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* The CW canceled ''The Game'' after three seasons. BET picked it up, and when they premiered the fourth season nearly two years later, it ended up being the biggest sitcom telecast on cable in history, drawing over 7 million viewers.
* When ''[[Due South]]'' premiered in 1994 on CBS, it was continually shifted around on the network's schedule and had episodes pre-empted (this, despite the fact that the show was at one point garnering better ratings than ''[[Friends]]'' in the U.S., and the fact that, until ''[[Flashpoint (TV)|Flashpoint]]'' came along in 2009, ''South'' was the highest-rated Canadian-made program on American television). CBS ended up cancelling (then [[Un Cancelled|un-cancelling]]) the show three times before they pulled the plug aat the end of the second season, but the Canadian television station [[CTV]] (along with foreign investors) picked up the rights to the show and co-financed it for two more seasons.
* Family Net put the musical anthology The Venue in the [[Friday Night Death Slot]] in January 2011 with the intention to drop its Saturday Night slot the very next month. They apparently listened to the fans and kept the Saturday Night airing due to the popularity. However, they took it off the air altogether in favor of
* ''[[Stewart Lee|Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle]]'' underwent a mix of rescued/[[Screwed By the Network|screwed]] [[The BBC|by the BBC]]. According to Lee, he was summoned by the Beeb to produce a series with no need to do a pilot. He was in two minds, not wanting his manager's studio to make the show, but a BBC in-house studio. By the time he got around to telling the BBC, they now wanted to see a pilot, and eventually cancelled the non-existent series they commissioned in the first place. A couple of years later, the BBC again asked Leeto produce a new comedy series... thankfully this got made.
* ''[[For Your Love]]'' was originally aired on NBC and cancelled after six episodes, it was then picked up by the WB and ran for another four seasons, it's rather surprising that they stuck with a show that so few people seemed to watch, you rarely ever hear FYL mentioned when people are talking about WB shows(not to mention the WB was almost as infamous as FOX for cancelling shows left and right), they even renewed the show after it suffered a 70% ratings decline during the third season. Though it did kinda get screwed during it's last couple of years on the network as it was regularly shifted around the schedule and six episodes of the fifth season(including the series finale) were not aired, though [[TV One]] later picked up the series for reruns and aired the missing episodes.
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