When Shows Disappear from the Schedule

If you pay attention to the schedules of shows, you would notice the strange thing of when shows vanish from it. Sometimes, it will actually return at some point, just having an odd hiatus, sometimes that isn’t planned. Other times, you know it is gone for a while but will be coming back at some point. Still, this is an odd thing and doesn’t always mean a show is getting cancelled. I thought that I would explain more about this event in this post.

One of the examples of this that I can think of when a show disappeared from the schedule without being cancelled (at the time, at least) was the show Stalker when airing. It had a cliffhanger into some sort of hiatus, but we couldn’t tell at first if it was gone forever as I didn’t know when or if it was coming back in the future. Only it did return in time for May sweeps only to be cancelled forever after another cliffhanger that thankfully wasn’t as bad.

A different type of example of a show that seems to disappear is when a season starts and it doesn’t have a return date. For example, Shades of Blue does not yet have a return date even though it is going to air more this season. Sometimes it can be over a year before a show returns on network TV. This was normally something that wouldn’t happen that much, if at all. But now it seems to happen every now and then with different shows. It can be hard to know whether or not to write them off as cancelled. But they aren’t always cancelled.

Something very important to note is that often when a show is gone from the schedule, it is cancelled. And don’t ever listen to a network saying that a show isn’t cancelled. 95% of the time when they say that, then a show really is cancelled. Maybe they will never own up to it and never cancelled it officially. Maybe they will come May or some other time. And there are rare times when it isn’t actually cancelled yet is still pulled from the schedule for some odd reason.

I don’t know of what else there is to say in this blog post so I’m going to wrap it up here with this ending and not say much more. It is possible that you will be seeing more of this blog in the future, but it might not happen as soon as I’m wanting to. Be on the lookout for some random posts on certain days that I’ll mention in the lead that could become regular times for me to post this blog. I’ll let you know if these Saturday updates ever go away.