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The term Friday Night death slot refers to the belief that television shows broadcast on Friday nights have a better-than-average chance of being cancelled. In recent years, this has especially been used with regard to the FOX network. Boston Public, Wanda at Large, Firefly, Playing it Straight, and Wonderfalls are all examples of Fox series that started on Friday nights and lasted only a few episodes, or were moved to Friday nights, experienced a steep drop in ratings, and were cancelled.A famous example of a television series brought to a premature death by moving it to Friday nights was the original Star Trek series, which aired on NBC. After cancellation, it went on to decades of syndication and has spawned four additional prime-time television series, an animated series and ten movies across the almost 40 years since the first episode aired in 1966.
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