After seven seasons, NBC announced that it would not be picking up the Peabody Award-winning medical comedy that launched Zach Braff's career. So the Walt Disney Television production found a new home on ABC for an eighth and final season to allow the show to say a proper goodbye. However, despite giving it a true series finale, ABC picked the show up for a second season that attempted to reboot the series by injecting it was a handful of new characters. It was not received well and the show was canceled for good in 2010.
After five seasons on NBC, Patricia Arquette's supernatural procedural was canceled in 2009. However, as it was produced by CBS Television Studios, a deal was made for CBS to pick the show up that fall. It spent two more seasons at its new home before ending for good in 2011.
Premiering in 2006, the dramedy from Mara Brock Akil was one of only two new series to be a part of the CW's first line-up ever. After three seasons, the network canceled the show in 2009, but BET quickly stepped in and made a deal to produce a fourth season. Debuting in 2011, its premiere was the most-watched in cable television history for a sitcom with 7.7 million viewers. It lasted six seasons total at its new home before ending for good in 2015.
After two critically-acclaimed but criminally under-watched seasons on NBC, the football drama was in danger of cancellation until DirecTV's stepped up in 2008 and made a deal to co-produce the series, with each new season debuting first on the satellite TV provider's 101 Network before airing on NBC at a later date. The show eventually ran for five seasons total, wrapping up for good in 2011.
Intended to be ER creator John Wells' successful follow-up to that groundbreaking series--he served as EP here--the police drama debuted on NBC in the spring of 2009, was renewed for a second season and then abruptly canceled by the network six episodes into production on that new season. A month later, TNT announced it had made a deal to acquire all the episodes previously aired or produced and began airing on the cable network in early 2010. The show, which counted Regina King and Ben McKenzie among its stars, eventually ran for five seasons in total before being canceled in 2013.
After three seasons spent on ABC, the Courteney Cox-starring comedy was canceled in May 2012. Two days later, TBS picked the show from Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence for a fourth season. The show ended for good in 2015 after six seasons total.
After three incredibly low-rated seasons on Fox, the critically-beloved meta-comedy starring Jason Bateman was given the boot in 2006. However, in 2011, Netflix decided to give the Bluths another chance and a fourth season aired on the streaming service in 2013. Five years later, the show returned for a fifth season that aired in two installments.
Mindy Kaling's comedy spent three seasons on Fox before it was canceled in 2015. Shortly after it was given the ax, Hulu stepped in and commissioned a fourth season. It eventually ran three more seasons on the streaming service before concluding in 2017.
Canceled after three seasons on A&E in 2014, the modern Western was rescued by Netflix, where it ran for another three seasons through 2017.
Debuting on NBC in the fall of 2009, the highly-meta comedy from creator Dan Harmon was the very definition of a cult favorite. After five low-rated seasons, the network finally gave up on trying to make it a hit and gave it the boot. Yahoo! Screen ordered a sixth and ultimately final season in 2015. Still waiting on that movie, though.
This procedural starring Poppy Montgomery and Dylan Walsh was canceled not once, but twice over the course of its three seasons on CBS, with the network changing its mind after initially cutting it loose after just one season. But the second one in 2014 stuck, prompting A&E to step in and order a fourth season that debuted on the cable network in late 2015. Unlike CBS, they did not change their mind after canceling the show for a third time and it officially stayed dead.
Nearly a decade after the beloved family drama wrapped its seven season run in 2007, Netflix got the gang back together again for a well-received four-part miniseries subtitled A Year in the Life, all released on November 25, 2016. Finally, fans of Amy Sherman-Palladino's work would finally learn those final four words she had planned for the series but never got to use during its initial run.
After a first season spent on CBS, where it stuck out like a sore thumb, Kara Danvers was allowed to relocate to the CW and become a part of the Arrowverse where she belonged. The show is currently in its fifth season, with a sixth already ordered.
Over 25 years after ABC canceled David Lynch and Mark Frost's cult classic following two seasons, Showtime took us back to the titular town (sort of) for a wild third season in 2017. While much of the original cast returned, the 18-episode limited run was unlike anything fans expected it to be, almost purposely the antithesis of the modern revival format.
After four seasons, ABC canceled the Connie Britton-starring country music series, allowing cable network CMT to step in and save the day. The show aired there for an additional two season before signing off for good in 2018.
Syfy canceled this series adaptation of James S.A. Corey's novel series after three seasons, but, as it is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' favorite show, he instructed Amazon Prime Video to commission a fourth season that debuted in December 2019, with a fifth on the way.
Canceled by Lifetime after 16 seasons in 2018, a casualty of Harvey Weinstein's downfall and The Weinstein Company's subsequent bankruptcy, Bravo saw an opportunity to take back what was originally theirs. (The show debuted on the latter before jumping ship to the former in season six.) With only judge Nina Garcia returning, the show relaunched on Bravo in 2019 with Karlie Kloss as its new host and returning champ Christian Siriano as its new mentor. Two new seasons, the show's 17th and 18th, have already aired, with another on the way.
ABC pulled the plug on this Kiefer Sutherland-starring political thriller after two seasons in 2018, only for Netflix to step in and commission a third that debuted a year later. Following its release, the show was canceled a second time.
Fox canceled this DC Comics adaptation after three seasons in 2018, with Netflix resurrecting it for a fourth a year later. A fifth and final season has been commissioned, with a premiere date to be announced.
After two seasons spent on Fox, it was announced that Seth MacFarlane's live-action sci-fi dramedy would move to Hulu for a forthcoming third season, likely a result of the Fox-Disney sale more than anything else.
After six highly-rated seasons, ABC opted not to renew Tim Allen's sitcom, the result of a dispute over production cost with studio 20th Century Fox Television. A year later, Fox announced it was reviving the series for a seventh season that debuted in the fall of 2018. The show is currently in its eighth season.