Talk:Bade/@comment-5253497-20130209135801/@comment-5586763-20130212171715

I'm commenting late on this but it's been on my mind. Here's my theory:

We may never know the real reason and none of us are industry insiders so we can only wildly speculate. My theory is that contract negotiations broke down. If the network wants another season and the star of the show doesn't want to the network will get its way. Victoria may be the star but she is not a producer, that being said I'm sure she has an airtight contract and the show cannot go on without her. If another member of the cast held up negotiations they could be axed from the show. Perhaps she did want to do a solo tour and it conflicted with when the network wanted to start shooting. Her representation and the network would have hashed it out. Perhaps they couldn't make it work because it conflicted with shooting Sam and Cat as well. When it comes to why make Jeanette's spin off Sam and Cat, well Sam needs a side kick. Ariana and Cat are well beloved by the demographic they are shooting for. Victorious had about reached its 60 episodes. Many Nick and Disney shows do end at 60 episodes suddenly without explanation. There are exceptions and Victorious could have been one of them since it was highly rated (although they were dropping) and would take over for icarly. Nick would have liked another season since icarly was ending. So Ariana would shoot both shows back to back. Nick would get to have its cake and eat it to. Start shooting Sam and Cat and then one final season of Victorious. Vic's team wanted a summer tour this conflicted with either shooting Sam and Cat or Victorious. Victorious was at the end anyways so they took a risk and axed it when they couldn't make everything work. Where does the cast tour come into play? Well, perhaps during contract negotiations the others reps had worked out that a cast tour must be had if they weren't shooting another season right away. Perhaps it had to do with who was promoting Vics summer tour. Perhaps it was clauses that the others had in their contract. So who's fault is it? I don't know. I suspect that negotiations broke down amongst the reps, namely both Vic and Ari's taking the lead since thier tweets point to each other (one girl wanted..... and if only you knew) and the network. I'm just going to blame the system, (contracts, reps, and the network all fighting for themselves and not able to comprismise). Its ambigous but it lets me sleep at night!