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Cancelled TV Shows (and shows that wouldn't go away)
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Name some of your favorite shows that were canceled in there prime.
For me its tech live and the game trailer show from Tech TV. Actually just about anything from Tech TV, which was bought out by G4 for what reason turned out to be just to take over X-Play.
Also, what TV shows went on painfully for too long.
For me its tech live and the game trailer show from Tech TV. Actually just about anything from Tech TV, which was bought out by G4 for what reason turned out to be just to take over X-Play.
Also, what TV shows went on painfully for too long.
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Also B5: Crusades, which was cancelled for failing to live up to the high standards of TNT's audience.
Can we also expand this thread to include shows that lasted too long? I think that Heroes could fall in that category.
Also, Better off Ted.
Sure, with advertising like this:
Dexter went on too long and I got bored around season 4 or so I think.
On the animated front Young Justice and Spectacular Spider-Man were cut short.
As for shows that lasted too long, while it's still good for the most part, Supernatural lacks behind what it was in its first 5 seasons. It should have ended when it was planned to.
Crusade had some bullshit going on with the episode order, but the site really was kind of weak, especially after the awesome seasons 2-4 of B5. The final nail for the universe was that fuckawful Legend of the Rangers spinoff.
I loves me some B5, but man.... Bad times at the end.
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The Office went on two seasons too long too.
I guess the key thing is this in a comedy: if the lead actor doesn't want to do the show anymore, and it's been on for a while, just end on a high note. Seinfeld really felt like it could have gone on another two seasons, but they ended on the high. Same with The Cosby Show.
There's a few british shows that should have gone on longer because I don't know how they could have been burned out only doing six a year. IT Crowd, Saxondale, everything Alan Partridge (all Alan all the time, I say!)
Definitely cut down way too soon, I still rewatch this on Netflix from time to time.
Space: Above and Beyond
Probably would seem tame by today's tv high bar but at the time, I really liked where it was going and then *poof*
Firefly
At least we got the movie. I would definitely see another if they ever made it, not sure if Joss has really sewn that one up yet, unlike some of his other stuff definitely feels like those have had closure like Buffy and Dollhouse.
I think 8 Simple Rules is the grossest offender of this when they decided to bring in David Spade and keep the show going after John Ritter's death. I mean if they wanted to do a couple extra episodes sort of as a tribute to him that would have been fine, but one or two seasons, not so much.
Crusade had some issues, but no more then B5's start. It looks alot worse these days cause it's 90s television. But then, so does B5.
Sadly, Crusade was literally cancelled only 1 episode before it was gonna kick everything into gear.
I've also been watching Awake, which was a pretty cool concept as well.
Also, Legend of the Rangers could have been an entertaining series, if they had just not done that zero-g targeting gunner thing. Edit that shit out, and it's a perfectly reasonably workably serviceable pilot for a new series. You had big bads, who were bigger and badder than anything that had come before, a nifty looking ship, a crew of plucky rookies just waiting to come into their own... Really, if it wasn't for this shit:
It could have been a good show.
Eh. LotR is what happens when they asked JMS to make a generic sci-fi adventure show with B5. And then they did it badly.
One of the things to remember is that it's easy to say "Oh, this show should have been cancelled", forgetting that doing that costs not only the actors jobs, but also everyone behind the scene. So I can understand why say, Bill Lawrence, decided to keep going with Scrubs when ABC offered him the choice to do so.
I think the makers 8 Simple Rules were caught with the difficult decision of trying to figure out what would get a worse reaction- cancelling the show outright and being accused of being insensitive, or someone how trying to continue the show on.
The bits I caught of it, I think they handled it well, or as well as they could have.
Oh, as for one that went on too long, Scrubs went on way too long. Can also add Grey's Anatomy too.
Stargate Universe was also killed off right when it got good.
Go On, 1600 Penn, and Outsourced all deserved more time.
Jericho could've used a longer second season or a third, though the comics are pretty good and bigger than the show ever could have been.
As was Legit, which got cancelled more because FX diluted its brand.
Outsourced was a another good show gone too soon that people just couldn't get over the concept (it wasn't racist like, at all)
And Young Justice....
Man this thread is going to get me depressed.
Scrubs could have lost most of season 6 and folded it into 5, totally ditched 7 and ended with 8.
Season 8's finale is one of the best finales that I've ever seen, and it's totally where the show should have left off.
I also agree with the sentiment about Supernatural. I don't even watch the new stuff, but every once in a while I rewatch the season 1-5 arc, or just seasons 4 and 5. Had such a great end, and then they screwed it up by making more.
Another show that went on too long? Chuck. It was really great for like 3 seasons. Had a cool premise, did fun stuff with it and the cast was charming as all hell.
