Alum, and Stagga you guys are right, "Raymond" wasn't cancelled. Ray Ramano took a page out of Jerry Seinfeld's book, and felt the show ran it's course, and that he wanted to go out on top. Even though he was making roughly 50 million a year from CBS to do it.
I saw him on David Letterman at the beginning of this season, and said that he didn't want to go out like Bill Cosby, Rosanne, Drew Carey, and Tim Allen, with their shows being all but forgotten, while the networks dragged the life out of them. He felt that Jerry Seinfeld did the right thing, and that's how he wanted to end his great run.
NYPD Blue wasn't cancelled either, they felt the show had run it's course, and when Steven Bocho left the show, Dennis Franz said he didn't have enough energy to keep doing the show, and that the writing was no longer on par with the L&O franchise.
I'm not surprised that "My Wife & Kids" got cancelled, the son was just too stupid for words, and after 5 years he just wasn't funny anymore. I've felt the show fell on his shoulders, because Damon just isn't that funny too me, and Teisha Campbell wasn't the same after she gave birth in real life. They did a good job concealing her pregnancy though.
I'm surprised "Kevin Hill" got the hook. I thought the show was placed on wrong night, and with a bad time slot. The show was also recieving a lot of acclaim, and actually picking up steam. Maybe somebody else will pick the show up, it's happened before.
In any case, I'm looking forward to Chris Rock's new show, "Everybody Hate's Chris." It premiers in the fall, and it's based on Chris' life as a child. Terry Crews will be on the show as his father. For those that don't recognize him by name, he was Latrell on "White Chicks", and the big arsed just released from prison son, on "Friday After Next." Sorry his charachter's name escape's me at the moment.
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