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* ''Terminator: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'': 2007-8 season: on Monday nights. 2008-9 season: moved to Friday nights. 2009-10 season: Terminated.
* The US version of the [[Game Show]] ''[[Duel (TV series)|Duel]]'' was originally a series of specials that ran on weekdays during prime time (similar to the initial run of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?]]?'') with a finale on a Sunday night. Its second season ran on Friday nights at 8:00 PM. The ratings numbers '''halved''', and ABC canceled it.
* ''[[WWE]] Friday Night [[WWE Smackdown|Smackdown]]'' was a very successful subversion to this trope, to such a point where episodes had bumpers bragging about how viewed their show is, and an advertising campaign talking about how they're "changing Friday nights". Unfortunately, they're not bragging quite as much these days, as a move to the moribund [[My Network TV]] has left Smackdown lucky to pull in a 1.8 rating, thus accomplishing what the [[Friday Night Death Slot]] could not. The show was then moved to [[
* [[Mike Judge]]'s political correctness satire ''[[The Goode Family]]'' received this dubious honor.
* In the late 90s, a very well-acted, well-produced modern update of ''[[The Six Million Dollar Man]]'' debuted on CBS. The show was titled ''Now And Again'', and featured an intricate and tightly-woven running premise, stellar acting by Eric Close and Dennis Haysbert, Kim Chan as one of the most surreal sociopaths in TV history, and frequent cameos by the likes of John Goodman and Mick Foley. It was an intelligent, thought-provoking show, which downplayed the premise's gimmick in favor of more real, dramatic interactions between the major characters. ...but its timeslot was 10pm on Friday, and it faded away with little fanfare after one season (at least a third of which never actually aired on CBS, and would only surface years later in syndication on [[Sci Fi]].)
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