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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"I remember going to arenas in the 80s, where the audience 60% female and they were all trying to kill us for beating up [[Ricky Morton]]. Those people spent the same amount of money as the guys did but now the audience is 80% men and whatever women those men can drag to the matches with em because it's their night out. So we have completely shut off... where else do find a [[Professional Wrestling|business]] featuring a bunch of good looking guys wearing very little clothes and no women want to see the show? Riddle me that Lucy!"''|''Jim Cornette''}}
A show intended for a certain audience with a clearly defined demographic. Essentially, this means the audience may begin to watch the show at a certain age, but at some point will abandon it later, [[Department of Redundancy Department|presumably in the future]]. This applies to many shows for children. The 'original' target audience simply [[Growing Up Sucks|outgrows]] the show.
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Such shows usually do not provide any [[Parental Bonus|deliberate]] [[Parent Service|treats]] for a [[Periphery Demographic]]. Because anyone watching will not do so for a long time, the showrunners can be tempted into [[Recycled Script|repeating many premises]] [[Fleeting Demographic Rule|they know the current audience will consider "new"]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Takara & [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]]'s ''[[
** [[Brave Command Dagwon
* Much of the longevity of the ''[[Pokémon (
* While it openly targets the 16-35 year old males that like the cute girls and [[Merchandise-Driven|have disposable income]] and slightly older girls who have continued watching the series, [[Pretty Cure]] is aimed at 4 to 9 year old girls and regularly reboots itself for their sake.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[
** The introductions of Mon-El and Star Boy in the [[Legion of Super-Heroes]] are well-known for outright copying earlier stories, to the point where the story that became the Mon-El story was most likely reprinted in the ''Superman in the 50's'' book specifically because this made it famous.
* [[Archie Comics]] works on the same premise of recycled plots as Superman, etc; they have kept the Riverdale gang in high school for over 65 years now...
** Strangely, it seems that the majority of its readers nowadays are people who have been reading it ever since they were kids.
* ''[[Treasure Chest (
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
** Lately, some of these preschool shows have started to have small but still existant [[Periphery Demographic
* One of the reasons [[MTV (channel)|MTV]] has maintained its popularity over time is that it elected not to follow its original audience, the teenagers of the eighties and early nineties, into adulthood, instead opting to always focus its marketing on the current generation of teenagers. (Whether its ''[[Network Decay|quality]]'' has also been maintained is a matter best left for debate elsewhere.)
** ''[[The Simpsons]]'' lampshaded this by having a quick reference to [[Logan's Run]] that involved microchip-implated VJs that alerted the execs to send in a new show host whenever the original person became a [[Christmas Cake]].
* The Disney Channel has a policy about cancelling a show after 65 episodes. The only show to date that has avoided that cancellation is ''[[Kim Possible]]'', due to huge fan outcry (and, allegedly, the contract with the German network that ran the show). The idea is that 65 is the number you need for syndication, and kids will probably watch repeats anyway, so why make more? Also, since kids' tastes change so fast, they expect that no child would stick with a show for more than three seasons regardless.
** It's worth noting that the probable reason for ''[[Kim Possible]]'' being such a popular show is its [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]].
** The endless tween sitcoms on [[Disney Channel]] ([[That's So Raven|the oldest of them]] only had a span of slightly more than four years) are going this way as well. Of course, that's about how long people can convincingly play "tweenage" without going into [[Dawson Casting]].
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'': Although the show does have its older fans, the general demographic is young boys who will grow out of the show after a few years, which is probably why the show started doing the new storyline every year thing instead of the continuing storyline it used to do. Since this is exactly what happens in the Japanese couterpart, ''[[Super Sentai]]'', no one seems to mind.
* In the UK, twee/teen dramas ''[[
== [[Magazines]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Happens with most [[Edutainment Game
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