Despite decent acclaim and even some respectable ratings, almost every show was canceled quickly, usually within the first season.

Despite significant accolades – and decent sales in France and Japan – it was a sales failure ( moving less than 120, 000 copies ) in the United States.

Despite its size the town is home to some decent eateries, which include Daddio's pizza parlor, Subway, and McDonald's.

Despite his alcoholism, Garganta de Lata is a very loyal pal and a more than decent father.

Despite his bigotry, he is portrayed as loveable and decent, as well as a man who is simply struggling to adapt to the changes in the world, rather than someone motivated by hateful racism or prejudice.

Despite a decent winning percentage, Nashville failed to secure a spot in the playoffs.

Despite winning their first ever game in the PDL, 3-1 over West Virginia Chaos, the Royals suffered spotty form for most of the season thereafter, never quite building up enough of a head of steam to put together a decent run of victories.

Despite one or two decent performances for the Parkhead outift, Dublin was released by manager Gordon Strachan.

Despite these limitations, TSX-Plus is actually able to service up to about 30 simultaneous users while still maintaining decent response times.

Despite this, observers felt that Siegelman did a decent job of managing the limited revenue produced by this system during a national economic downturn.

Despite his start to the season, Andújar had a decent year in 1986, going 12 – 7 with a 3. 82 ERA.

Despite a decent enough start to his Stoke career he went on to have poor performances against Sunderland, Newcastle and Bolton and he was dropped by Pulis and Woodgate admitted that he needs to up his game.

Despite his low average in the minors, Quiroz is a patient hitter who receives a significant number of walks and can hit with decent power.

Despite rumors to the contrary, the film did receive some decent reviews and grossed $ 1, 000, 000 in its initial release, more than sixty times its original investment.

Despite a decent season during which he managed to score six goals, he felt like he could not fully express his potential and returned to France after just one year, to Nîmes and then Saint Étienne, where again he not only imposed himself as one of the best defenders in the league, but also scored 13 goals in his last season with the latter club.

Despite competing against notable and established foreigners Aldair, Thomas Häßler, and Claudio Caniggia for three foreign matchday spots, Mihajlović managed to achieve a first team spot in the left midfield as well as to turn in a decent season with a single goal in 29 league appearances.

" Despite stating Dirge of Cerberus is not " the best use of the Final Fantasy VII universe ," IGN called it " a decent game with a strong story and occasionally-engaging rifle blasting.

Despite his. 234 average, he showed some decent power, working in 24 doubles, five triples and five home runs among his 106 hits.

Despite a 35-21 loss, McCown had a somewhat decent game, throwing for a touchdown and 2 interceptions, with a quarterback rating of 78. 5.

Despite " consistent issues due to weak AI ," they said the AI was decent, and " not awful.

Despite finishing with decent figures of 1 – 19 in 3 overs, England were beaten soundly.

Despite the fact that Black seems a very decent young man, Tam callously manipulates his sister into breaking the engagement.

Despite another decent domestic season in 1973, Birkenshaw was omitted from the England side for both series that summer ( against New Zealand and West Indies ), the 41-year-old Illingworth again being the barrier to his selection.

Despite a decent 39 in difficult conditions at Lords he failed with the bat only scoring 45 runs in 3 matches.

Despite the fact that many of Bacardi's offerings are aimed at the lower and middle-part of the price spectrum, Bacardí rums have been entered in a number of international spirit ratings competitions.

Despite the attempt to keep the show fresh, the changes alienated many of its longtime viewers while failing to gain the hoped-for younger viewers, and the ratings continued their decline.

Despite being closely matched in ratings, Polgár won the match 6 – 2.

Despite gaining initially low audience ratings, by the third series, One Foot in the Grave was making the Top 20 ratings, with some episodes seen by more than 16 million viewers.

Despite having a two-year contract, NBC announced shortly after the season that it was getting out, as the season's later games had garnered the lowest ratings for a major American television network since the Nielsen ratings had begun tracking them, and the league folded shortly afterwards.

Despite Davis's high disapproval ratings, he managed to defeat Simon by a margin of 47. 3 % of the vote to Simon's 42. 4 %.

Despite proving to be a ratings hit, staying in the top twenty for its first four seasons, Green Acres along with another sister show, The Beverly Hillbillies, were cancelled in 1971 in the CBS network's infamous " rural purge "— an attempt to attract a younger viewer demographic, as most viewers of the series were at least 40 years old.

One review written when the series was released on DVD gave it average ratings, commenting that while the show was dubbed into English poorly, it commented positively on the use of characters saying, " Despite his heroic calling as a robot pilot, Akito is remarkably approachable — after all, what could be more down-to-earth than a cook?

Despite fair ratings, the show was canceled in its second season.

Despite reasonably fair ratings, the show was canceled after only 10 episodes.

Despite this, the flagship 6 pm state bulletins continued to fall in the ratings.

Despite series-high ratings, the changes were critically panned and many felt that at that point the series had " jumped the shark ".

Despite the high approval ratings from the Spanish mainstream, and in particular the personal popularity enjoyed by the current king and queen, the monarchy has been the focus of acute criticism from the extreme left and extreme right of the Spanish political spectrum, and by regional separatists.

Despite low ratings, the show won 2007 Daytime Emmy Awards for Best Writing and Best Show ( sharing Best Show with The Young and the Restless ).

Despite critical acclaim, the show remained dead last in the ratings, and CBS was under more pressure from affiliates to present a more viable morning competitor.

Despite airing in the so called Friday night death slot, it peaked at # 2 in the ratings ( behind All in the Family ).

Despite its promising start, however, ratings for Millennium after the pilot remained consistently low, and it was cancelled after three seasons.

Despite its modest 8. 4: 1 compression, it was as strong as many earlier engines with higher gross power ratings ; yet like all other 1972-model engines, it could perform on low-octane regular leaded, low-lead or unleaded gasolines.

Despite the negative critical ratings, the film was a box office success, grossing over $ 160 million worldwide based on a $ 60 million budget.

Despite the high pedigree, and the expectations for his first series since Magnum, P. I., low ratings caused the show to be canceled after ten episodes.