Why do most great TV shows get cancelled?
This is a question I ask myself daily. If the critics acclaim it, the show is cancelled in a matter of weeks or a few months. If the critics hate it and say that the show is not worth the time of a dead cat, then the show is on for at least a year, or until the network figures out that the show is horrible and it needs to be cancelled just for humanity’s sake. The recent cancellation, or should I say premeditated ax, of David E. Kelleys great dramas, The Practice and Boston Public, are appalling. Here, you had two wonderfully great shows that people whom I know (that normally don’t watch a lot of TV) watch and love these shows. In retrospect, the problem became evident, especially early on for me, that moving these shows from their good and workable timeslots was tragic and killing. ABC moved The Practice from Sunday nights at 10 to Mondays at 9. I know that The Practice is spinning off to Boston Legal (Note: Producers were thinking of using The Practice: Fleet Street for the spin-offs
