus Deayton was the presenter of ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou'' until lurid tales of drugs and [[HoneyTrap disguised prostitutes]] came to light in May 2002. He was mocked relentlessly on the show, then booted out. Panelist 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 on the show of skewering politicians and other public figures for the exact same behavior. The few episodes filmed immediately after the story broke suffer for that very reason: the format relied on Deayton playing the straight man, and he'd become the ButtMonkey. He later hosted ''Series/WouldILieToYou'' for its first two series before being replaced there as well.

** Kevin Clash, who had performed Elmo since 1985, went on a leave of absence in 2012 after allegations arose that he had sex with a 16-year-old. The allegations were soon disproven, though just as it looked like he'd recover from that incident, a new allegation of the same kind from another party led him to quit the show and have Ryan Dillon take over the role of Elmo. Fortunately, he would eventually be cleared of all sex abuse charges in 2014, and while Clash has never returned to ''Sesame Street'', the rest of his puppeteering career at The Creator/JimHenson Company remains unaffected.

* Most of the ''Film/TheFullMonty'' cast returned to ''Series/TheFullMonty2023'', a {{sequel series}}. However, Guy (Creator/HugoSpeer) was written out after four episodes. Disney fired him in May 2022 after investigating allegations of "inappropriate conduct" on the set. Speer denied the accusations in a June 2023 interview with the ''[[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12154367/amp/Hugo-Speer-reveals-ordeal-sacked-Monty.html Daily Mail]]''.

** Phillip Schofield himself ended up getting into this as well. After reports were made that he had fallen out with his co-presenter Holly Willoughby, he resigned from the show in May 2023 but was still committed to working with ITV. The following week, Schofield revealed that in 2020 he had an extramarital affair with a young male employee (who was only 15 when they first met, although Schofield stated the affair only began when the employee turned 20) he worked with on the show, which he had lied about to everyone else. ITV terminated his contract, and following other companies and charity organizations dropping him, it's likely that he will never see a TV career as he did again.

* Creator/BrettRatner resigned from producing the 2012 [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward 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. Longtime host Creator/BillyCrystal replaced Murphy as host, with Brian Grazer and Don Mischer succeeding Ratner as producers.

* Creator/ArtieLange was fired from the original cast of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' after Season 2 due to his cocaine addiction (ironically Creator/{{Fox}} did allow Lange to do a cameo on a later episode, where they make fun of the reason he was kicked off). Lange became a regular on Creator/HowardStern's radio show in 2001, but lost that job in 2009 for his drug and alcohol problems. Lange was clean for several years following his 2010 suicide attempt, but his bad behavior and poor work ethic have continued; in 2014, he was banned from appearing on Creator/{{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 in him losing his role on the Creator/{{HBO}} sitcom ''Series/{{Crashing}}''.

*** Singer and model Music/TilaTequila appeared on the 2015 series. However, she was ejected after two days in the house after making posts on Website/{{Twitter|X}} sympathizing with UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and the Nazis (including a Hitler-themed photoshoot in front of a concentration camp).

* [[Creator/RKOPictures 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. Meanwhile, Creator/RKOPictures would merge with a company called Pavilion Communications in 1989, and started producing and distributing films again.

* The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, which sprung up after George Floyd was murdered by a police officer for allegedly using a fake $20 bill, managed to get both Creator/ParamountNetwork's ''Series/{{Cops}}'' and Creator/AAndE's ''Series/LivePD'' [[ScrewedByTheNetwork cancelled and quietly swept under the rug]]. The former had long been accused of sensationalizing low level, victimless crimes (especially by Black and Latino men) like drug use and prostitution, and glorifying excessive force by police; while the latter was less controversial to a degree but still would get caught up in controversy from time to time. A ''Live PD'' camera crew recorded an unarmed Black man in [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas Austin]], UsefulNotes/{{Texas}} being killed in police custody after being pulled over for broken headlight and wiped it at the officers' request. This has extended itself to syndicated reruns of ''COPS'' as well, with Creator/WGNAmerica dropping the show and various local stations pulling the show off their schedules. As of July 2020, Paramount Network's sister streaming service Creator/PlutoTV still airs ''COPS'' reruns. In October 2020, ''COPS'' started producing new episodes but solely for international broadcast. The series would ultimately return to American television in September 2021 when the new season began streaming on Fox Nation. In July 2022, ''Live PD'' would get it chance to return when it began airing a new season on Reelz under the new title ''On Patrol: Live''

