A damn good tv show that got cancelled!

[TONGO]

A good place to bitch about a good show getting cancelled. Heres my inspiration for this thread...

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I really hope someone picks it up as A&E just cancelled it after its 3rd season, and commands roughly three million seven hundred thousand viewers. A&Es stupid. Theyre wanting more reality show programming they themselves own like Duck Dynasty or whatever crap.

Anyone else watch Longmire?!

[neiba]

Lately, a lot of good TV Shows have been cancelled... Dracula and Crossbones were not bad at all, and Friends with Better Lives and Men at Work were funnier than most stuff being aired now...

[seanc]

I love the first and only season of Terriers. Wish that one would have continued.

[gbgoodies]

"Dads" starring Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi is another good show that was cancelled too soon. It didn't do well in the ratings, but it was so funny.

[TONGO]

"Dads" starring Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi is another good show that was cancelled too soon. It didn't do well in the ratings, but it was so funny.

Damn. Youd think the star power in that one wouldve carried it past 5 seasons alone. Seth Greene was extremely underrated being the straight-man in Austin Powers. If you think about it, Dr Evils son was the only normal acting human being in the 3 movies.

Ribisi can do anything. As good as anyone.

[honeykid]

Pretty sure there are similar threads, but as I can't be bothered to find them, I'll post here and a mod can deal with it. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHD1uPVkyk0
Just as it was about to go off... God knows where, it ended. :(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcmovUi8KY
I loved this and it had one of the best series finales I can remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5YAOe07Ck
God I loved this. I was crushed when I found out, as I watched it, that episode 8 was the last episode. :eek: We just weren't used to this kind of thing in the UK. Programmes were given a chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg5YEZ214aQ
This really was a wasted opportunity. This'd have to be on HBO or something now, but it was so dark for an American show. Even now this'd come across as pitch black. Loved it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCdypqCdydE
I've only seen this as broadcast, but I really enjoyed it back then. It managed to combine the reality show with a whodunnit murder/mystery game show. Great stuff and quite atmostpheric too, as I remember it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_Arrest_%28TV_series%29
I can't find a short clip of Cardiac Arrest, but I thought that was great, too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgaPHniT13U
I remember this ending with "will be back next year" and I never saw it again. Was the second season ever aired in the States?

[Nausicaä]

This wonderful show cancelled after only two series:

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[doubledenim]

This wonderful show cancelled after only two series:

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I don't know you, but I know I'm in love. :D

The first season is my favorite tv experience ever. Above Breaking Bad, True Detective, Sealab 2021, Justified...anything. The 2nd season, well...

To me it was so deep and textured, full of unique characters, excellent writing, costumes and set pieces and most of all...weird.

@ Tongo
They were talking on the radio about the demographic of Longmire. The average age was apparently so high, they couldn't attract advertisers. The belief being that people of a certain age generally don't try new things and are a hard sell.

[honeykid]

It's true that, for the most part, the demographic is all. You can get pretty low ratings, low enought to kill most shows, but if they're mainly the highly sought after 18-45 year olds, you can still survive for a couple of seasons. Especially as they'll often factor in expected boxset sales.

[MovieMeditation]

Okay, I will cheat a bit here... This show wasn't neccessarily cancelled, but it did have a 3rd season planned (script and all) but was "cancelled" because of the director's late commitment to the series because of family, and lead characters dying making the script impossible to film and the show impossible to work even with re-writes.

I'm of course talking about Lars von Trier's "Riget (The Kingdom)"! After an amazing 1st season and a decent 2nd season the series was looking at an amazing trilogy once the third was released. And there were so many questions left unanswered. Can't believe we never get to see it. :( I wish I could just read the script since it does exist.

[mrtylerdurden]

It's obvious isn't it? A damn fine show..

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[mrtylerdurden]

And I was mad about My Name is Earl being cancelled too.

[honeykid]

Twin Peaks was great, but I'm not sure if it ended at about the right time. I'm currently rewatching it, first time since broadcast, so I might feel different afterwards.

[mrtylerdurden]

Twin Peaks was great, but I'm not sure if it ended at about the right time. I'm currently rewatching it, first time since broadcast, so I might feel different afterwards.

I'm not sure I get your meaning

[honeykid]

I just mean that I remember feeling, back then, that it was something which could/would quickly feel as if it was being weird for the sake of it. Twin Peaks was a little quirky and odd but, I felt, it worked and it didn't feel as if it was done just to be weird. However, towards the end it started to feel as if it didn't really have anywhere else to go. The story had been told and now we were just hanging out, so something had to happen. Another season and it'd start to lose the essense of Twin Peaks.

However, as I'm rewatching it, it's possible that I won't feel that this time around. Although, even in season 2, I'm already starting to get that same feeling again with Jean Renault. I've never much liked the stuff with Leo in his catatonic state, either.

