TV Shows That Ended In 2018
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Alex, Inc.
Finale Airdate: May 16
Zach Braff's ABC comedy about a dad who starts a podcast company didn't pull in a lot of listeners: It got yanked off the air after 10 episodes.
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Young & Hungry
Finale Airdate: July 25
The pantry is empty for Emily Osment's Freeform sitcom, which served its final meal after a healthy five-season run.
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Kevin (Probably) Saves the World
Finale Airdate: March 6
ABC's spiritual dramedy, starring Jason Ritter as a slacker who's given a new purpose in life by an otherworldly visitor, was definitely cancelled after just one season.
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Ghosted
Finale Airdate: July 22
Fox's Adam Scott/Craig Robinson comedy disappeared on us, ending its first and only season with a summer burn-off.
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Wisdom of the Crowd
Finale Airdate: Jan. 14
Jeremy Piven's high-tech CBS surveillance drama never found a crowd of viewers: Its final episodes aired in January.
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Who Is America?
Finale Airdate: Aug. 26
This isn't a prank (or is it?): Sacha Baron Cohen announced his provocative Showtime series wouldn't return for a second season after debuting this summer.
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Marvel's Daredevil
Finale Airdate: Oct. 19
The action-packed drama starring Charlie Cox as the titular superhero was probably the harshest of Netflix's recent Marvel cancellations, ending the series run at three seasons.
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Valor
Finale Airdate: Jan. 29
The low-rated military drama starring Matt Barr and Christina Ochoa was dishonorably discharged from The CW's schedule after one season.
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UnREAL
Finale Airdate: July 16
Lifetime's vicious behind-the-scenes drama about a Bachelor-esque dating show got a less than storybook ending, with the fourth and final season getting quietly dumped onto Hulu all at once.
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The Americans
Finale Airdate: May 30
FX's Cold War spy drama ended its six-season mission, but it did receive a nice parting gift: Matthew Rhys won this year's Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
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Timeless
Finale Airdate: Dec. 20
This cancellation actually stuck: After surviving an earlier brush with death, NBC's time-traveling drama finally saw its clock run out after two seasons. But at least fans got a proper send-off, in the form of a two-hour wrap-up movie.
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The X-Files
Finale Airdate: March 21
Gillian Anderson is done playing Scully, and Fox has "no plans" to continue the seminal sci-fi drama without her, so the Season 11 finale closed the book on The X-Files for good.
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The Rundown With Robin Thede
Finale Airdate: April 19
Now there are even fewer women in late-night TV: BET axed the comedian's weekly series after just 16 airings.
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The Royals
Finale Airdate: May 13
Off with their heads! The Elizabeth Hurley-led monarchy soap ended its four-season reign this year.
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The Path
Finale Airdate: March 28
Hulu lost faith in the drama starring Aaron Paul and Hugh Dancy as members of a New Age-y cult, cancelling it after three seasons.
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The Originals
Finale Airdate: Aug. 1
The CW drove a stake through the heart of the Vampire Diaries offshoot after five seasons — but it lives on through spinoff Legacies.
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The Opposition With Jordan Klepper
Finale Airdate: June 28
The Daily Show alum's late-night conspiracy theory parody only got a one-season run, but don't worry about Klepper: He already has another Comedy Central series in development.
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The Middle
Finale Airdate: May 22
The Heck family had one heck of a run, but the ABC family sitcom drew to a close after nine seasons.
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The Mick
Finale Airdate: April 3
Kaitlin Olson's raunchy Fox sitcom didn't stick around nearly as long as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: It only got two seasons before getting booted off the schedule.
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The Mayor
Finale Airdate: Jan. 25
ABC's political comedy — starring God Friended Me's Brandon Micheal Hall as a young rapper who runs for mayor and wins — was voted out of office, with the remaining Season 1 episodes shifting to Hulu.
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The Last Ship
Finale Airdate: Nov. 11
TNT docked the post-apocalyptic drama starring Eric Dane for good after five seasons at sea.
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The Last Man on Earth
Finale Airdate: May 6
Oh farts, indeed: Will Forte's goofy post-apocalyptic comedy got wiped off the planet after four seasons.
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The Good Cop
Finale Airdate: Sept. 21
The dramedy starring Tony Danza and Josh Groban as father-and-son cops handed in its badge and gun after a single season on Netflix.
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The Fosters
Finale Airdate: June 6
Lena and Stef's bustling brood said their goodbyes, capping off a five-season run with a three-part series finale — but the story will continue next year on spinoff Good Trouble.
