And while Tim Allen clearly wasn’t happy with the cancellation in general, he was also critical of the manner in which that decision happened, since ABC did indeed make the call late in the game, after many blindly expected a renewal for Season 7 to happen.
There’s no denying that Last Man Standing remained popular when it got shifted to Friday nights, and a decent portion of Allen’s fanbase would likely have tuned in weekly if the show aired on 3 a.m. on Sunday mornings.
When TV shows get cancelled, fans tend to only think about the big stars getting wiped off the primetime schedule, without passing on much thought to all of the crew members and other unseen talent that put their efforts into making a show a reality.