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* FOX's (gasp) treatment of ''[[Futurama]]'' was very... bad. It managed to get four seasons before being cancelled, but reruns on Adult Swim kept it alive. Then, Comedy Central bought the rights to the show and revived it.
* CBS felt [[Scooby Doo]] had run its course in 1976 and canceled it a month before the fall season. ABC programming head Michael Eisner wasted zero time in getting Scooby, who had a 13-year run on the network.
* ''[[The Critic]]'' was cancelled by both ABC and FOX. The latter was truly offensive because the series was getting strong ratings in a post-''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' slot. (It was theorized that new executives hated the show and wanted it gone, as well as FOX not owning it and having less interest in it succeeding.) UPN ''attempted'' to invoke this trope by wanting to pick it up for a third season, but FOX prevented that. Comedy Central eventually came to the rescue by securing rerun rights and rerunning it for years. While this didn't revive the show (outside of a brief webisode run), it did keep the series from fading into obscurity and made it a cult hit - earning it an eventual DVD release.
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