[mrtylerdurden]

I just mean that I remember feeling, back then, that it was something which could/would quickly feel as if it was being weird for the sake of it. Twin Peaks was a little quirky and odd but, I felt, it worked and it didn't feel as if it was done just to be weird. However, towards the end it started to feel as if it didn't really have anywhere else to go. The story had been told and now we were just hanging out, so something had to happen. Another season and it'd start to lose the essense of Twin Peaks.

However, as I'm rewatching it, it's possible that I won't feel that this time around. Although, even in season 2, I'm already starting to get that same feeling again with Jean Renault. I've never much liked the stuff with Leo in his catatonic state, either.

I wasn't a huge fan of some of the plotlines in season 2 either, but I loved the characters and the atmosphere of every episode that I was really sad when it was all over. Twin Peaks was such a mysterious place, I felt that there was still so much to discover there.

[TheUsualSuspect]

Pushing Daises

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[fanboy_eoin]

I'm gonna sound silly,but spectacular spiderman was an awesome animated show that captured all that spiderman was and is. But when Disney acquired Marvel, they canceled that show and made ultimate spiderman, a stupid childish show :(

[JayDee]

There have been quite a number of shows in the last 2 or 3 years that have been cancelled I was really disappointed by - V, Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, Almost Human, Alphas and Human Target. Oh and King & Maxwell which I was really enjoying.

There are also a number of shows which had a really good run but I wish had been allowed to go on even longer - Leverage, Chuck, Psych, Eureka, Angel, Quantum Leap etc.

Then there are some shows like FlashForward and The Event which I didn't absolutely love but I got caught up in their mysteries and desperately wanted some resolution and closure.

Here however are some of my really big regrets of shows that I feel were definitely cancelled too soon (the first is Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes by the way) -

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/AvengersEarths_zps0322b37f.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/AvengersEarths_zps0322b37f.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/BetteroffTed_zps888ba1a9.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/BetteroffTed_zps888ba1a9.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/DeadLikeMe_zps621031d3.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/DeadLikeMe_zps621031d3.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/EerieIndiana_zps08ee5922.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/EerieIndiana_zps08ee5922.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/JohnDoe2_zps9d6a2bbb.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/JohnDoe2_zps9d6a2bbb.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Journeyman_zps175ca5fe.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Journeyman_zps175ca5fe.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Middleman2_zps2e6ba6ab.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Middleman2_zps2e6ba6ab.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Roswell_zps904108eb.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Roswell_zps904108eb.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/SpectacularSpidey_zps657cd99c.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/SpectacularSpidey_zps657cd99c.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/SportsNight_zps028a8ba2.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/SportsNight_zps028a8ba2.jpg.html)


John Doe and Journeyman were particularly painful.

[Godoggo]

Dead Like Me was fantastic. I even like the movie.

I'm of a different opinion of Mac -n- Cheese. (Almost Human) The homo-eroticism between Mac-n-Cheese was cute (Cheese was forever scanning Mac's testicles. Wouldn't that give him cancer or low sperm count or something?) but other than that I thought it was a yawn fest.

I suspect a whole lot of what is coming to tv this fall is going to be canceled so I wouldn't get too attached to much of it. Gotham looks promising but other than that; blerg.

I'm still not sure what happened to Ben and Kate. I thought it was miles better than The New Girl. I'm never surprised when something gets canceled, but I was surprised that Ben and Kate did while The New Girl went on.

[honeykid]

I completely agree with JD on Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23. Not only did I like it, I thought it was getting better.

[Camo]

Agreed on Dead Like Me and Sports Night, JayDee. A show i don't think should've been cancelled that i have never heard anyone other than me and my older sister talk about was Invasion, i really enjoyed the first season and thought there was alot of potential for a second even though the Aliens were quite underwhelming. Then again i haven't watched it since it first aired (2005) .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_%28TV_series%29

[gbgoodies]

There have been quite a number of shows in the last 2 or 3 years that have been cancelled I was really disappointed by - V, Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23, Almost Human, Alphas and Human Target. Oh and King & Maxwell which I was really enjoying.

There are also a number of shows which had a really good run but I wish had been allowed to go on even longer - Leverage, Chuck, Psych, Eureka, Angel, Quantum Leap etc.

Then there are some shows like FlashForward and The Event which I didn't absolutely love but I got caught up in their mysteries and desperately wanted some resolution and closure.

