How was it canceled?

I don't mean to sound dumb but how did it get canceled? Not enough fans? To much money to make? Ceator quit???? Aliens said,"Cancel the Teen Titans or we will destroy Earth!" Really how? :?: :?: :?:

Declining quality, declining ratings, declining marketability, and the network decided to cut it off like the dead weight it was.

Well, Sam Register said that the ratings started to dip a bit, and the execs just felt like it was time to end it...

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draxus wrote:the movie trouble in tokyo robin and starfire kissed at the end

How deliciously irrelevant.

It comes down to a combination of things, really, with no easy answers.

Justice League and Teen Titans were unfortunate casualties of a merger that was going on with WB and CN at the time, as I recall. The new group of TPTB decided that they didn't really want as many animated shows. So the popular Justice League Unlimited got the axe along with the Teen Titans series. As I recall there were some considerations on changing their mind, but despite a small rally of fan support the show was dissolved anyways.

Also, CN is partly to blame for JLU and Teen Titans demise. They flat out did not want anymore licensed superhero shows, period. The reason being that while DC and CN are both owned by Time Warner, they are separate entities. When CN ran superhero shows based on DC comics they had to pay a fraction of the profits to DC due to licensing fees and similar things. As such, they made more money off original material and wanted to focus on that. I think we had a two year stretch with no superhero shows post-Legion of Superheroes before Batman: The Brave and the Bold premiered.

This is why you saw a couple homegrown "superhero" shows crop up post TT and JLU, such as Ben 10; they were shooting for the same demographic, but this time they would get all the money. WB was less focused on animation at the time as well - and frankly still are - so they just dropped the shows and didn't think much of it. This is one of the caveat's to being a corporately owned company such as DC (which Marvel may find out in due time now that they are owned by Disney).

There are a couple others, but those are really the big ones. CN is in an even worse state of transition now than they were then. They're weening off cartoons in general and stuffing reality programming on the slots because they're idiotically trying to get out of being a niche station. Sci-Fi has tried the same thing and even changed their name to SyFy. Both are suffering in ratings thanks to this new outlook, but the monkeys in charge are "committed" to their new direction; in other words, they're committed to running CN into the ground.

Such is the sorry state of animation right now. But like Paul Dini once said, animation is like a pendulum; it has it's up's and downs. Right now animation is on a major downswing.