With all due respect, Networks will subsidize known franchises with poor economics for a while. If they were truly good businesspeople, they would have tried aggressively downsize staff, make cuts and make the numbers work. But it’s all on autopilot and it finally crashed and burned. The decline was slow and steady and the lazy management puts their heads in the sand because it’s a “legacy show.” Hope is not a strategy. The network finally cut their losses, long overdue. There is no conspiracy.