What cancelled TV shows do you wish they didn't axe?
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May 10th, 2013
Any TV shows you loved but they got cancelled quickly?
I really liked the newer version V…. I was so not happy when it got cancelled. Also, I liked Flash Forward – it took awhile to get going though. Jericho was another one I really enjoyed. Invasion and Rome were pretty good too.
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Stargate Universe. I know it sucked at the beginning, but through the 2nd season, it started to find its way (If you remember, the first 2 seasons of TNG sucked, too, and that series finished its 7 season run). I really would have liked to see the underlying story play out.
I liked “Better off Ted”. Ted was the lead project manager for a mythical company, “Veridian Dynamics”.
Time Tunnel (around 1966)
Northern Exposure
I liked “Sports Center” but it didn’t last more than a season and a half.
The Riches with Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver.
Carnivale was great too.
Enlightened
Northern Exposure was brilliant (although it lasted a long time)
Kingdom Hospital
The Event
Jericho
Fringe (although it did kind of run its course, but I loved it).
I liked Flash Forward also.
Jericho
Moonlight
Beaty and the Beast (the good one with Ron Pearlman)
Point Pleasant
I won’t let myself watch anything from NBC anymore. The last one I started watching that thy caceled without resolving anything was Kings.
Sports Night was written by Aaron Sorken before he did West Wing. It was terrific.
Firefly
Community (well, it was effectively axed when the showrunner was fired)
And another vote for Sports Night. Good show.
“If you remember, the first 2 seasons of TNG sucked too…” ha, the entire franchise was complete crap.
I really liked Alcatraz, the only half decent thing Abrams has come up with, not sure if a second series was planned or not, but that’d be my pick.
The Sci Fi channel utterly ruined Sea Quest before deciding to axe it.
Arrested Development was so plagued with bad ratings that after the incomparable first season, it became a sick parody of itself in attempting to poke fun at its bad ratings situation… which only accelerated its way to being axed.
I don’t know if Spaced was intended to be only two seasons or if it was killed, but I am near tears every time I watch the final episode.
Rome, Dead Like Me, Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, Invader Zim, The oblongs, Arrested Development (though that’s coming back, can’t wait…) , Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Earthworm Jim, The Critic, Party Down
The one I’m most upset about is Star Wars Clone Wars. Yea it was kiddy at times but it also dealt with some really mature stuff. It seems however that Disney is out to commit order 66 on all things Star Wars
@Espiritus_Corvus have you ever seen Pushing Daisies or Wonderfalls? They’re both by the guy who created Dead Like Me. Both are great and both unfortunately got the axe way to soon.
Coronation Street and Eastenders on one of the PBS stations I pick up on an old roof antenna. Too costly to rent, it turned out. I loved them because my problems seemed pale by comparision.
The Office. I mean, it has been on for ages now, and they lost their main actor, so I guess it’s just natural, but…I love it!
Gilmore Girls, it was my happy viewing.
I was enjoying Alcatraz, but they cut it off after the first season :(
@Leanne1986 Have you watched Bunheads? It’s pretty much Gilmore Girls, with ballet.
Firefly, Firefly, a thousand times, FIREFLY!
Just remembered another great show that got axed early, Spectacular Spiderman and The Avengers Earth’s Mightiest Heroes….thanks again Disney…
I really wish the U.S. version of Life on Mars would’ve been picked up for a second season. Sure, it had it’s flaws, and the finale was pretty atrocious. But the casting and writing for that show were top-notch compared to the bunk ABC was churning out around that time.
@Espiritus_Corvus and @SpatzieLover I loved both series, and they were both created by Bryan Fuller, who also created the wonderful and too short-lived series Wonderfalls. I just realized, after both of you prompted me to look him up again, that he has developed Hannibal for NBC. I guess I’ll finally have to give that a look.
Reaper
The Edge
Gilligan’s Island
ALF
A few more that I liked:
Life
666 Park Avenue
My So Called Life
Eli Stone
The Guardian
Twin Peaks
Carnivale
Pushing Daisies
Greg the Bunny
Firefly
On the other hand, getting the axe so soon they’re a bit James Dean. They never got a chance to disappoint us. I’m sorry I’ll never get to see the epic confrontation promised on Carnivale, but I’m glad I didn’t have to watch them wither on the vine coughtruebloodcough.
@fundevogel Oh my god, Greg the Bunny!!! I haven’t thought about that show in years.
@glacial I think we all know it was ahead of its time. That and Fox wouldn’t know a good thing if it kicked them in the teeth.
recently
Pan Am
few years ago
Studio 60
while back
Jack and Jill
All were canceled after only one season.
I loved those shows.
How many of these shows were on fox? Seems like quite a bit of them to me.
@glacial I just came across seeing Hannibal was done by Bryan Fuller as well. The show looked pretty meh but I’ve loved everything else he’s done so I’ll have to check it out.
Comedy Central had a show called Halfway House, it was hilarious, it was about people recently released from prison. I was sad it didn’t continue for another season.
