Conversation so far:
Who starred in That Was the Week That Was?
Cast members included cartoonist Timothy Birdsall, political commentator Bernard Levin, and actors Lance Percival.
How long did That Was the Week That Was run in the US?
10 January 1964 to May 1965.
Did That Was the Week That Was recieve any awards?
The show was praised as well: in 1966 it received the Gouden Televizier-ring, a prestigious audience award—though it turned out afterward that the election was rigged.

Question: Why did they stop showing it?
Self-contained rewrite: Why did the BBC stop showing That Was the Week That Was?