What shows were intentionally sabotaged by the network in order to have an excuse to cancel them?
What shows were intentionally sabotaged by the network in order to have an excuse to cancel them? 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 dow...