2019 In Review: 14 Dumb Things TV Did

TV made plenty of smart decisions this year — hey, our Year in Review coverage is full of them! — but honestly, there were also a few that left us scratching our head. Fourteen, to be exact.

With 2019 nearly in the books, we here at TVLine are taking a look back at the most boneheaded mistakes we witnessed while covering the TV industry this year, from misplaced coffee cups to ill-advised hirings. (Yep, we're looking at you, Game of Thrones and SNL.) Streaming services weren't immune to the brain fog, either, as newcomer Apple TV+ suffered a serious stumble right out of the gate.

Other targets include a Ray Donovan character somehow surviving certain death, the infamous Rent Live debacle (it wasn't actually live, you see) and Dancing With the Stars adding a certain former White House press secretary to its roster. (Now if they had cast Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, we would've watched that!)

[pmc_inline_gallery]

For more of TV's biggest gaffes of the year, check out the gallery to the right — or click here for direct access — and don't forget to hit the comments below and remind us of any dumb TV decisions we may have missed. 

Still to come in TVLine's Year in Review: our Performer of the Year winner, the Biggest Controversies, our favorite Scene Stealers and much more!