Why did married with children end?

Answer 1

In season 11, Fox switched the show to a Saturday night slot. Since Bundy fans do have lives, ratings became worse, so the episode premieres were moved to Sunday pre-primetime. After problems with football overtimes it was moved to Monday primetime. Meanwhile, there was hardly any advertising for the show, just as if Fox didn't believe in MwC anymore. All these factors made the ratings sink from 14 to 9 million viewers and the series disappeared from the top 100 shows list. Another problem in season 11 was the fact that Columbia TriStar couldn't produce severals episodes on time. After all this trouble, Fox didn't want to pay US$ 1.5 mio. per episode for another season as the show already lost some viewers in season 10, and there would be more TV channels on the air in the future. They decided that buying the show would be a risk as they couldn't be sure that they would receive advertising revenues of the same amount as the purchasing costs. Fox decided on April 17, 1997, to cancel the show. I don't know if Columbia TriStar offered the show to other networks or stations, but since there was nobody to buy season 12, production of the show ended. Since Fox's decision took place after the last season 11 taping, there is no actual final episode.

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