What kind of punks steal other people's stuff? Make something yourself!" And that's something that can't be stolen from me. "I loved every moment of that show, er, truck. Ten years of attention to detail, and then, poof, gone! It's an empty feeling," he – nominally, Mike – tells his followers.įrom there Allen erases the pretense of separation between himself and his character. Nevertheless, Mike's final entry in his confessional Outdoor Man vlog was anything but. "I've been thinking a lot about makers and takers, you know, because I had something very valuable taken from me: Somebody took my truck. Mike Baxter is conservative too, but Kevin Abbott, the final showrunner in a line of them spanning back to the show's creator Jack Burditt, has long insisted that he's a centrist. Allen is one of Hollywood's most unabashed Trump supporters. The welled-up tears in their eyes, especially Allen's, are real.Ĭonflating Allen's persona with that of Mike Baxter has been the show's selling point and, depending on who you are, its drawback. What we're really watching is the actors holding a wake for their departing show. One by one family and friends share tributes that grow increasingly warmer and heartfelt, and the viewer understands it's not about the truck, or the Baxters. Mike, played by Tim Allen, spent 10 years restoring that truck, and he loved it so much that the family organizes a wake in its honor. Keep track of all the broadcast renewals, cancellations and series pickups with THR’s handy scorecard.The final half hour of " Last Man Standing" finds the Baxter family mourning the theft of Mike Baxter's classic pickup. ABC will open the fall without a multicamera comedy for the first time in years after axing Last Man and Dr. Both Once and SHIELD have a 22-episode seasons and will be followed at 10 p.m. Next season, ABC will open the night with former Sunday staple Once Upon a Time, followed by Marvel drama Inhumans(and subsequently Agents of SHIELD). (ABC, unlike NBC and Fox, did buy new programming from outside studios this season.)Īdditionally, that Last Man was wrapping its sixth season meant Allen would need to renegotiate his contract - adding an additional costs to the aging series as ABC also was set to shoulder a larger share of the overall price tag on the comedy.Īnother factor, as Dungey noted, was ABC’s move away from comedy on Fridays. Last Man - when the bulk of its schedule is produced in-house by ABC Studios. It’s also worth noting that of ABC’s new 2017-18 slate, the network did renew 20th TV bubble comedy Fresh Off the Boat - which has greater critical appeal vs. Stunned and blindsided by the network I called home for the last six years. “I wouldn’t say that was the deciding factor,” she said.įrom a financial point of view, ABC did not own Last Man Standing and had been reducing licensing fees on many of its aging shows - including Sony’s The Goldbergs, ABC Studios’ Once Upon a Time and 20th TV’s Modern Family - in a bid to reduce costs amid dwindling viewership and ad dollars. Ultimately, Dungey stressed that Allen’s political affiliation - he has compared being a conservative in Hollywood to “‘ 30s Germany” - did not play a role in the decision to ax the comedy. “There are many factors that go into the decision-making process: ratings, critical acclaim … of course we look at ownership structure,” Dungey said of the rising importance of ownership at all of the Big Four broadcast networks. Television ( Time After Time) and even its own ABC Studios ( The Catch, American Crime). “ Last Man Standing was a challenging one for me because it was a steady performer in the ratings, but once we made the decision not to continue with comedies on Fridays, that was where we landed.”ĭungey stressed that star Allen’s conservative leaning (he’s pro-Trump) did not factor into her decision to cancel the series and noted that the Disney-owned network axed programming from multiple studios: Sony Pictures Television ( Dr. Ken, The Real O’Neals, The Catch and American Crime,” ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey told reporters Tuesday ahead of her upfront presentation to advertisers. I canceled Last Man Standing for the same business and scheduling reasons that I canceled Dr. “A large part of these jobs are managing failure, and we have made the tough calls and canceled shows that we would otherwise love to stay on the air.
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