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The Crossing
Finale Airdate: June 9
ABC's high-concept sci-fi mystery about an invasion of time-traveling refugees from the future saw its time run out after just 11 airings.
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The Chew
Finale Airdate: June 28
ABC left a bad taste in a lot of fans' mouths by cancelling the food-themed daytime show, which debuted back in 2011.
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The Break With Michelle Wolf
Finale Airdate: July 29
The considerable buzz from her White House Correspondents Dinner hosting gig wasn't enough to sustain Wolf's weekly talk show — Netflix canned it after just 10 airings.
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The Brave
Finale Airdate: Jan. 27
NBC's covert-ops military drama starring Mike Vogel and Anne Heche was sent back home after a single season.
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The Arrangement
Finale Airdate: May 13
E!'s juicy Hollywood drama, about a woman who signs a contract to marry a A-list celebrity, saw its own contract run out after two seasons.
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Ten Days in the Valley
Finale Airdate: Jan. 6
Even Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick's star power couldn't help this thriller about a TV writer's abducted daughter earn a second season at ABC.
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Taken
Finale Airdate: June 30
His very particular set of skills didn't get him very far: NBC's take on the Liam Neeson action film franchise managed just two seasons before it got taken... off the air.
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Take Two
Finale Airdate: Sept. 13
Rachel Bilson and Eddie Cibrian starred as a mismatched pair of private eyes in the ABC summer series, but their flirty sparring only lasted one season.
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Superior Donuts
Finale Airdate: May 14
The donut shop is closed: CBS pulled the Jermaine Fowler/Judd Hirsch sitcom after a two-season run.
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American Woman
Finale Airdate: Aug. 23
The party's over for Alicia Silverstone's '70s-set Paramount Network comedy: It only lasted one season before getting axed.
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Stuck in the Middle
Finale Airdate: July 23
The Disney Channel comedy, starring Jenna Ortega as the middle child in a family of seven kids, wrapped up a three-season run this summer.
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Shooter
Finale Airdate: Sept. 13
USA's drama starring Ryan Philippe as a sharp-shooting former Marine overcame early delays to manage a three-season run, but it took a fatal bullet this year.
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Shades of Blue
Finale Airdate: Aug. 19
It was case closed for Jennifer Lopez's NBC cop drama after a three-season run.
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Seven Seconds
Finale Airdate: Feb. 23
Netflix's crime drama from The Killing creator Veena Sud didn't last very long, getting axed after just one season — but it did earn star Regina King an Emmy.
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Sense8
Finale Airdate: June 8
Despite a massive fan outcry, Netflix's globe-spanning sci-fi drama got the axe after two seasons — but the fans' passion was rewarded with a two-hour wrap-up movie.
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Scorpion
Finale Airdate: April 16
This one still stings: CBS axed the tech-geek drama starring Elyes Gabel and Katharine McPhee after four seasons.
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Scandal
Finale Airdate: April 19
Someone else can handle it now: Olivia Pope's days as a D.C. fixer are done, now that the ABC drama has ended after a stellar seven-season run.
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Salvation
Finale Airdate: Sept. 17
CBS' summer thriller about an asteroid headed for Earth cratered after two seasons.
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Roseanne
Finale Airdate: May 22
Roseanne Barr's iconic '90s sitcom was revived for a tenth season by ABC this spring, but then... well, you know what happened next, don't you? The whole family lives on, though (minus Roseanne) on The Conners.
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Rise
Finale Airdate: May 15
NBC's teen drama about a struggling high school theater program had some definite Friday Night Lights vibes, thanks to creator Jason Katims, but the curtain still fell after just a single 10-episode season.
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Reverie
Finale Airdate: Aug. 8
NBC's virtual-reality drama starring Sarah Shahi and Dennis Haysbert fizzled out after a brief summer run.
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Quantico
Finale Airdate: Aug. 3
Priyanka Chopra's FBI drama got decommissioned by ABC following a three-season run.
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Outcast
Finale Airdate: Sept. 28
Cinemax's demonic-possession drama from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman got cast out after two seasons.
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One Dollar
Finale Airdate: Nov. 1
The CBS All Access thriller that followed a single dollar bill as it changed hands among people connected to a series of murders came up a dollar short, becoming the streamer's first cancellation after just a single season.
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Once Upon a Time
Finale Airdate: May 18
All fairy tales have to end sometime, and after seven seasons, ABC's fantasy drama wrote its final chapter this spring with a two-part series finale.
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Nobodies
Finale Airdate: May 31
They can go back to being undiscovered now: TV Land axed the Melissa McCarthy-produced series about a trio of struggling comedy writers after two seasons.
