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I don't think a sit-com or any show has ever been picked up after being canceled for two years. However, it would have been exciting news. I hated seeing the show end so suddenly. I actually started watching when it debuted b/c I'm a John Ritter fan. He was an awesome actor and comedian. I didn't think I'd like the show after his death but I kept watching and thought the cast with the addition of James Garner and David Spade did an excellent job of still providing great comedy. Of course Ritters character was missed but the writers did an excellent job with the story lines and the show still had punch. I think it could have gone on even longer. Leave it to ABC not to know what it's doing. They cancelled a show that still had potential and kept others that don't. Network execs never leave shows alone long enough to let them breath and grow. I understand the pressure for ratings but this show as still getting them - although not as high as they'd like - but nothing to warrant cancellation. I don't even know what any of the networks air anymore b/c they won't shows build an audience. I'd consider myself one of the first real TV generation kids. I grew up watching Happy Days, Threes Company, etc. I could tell you all about the characters, what night the shows came on etc. Now the networks never allow shows to grow this kind of connection with viewers. When viewers have so many choices between traditional networks, cable, satellite and now every other media outlet - it takes a while to figure out what you like. Would it really kill budgets to leave a show alone and let it grow as long as the ratings aren't down the toilet and the show is actually losing money???? I want to see more quality sit-coms - I'm sick of reality TV - a little is okay but lets see some balance out there. I want to watch something that entertains and suspends reality. If I wanted reality all the time I'd just live my life and never seek out entertainment like TV. Will the good sit-coms in the genre of good clean comedy and laughs like Threes Company, and ones with so much potential like 8SR be given the chance they need to succeed. If a network exec ever reads this - please give shows the time to grow an audience... and when you are going to cancel a show like 8SR where you know it has fans - have the decency to conclude it in some fashion and not just end with a regular episode. How difficult would it have been to have Cate marry Ed and they all move to NY for his new principal job - I can see them all walking out the front door now - and saying goodbye to all the memories. However, 8SR should have continued. The writing was good and with veterans like Garner, Spade, Sagal and Arkin - it had so much potential. BTW I loved the quote in the post regarding the statement from the CW rep, "...bringing it back will make our network slightly better." I've worked with affiliate TV stations of all the major networks and a WB before it became CW... and I often think that really must be the way they think.

Yes, this was an April Fools Joke.

awww, I was like, YES! YAYAYAYAY! then I rembered what today was....

April Fool!