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Police Squad.
Most preposterous TV show cancellation in the history of cancellations.
Actually that reason is not at all preposterous, it's spot on true and was true for many other shows as well. The American audience doesn't really WATCH TV. They talk and flip channels and read the paper and eat and do their homework and dozens of other tasks while the TV provides background noise. For a show to be successful it's got to be able to be appreciated even if viewed with one eye in 10 second snippets. If the viewer has to pay attention to get the jokes it won't last. The aforementioned When Things Were Rotten and Arrested Development suffered the same fate. So much was happening in the background and so many jokes depended on noticing other things that had happened earlier in the show that most viewers couldn't follow along.