Editing Garfield and Friends (section)

==Production and cancellation==
Although the series was a success in the ratings at the time, it had become expensive to make and the [[Saturday morning cartoon]] format was in decline by the mid-1990s. Additionally, CBS as a whole was a distant third behind [[NBC]] and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] for much of the series' run, and was in the middle of its cost-cutting by [[Laurence Tisch]] that resulted in CBS [[NFL on CBS|losing broadcasting rights]] to the [[National Football League]] for four years starting in [[1994 NFL season|1994]] and subsequently [[1994–1996 United States broadcast television realignment|losing many longtime affiliates]] to [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], which had outbid CBS for [[NFL on Fox|its NFL package]]. As a result, CBS proposed renewing the show for another season, albeit with significant budget cuts. Since the show did well in [[broadcast syndication|syndication]], producers ended the series in 1994 with its seventh season.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Evanier |first=Mark |date=January 13, 2014 |title=Artistic License Fees |url=https://www.newsfromme.com/2014/01/13/artistic-license-fees/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827042752/http://www.newsfromme.com/2014/01/13/artistic-license-fees/ |archive-date=2017-08-27 |access-date=2014-01-17 |website=NewsFromMe.com}}</ref>