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New Girl
Finale Airdate: May 15
The ever-adorkable Zooey Deschanel and her roommates said goodbye to the loft following a seven-season run on Fox.
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Nashville
Finale Airdate: July 26
The country-music drama played its final note on CMT, following a six-season run that began on ABC.
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Mozart in the Jungle
Finale Airdate: Feb. 16
Stop the music! Amazon's Golden Globe-winning comedy, starring Gael Garcia Bernal as a symphony conductor, was cancelled after four seasons and a total of 40 episodes.
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Portlandia
Finale Airdate: March 22
Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein now have plenty of time to wait in line for brunch: Their hipster-skewering IFC sketch show concluded an eight-season run this year.
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Megyn Kelly Today
Finale Airdate: Oct. 24
Following a string of on-air controversies, NBC pulled the former Fox News host's daytime hour after a little more than a year on the air.
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Marvel's Iron Fist
Finale Airdate: Sept. 7
Netflix's wave of Marvel cancellations began with the chronicle of hard-punching hero Danny Rand.
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Major Crimes
Finale Airdate: Jan. 9
TNT's The Closer spinoff wrapped up a six-season run — without star Mary McDonnell, whose character was killed off prior to the series finale.
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Marvel's Luke Cage
Finale Airdate: June 22
Guess Luke Cage wasn't invincible after all. Netflix cancelled the superhero drama starring Mike Colter after two seasons.
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Love
Finale Airdate: March 9
Love fades, it seems: The Netflix rom-com starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust wrapped up after three seasons.
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Living Biblically
Finale Airdate: July 21
The prayers of this CBS sitcom, about a guy who decides to live strictly according to the Bible, were not answered: It got cancelled after just 13 episodes.
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Life Sentence
Finale Airdate: June 15
Lucy Hale's follow-up to Pretty Little Liars was one and done, with The CW cancelling the midseason dramedy after a single season.
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The Librarians
Finale Airdate: Feb. 7
TNT closed the book on the Rebecca Romijn-led adventure series — based on the franchise of TV movies — after a four-season run.
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LA to Vegas
Finale Airdate: May 1
Fox grounded the midseason comedy starring Dylan McDermott as a cocky airline pilot after a brief run of 15 episodes.
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Kevin Can Wait
Finale Airdate: May 7
Killing off co-star Erinn Hayes' character and bringing in Leah Remini didn't do much to rejuvenate Kevin James' CBS sitcom. It met its own untimely end after just two seasons.
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K.C. Undercover
Finale Airdate: Feb. 2
Mission accomplished: Zendaya's Disney Channel sitcom about a teen recruited to be a spy ended a three-season, 75-episode run this year.
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The Joel McHale Show With Joel McHale
Finale Airdate: July 15
Joel McHale will have to find another way to make fun of reality shows: The former Soup host's Netflix series was cancelled after 19 airings.
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Imposters
Finale Airdate: June 7
The con is no longer on: Bravo cancelled the con-artist drama starring Inbar Lavi after two seasons.
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I'm Dying Up Here
Finale Airdate: July 8
Showtime gave the '70s-set stand-up dramedy the hook after a pair of buzz-deprived seasons.
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House of Cards
Finale Airdate: Nov. 2
The groundbreaking Netflix political drama stepped down — without scandal-plagued star Kevin Spacey — with a sixth and final season that saw Robin Wright's Claire Underwood take over the Oval Office.
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Six
Finale Airdate: Aug. 1
History's high-octane military drama was told to stand down after a two-season tour of duty.
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Here and Now
Finale Airdate: April 15
HBO's mystical family drama boasted an impressive pedigree — it was created by Alan Ball, and starred Oscar winners Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter — but it failed to earn a second season after a spring debut.
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Heathers
Finale Airdate: Oct. 29
Plagued by controversy and delays from the start, Paramount Network banished its adaptation of the cult hit teen comedy to the uncool kids' table after a single season.
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Harry
Finale Airdate: May 23
Harry Connick Jr.'s charms didn't extend to daytime: The singer/actor's self-titled talk show was yanked following a two-season run.
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Hap and Leonard
Finale Airdate: April 11
Hap and Leonard's adventures have come to an end: Sundance cancelled the James Purefoy/Michael Kenneth Williams action drama after three seasons.
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Great News
Finale Airdate: Jan. 25
Bad news, actually: NBC pulled the plug on the Tina Fey-produced sitcom after two low-rated — and criminally underrated! — seasons.
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Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce
Finale Airdate: July 19
After five seasons of bliss, Bravo split up with its first-ever scripted series, which starred Lisa Edelstein as a self-help author facing the end of her marriage.
