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Current Talk '03 II / Re:HODS & DS' Cancellation
« on: November 24, 2003, 10:51:06 PM »I don't think I've ever heard that theory before. The movie was responsible for the cancellation of the series?
It's true.
The short explanation is that hoDS was the first exposure to DS that many parents got (when they took their kids to see it), they were shocked, and they (mistakenly) equated the level of blood/violence in hoDS with the daytime series. Many successfully banded together to get their local ABC affiliates to cancel or at least move DS to a different time period when their kids couldn't watch.
(For example, many Boston area parents groups organized letter writing campaigns to the local newspapers and Boston's Channel 7. However Channel 7 wouldn't cancel DS outright. Instead, they decided to push DS from 4:00 back to 3:30 because grammar school kids used to get out of school at various times between 3:00 and 3:30, so most were barely able to catch any of the show at all.)
If only the VCR had already been widely available back then...