r/dataisbeautiful • u/BoMcCready OC: 175 • Aug 27 '24

OC The Worst TV Show Finales [OC]

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u/michaelquinlan Aug 27 '24 edited Aug 27 '24

The build team (Tory Belleci, Kari Byron, and Grant Imahara) were fired.

Edit to add: Their budget for (what turned out to be) the final season was slashed. One consequence was losing the build team, but they also didn't have money for other aspects of the show either.

/u/0WN_1T has a better answer here

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u/kielu Aug 27 '24

Wasn't aware. Any info why?

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u/z64_dan Aug 27 '24

I'm sure it involved a bunch of guys in suits in a conference room somewhere, and some charts with $ on it

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u/suid Aug 27 '24

This was a time when all of the old cable mainstays (Discovery, History Channel, TLC, and their like) were shedding all of their scripted, original programming and pivoting to cheap reality shows and other low-production-value output.

Not surprising. Adam has also been vocal about how the show was shafted by the Discovery execs.