Sooner or later, every TV viewer discovers the awful truth: Major characters on favorite TV shows, including those characters that one loves the most, are not necessarily permanent fixtures. You tune in one day, and your program's flawed hero or his vulnerable best friend or an inspiring mentor or Junior's wacky mom, etc., have pushed (or are about to be pushed) on, written out of a show and leaving the audience to cope. From a viewer's perspective, that makes television, on occasion, a medium of loss - sometimes traumatic loss. here are examples of
television's most dramatic exits.


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