@uberbatman Indeed! And now I see that you made my point much earlier than I did! That’s what I get for not reading everyone else’s posts first. :P
@Brian1946 I feel like I haven’t seen you on here in forever…
@Brian1946 For a second, I thought your link was going to take me to Dan Aykroyd’s series… but of course, that was called Soul Man
And that lasted two seasons. Yikes.
Originally slated for five seasons but canceled abruptly because Sci Fi channel decided to be penny pinchers, I still miss Farscape.
It could have gone for many more seasons. It was that good. Totally original and with a wicked sense of humor, I really really miss it.
Long live Rygel and his helium flatulence !
And I also loved Firefly. Fox channel is run by idiots.
For those who said Firefly, I finally watched them on Netflix. Only because I’d heard it mentioned so often online. I found it hard to get into at first. It was weirdly western-ish in um space. However, I was into it by the end and wished it had continued. My partner hated it though, lol.
Definitely Whose Line Is It Anyway?! But wait- it’s coming back this summer with most of the original cast! I definitely have high hopes for its return!
And also Fringe. It wasn’t technically canceled because of its cult following…more heavily pressured by the network to end. The end was great, and it seemed to be the ending that the writers had always planned, but it definitely felt rushed and I wish they had developed the middle section of the show more.
@Fly I liked Fringe a lot, and I totally agree that it needed time to reach the changes brought about in the last season.
@Plucky “It was weirdly western-ish in um space”
Yes, that was the premise. :)
@glacial Lol, well I didn’t know before I started watching. It was hard for me to get into that theme. As well as many of the characters. But most of them grew on me.
Carnivale- cant believe they didn’t keep going. Was as screwed up an ending as the “Sopranos”
Lucky Louie- could have been a classic.
“Up” all Night- When the busty female host would make campy remarks during a movie and when plugging the show she would bounce her boobs up when she said “UP” All Night.
“Two and a Half Men” the real one with Sheen. Bruce Willis’s boy ain’t cuttin it.
“Married with Children”
“Futurama”
“That 70’s Show”
“My Name is Earl”
“Bored to Death”
“Hung”
“Dirty Jobs”
“30 Rock”
Thats all I can think of at the moment but there are others I’m sure
Commander in Chief (with Gina Davis as President of the United States)
Boston Public
Joan of Arcadia
My So Called Life
Keith Olberman
The Class (an even funnier “friends” show than Friends, with Jason Ritter and Jesse Tyler Ferguson)
@Kardamom Haha! I was weirdly addicted to Joan of Arcadia while it was on. I’m sad that they cancelled it just when the Devil joined the show. Hey, wait a minute…
@glacial I loved it how God always gave that little wave shen she/he was walking away from Joan.
I really wanted to know how Joan’s gay friend ended up after coming out, and if Joan and her boyfriend would have been OK, after he cheated on her. I wept like a baby during that last episode. The cast was a real class act.
@Kardamom Am I wrong, or did Grace’s sexuality remain undefined? One of the things I really liked about the show is that they could show a tomboyish female character and not just let the audience assume she was a lesbian. I think they could have taken her character in either direction, and it would have been totally believable. There were a lot of small complexities like that which I think made it a better-than-average show.
Lucky Louie was grittier but I like the new too.
Been watching old episodes of “Without a Trace.” A lot of people that now have their own shows had major parts in single episodes of that show. Tonight I watched an episode that featured the woman who is the star of “Scandal.”
@Kardamom Oh we loved Boston Public too. I was going to list it but couldn’t remember the full name…I knew it was Boston something.
Flashpoint
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Without a Trace
Eureka
The Closer
Hawthorne
In Plain Sight
Fairly Legal
MI5 (UK)
Pushing Daisies
Early Edition
@Dr_Lawrence you can’t seriously be upset about Eureka’s cancellation. It WAS a great show, I agree, but the last season was just….
@glacial I haven’t heard of Bunheads but thank you for the recommendation. It sounds right up my street (I also loved Make it or Break it – about the world of competitive gymnastics) so i’ll look out for it.
@glacial I’ve just Youtubed a few clips, this could be a new addiction for me!
Dr. Lawrence; I too was a big fan of MI 5, although some of more devious plots lines confused me. The roster of “Who’s Who in British Acting” was always fun.. whose face was going to show up on this episode?
@glacial As far as I recall, Grace was straight, because she did end up dating and kissing Joan’s cute brother. They were a couple. But their relationship had its ups and downs because Grace was so un-conventional, but I don’t think she was gay or bi, just quite different than your average female.
I too was a big fan of Keith Olberman. But, unfortunately, he is his own worst enemy.
Plus all the diatribes against O’Reilly were really getting tiresome. It was so beneath him and made him look like an asshat. Granted OR is pretty obnoxious and full of himself, but Keith is so much smarter. But by continuing to go on and on and on basically just demeaned him (and all the more so since OR was not responding in kind)
It’s a shame he’s off the air now but he really has no one to blame but himself.
@glacial – Thanks for that. On the season three dvds there’s a season four preview including scenes with Veronica working for the FBI. I guess this will get covered in the movie.
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