ABC canceled The Kids Are Alright because "there did not seem to be a strong enough fan base"

TVLine

“It was not that it didn’t fit my personal vision for the network," explained ABC Entertainment president Karey Burke at the TV press tour of the 1970s-set family comedy. "It was that we really looked at it… from a ratings perspective, and we just did not see enough upside. We looked at many measures. We looked at multi-platform viewing. We looked at social media sentiment. There did not seem to be a strong enough fan base at the time. These things always come down to business decisions, and this was a tough, tough decision.”