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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tommie" data-source="post: 417896" data-attributes="member: 370">It sort of ends on a nice note I'd say. Not one like MTMS, but there's no giant cliffhangers or anything. This isn't exactly true - it was always a bit of a mid-performer - something that hovered around in the lower top 30/40 in the Nielsen rankings. In the final season it fell from #27 to #38 and CBS was of course at the time having major success with Dallas, so I think Lou Grant was just expendable at that point. While it makes for a better story that CBS cancelled it because Ed Asner was politically outspoken, that's not how networks work. Hell, even with the infamous Roseanne debacle, they just retooled the show. If Asner was the issue... he'd be out and the show would've gone out without the lead.</blockquote>