* Adrienne Bailon, along with her then-boyfriend Rob Kardashian and her manager, staged a fake nude photo controversy involving a stolen laptop 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 Alana Rivera was also dropped from ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' because of backstage fights 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). Fortunately, she was eventually allowed to return for ''Series/RavensHome'', 18 years later.

* Fanny Cradock was the doyenne of Creator/TheBBC cookery shows from 1955 to 1976. Then came ''The Big Time'', a show in which talented amateurs in various fields were given a shot at a major event, with professional advisors. Cradock was one of the advisors for the cookery episode, and soon enough she was pushing her weight around, showing total condescension towards the contestant (chosen because she had won the Cook of the Realm competition that same year), insisting that all her menu decisions weren't "proper", and at one point ''gagging'' at how "sickly" the food was. he also didn't endear herself with comments during the episode that "the English had never had a cuisine," and even erroneously claiming that Yorkshire pudding came from Burgundy, despite its origin ''being right there on its name''. The public and press united in outrage, and Cradock never again appeared on a cookery show, although she did do the talk show and panel game circuit.

* Creator/DanHarmon was fired from ''Series/{{Community}}'' in 2012 following the end of the third season. It was publicly stated to be ExecutiveMeddling from Creator/{{NBC}} who wanted to make the show more popular by making it a more grounded traditional sitcom, but was later revealed to be because of his behaviour toward female writer Megan Ganz. This turned out to be a Role-Interrupting Misdemeanor, however, rather than a Role-Ending one, as Harmon ws reinstated as show runner for seasons 5 and 6.

* German television presenter Andrea Kiewel, better known by her nickname Kiwi, was suspended from ZDF in December 2007, after accusations were made that Kiewel had misused the network to operate paid surreptitious advertising for Weight Watchers. She then admitted to having untruthfully denied a contractual relationship with said company while as a guest on Johannes B. Kerner's daytime show. Kiewel returned to ZDF in October 2008, as a participant on a celebrity quiz show. The next year, she returned to presenting the weekly variety show ''ZDF Fernsehgarten''.
* Creator/ArtieLange was fired from the original cast of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' after Season 2 due to his cocaine addiction (ironically Creator/{{Fox}} did allow Lange to do a cameo on a later episode, where they make fun of the reason he was kicked off). Lange became a regular on Creator/HowardStern's radio show in 2001, but lost that job in 2009 for his drug and alcohol problems. Lange was clean for several years following his 2010 suicide attempt, but his bad behavior and poor work ethic have continued; in 2014, he was banned from appearing on Creator/{{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 in him losing his role on the Creator/{{HBO}} sitcom ''Crashing''.

* Gugu Liberato was a famous TV host in his native UsefulNotes/{{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 in 2003 when he aired an interview with the Brazilian criminal organization PCC. Not only was this interview completely staged, but the fake criminals also issued threats to Brazilian politicians and celebrities, resulting in massive legal trouble; ''Domingo Legal'' was taken off air for some time, and ratings plummeted. His claim that he had nothing to do with it went nowhere, and years later Liberato was replaced and left for another network to do a similar show, which didn't work out for him either. He died in November 2019 after suffering a fall at his Orlando, Florida home.

* In ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperboy'', Superboy's first actor [[Creator/JohnNewton John Haymes Newton]] was fired and replaced by Gerard Christopher after a DUI arrest and because Newton demanded a 20% pay raise.

