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In television, with a successful creation usually comes the chance to create something else. As a successful series runs on longer and longer, the network that carries it will sometimes give the creator of the hit an opportunity to create a new show. And then, because the studio doesn't quite trust the creator, they'll proceed to engage in Executive Meddling until the new show dies a horrible death. This can be done by moving the show around in the schedule so often that no one can find it; issuing demands on the direction and content of the show to the creator that introduce things the fans hate; demanding that the new show be more and more like the old show; or even pre-emptively cancelling a show before it has a chance to actually generate an audience. In some cases, the show actually ends up being better than the original and the network buries it to avoid killing the existing cash cow. Of course, sometimes the failure of the new show isn't the studio's fault. Sometimes the studio gives the creator carte blanche when it came to production, and as a result, the show is either too bad or just too self-indulgent. Perhaps the show ends up built around the creator's own likes and dislikes or turns into a series of rants about the creator's pet causes. In any case, it fails to connect with the audience because it lacks the broader appeal of the old series. This can also lead to The Firefly Effect, as fans are afraid to commit to a new show that is perceived as being ultimately doomed to failure, no matter how successful the original show is. Compare Sophomore Slump. Compare and contrast Tough Act to Follow, where fans find a sequel work to be inferior to its predecessor whether or not it has been meddled with. |
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During the height of the "Hampster Dance" meme, a novelty song by Hampton The Hamster, "The Hampster Dance", was released. The song exploded in popularity and spawned a Cash-Cow Franchise in the form of a virtual band. Although "The Hampster Dance" was near-unavoidable in the second half of 2000, no other single from the debut album found success outside of Australia. Any further attempt to replicate its success fell flat. Later singles, such as "Sing a Simple Song", only got meager airplay on Radio Disney and didn't chart anywhere. | |
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After the success of Runaways, the series' then-editor C.B. Cebulski conceived of a spin-off series featuring Excelsior, the group of former teen superheroes who appeared in the "True Believers" arc. Problems came up almost immediately. Stan Lee held the trademark to the word "Excelsior", which forced Cebulski to change the mini-series title to The Loners. A long delay between conception and publication didn't help, since by the time the first issue came out in 2007, the landscape of the Marvel universe had been altered by Civil War (2006), which required Cebulski to explain why none of the characters had decided to simply register so that they could legally keep being superheroes rather than sitting around and complaining about their lost superhero careers. Ultimately, the series lasted only six issues. | |
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Jenji Kohan followed up her show Weeds with Ronna and Beverly, a show that not only failed to get picked up but was only aired once on Showtime in the middle of the night. Her second attempt at a follow-up, Tough Trade, failed to get picked up as well. Ronna and Beverly actually got revived as a podcast. Fortunately, she scored with Orange Is the New Black which quickly became much bigger than Weeds ever was. | |
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The first Cheers spinoff was The Tortellis, which was a capable sitcom with one glaring weakness: no one liked the characters. The second spinoff, Frasier, fared much better. | |
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After the critical and financial smash hit that was Top Gun: Maverick, Joseph Kosinski directed Spiderhead, which was nowhere near as well received. | |
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David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd followed the success of Are You Being Served? with Come Back Mrs. Noah, which went over so badly that it was cancelled after a single six episode series. | |
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Ring Ka King, another project by Jeff Jarrett after he lost control of TNA that used much of the same talent and acquired the training services of OVW. It drew great crowds and popped decent ratings in India but petered out after no one decided to pick it up for another season. | |
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All Japan Women’s Pro-Wrestling Association was set up to oversee the many women's pro wrestling organizations that sprung up in response to Mildred Burke's WWWA in the same manner the National Wrestling Alliance oversaw promotions on a larger scale. Unfortunately, the Japanese promoters didn't respect this body's authority, not even after the NWA itself sent The Fabulous Moolah to drop the World Women's title to Yukiko Tomoe in 1968, and in the end only one promotion survived. | |
