Why is there a trend of mystery dramas made for kids losing and changing their main protaganist?
I just got into Disney’s Evermoor/Evermoor Chronicles show from a few years back thanks to Disney+. It’s a fantasy/mystery drama, (according to Disney+ it has a TV-PG rating). It started as a 4 part miniseries that aired in both the US and UK but then it got picked up for a continuing show The Evermoor Chronicles which lasted 2 seasons that was never brought to the US. The 2nd season of the show dropped main cast from the pilot miniseries and 1st season.
But it’s not the only show of this type that’s done that. It seems pretty obvious that Evermoor was Disney’s attempt at getting their own version of Nickeloden’s House of Anubis because it’s even created by people who worked on HOA and shares some writers as well
HOA also had a change in protaganist in it’s 3rd season (I haven’t watched the show before but know of it because of seeing the cast of the show on Wikipedia.0
Nickelodeon has another mystery show with Hunter Street which also loses characters each season
Is Disney Channel’s new Secrets of Sulphur Spriings going to face the same fate?
I don’t mind when characters leave, because I do think it can refresh a show if needed, but it’s just interestng to me that it happens a lot in this specific kids mystery drama genre.
Edit: I completely forgot about Disney Channel's even earlier mystery show from 1999, So Weird, that also fits this trend. So it's been going on even longer than I thought..