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Famous in Love
Finale Airdate: May 30
The Freeform drama, starring Bella Thorne as a young actress who becomes a Hollywood star overnight, lost its sheen and got cancelled after two seasons.
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Everything Sucks!
Finale Airdate: Feb. 16
This news just, well, stunk: Netflix axed its bittersweet '90s-set teen dramedy after a single 10-episode season.
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Disjointed
Finale Airdate: Jan. 12
This was a total bummer, man: Netflix snuffed out the Kathy Bates-led weed-dispensary sitcom after a single season.
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Dietland
Finale Airdate: July 30
AMC's dark feminist dramedy didn't last long enough to topple the patriarchy: It got axed after a single 10-episode season.
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Detroiters
Finale Airdate: Aug. 16
Veep star Sam Richardson and SNL alum Tim Robinson teamed up to play best friends/ad men in Comedy Central's delightfully silly sitcom, which lasted two seasons before getting axed.
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Deception
Finale Airdate: May 27
This isn't a trick: ABC's procedural starring Jack Cutmore-Scott as a magician helping the FBI solve crimes pulled a disappearing act after 13 episodes.
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Damnation
Finale Airdate: Jan. 18
Dammit: USA Network pulled the plug on the Great Depression-set drama after one season.
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Colony
Finale Airdate: July 25
The dystopian alien-invasion drama starring Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies finally returned to its home planet, with USA pulling the plug after three seasons.
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Code Black
Finale Airdate: July 18
We're calling it: CBS' medical drama starring Marcia Gay Harden was declared DOA after three seasons.
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Champions
Finale Airdate: May 25
NBC KO'ed the Mindy Kaling-produced comedy, about a macho gym owner who suddenly has to parent his theater-loving teen son, after a single season.
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Casual
Finale Airdate: July 31
Hulu parted ways with the low-key relationship comedy after four seasons, with the final season dropping all at once, Netflix-style.
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Adventure Time
Finale Airdate: Sept. 3
Finn and Jake's time in the Land of Ooo has ended: Cartoon Network's surreal kids' cartoon drew to a close after nine seasons.
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Beyond
Finale Airdate: March 22
Freeform's supernatural drama didn't extend beyond two seasons: It was cancelled in March after airing 20 episodes.
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Ash vs Evil Dead
Finale Airdate: April 29
Starz axed the horror comedy after a three-season run, and star Bruce Campbell hung up his chainsaw, saying he's "retired" from playing zombie slayer Ash Williams.
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Another Period
Finale Airdate: March 20
Say goodbye to the Bellacourt sisters: Comedy Central cancelled the period comedy starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome following a three-season run.
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Animals
Finale Airdate: Oct. 5
HBO's animated comedy featuring a cast of talking animals like rats and pigeons was exterminated after three seasons.
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American Vandal
Finale Airdate: Sept. 14
Netflix opted not to order a third season of the gloriously vulgar true-crime parody, capping the Peabody Award-winning comedy's run at a total of 16 episodes.
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Alone Together
Finale Airdate: Aug. 29
At least they have each other: Freeform cancelled the comedy about a pair of platonic millennial pals in November after two seasons.
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All About the Washingtons
Finale Airdate: Aug. 10
One season was enough to learn all about the Washingtons, it seems: Netflix cancelled the family sitcom starring Run-DMC alum Joseph "Rev Run" Simmons.
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12 Monkeys
Finale Airdate: July 6
Syfy's time-traveling sci-fi drama signed off in unique fashion, with all of its fourth and final season airing in a four-week span.
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9JKL
Finale Airdate: Feb. 5
CBS evicted the family sitcom starring Royal Pains alum Mark Feuerstein after 16 episodes.
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Love Is___
Finale Airdate: Aug. 21
OWN's romance about a pair of aspiring Hollywood writers got pulled after one season, following sexual abuse allegations against executive producer Salim Akil.
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Hit the Floor
Finale Airdate: Aug. 28
The music stopped for BET's cheerleader drama, following a four-season run that began on VH1.
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Marlon
Finale Airdate: July 12
NBC axed the family sitcom starring Marlon Wayans and Essence Atkins after a pair of summer runs.
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Midnight, Texas
Finale Airdate: Dec. 28
NBC dropped a late lump of coal in fans' stocking, cancelling the supernatural drama just days before Christmas. (The series finale will air next week.)
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Z Nation
Finale Airdate: Dec. 28
Syfy's tongue-in-cheek zombie thriller was finally laid to rest after five seasons of shooting and slashing action.