How Time Kills a good show

  TV  shows  have  entertained  us for the longest time  thanks  to  their  content  and  story.   Sometimes   they  get  ruined  over  the years  due  to  lack  of creativity, continuation and reboots.  Today I will explore this  element with both animated and live  action TV shows.  I will exclude anime like Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z and save it  for a future article. 

    The  first element  we will tackle is duration focusing on TV shows that have been airing   over ten years.  This  usually  happens when the producers get lazy and  make  generic  changing  the  characters  to  fit  the plot point and  ruining  their personality.  An example would be  Family Guy  which got    ruined due  to  sloppy  writing and character personality  change.  An example  would  be Brian Giffin who went from   being the voice of  reason to a stereotypical jerk. The only improvement  would be the baby who built a personality over the show's long run.

The second element  is the  change which involves adding new characters  to  the  shows. This tactic can go both ways good  and bad.  The original shows that have no  source  material are tricky  specially when you kill a character to introduce  another.  There's only one show that  died   because of  this element.  The Fairly Odd Parents suffered this fate and self destruction. This  happened  when the producers added two unnecessary characters  that  ruined the whole plot.  

The final element   is  the most common in both animated and live action  TV shows  the reboot.  This concept usually kills  the TV show.  It can happen when a  TV show  ends in two ways. One is the continuation effect  which happens after  the conclusion on the original  show. Sometimes the sequel  has some  elements that can ruin  the show in general. The  other one is the restart or live action portrayal.  The live  action trick usually succeeds but the reboot can destroy it all.  An example would be the popular Teen Titans  show which  had  both   concepts added to it. The original show was the whole package  mature, funny and told a good story.  The  live action  Titans took it to a new level with a  mature theme and a better story.  The  cartoon reboot Teen Titans Go Killed the entire show  with its toilet  humor and  changed characters. This was a slap in the face to  older audiences and the death of a nostalgic show.

   At the end of the day we look back at  those  elements and thank  what went wrong. While some show survive and others get canceled its up to the producers to decide if they want money or a good comeback.   Some producers  try to make an effort and succeed  and others just kill the shows.