All good TV shows come to an end.

With House the ratings were were starting to lag. Also Fox forced the shows producers to cut costs for the last year which was a reason why the Cuddy character was cut. For Hugh Laurie, though, I think he felt it was time to move on as he has started on a music career. He's also said he wanted to give up acting and any future film work might be behind the camera. We'll see. TV work on a series can be brutal though. As Robert Sean Leonard (Wilson) said, he won't miss getting up at 4 AM to go in to get his make up done.

Oh I guess that makes sense. Hugh Laurie is very talented so I am sure he wanted to be free to be able to do much more for his career than just House even though it was a huge show.

Hugh has been in a band for a long time. I think flying back to his family when the show wasn't filming had to hard on his family life. Now I recently read his family is moving to Los Angeles, so I bet we will see Hugh doing even more movies, as he just finished one. Another movie has been announced that he said he is going to be in that sounds like it will be successful.

AFAIK,Terra Nova is gone..

There was a brief attempt to move the show to another network and Netflix was linked to the show but that failed. Terra Nova was the second highest show in ratings in the US to get cancelled.

I miss Moonlight too. I heard that Terra Nova is going to be cancelled. If it is I'm gonna be mad I was really curious about that show. Are they cancelling? Does anyone know?

It would be nice if old shows gave way to new or better ones; however, in the case of Eureka, it is just another sign of how bad the SyFy channel has gotten. The are gradually abandoning real science fiction and becoming a network of schlocky paranormal shows and movies about giant bugs.

Well i am hoping that this is the case. For me I haven't seen very many shows that I enjoy that come after one's I've loved for years were closed. I am very picky with what I like to watch on TV however.

I totally agree burrito88. I used to love Syfy, but since they cancelled Stargate Universe when it was starting to become really good, I just got sad, but with Eureka... that show is one of my favourites, and best series out there. I hope there'll be a good sci-fi series soon.

Ahh I see. I have not watched SOA often here lately. I am glad you settled that for me. Have a great weekend.

I was being a bit 'tongue in cheek' regarding SoA. I did read that the producer is thinking of shutting down after 7 seasons: HOWEVER, they have only run 4 seasons thus far on TV. The next set of shows will be the 5th season and then there are plans for two more. When I read that there was only going to be 7 seasons, I had to check because I didn't think the show had been on that long and it hasn't.

Because of his different hairstyle and glasses, I hadn't realized that Cranston has played the father in the show Malcolm in the Middle. He's also done a lot of movie work and was Seinfeld's dentist although I've never seen those episodes. Jesse Pinkman was originally supposed to get killed off at the end of the first season but Aaron Paul's work convinced the producers to keep the character. Paul has done a lot of guest starring work in TV and movies.

You have to remember, Heisenberg was uncertain.

I have to admit over the years there have been some long lasting shows that I never saw. I only saw Seinfeld when it went into syndication. The same goes for Friends although I don't even watch the reruns there. I've never seen Grey's Anatomy and i don't know it it has to do with the time slot it's in or what. I did check and see that it's ratings have been going down the past few years. It may be good that it's on ABC because they've had trouble coming up with good new shows lately, except for maybe Once Upon a Time. House has been the only medical drama that I've watched in recent memory and there it seemed that his crew had trouble coming up with possible diseases. They started suggesting some of the same ones over and over.

Yeah, I only feel the interest to watch ER when it was already over. One Tree Hill had its season finale a while ago. Now I'm hooked to the big bang theory and how I met your mother!

One of the problems with hit shows is that some of the cast become stars and leave the show because they feel they can do better in movies or get a show of their own or because they demand more money which the shows producers don't feel they deserve. Clooney made it big which might be more the exception the rule. (Look at what happened to a lot of the cast members of MASH who left over the years.) Noah Wylie has seemed to work steadily but is not necessarily a star. The again you have Bitsy Schram who was nominated for awards on Monk and asked for more money, forgetting that she was not the star of the show. She was dropped and I don't think has worked that much afterwards.

Hulu is not free. It costs $8 per month, the same as Netflix, which also carries all the Startreks plus Quantum leap. Those shows ended years ago and with exception of Enterprise, they all had good runs. They were also not among the new shows that I said were going off the air.

When you see Laurie on talk shows it gets hard to imagine him doing the House voicing. I wonder how some actors are able to lose or hide their normal accent. (Then there's Arnold.)

In America, in the '60's or earlier, they used to make 38 episodes for each season of a show. Now it's more like 23 for the big networks and 13 for the cable networks, if we're lucky. In the UK, I think some seasons only have 6 episodes. With the birth of cable networks, there's more competition for viewers but the type of shows have gone downhill. There are too many reality shows, or talent shows. Even cable networks seem to have lost their purpose. The history channel doesn't do history at night. The Sci Fi channel now runs more stupid paranormal shows and not much sci fi. I can't even turn on the weather channel at night to see the weather because they are running shows about record storms, coast rescues, and lately fireworks. (What do fireworks have to do with weather.) Thus it's easy to be sorry to see good shows go away, even when they've had long runs.

I'm not sad. Some shows end after they've run their course. I miss good shows when they go off the air. And I get upset when networks end good shows before their time or before the get a chance to find their audience. You see this sometimes when they keep changing the night or time for a show, so you never know when it's on or you see it when they switch the show to a time slot against a know popular show. In those cases it's like they want the show to fail.

Sometimes we could still watch the show in reruns as I did with Stargate SG-1 when it was on at a reasonable time. At other times, the end of a show may be annoying enough that you give up on the show. That's how I felt with the last show of Monk which seemed to trivialize Monk's search for his wife's killer.

There used to be a lot of classic daytime serials or 'soap operas' here in the US. Some were replaced by games shows. Now there are a lot of 'talk' shows or courtroom shows. I have to wonder with the real long running daily serials, how viewers could keep up with things over the years. Actors would come and go, sometimes a character would stay, but the actor playing him would change. Sometimes an actor might die in real life and the show would have to deal with it. How could someone keep up with all the changes after 10 or 15 years.

Twenty one series! Sorry to disappoint you but the odds are that you'll lose some of those in the not too distant future.

Most shows don't end on a high note. They end when they wear out their welcome, the stories get stale, and they lose viewers. The longer a show is on TV, the more it is worth due to syndication, especially now to an overseas market. Unplanned show cancellations usually only involve new news shows that probably show never have been on in the first place because they weren't going to be popular. Good shows can run into problems because the actors expect higher salaries due to the popularity of the show. With higher production costs, the show better keep high ratings or it will be dropped, cast members fired, or other cost cuts will occur degrading the shows quality and further pushing it toward cancellation. What I hate, is when networks deliberately change time slots for good show so that they never get a chance to get an audience or their audience can't keep up with the changes. I also hate when a network decides to cancel a show, then runs commercials saying how great the show is leading up to the last episode.

Reality shows are probably scripted also. The are cheaper to make because the 'stars' are often not real actors. The also probably don't spend much of anything buiilding sets, they just use real houses or settings.

? But I was talking about TV shows not movies. Good TV keeps you waiting for more.

Hell's Kitchen has never interested me and House has been the only medical show I've been interested in recent years.