This list is not about the unjust cancellation of certain TV shows, let's make that clear from the start.
No, this installment in TVLine's annual Year in Review package famously revisits the many other kinds of terrible, horrible, no good, very bad or merely questionable decisions made by network and studios execs, schedulers, casting directors, writers and marketing departments over the past 12 months.
Listen, we at TVLine totally get it. Making TV is not easy! Especially in this highly competitive climate. Tough calls sometimes need to be made, about when to air a show, who to sacrifice to a wave of layoffs, and whether you want to be bothered with checking if that Bachelorette suitor has a(n easily confirmed) checkered past or not.
Which streamer still struggles to steer eyeballs to its top-shelf content? What was Netflix thinking with its marketing of its Menendez Brothers drama? And why did longtime NBA partner Warner Bros. Discovery let someone steal the ball?
Those are but a few of the more than 20 bad decisions made across all of TV in 2024 -- again, not including any number of unjust cancellations detailed elsewhere on TVLine.