Apparently the ratings for Quantum Leap Season 2 were quite low. While it did have some of the actors from the original show on it (most notably the actress who played Al's wife on 2 episodes of the original, back in 1990 and 1993) the new show focused too much on the supporting characters and not the main cast, IMHO.

CBS has cancelled "CSI Vegas" after 3 seasons. This was the revival of the original CSI show which ran for 15 years, 2000 to 2015.

They also cancelled NCIS: Hawaii after 3 years.

"The Conners" (John Goodman show) is ending next season after 7 years.

"The Conners" is a good show, we've really enjoyed it.
Laurie Metcalf and John Goodman are national treasures.
Maybe they'll bring Roseanne back for the finale. What could go wrong?

"Young Sheldon" ended last week, with another offshoot of "Georgie and Mindy's First Marriage" to begin next season. Although I watched "Young Sheldon" regularly throughout its 7 seasons, it suffered much the same fate of all popular TV shows. It began to decline after the third season and its ending wasn't very satisfactory.

In an added twist, by the last couple of seasons, the main character of Sheldon Cooper became the least likeable person on the show. His brother Georgie is getting the spinoff now, which I'm not sure I care about, but presumably won't include Sheldon.

Spoiler alert. The finale tried to tie "Young Sheldon" up with "The Big Bang Theory" and also resolve any storyline inconsistences by bringing back Jim Parsons as grown Sheldon to say it was his memories for his autobiography. He implied it was what he wanted to remember.

That kind of means that we may have been watching a romanticized fiction of the Cooper family for the last 7 years. Oh, that's why Sheldon's family was so different than they were portrayed on TBBT. That's worse than the "Dallas" it was a dream season. At least it was only one year lost.

On the whole I wasn't happy with the way they closed up this one either. Given that it always seems to happen, I think I'm making up a new rule. I'll watch a show for the first 3 years only and then drop it.

Easier still is to not watch network TV. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, Max, Acorn and movies I can download, watching a show on ABC/CBS/NBC's schedule doesn't work for me any more. If it ends up being worthwhile, I can always binge it after the fact. I never saw an episode of "Agents of SHIELD" while they were being broadcast, but have seen the whole series now. Likewise, we watched all three seasons of "Resident Alien" in a couple of weeks.
But mostly I watch movies and British mysteries.

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Originally posted by Raven:
"Young Sheldon" ended last week,

I have seen quite a few episodes of Young Sheldon and enjoy it, guess I have not watched enough in order to make very many connections to TBBT. I kind of figured it would be a logistical nightmare for writers to faithfully match them up. Also assumed from the beginning that it would eventually suffer the same fate that most kid centric shows do as the actor ages. Respect to Chuck Lorre and his team for keeping his shows running as long as they do. Two and a Half Men got 4 extra years while having nothing to do with Two and a Half Men.

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Originally posted by Bill Mullins:
Easier still is to not watch network TV. Between Netflix, Amazon Prime, Max, Acorn and movies I can download, watching a show on ABC/CBS/NBC's schedule doesn't work for me any more. If it ends up being worthwhile, I can always binge it after the fact.

I didn't watch TV shows for years because my life wasn't going to synch up with the schedule of the networks. Conventional wisdom would say if enough people like us don't watch the show when it comes out, how can it be successful for future content? In this age of on demand options ya gotta figure it rewrote the book on content success.

What is called network TV now has almost nothing for me. In New York I watch more of 5.2, the old movie channel, and 21 that plays some BBC shows, more than the major channels. I can't even stomach the game shows and reality shows that the networks have rebooted with moronic celebrity hosts. They don't even play the games right, they just keep talking.

If you ever want to feel like a real time traveler, watch Buzzer TV 9.2 with the old game shows from the 70s/80s. Just about every celebrity is long dead, but the fun is sometimes in seeing how often things did not turn out like they thought.

With the benefit of knowing what happened as that time traveler, so many of the couples on "Tattletales" divorced or never even got married. There was one terrible 5 day section when Albert Salmi was on with his wife. They appeared happy. About 12 years later he killed her and committed suicide. I always Google the names to see how they ended up if I don't know. Only a very few stayed married to the same people all their lives.

I did spring for Netflix, but I may have to add something else to keep me off Buzzer.

