History RoleEndingMisdemeanor / LiveActionTV

* Before he began hosting ''[[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Real Time]]'' on Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/BillMaher had ''Politically Incorrect'', a politically centered late-night talk show exploring controversial topics and subjects that were unusual for a typical talk show. It was so successful on Creator/ComedyCentral that after five years at that network it moved to [[Creator/AmericanBroadcastingCompany ABC]], where it gained even higher ratings. However, it all came to an end in an episode airing just six days after 9/11, in which Maher agreed with conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza over disputing then-U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush's claim that the 9/11 hijackers were "cowards", stating "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." The massive public outcry ignited by the offending comments led to the show bleeding sponsors and viewers, enough that ABC canceled the series in July 2002 due to continued loss of advertiser support[[note]]Which countered popular belief that the comments were a direct cause for the cancellation[[/note]]. However, HBO, who co-produced and co-owned ''Politically Incorrect'', stood by Maher's side and offered him another go on their own channel with ''Real Time'', a similar talkshow that years later would prove to be more successful than ''Politically Incorrect'' ever was.

* Portuguese television host Carlos Cruz had a very successful career, hosting shows as serving as program director in all four terrestrial channels including the Portuguese version of ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'' on [=RTP1=] before it was derailed in late 2003 after being charged with multiple counts of child sexual abuse that occurred a year ago at Casa Pia, a Portuguese state-run institution for the education and support of poor children and under-age orphans, and SIC terminated his contract in light of the allegations. After being convicted in 2010 that led to him serving six years in a seven-year sentence before being paroled in 2016, his title of the Order of Infante D. Henrique was revoked in 2015 as a result.

** Two years later, Bialik would be dropped from the show after walking off in solidarity with the 2023 Writer's Guild strike, despite SAG-AFTRA rules explicitly advising members like her against such actions. Sony was already eager to move the show back to a single-host model, and they were furious when her decision to step away led to fans wrongfully accusing Jennings of being a scab for continuing to film episodes, and thus when her contract came up for renewel, they decided not to renew it.

* Creator/ClayneCrawford, who played lead character Martin Riggs on the ''Series/{{Lethal Weapon|2016}}'' TV series, was dropped from the show shortly after the second season finale in 2018. Creator/{{Fox}} and the producers of the show had gotten tired of his bad behavior on set, and incidents involving him led to the rest of the cast threatening to quit if Crawford continued with the show. Riggs was recast with Creator/SeannWilliamScott for the third and final season, with the show being cancelled a year later, the last straw being Crawford's behavior was a decisive factor in Fox's decision to not renew the series for a fourth season (it didn't help the ratings were still good for the third season's final episode).
* Creator/TimothyHutton was excluded from ''Series/LeverageRedemption'', the Freedive sequel of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', after being accused of sexual assault. He is notably the only member of the original cast not to reprise his role.

* 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.

** Creator/FelicityHuffman, best known for her work on ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' and ''Film/{{Transamerica}}'', paid a $15,000 bribe, also disguised as a charitable donation, to have someone take the SAT in her daughter's place. A humbled Huffman, however, did not suffer the body blow to her career that Loughlin later would: she quickly pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two weeks in prison,[[note]]only eleven days of which were actually served; she had earned a day off for good behavior, which moved her release to a Sunday, [[OffOnATechnicality and the government allows people out on Fridays if they're due to be released on a weekend]][[/note]] though the prosecutor had recommended four to ten months in her case. While her involvement in the scandal hasn't cost Huffman any roles, her Creator/{{Netflix}} series ''Otherhood'' did get pushed back several months to August 2019. She officially completed her entire sentence in October 2020 -- ironically the same month Loughlin's sentence began -- and booked her first project since the scandal, a sitcom pilot at Creator/{{ABC}}, several weeks later.

* ''Series/AmericanBandstand'' was initially a local UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} show on WFIL hosted by Bob Horn under the name ''Bandstand''. In 1956, Horn was arrested on a DUI, at a time when WFIL was running a series on drunk-driving. He was fired and replaced by Creator/DickClark, a year before the show went national on Creator/{{ABC}}. As for Horn, he moved to UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} and worked as a disc jockey for KILT before suffering a fatal heart attack in 1966.

** But this same influence proved a Show-Ending Misdemeanor; Cameron's objections to the least bit of suggestive humour and themes that went against his evangelist views made him near-impossible to work with, turning the show into a TroubledProduction. The final straw came when Cameron called Creator/{{ABC}} Entertainment president Bob Iger (who would eventually become the CEO of ABC's owner, Creator/{{Disney}}, in 2005) to chew out the show's then-executive producers Dan Guntzelman, Steve Marshall and Michael Sullivan as "pornographers" for simply wanting to go against his decisions, which led to them quitting and the show being quietly cancelled a year later. Cameron's own career was never the same, either; since the show folded, he has mostly been relegated to starring in [[Film/LeftBehind2000 evangelical]] [[Film/SavingChristmas Christian works]].

* Actor and comedian Creator/FredWillard [[https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/fred-willard-loses-pbs-job-after-arrest/ lost his job]] as the narrator of Creator/{{PBS}} show ''Market Warriors'' in 2012 after being arrested for lewd acts in a pornography theatre. His Creator/{{ABC}} game show ''Trust Us with Your Life'' was also yanked off the air prematurely, resulting in a pair of {{Missing Episode}}s. Willard later apologized, and apart from losing those two jobs, his career was otherwise unaffected and he continued to work until his death in 2020.

* Before he began hosting ''[[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Real Time]]'' on Creator/{{HBO}}, Creator/BillMaher had ''Politically Incorrect'', a politically centered late-night talk show exploring controversial topics and subjects that were unusual for a typical talk show. It was so successful on Creator/ComedyCentral that after five years at that network it moved to Creator/{{ABC}}, where it gained even higher ratings. However, it all came to an end in an episode airing just six days after 9/11, in which Maher agreed with conservative activist Dinesh D'Souza over disputing then-U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush's claim that the 9/11 hijackers were "cowards", stating "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away." The massive public outcry ignited by the offending comments led to the show bleeding sponsors and viewers, enough that ABC canceled the series in July 2002 due to continued loss of advertiser support[[note]]Which countered popular belief that the comments were a direct cause for the cancellation[[/note]]. However, HBO, who co-produced and co-owned ''Politically Incorrect'', stood by Maher's side and offered him another go on their own channel with ''Real Time'', a similar talkshow that years later would prove to be more successful than ''Politically Incorrect'' ever was.

* Creator/RoseanneBarr, no stranger to controversy on 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.

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*** Jennifer Lien was let go after season 3 because of her now well-documented trouble with mental health issues and substance abuse, though it wasn't know until ''decades'' later, with the cast and crew, including Garrett Wang himself, preferring to let the story that Wang was going to be written out until ''People'' included him on the list of "Fifty Most Beautiful People" to protect her reputation.

** Josh's sister Jill and her husband Derick Dillard got fired from the spin-off show ''Counting On'' because of Derick's offensive Platform/{{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.