Here however are some of my really big regrets of shows that I feel were definitely cancelled too soon (the first is Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes by the way) -

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/AvengersEarths_zps0322b37f.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/AvengersEarths_zps0322b37f.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/BetteroffTed_zps888ba1a9.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/BetteroffTed_zps888ba1a9.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/DeadLikeMe_zps621031d3.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/DeadLikeMe_zps621031d3.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/EerieIndiana_zps08ee5922.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/EerieIndiana_zps08ee5922.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/JohnDoe2_zps9d6a2bbb.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/JohnDoe2_zps9d6a2bbb.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Journeyman_zps175ca5fe.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Journeyman_zps175ca5fe.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Middleman2_zps2e6ba6ab.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Middleman2_zps2e6ba6ab.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/Roswell_zps904108eb.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/Roswell_zps904108eb.jpg.html)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/SpectacularSpidey_zps657cd99c.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/SpectacularSpidey_zps657cd99c.jpg.html) http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/JayDee87/SportsNight_zps028a8ba2.jpg (http://s5.photobucket.com/user/JayDee87/media/SportsNight_zps028a8ba2.jpg.html)


John Doe and Journeyman were particularly painful.



I completely agree with Almost Human, Dead Like Me, The Middle Man, Roswell, John Doe, and especially Journeyman.

Also, Justice, Shark, Nowhere Man, No Ordinary Family and Stark Raving Mad were all great shows that were cancelled way too soon.

[Gideon58]

Nice to see some love for Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23...that show had me rolling on the floor every week. Very, very funny show. Another show that I think deserves mention on this thread is Dirty Sexy Money...it was a perfect alternative for those of us who miss shows like Desperate Housewives and Knots Landing. Donald Sutherland was brilliant as Tripp Darling.

[The Sci-Fi Slob]

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[honeykid]

Space: Above And Beyond was something I should've added on my list. That was a really good programme. I think it was just a little ahead of its time. I know they cancelled it because it just cost too much for the rating it got, but these days they'd have given it another season at least. If only for the boxset sales.

[JayDee]

I completely agree with JD on Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23. Not only did I like it, I thought it was getting better.

With you on that. It was fairly offbeat and quirky as sitcoms go and I think either it needed sometime to really find its groove or maybe I needed some time to adjust to it, but while I really enjoyed the first season I began to love it in the 2nd. I just discovered actually that the whole series is available on DVD from the US, will need to get it someday.

I completely agree with Almost Human, Dead Like Me, The Middle Man, Roswell, John Doe, and especially Journeyman.


Yeah Journeyman I think could have been really special. :( Recently finished watching back through it on DVD and lived up to my memory of it.

A show i don't think should've been cancelled that i have never heard anyone other than me and my older sister talk about was Invasion,

I may have seen an episode or two of that, I'm not sure. It was either this or Surface which I think was on at the same time, and from my memory they appeared to be very similar.

It also reminds me of another sci-fi show from around that time that I rather enjoyed - Threshold. Such a shame that one didn't kick on because it had a great cast with the likes of Carla Gugino, Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner.

One more show that just came into my mind was Greg the Bunny. I've not seen it since it was on what 10-12 years ago so I might be remembering wrongly but I think that was good fun as well.

[gbgoodies]

The best show ever that was unfairly cancelled too soon was "Stark Raving Mad". It was a comedy starring Tony Shaloub (best known for "Monk" and "Wings") and Neil Patrick Harris (best known for "Doogie Howser" and "How I Met Your Mother"), and it aired on NBC during the 1999-2000 TV season.

Tony Shalhoub stars as eccentric horror novelist Ian Stark, who is obsessed with practical jokes, and whose first book "Below Ground" was a best seller. Neil Patrick Harris is Stark's reluctant editor Henry McNeeley, who has a variety of phobias and possibly obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Some of the guest stars who appeared on the show are Chris Sarandon, Steven Weber, Jamie Kennedy, Daphne Zuniga, Kelsey Grammer, and Wes Craven.

The show won a People's Choice Award for Favorite New Television Comedy Series, and it was unfairly cancelled by NBC despite having a 10.7 average household share and being ranked 15th among all programs.


Fortunately, all 22 episodes are available on YouTube. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtUlUnZ3nMU&list=PL469B76D1ACB88AE3

[Arcanis]

Essentially any show on Fox whose title begins with an "F:" Futurama, Family Guy, Firefly. At least with the first two, the series experienced a full television revival and in the last case got a sequel-film that tied together most of the loose ends, so it could have been a lot worse.

Others that immediately come to mind are Wolverine and the X-Men (my favorite X-men TV series, which even set-up Age of Apocalypse as its season 2 plot), Doctor Who (which, like Futurama and Family Guy, was subject to a years-later TV revival), Pirates of Dark Water (a childhood favorite that never quite got its due).

[Iroquois]

Freaks and Geeks.

[neiba]

Oh, and I'm disappointed Cosmos had only 1 season, people needed a series like that!

[Gideon58]

Another show that deserves mention here is Men of a Certain Age...well-written adult drama about getting older with Emmy-worthy work from Andre Braugher.