A show that didn't last as long as it should have? Reaper. Was a really cool and fun little show. It was quirky and neat, and Ray Wise made an amazing Devil.
Carnivale was another show that was crazy interesting and very well acted and died too early. It doesn't even have anything approaching a satisfying ending. Too bad that is was just stupidly expensive.
Rome was another one that didn't get as much life as I would have liked. It was an amazing show. Loved it. Sad that it left. Easily the best thing that Ray Stevenson ever did.
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Way ahead of its time, and also had a good theme song.
That's fair, I do think they covered the death in a very respectable way in show, it was just weird keeping going as the show was built around him.
The thing about Stargate Universe was that it took one of the more interesting elements of the franchise and made it a non factor in that series. Going to new planets with wildly different cultures, or even going to worlds with a similar history where one minor difference created a wildly different culture was one of my favorite parts of SG1, but SGU basically put everyone on a ship in the middle of nowhere where they couldn't interact with anyone because the creators wanted it to be more character driven. The problem was there characters just weren't interesting enough to carry what ended up being a bottle episode every episode. By the time they course corrected it was too late and they may have killed our chances of ever getting another series in that universe.
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Basicly the closest thing we'll ever get to Shadowrun: The TV Show. Definitely cancelled way too soon.
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I think the issue was that they couldn't build a super gate and they had no idea where Destiny was it was so far out. Idk. I figure in season three they would've had more contact with Earth and there were some fun ideas to play with. But the SG1 universe was a bit long in the teeth.
Kings was an example of idiots in advertising - you're running a series that's a modern day take of the story of Saul and David, and you do no targeted advertising to the sizable Evangelical community in the US.
Idiots.
I think they were worried about pissing them off. But yeah, huge missed opportunity.
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God damn do I love that show. Go through the season at least once a year. At least we got an okay wrap up. Another one with Donald Logue that I loved was Life. It got two seasons and deserved more.
Anyone watched Bunheads? Aired on ABC Family and was by the creator of Gilmore Girls. Same kind of witty dialogue, but thrown in a lot of dancing. A lot better than that description.
The commercials made it seem awful, but I just caught the two episodes that been airing on Sundays and it's really, really good.
Oh! Clerks: The Animated Series. Best thing Kevin Smith has ever done.
For a cartoon, I'd have to say EXO Squad. It was such a well-crafted show, and apparently it was going to be linked to Robotech.
In terms of shows that have been around too long, I'm surprised no one mentioned a Two & a Half Men.
I would have liked another season of Deadwood, and one or two more of Carnivale.
The new Arrested Development was so bad I wish they hadn't bothered with it.
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And the thing about AD is if they knew they couldn't get everyone's schedules to line up so that they could all be together at the same time, they should have either held off or not done it at all.
Yeah, someone at my church recently mentioned kings. I had no idea it was about Saul and David. I'm guessing a majority of people didn't. So, yeah, odd choice not to play that up.
Anyway, Home Movies will remain one of my favorite canceled shows. Just so funny and was really hitting it's stride when cancelled. Plus Coach McGuirk remains the best H. Jon Benjamin character ever.
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1. Spectacular spiderman. Easily the best animated version of the character, the action was good and major story arcs were done in ways that felt natural and smart.
2. Avengers, earths mightiest heroes. I have absolutely no idea why this show was cancelled. It was fun, had lots of action, did interesting season long arcs, presented characters in interesting light... and it got replaced by something that would make the most ADD riddled spaz say "Please, for the love of Christ slow the fuck down."
3. Fire fly. Such a great show.
Shows that went too long:
Supernatural. The show lacks any sort of clear direction or Idea and keeps rehashing the same themes (love between siblings, stupid squabbles, Castiel being an idiot ect) and having a sort of reverse power creep with adversarial forces; early on encountering a demon or an angel was fucking huge, but now the Winchesters can browbeat them into submission.
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Dollhouse was finding it's footing around end of S1, beginning of S2 but the end of S2 was not just a rush job, but also contained some truly stupidly stupid ideas like the reveal of who was the boss (you know what I'm talking about) and basically all of Epitaph Pt 2.
This cop is framed for murder, and for reasons unexplained, he's trapped in a Groundhog Day ripoff time loop so he can figure out who the real killer is and catch them, except if he gets injured his injuries also carry over to the next day. It was not a Good Show by any stretch of the imagination, but I was entertained by it in the same way that Prison Break was entertaining: Neat concept and dumb stupid action fun, and I was bummed it didn't even survive one season. After 6 episodes I was the only person still watching it, and they just stopped showing it on TV and eventually just put all the remaining episodes of the season on the ABC website.