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Lords of Dogtown was Catherine Hardwicke's second film after her successful and acclaimed debut with Thirteen (2003), but didn't do nearly as well; it received mixed critic reviews and was a box office flop, though it has since become a cult classic. Her next film, The Nativity Story, also received mixed reviews and underperformed at the box office. Then Hardwicke directed Twilight as her next film project, which was a smash hit at the box office and helped make the Twilight franchise a worldwide phenomenon. | |
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Supernatural was a major hit on The CW and ran for a historic record of 15 seasons. Contrast with the subsequent prequel series The Winchesters which got mixed reception and got cancelled after one season. | |
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After The Mandalorian's strongly-praised first two seasons, the first spin-off, The Book of Boba Fett, suffered from a lack of a compelling central story. Disney+ put it in limbo after the first season, which boasted fewer chapters than a Mandalorian season to boot. | |
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Daikatana was John Romero's IP after his seminal work on Quake and Doom. He was an ideas man, but didn't fare as well as an auteur developer with total freedom. Yahtzee would later compare it to Lennon and McCartney breaking up. This was also during a weird period in gaming where developers were being treated as rock stars. Romero's branch of Ion Storm were spending boatloads of cash on lavish marbled penthouse offices and licensed race cars, while the real work was being done in cubicles by semi-anonymous staffers. Daikatana is essentially unfinished, and the ad campaign was universally-mocked for its hubris. It is gaming's Heaven's Gate; no major publishers will entrust that much power to a single man again. | |
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Dead by Daylight is the game that put Behaviour Interactive on the map, a massively successful Asymmetric Multiplayer horror game. Their followup effort, Deathgarden was not so lucky, plagued with low player rates and middling reviews from the get-go. After less than 2 years, the game's servers were shut down. | |
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After the successes of Dora the Explorer and Go, Diego, Go!, Nickelodeon pushed for the creation of a third Dora series, with said series (Dora and Friends: Into the City!) coming out after years of being stuck in development hell. It was ultimately overshadowed by PAW Patrol, with Into the City's lack of popularity killing the Dora franchise. Nickelodeon decided to shove anything Dora-related into early morning timeslots on Nick Jr. and pulled reruns off the main Nickelodeon channel. | |
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After 3 successful seasons of China, IL, Brad Neely was right back at it with Brad Neely's Harg Nallin' Sclopio Peepio, an animated Sketch Comedy show filled with his usual oddball humor. Unlike China Il. however, the show was very unpopular. And after dismal ratings and unkind reviews, was done after one 10 episode season. | |
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Dan Seals' last #1 country hit, his 1990 cover of Sam Cooke's "Good Times", was followed by the #49 "Bordertown". Seals never hit Top 40 again, despite having previously had a hot streak of Top 10 hits dating back to 1984 (and several more in The '70s as one-half of the soft-rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley). | |
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The 1951 game Star of Africa was a big hit in the Nordic countries and remains popular as of the 2020s. The Mission-Pack Sequel game Inkan aarre, released 54 years later, came and went without much fanfare. The same can be said about the original game's 2014 Expansion Pack Retkikunnat. | |
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Kindly Beast's Bendy and the Ink Machine became one of the big hits of 2017's indie horror scene. The developer's second game, Showdown Bandit, largely flew under the radar and was Cut Short after one episode. | |
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Aspects of Love was Andrew Lloyd Webber's first musical after The Phantom of the Opera. It debuted under a cloud, with unknown American leading lady Ann Crumb cast as part of a deal with the Actors Equity Association to ensure Sarah Brightman's presence in Phantom's Broadway cast - with Lloyd Webber expressing his displeasure on opening night. The West End production lasted for over 1,300 performances, respectable but still one of the shortest runs for a Lloyd Webber musical. The Broadway production flared out after only 377 performances, with the $8 million investment lost in what's been called one of the biggest flops in Broadway history. To be fair, a musical with themes including open marriage, borderline statutory rape, and incest was going to be a hard sell no matter what came before it. | |
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Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata created three series together. The first was Death Note, a smash success that quickly became iconic and well-referenced even in the West and spawned a multi-media franchise. The second was Bakuman。, which was also rather successful, even if it was doomed to be stuck in the shadow of Death Note. The third was Platinum End, which only managed to sell well in Japan, with global audiences quickly dismissing it. Platinum End ending with a very severe Audience-Alienating Ending didn't help. | |