*** Singer and model Music/TilaTequila appeared on the 2015 series. However, she was ejected after two days in the house after making posts on Twitter sympathizing with Hitler and the Nazis (including a Hitler-themed photoshoot in front of a concentration camp).

** UsefulNotes/{{Belarus}} had regularly participated in the Series/EurovisionSongContest since 2004, with a spotty track record of results, but in spite of their government becoming increasingly more totalitarian, they still fully intended to compete in the [[Recap/EurovisionSongContest2021 2021 contest]]. However, when the state broadcaster, the Belarusian Television and Radio Company (BTRC), revealed their entry, "Ya nauchu tebya" (I’ll Teach You) by the band Galasy [=ZMesta=], it was clearly a thinly-veiled attack on the Belarusian citizens protesting the Lukaschenko regime. The European Broadcasting Union has a strict rule against songs of any political nature competing at Eurovision ([[ImplausibleDeniability although the broadcaster and the band both tried to act as though there was nothing political about it]]), and while many fans asked for the country to be expelled from the competition entirely, the EBU still gave them one more chance to send a non-political entry. Their subsequent submission traded in the protester-bashing for homophobia, leading the EBU to disqualify Belarus from that year's contest. Following it, they also voted to expel BTRC from the EBU, in light of their increasingly rigid standards toward free speech and obtaining confessions from leaders of the opposition under duress.
** This was repeated towards Russia in 2022, who were initially planning to compete but were banned in light of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, which had led a number of national broadcasters (most vocally those of the Nordic and Baltic countries, the Netherlands, Poland, and - to no great surprise - Ukraine) to demand the EBU expel Russia's broadcasters, with some even threatening to withdraw were Russia allowed to remain.

** Bill Wendell, the long-time announcer for Creator/DavidLetterman (first on Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/LateNight'', then on Creator/{{CBS}}'s ''The Late Show''), officially retired in 1995 and was replaced by Alan Kalter. Appearing on a podcast in 2018, former ''Late Show'' producer Robert Morton revealed that Wendell had actually been fired for habitually stealing bottled water intended for the production staff.

* Erica Mena was fired from ''Series/LoveAndHipHopAtlanta'' after a Season 11 episode showed her directing a racial slur at castmate Spice during an argument they were having.

* 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 ''Franchise/StarTrek'' 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''.

* Channel 4 canceled the popular music show ''The Tube'' in 1987 after presenter Jools Holland uttered the phrase "Be there or be ungroovy fuckers" during a promo for the show that was aired live on ITV during the late afternoon and well before the watershed. The show was immediately taken off the air for three weeks, and Holland was suspended from the show for six weeks. While the show's fifth series was allowed to resume, producer Malcolm Gerrie and Tyne Tees Television director of programmes Andrea Wonfor both resigned in March. Although ''The Tube'' incident was the end of Holland's time with Channel 4 and ITV, he later had considerable success with his BBC show ''Series/LaterWithJoolsHolland'', which began in 1992 and airs to this day.

** Brooks Way, a group participating in Season 13, was 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.

** John Leslie, who presented on the show since 1999, was fired in October 2002 after ''The Wright Stuff'' presenter Matthew Wright named him as the person who allegedly raped Urikka Johnson, after the latter's autobiography made mention that "an acquaintance" had raped her when she was 19. Although Leslie was cleared of the charges, several other controversies led to his demise in the TV industry. Phillip Schofield, who was already presenting on Fridays, took over as the Monday-Thursday presenter with Fern Britton.

