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Despite High Ratings, ABC Cancels Trump-Friendly Sitcom 'Last Man Standing'

posted 7 years ago by Satan2016 (23270)
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Disney owned ABC cancels popular show because it's not PC. What "progressive" flop will they replace it with?

http://www.dailywire.com/news/16317/despite-high-ratings-abc-cancels-trump-friendly-john-nolte

Even though it had been dumped on Friday nights, the Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing enjoyed ratings that Deadline describes as "very respectable for any night and especially Friday[.]" Every week, the half-hour comedy, one of the very few aimed to appeal to America's heartland, won its time-slot in the all-important demo, including 6.4 million overall same-day viewers. Deadline further adds that "[w]hile most returning shows were down year-to-year 20-30%, LMS was virtually flat, off just by 5% in total viewers and adults 18-49[.]"

The real reason ABC canceled "Last Man Standing" was almost certainly due to politics. Allen's character is, as described by Deadline, a …

> … political conservative and devout Christian adhering to traditional American values, the blue-collar comedy appeals to viewers in the Heartland, a constituency that helped elect Donald Trump as president and has been energized post-election as evidenced by the ratings success of new USA drama Shooter.

Through his character, the politically conservative Allen has poked fun at Hillary Clinton, political correctness, and the Left at large. Worse still, he has created a popular, sympathetic and likable television personality who holds the beliefs and values our entertainment and media elites want to tell us can only belong to Nazis.

[–] therefdotcom (964) 7 years ago

a) "political conservative and devout Christian adhering to traditional American values" - that is about as much the opposite of trump as humanly possible. it has also nothing in common with the republican party of 2017.
b) "Disney owned ABC cancels popular show because it's not PC" - it is a family show. it is about as un-PC as full house.
c) not the first halfway succesful show to get cancelled.
d) it will be most likely be replaced with a show with lower production value, most likely a reality tv show, which brings us to the reason why they most likely cancelled it: profit.
e) "Through his character, the politically conservative Allen has poked fun at Hillary Clinton, political correctness, and the Left at large. Worse still, he has created a popular, sympathetic and likable television personality who holds the beliefs and values our entertainment and media elites want to tell us can only belong to Nazis. " - really? he created a character that makes racism, bigotry, misogynism and hatred likable? damn, that wasn't in one of the episodes that i have seen.
f) come back if denis miller or nick dipaolo (the latter being pretty awesome, btw) make a successful sitcom based on on of their acts and it get cancelled, then you might be onto something, but until then: stay at home, read a book.

[–] krl97a (5619) 7 years ago

Hogwash. See the thread I'm about to post.

[–] earl237 (1106) 7 years ago

I found this show really boring and not nearly as good as Home Improvement. The relationship between Tim and his son-in-law was obviously ripped off from Archie and Meathead from All in the Family. I'm glad it was finally cancelled, can't believe it lasted 6 seasons, I've never heard anyone say that they watch it.

[–] TMC-4 (19392) 7 years ago

http://forums.previously.tv/topic/57325-canceled/?do=findComment&comment=3276074

The new generation All in the Family vibe they were trying for did not work. Maybe because Tim Allen is no Archie Bunker or maybe a Norman Lear is required to guide the story.

I'll try to find the link to an interesting article about why the show might have been canceled. I'm just highly amused at how "sensitive" conservatives are being about the cancellation cause they are being persecuted and this is more proof.

http://forums.previously.tv/topic/57325-canceled/?do=findComment&comment=3275471

We loved Home Improvement and are enjoying it again in reruns. We tried to like this show but the constant political references, Vanessa doing all of the cooking, smoothing over conflicts between Mike and the kids, that constant nonsense with Ryan and Kristin was just too much to take. We watch comedies to laugh and relate to everyday circumstances that all parents/kids go through. I realize they were trying to show a family with disparate beliefs and politics but that took over the show. If a comedy is not funny, what's the point?

[–] krl97a (5619) 7 years ago

We tried to like this show but the constant political references, Vanessa doing all of the cooking

Looks like you're the sensitive one. Clearly the several million people watching it each week and annoyed at its cancellation thought it was funny and liked it. Conservatives are complaining about an ongoing purge of every conservative voice from public life, from Ann Coulter to Tim Allen to millions of rank and file students and young professionals who don't even have the partial shield of established success and are targeted for grade/career destruction if they openly espouse conservative ideas. Liberals are complaining about unfiltered conservative voices existing here and there, and perhaps accidentally seeing or hearing them on occasion ("safe space!" "Nazi, Nazi, Nazi!" "Waaaaah!").

[–] TMC-4 (19392) 7 years ago

http://forums.previously.tv/topic/57325-canceled/?do=findComment&comment=3275849

1- Tim’s contract keeps growing year over year and as shows age the network takes on more of the price tag. With this not being owned by ABC that meant they weren’t getting the back-end of syndication money.

2- Not owned by ABC and the recent trend has been vertical synergy for all the broadcasts

3- it’s just creatively ran out of juice.

(All of the above apply to 2BG as well)

4- It seems ABC is either dropping the Friday comedy block (OUAT maybe since lower ratings are acceptable on Friday?) or they are breaking up the Tuesday block for the two Marvel shows). My vote is on the former as they’ll just slot in speechless or blackish into Tuesday’s and have a new comedy premiere on Wednesday.