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2002's Pinocchio was the next directing project of Roberto Benigni after the acclaimed Life Is Beautiful, and was critically thrashed, in large part because he insisted to play the main role himself. His directing career has never recovered as a result. | |
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Despicable Me is the film that put Illumination Entertainment on the map. Following the complete bank maker that it was, they released Hop, which was savaged critically and financially disastrous. It still ranks as their poorest-grossing film to this day. | |
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Maren Morris had a huge crossover hit in 2020 with "The Bones", a multi-week #1 country hit and #12 Hot 100 hit. Its followup "To Hell and Back" stalled out at #32 on the country charts, becoming her lowest-peak there as well as her first single not to enter the Hot 100 at all. | |
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After two successful made-for-TV movies, Kolchak: The Night Stalker was under-promoted and only made it a season. Stephen King, in his nonfiction book Danse Macabre, argues that that's the least of the series' problems. | |
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Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah followed the success of Life on Mars (2006) with the widely mocked Bonekickers. However, the sequel to Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes (2008), had a respectable four-series run, even if it didn't reach the heights of the original. | |
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Dan + Shay followed up three straight #1 Country Airplay hits with "Road Trippin'", which became their first single to miss the Top 40 entirely. | |
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Darius Rucker had this happen twice: his Signature Song "Wagon Wheel" was followed by the underperforming "Radio" and "Miss You", the latter of which was his only single not to make Top 40. Then in 2017-18, he had the #1 hits "If I Told You" and "For the First Time" followed by a cover of Drivin n Cryin's "Straight to Hell", which despite featuring guest vocals from Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, and Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley, stalled out at #40. | |
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Even if he hasn't been credited as director on it, Justice League followed Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron, which had significantly better reviews. | |
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Dierks Bentley has had this happen a few times: His debut smash "What Was I Thinkin'" was followed later in 2003 by "My Last Name", which for nearly seven years remained his only single not to reach Top 10 on the country charts or enter the Hot 100 at all. After a false start with "Bourbon in Kentucky" (withdrawn due to radio stations not wanting to play a moody ballad in the summer), his Riser album produced three #1 hits... followed by the title track, which stalled out at #24. The first three singles off Black were all successful, with the first two reaching #1 and the title track reaching #2, but "What the Hell Did I Say" produced his lowest chart peak ever of #46. |
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This has happened many times to Little Big Town. First, "Little White Church" off their fourth album The Reason Why was a Top 10 hit on the country charts, but followups "Kiss Goodbye" and "The Reason Why" both stalled at #42. Then after the one-two punch of "Pontoon" (their first #1 hit) and "Tornado" (which hit #2) off the next album, both "Your Side of the Bed" and "Sober" just barely made Top 30. Then after the monster hit that was "Girl Crush", followup "Pain Killer" only got to #38. Then after the success of "Girl Crush"'s corresponding album Pain Killer, they recorded the pop album Wanderlust which did absolutely nothing at all. Finally, the #1 smash "Better Man" in 2017 was followed by "Happy People", which became their lowest peaking single to date at #46. | |
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Doctor Who: After the resounding success of Jon Pertwee's run, producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks launched their own original sci-fi series, Moonbase 3. It lasted just one series and has fallen into obscurity. Under showrunner Steven Moffat, DW featured a number of Backdoor Pilot episodes featuring characters and concepts ripe for spinoffs (examples include The Paternoster Gang, UNIT, Psi and Saibra, and Clara and Ashildr). The only spin-off to come out of the Moffat era, however, was Class (2016) which featured only the most oblique connection to the series by way of a supporting character who'd only appeared a couple of times (and was almost immediately killed off) and a fictional location. Originally released via the online streaming service BBC Three, Class failed to even register in the top 50 streaming programs and subsequent over-the-air broadcast by BBC One was done in "burn-off" style in a graveyard time slot. Moffat and Mark Gatiss' first solo series following Doctor Who was the massively successful Sherlock. They followed that up Dracula (2020), which wasn't as well-received. |