* Jackson, Mississippi's Creator/{{NBC}} affiliate WLBT was taken off the air in 1969 due to them having a clear bias against the Civil Rights Movement, opting to air pro-segregationist content instead of NBC's live coverage of certain events tied to said movement. NBC themselves had been complaining about the station as far back as 1955, when station manager Fred Beard sabotaged the local broadcast of a ''Series/{{Today}}'' segment featuring Thurgood Marshall, who would later become the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court. Additionally, the station had also cut reporting on the Civil Rights movement from NBC's national news programming and pre-empted any network show that featured African-American actors or personalities, blaming the interference on technical issues. After the FCC considered these actions as a violation of their Fairness Doctrine, they stripped the station of their license and granted it to a trusted station group. This new version of WLBT became a pioneer in racial equity in Southern U.S. broadcasting, and their local newsmagazine program won a Peabody Award in 1976. As of 2019, the station retains its WLBT call letters and NBC affiliation but is otherwise a separate station to the one that existed prior to 1969.
* Gross Telecasting, the owner of Lansing, Michigan's Creator/{{CBS}} affiliate, then known as WJIM, sold the station off and went out of business in 1984 following years of allegations by the American Civil Liberties Union that the company blacklisted several prominent political figures from appearing on the station, going back to 1973. After the FCC caught wind of these allegations, the station's license was revoked in 1981, only to be reversed the following year. Under new ownership, the station became WLNS, call letters that the station retains as of 2022, along with its CBS affiliation.

* Season 12 of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' saw the very first instance of a queen being disqualified due to outside factors when after the first episode aired, several people came forward to accuse contestant Sherry Pie of catfishing them and having them do sexual favors in exchange for alleged parts in theatre productions. This led to her being {{UnPerson}}ed through editing (in American broadcasts at least) and the show banning her from attending the reunion with no chance of winning regardless of overall placement. She reached the top four but as promised, was not present at the Reunion with Jaida, Crystal, and Gigi effectively being the only finalists.

** Northern Calloway, who played David since 1971, began to suffer a decline in both physical and [[SanitySlippage mental health]] in the 1980s. He suffered a nervous breakdown leading to him getting jailed for a September 1980 rampage in UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. However, he still returned to playing David and promised to take his prescribed lithium. By 1987, however, then-executive producer Dulcy Singer was skeptical of how long he would last, so the writers gradually ended David's relationship with Maria and eventually had him take over Hooper's Store when Mr. Hooper died. His behavior would remain erratic and in 1989, after reportedly biting music coordinator Danny Epstein in a scuffle and intruding into the high school of Alison Bartlett, who played Gina, and proposing to her, Calloway was dismissed by Singer, and David was written out of the show. Calloway was shortly thereafter institutionalized and died after a scuffle with with medical staff in January 1990.

** Northern Calloway, who played David since 1971, began to suffer a decline in both physical and [[SanitySlippage mental health]] in the 1980s. He suffered a nervous breakdown leading to him getting jailed for a September 1980 rampage in UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. However, he still returned to playing David and promised to take his prescribed lithium. By 1987, however, then-executive producer Dulcy Singer was skeptical of how long he would last, so the writers gradually ended David's relationship with Maria and eventually had him take over Hooper's Store when Mr. Hooper died. His behavior would remain erratic and in 1989, after reportedly biting music coordinator Danny Epstein in a scuffle and intruding into the high school of Alison Bartlett, who played Gina, and proposing to her, Calloway was dismissed by Singer, and David was written out of the show. Calloway eventually died of excited delirium syndrome while being treated for his bipolar disorder in January 1990.

** Northern Calloway, who played David, began to suffer a decline in both physical and [[SanitySlippage mental health]] in the 1980s. He suffered a nervous breakdown leading to him getting jailed for a September 1980 rampage in UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}}. However, he still returned to playing David and promised to take his prescribed lithium. By 1987, however, then-executive producer Dulcy Singer was skeptical of how long he would last, so the writers gradually ended David's relationship with Maria and eventually had him take over Hooper's Store when Mr. Hooper died. His behavior would remain erratic and in 1989, after reportedly biting music coordinator Danny Epstein in a scuffle and intruding into the high school of Alison Bartlett, who played Gina, and proposing to her, Calloway was dismissed by Singer, and David was written out of the show. Calloway eventually died of excited delirium syndrome while being treated for his bipolar disorder in January 1990.