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Originally posted by Raven:
What is called network TV now has almost nothing for me. In New York I watch more of 5.2,

Wait! You have a channel called 5.2??? What does that even mean?? I do love hitting YouTube and catching some old Hollywood Squares. Paul Lynde was hilarious...we used to imitate his voice as kids. Like Howard Cosell but different.

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Originally posted by Raven:
With the benefit of knowing what happened as that time traveler, so many of the couples on "Tattletales" divorced or never even got married. There was one terrible 5 day section when Albert Salmi was on with his wife. They appeared happy. About 12 years later he killed her and committed suicide. I always Google the names to see how they ended up if I don't know. Only a very few stayed married to the same people all their lives.

Add the Dating Game to it and we have the blueprint for the Bachelor and Bachelorette.

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Originally posted by mykdude:

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Originally posted by Raven:
What is called network TV now has almost nothing for me. In New York I watch more of 5.2,

Wait! You have a channel called 5.2??? What does that even mean??

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Yep, 5.2 is called Movies (old movies), just like 9.3 is the old game show channel Buzzr.

These are over-the-air channels in NYC. Just keep hitting the channel up button on the remote and run a channel search every few months. You can pull in all the major networks and about 60 other stations without cable or a subscription.

Star Wars the Acolyte has been canceled after 1 season, to much controversy. Was there a card set for it ?

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Star Wars the Acolyte has been canceled after 1 season, to much controversy. Was there a card set for it ?

And was there a subset called "Lesbian Space Witches"?

It looks like Topps did digital cards for The Acolyte and I do see the usual questionable unlicensed cards on ebay, but not sure if there were any physical, licensed Topps cards.

Shows ending this year:

911: Lone Star
Andor (Star Wars)
Bel-Air
Bosch
Cobra Kai
The Conners
Good Omens
The Handmaid's Tale
Stranger Things
Outlander

It appears that the "Frasier" reboot (Kelsey Grammer show) has been axed by its network after 2 years.

The producers are trying to find another station for it, in an effort to keep it going.

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Shows ending this year:

911: Lone Star
Andor (Star Wars)
Bel-Air
Bosch
Cobra Kai
The Conners
Good Omens
The Handmaid's Tale
Stranger Things
Outlander

Cobra Kai lasted much longer than I thought it would.

Some of these have had a nice run and it's time.

The production schedule of Stranger Things has been so pathetically managed I have forgotten why I liked the show in the first place.

I only recently finally watched all of Stranger Things, so the wait for S5 isn't too bad for me.
I think their schedule ended up being the same as it is for a lot of these shows now - a 18 month/2year gap between seasons. It's impractical if you want to keep your audience interest, but that just seems to be the way fantasy shows, in particular, seem to roll, these days.

The strikes and Covid combined to cause at least some of the delays for every ongoing show over the past 5 years. Those series that only appear every other year can usually point to special effects work. When one I've been watching of them finally comes back after 2+ years (3 years in the case of "Severance"), I usually just go back and watch the most recent episode before the new season premiere, as a sort of expanded "previously on...".

I'm looking forward to seeing how "Handmaid's Tale" and "Stranger Things" wrap it up, but "Connors" and "Andor", less so, since there's not a lot of surprise to be found there. The Conners will live on across America and we know Andor dies in "Rogue One". "Cobra Kai" is fun, but I'm still a couple of seasons behind on that anyway AND we get a "Karate Kid" big screen movie later this year. I didn't watch the other shows listed.

"Good Omens", which I saw the first episode of, and planned to watch the rest at some point, was filming its final full season, but that has been truncated by the troubles of co-creator Neil Gaiman. That will now just be a single 90 minute episode to bring the series to a close.

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Originally posted by Tommy C:
Shows ending this year:

911: Lone Star
Andor (Star Wars)
Bel-Air
Bosch
Cobra Kai
The Conners
Good Omens
The Handmaid's Tale
Stranger Things
Outlander

Cobra Kai lasted much longer than I thought it would.

Some of these have had a nice run and it's time.

The production schedule of Stranger Things has been so pathetically managed I have forgotten why I liked the show in the first place.

This list just reminds me of how far behind I am with shows I was watching. I've only seen 3 seasons of Cobra Kai and Stranger Things. I dumped The Conners after season one, it was an awful show. Outlander I haven't finished season 5, it got boring. Handmaid's Tale is the only one I have continued watching and am looking forward to the final season. Then there will be The Testaments spin off.

The Sandman is not coming back for Season 3