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The Sixth Sense was a widely successful movie that made Haley Joel Osment a prospective household child star. A year later, Pay It Forward received a much more sharply divisive response amongst both fans and critics and ultimately underperformed. | |
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Jake Owen topped the country charts in 2016 with "American Country Love Song". Its follow-up "If He Ain't Gonna Love You" bombed at #37, becoming his lowest charting song to date. | |
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Justin Moore's 2013 album Off the Beaten Path produced the hits "Point at You" and "Lettin' the Night Roll", but then his label released a multi-artist Mötley Crüe tribute album and decided to promote his rendition of "Home Sweet Home" (featuring Mötley Crüe lead singer Vince Neil) as a single. It petered out at #30, so they went back to Off the Beaten Path for another single. That choice, "This Kind of Town", became his first single to miss the Top 40 entirely. | |
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Nelly followed up the acclaimed Sweat/Suit double album (which sold six million copies together) with Brass Knuckles, which was critically panned and sold less than 250,000 copies. He attempted to make up for it with 5.0 but it didn't fare any better. | |
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Cherry is the first directing work from The Russo Brothers to come after the much better received Avengers: Endgame. | |
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Easy Rider was a landmark film in American cinema and established Dennis Hopper as the next wunderkind. His next film The Last Movie was a disastrous failure that got him blackballed from Hollywood for years. It would be 14 years before he directed again. | |
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Millennium (1996) and Harsh Realm, both by The X-Files creator Chris Carter, were both victims of studio frustration with The Chris Carter Effect. Vince Gilligan, probably the best-known co-writer from The X-Files, has stated that Millenium was preoccupied with human evil to a disturbing degree and failed to attract an audience—lessons Vince would internalize as showunner. |
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Jerrod Niemann had one of the biggest country hits of 2014 with "Drink to That All Night", a #1 smash that was certified platinum. What did he follow it up with? "Donkey", a very polarizing Double Entendre-laden song that died a very rapid death at #43. This seemed to kill the album's momentum entirely, as he quickly switched out for "Buzz Back Girl", which fared little better at #35. What little promotion "Buzz Back Girl" got also seemed to act as if "Donkey" didn't exist. | |
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Homura Kawamoto's Kakegurui was a big enough hit to warrant an anime adaptation, a live-action TV adaptation, and numerous Spin Offs. However, Kawamoto's next project, Cheat Slayer, was cancelled after a single chapter on account of its bad faith mockery of other works and upsettingly graphic content, causing enough uproar for Kawamoto to apologize for writing it. | |
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Anthem (2019) was a game made by BioWare that had a lot going for it, but a VERY Troubled Production sealed its fate from the instant it was shown at E3 2017, where developers didn't even know what the final product was going to be until then. When it finally released in 2019, it got middling scores from critics and absolutely savaged by BioWare fans, who saw it as lacking the trademarks of BioWare's writing and chasing the coattails of its competitors but not doing anything to learn from them. In the end, it ended up becoming a Stillborn Franchise only a year or so after launch, since a planned overhaul got halted in 2021, basically killing the game and leaving it Overshadowed by Controversy. | |
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Babylon 5 was Un-Cancelled by TBS and allowed to complete its five-year arc, because TBS wanted showrunner J. Michael Straczynski to do a Spin-Off, called Crusade. JMS lays the blame for the show's failure squarely at TBS's feet. According to him, they wanted an action Sci-Fi show, full of sex and violence, which JMS had zero interest in doing. It was cancelled after 13 episodes. | |
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Hill Street Blues creator Steven Bochco had so much pull at the time following the success of his cop drama that ABC gave him an unprecedented deal to create ten shows for the network. Among them were the notorious misfires Cop Rock and Capitol Critters, the first a musical police drama that mixed gritty police realism with song and dance numbers and the second a prime-time animated series about mice living in the White House. The first is considered a legendarily bad series, while the second has achieved a cult following. In fairness, Doogie Howser, M.D. and NYPD Blue also came out of this deal, and these were successful shows. | |
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