'Clueless' Sequel Series No Longer in Development at Peacock

Left Shrinking and Bad Monkey off that list for Lawrence. Ted Lasso really snowballed into a second career stage for him.

For real - he's got the Midas Touch.

Learning some of the backstory for it kind of gave me some newfound respect for Bill Lawrence. Essentially he was muscled into making a spin off, then to hamfist it into being season 9. It was the height of the recession though so he opted to take the hit so the whole crew could keep their jobs

I mean, for what it's worth I was there and I remember arguing with people about it lol. FWIW I do think the Fox run (more so specifically the third and fourth production seasons) are better than the Comedy Central run, but I thought people were too hard on those and would debate people about them. I also don't know that their reputation has totally come around...I mean, they were never THAT badly received but I still hear complaints about the "EyePhone" episode and such to this day. I think there's at least some persistent feeling that they weren't as good as the initial run. But I personally really enjoyed them and thought they were mostly pretty consistently funny and worth watching. I tried to be optimistic with the Hulu run, but in this case it really does feel like it came back a little "wrong" and despite a few good episodes I'd be hard pressed to name anything that I really think is among the best they've done (the CC run didn't hit it out of the park as often as Fox, but there were episodes like The Late Phillip J. Fry which absolutely did hit those highs), and a number of episodes are just genuinely weak and sometimes a little baffling to me that anyone thought they would be funny. Like they just finally hit that point where the people involved got a little too old and lost their edge for it or something. I do get what you're saying, but it's a thing people often say about The Simpsons and which proves to be less and less true in that case, given the long tail of less well-received seasons that has eventually caught up to them. Like, it's true there were some people that thought seasons 4 and 5 of The Simpsons represented a significant downturn and now those seasons are pretty universally considered classics, but as you go along in those seasons you do eventually hit a wall where no matter how old those seasons get they haven't been retroactively claimed to that extent (i.e. season 20 is now something like 16/17 years ago and while I'm sure there are people who grew up with it and love it, on the whole you'd be hard pressed to find a lot of people who think it's as good as season 4). We'll see, but I feel like Futurama has maybe just finally hit that point.

Sorry, when I said funny is subjective I meant I wasn’t arguing that part and was gonna focus on the other part. My fault, probably wasn’t clear. Turk, JD and Elliot are 3/4 of the main cast and Carla was only in it so little because of other commitments (same with Cox). They’ve already said both will be back a lot more if the show gets renewed. The Janitor not being there makes perfect sense given how he exited the original run (not to mention his age). Jordan, Todd and Hooch showed up about as much as they did in the original show. Kelso’s long retired, Ted’s actor died. Regardless, “barely anyone came back” is a gross exaggeration and incorrect.