One Day At A Time canceled (again), this time by the Pop network

By Sam Barsanti | November 24, 2020 | 11:44pm

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One Day At A Time canceled (again), this time by the Pop network

One Day At A Time Photo: Ali Goldstein/Netflix

As reported by Variety, Pop has decided to cancel the rebooted One Day At A Time, which it had picked up for a fourth season after Netflix had originally canceled it in 2019. The show, once again, will apparently be shopped around to other outlets, possibly giving Netflix a chance to swoop in as a hero like it used to do when popular shows were unjustly cut short—before it became the one unjustly cutting popular shows short. One Day At A Time had just started airing on Pop in March, and it recently got a chance to debut on network TV when a content-desperate CBS picked up the show to pad out its schedule, but Variety suggests that this move may have been in the cards for a while.

Pop had effectively dropped all of its scripted TV shows earlier this year, the lone holdouts being One Day At A Time and the final season of Schitt’s Creek. When the latter ended, that meant ODAAT was the only thing keeping the network in a business that it apparently did not want to be in. Netflix claimed the show was never a massive ratings hit when it was on the streaming platform, but it seems like ratings might not have helped it here anyway.