Shemar Moore Drags Race into the Cancellation of his Show SWAT

To be fair, it’s one of their highest rated shows. The cancellation is odd.

It was probably a licensing fee thing.

Maybe CBS wanted to bump some of the characters to recurring rather than regulars to save money. The network is doing that with other shows as broadcast TV slowly dies.

Perhaps the SWAT show runners refused. I dunno.

Maybe he'll come out now,

Maybe it was getting too expensive

Shemar, almost 30 years ago, on the runway of the Gap Fall 1993 fashion show!

Hmmm. Malcolm was seen in the "next week on The Young & the Restless" clip last night. Maybe he can help rescue Nate from his self-destructive, mendacious behaviors.

He was the hottest man when I was a teenager. Now I find him irritating.

Shemar, almost 31 years ago, on the runway of the Gap Fall 1992 fashion show!

His commentary wasn't unreasonable.

R10 agreed.

My grandmother loves him lol. She watches ION Channel and whenever Criminal Minds comes on she gets excited because “her boyfriend” is on 😂

Eh, everything he said seems pretty rational

6 seasons of a drama on network TV is a long run these days. The network has enough eps to sell into syndication or streaming. They didn't need to continue with this.

You've had six seasons. I don't feel sorry for you.

The economics of TV are changing. The SWAT decision took a while, so the network was clearly negotiating over licensing fee. The production company couldn’t give them a number that worked.

Shemar, honey -- networks only care about one color: GREEN.

For someone who has been in show business for 29 years (and on broadcast TV for 26 of those years), he seems totally fucking clueless about the current broadcast landscape. Did he not see that Fox canceled their number one (!) scripted series, 9-1-1, because they couldn't/wouldn't pay the new licensing fee to Disney? Did he not hear that a sitcom on his own network recently demoted all the series regulars, except for the two leads, from 22 guaranteed episodes to just 5? Was he not told that the actors and producers on another CBS series took a 25 percent paycut just to get the series renewed for another season?

Being canceled sucks, but maybe be happy your show made it to 130 episodes and syndication? Most series don't.

It seems like he was under the impression that they were going to be picked up and CBS backed out. He's upset, but he'll get over it. He's very marketable, he'll get picked up for something.

R18 is correct. He’s never not worked in all these years. He’s a beautiful man and the industry has always kept him working.

R17 He does seem happy that it did

I would have canceled it because of his awful goatee.

Pretty boy always annoyed me. Let's see where his "talent" takes him next. Family Feud?

I'm no economist but I can't see the TV business surviving.

To get viewers, you need to spend money and and have a quality product. That costs money.

But it seems the ratings are never high enough. Good shows get canceled.

Crappy shows with nothing to offer but are cheap might last a little longer but they also don't get ratings and they get canceled.

They’ll survive off of reality tv and news. Those are cheap to produce. Scripted series on network tv will be a thing of the past eventually. But not yet.

Somewhere along the line, CBS and Sony decided the show wasn't financially beneficial to the company. Shemar, you and the feelings of your cast were not figured into the equation.

So Meghan Markle sweetheart--as shitty as it feels, find another excuse besides victimhood and race. It has nothing to do with your skin color. It was a financial decision. And a six-year run is a good deal. It's called show BUSINESS.

I was let go from my company with no warning--and not because it wasn't doing well--but because the company was being sold and "going in a different direction." It sucks, but I couldn't make a video about victimhood. No one cared. And I only got a two-week severance. I was a mid-level manager making a decent salary. The company made a financial decision.

He can't see the blessing of not working 18 hour days now that he's a new dad?

This was a nice thread about Shemar Moore and his being upset about his TV show, but some stupid racist whore has to bring Meghan Markle into it. Meghan Markle is at home minding her own business and has nothing to do with this. So please shut the fuck up and crawl back to your fucking klan meeting, asshole.

The syndication market is almost dead. And streaming doesn’t have the same economic model.

He’s never in anything good.

When all else fails, play the race card.

[quote] I'm no economist but I can't see the TV business surviving.

What?!

