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The original was posted on /r/television by /u/AporiaParadox on 2025-02-01 13:46:51+00:00.

Sometimes, somebody at the network wants to cancel a show for some reason, but the show is “too successful” to cancel without cause. So they do everything they can to make the show’s ratings go down, such as intentionally switching around the timeslot to something worse, cutting the budget, doing less publicity, etc. Then once the ratings go down due to said sabotage, they have an excuse to cancel it.

I have heard this story told many times about many shows. But how many of these are actually malicious decisions and how many are due to incompetence? What examples do we have where it is confirmed that a show was intentionally sabotaged by people who wanted an excuse to cancel them?