10 Cancelled TV Shows That Made Obvious Mistakes

4. Changing Its Time Slot - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was a strong ratings hit for Fox when it premiered in 2008, though by the end of its second season viewership had tumbled to consistently less than half of the first, prompting the network to cancel it.

Yet anybody paying attention could see that Terminator wasn't cancelled due to a lack of quality: it was because Fox pulled another scheduling switcheroo which basically doomed it.

Mid-way through season two, Fox randomly stopped airing the show for two entire months, and when it returned, it had been moved from a prime Monday evening slot to Friday evening, also known as the "death slot" due to the lack of viewership.

Combined with the minimal marketing for the back-end of the second season, it basically signalled that Fox had given up on the show, no matter that the series' reception among both fans and critics actually improved throughout season two.

If Fox had actually given season two a fair shake rather than making audiences work to figure out when it was airing, it might've actually fared well enough to stick around for a third.

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