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SVU’s run is the big exception. Even the revamped Law and Order will go away once Mariska and company fold up shop.

Episodic TV is dying. Too expensive, too little audience. No one has patience for commercials anymore.

He’s got six years. Consider it a miracle.

To be clearer, Network TV is dying, long with cable.

Streaming is thriving but it’s not as lucrative for talent for the most part, because of shorter seasons/runs and the lack of reruns and syndication.

[quote] His commentary wasn't unreasonable.

A lot of it wasn't, but he got a little lost in the woods during the rant.

TV is changing and not for the good. Network TV will look more like a cross between reality TV and QVC in the next five years, because networks can't afford shows with scripts, sets etc.

Royalties are no longer a thing for actors on new shows because of streaming.

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I bet you Shemar announces this week he's leaving Hollywood and he's leaving CA. That'll make three - the triple crown will be complete.

The only race that concerns him is the race to the closet.

R17, Which sitcom demoted all its regulars to recurring except for the top two characters?

I try my best not to get my social justice opinions from former International Male underwear models.

R40, Bob ❤️ Abishola.

R17 911 is moving from Fox to ABC. It seems as if networks don’t want to run a show past 5 years. It sucks.

Maybe he can go back to Criminal Minds Evolution on Paramount.

R31, I think there's just too much content out there for any show to sustain an audience for a long time.

I'm cutting back on expenditures and got rid of my DVR box and cable and streaming services Netflix and Apple.

I am keeping Amazon Prime and I have direcTV streaming; there are so many free streaming apps like Tubi.

It's all too much. It's all too expensive.

[quote] That'll make three - the triple crown will be complete.

Who’s the other one? Scott Baio and?

[quote]I think there's just too much content out there for any show to sustain an audience for a long time.

True. The audience today is so fragmented across so many different specialty channels, streaming, other media, etc.

In the old days, t.v. shows had big audiences and most people you knew were watching some of the same shows. Many t.v. shows had big cultural and social impacts. Except for a few shows today, that's not really possible anymore.

[quote]He's upset, but he'll get over it. He's very marketable, he'll get picked up for something.

He clearly said he'd be OK. He was upset about the cast and crew that are now out of work.

Thanks. R42. Must suck to be on a hit sitcom, think you'll be set for a few years and then find out you're shifted to part-time.

[Quote]He was upset about the cast and crew that are now out of work.

And who will get jobs on other productions. Isn't that the nature of Hollywood and show business?

R46 Amber Heard. She announced earlier this week she's packing up her stellar career and moving overseas.

Gurl, no. Bye.

Un-canceled?

Yeah just saw that. Shemar knew what he was doing. Well done.

It’s been officially renewed. Wow. Serious respect for Shemar Moore.

It does seem odd that a show with comparatively high ratings would be cancelled, but then again if I were a network exec and had an easy move I could make to not have to answer phone calls from Shemar Moore, I'd be tempted.

Renewed:

All this fuss for a tepid remake of a show that was at best tepid to begin with

Blacks make everything about race when it’s mostly not. What a mental prison.

My elderly mother loves this show,but not because of SHEmar. Shes got the hots for the silver daddy. They can marry off She-mar to a dozen women,have him produce 12 babies,and hes still not capable of being sexy because the fact is hes gay. He knows it,we know it,the planet knows it. He cant convincingly portray a sexy straight man because hes probably a big ole bottom.

R59, he and his well defined genetically blessed half naked body was photographed at a beach that was near a gay beach and tabloids said he was frolicking or something near a gay beach. He was at a press event for CRIMINAL MINDS and took control of the narrative if not the situation, telling reporters that he was NEAR a gay beach then maybe he was NEARLY GAY.

Hilarious.

To me, he's always come off as gay but back in the 1990s, he was a kid and that's when you had to stay in the closet to keep your career.

I wish him well. I believe he really cared about Kristoff.

I used to see him at Gold’s Gym in the 90s. (He worked his ass off.)

Never did my gaydar go off. He read totally straight to me, and all his interactions seemed to confirm that.

Doesn’t mean I was right. Just my experience.