The real question, though, is why it was cancelled at all. American filler media can have a ridiculously long shelf-life. It seems like once there's an established formula and a minimum ride-or-die audience, shit just keeps getting made. They're still making episodes of The Simpsons, Survivor, Grey's Anatomy, various procedural cop shows, etc. The good stuff tends to fall off, even if it's popular, because there's no way to sustain the output, and it' too dependent on the actors and creators. Stuff like this, though, you can make forever. You don't need to spend on marketing because everyone who's going to be watching is already watching, you can swap out actors, writers, producers, and so on as needed season-over-season, and it's a perpetual cash machine.
Twelve seasons is a lot compared to prestige TV or big budget streaming, but it's not that crazy for network TV background noise.
The real question, though, is why it was cancelled at all. American filler media can have a ridiculously long shelf-life. It seems like once there's an established formula and a minimum ride-or-die audience, shit just keeps getting made. They're still making episodes of The Simpsons, Survivor, Grey's Anatomy, various procedural cop shows, etc. The good stuff tends to fall off, even if it's popular, because there's no way to sustain the output, and it' too dependent on the actors and creators. Stuff like this, though, you can make forever. You don't need to spend on marketing because everyone who's going to be watching is already watching, you can swap out actors, writers, producers, and so on as needed season-over-season, and it's a perpetual cash machine.
Twelve seasons is a lot compared to prestige TV or big budget streaming, but it's not that crazy for network TV background noise.
Probably someone core to the project got bored of it so they pivoted to Young Shelnut.
Jesus, are they still making that? Shouldn't young Sheldon be, like, regular Sheldon by now?
Bart Simpson should be in his 40s right now.