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Call 911: Top Rated Fox Show Switches Network To ABC
It's happened before but not very often: "9-1-1" is the top-rated show on the Fox Network, and has been for the past 6 years. But next season, there will be a new number to call for fans of the show. In a surprise announcement, the producers have confirmed the drama will be moving to ABC, after the show became too expensive for Fox's coffers.
There have been a number of shows over the years that have switched networks. (The remade Magnum P.I. was on CBS, before finding a new home on NBC. But the former network was ready to cancel it when it departed. 9-1-1 is still getting huge numbers. JAG famously departed NBC and much to the network's chagrin, went on to a long and ratings-happy life on CBS, leading to equally successfully spin-offs.)
As if this isn't odd enough, the spin-off series "9-1-1 Lone Star" will stay on Fox next year, meaning one network will have one version of the show, while its younger sibling will remain on another channel.
I'm not sure if that particular scenario has ever happened on two major American networks before.
There's no word on how it will affect either Global (which owns the rights to 9-1-1 in Canada) and CTV (which carries Lone Star here), but my guess is they'll both retain those rights. Whether they will be forced to time shift them on their schedules in order to keep simsub in place is another question.
We won't know until next season, whenever that may happen. If the writers vote to go on strike at midnight Tuesday, there's no telling when you might see a new episode of either show.
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Series being cancelled and being picked up by another network is not as rare as you would think. Hazel spent four years on NBC and its final season on CBS. Same with Get Smart, four on NBC, one on CBS. Father Knows Best has the distinction of being cancelled three times. CBS pulled the plug after one season. NBC then ran it for the next three seasons before axing it. CBS took it back for its final two seasons. Robert Young had tired of the role so the series ended production. Something that doesn't happen today, but CBS scheduled primetime repeats from 1960-62. ABC did the same thing for 1962-63. Then there is the rare situation where a show runs on all three networks. Bachelor Father spent two seasons on CBS and NBC. The fifth and final season ran on ABC. Even rarer is a show that begins in syndication and goes to a network. Mr. Ed was syndicated from Jan-July 1961. CBS picked it up in the fall of 1961. It remained on their schedule until Spring 1966.
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Leave It To Beaver started for a single season on CBS, before ABC ran it for another five years. There are other more modern day examples, like Scrubs, which left NBC for ABC, and Taxi, which drove off the alphabet network for a single final season on NBC. If ever there was a show that was cancelled too early, this was it.
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Aren't both Fox and ABC under the same parent Disney umbrella anyway these days? 
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RadioActive wrote:
Leave It To Beaver started for a single season on CBS, before ABC ran it for another five years. There are other more modern day examples, like Scrubs, which left NBC for ABC, and Taxi, which drove off the alphabet network for a single final season on NBC. If ever there was a show that was cancelled too early, this was it.
I knew there would be other examples.
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Here's a first in the world of streaming/regular TV. Last year, it was big news when ABC decided to move its popular "Dancing With The Stars" exclusively to its co-owned Disney+. That meant over-the-air viewers would no longer be able to see it.
But beginning next season, the reality competition will be moving back to ABC, where it started.
The network had hoped the show would lure new subscribers, but it would appear it may not have achieved its goal well enough, and now they're bringing it back to the place where it aired for more than 30 years. Ironically, it will also continue to air on Disney+, so viewers will now be able to see it in two places at the same time.
Given how recent streaming is, I'm not sure this has ever happened before.
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Leave It To Beaver started for a single season on CBS, before ABC ran it for another five years. There are other more modern day examples, like Scrubs, which left NBC for ABC, and Taxi, which drove off the alphabet network for a single final season on NBC. If ever there was a show that was cancelled too early, this was it.
I knew there would be other examples.
Supergirl started off on CBS airing for only one season before moving over to the partly CBS-owned CW network for seasons 2 - 6.
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Aren't both Fox and ABC under the same parent Disney umbrella anyway these days?
Actually, no. FOX, along with FOX News, FX Networks, 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures (among others) were previously owned by News Corporation, a company founded by Rupert Murdoch. Disney acquired 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures in 2019 and dropped the "Fox" from their brandings (making them simply 20th Century Studios and Searchlight Pictures). FOX and FOX News are currently owned by FOX Corporation, a company that was formed in 2019 with the remaining 20th Century Fox assets that weren't bought up by Disney. Interestingly, the FX Networks and FX Productions are currently owned by Disney.
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