Shows that defiantly should not have been cancelled

User45701 · 29-12-2006 02:51AM #1

I was just thinking of the shows that should not have been canceled

off hand i can think of

Firefly
Space Above and Beyond
Kidnapped
Enterprise (im only saying that because of what i read about season 5

)
Stargate SG1
John Doe
Earth Worm Jim

Also 2 shows that where cancelled then brought back which is good

Family Guy
Robot chicken

anyone have any others?

29-12-2006 03:03AM

Eerie Indiana,
Firefly,

More will come

29-12-2006 03:55AM

Good Vs. Evil
Brimstone
Millennium
Invasion
American Gothic
Smith

There are loads more, but it's late and I need rest.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 29-12-2006 03:55AM

Quantum Leap ... more 'brought to a graceful end' than cancelled I think, but I'd love if they started making them again.

Oh, and Futurama... not sure what the story is with it, but t'was a quality show.

User45701 · 29-12-2006 04:36AM

ye futurama but it got de-cancelled now season 6 will be relased in 08

Karl Hungus · 29-12-2006 04:46AM

Deleted User wrote:

Millennium

No, it was just as well that was cancelled. For the first 2 seasons, it was probably one of the best things to ever be on TV, but season 3 was an absolute shambles. They came up with some awful bull****, re-jigged the origins of the Millennium Group.

Infact, that's one show I wish was cancelled earlier. If they had left season 2 at the end, it would have the perfect apocalyptic ending as oppossed to the ****e that season 3 left us with.

Nevyn · 29-12-2006 11:30AM

Carnivale
Gobal frequency
ultravoilet

Asok · 29-12-2006 11:32AM

Arrested Development

caff · 29-12-2006 11:34AM

god the devil and bob
totall recall

Yakuza · 29-12-2006 11:35AM

I thought "Threshold" was starting to go places, right up to the moment they binned it. I wouldn't have minded another series of Angel, either.

BuffyBot · 29-12-2006 01:04PM

Popular

Pigman II · 29-12-2006 01:05PM

Freaks and Geeks
Dead Like Me

tv400 · 29-12-2006 03:00PM

Everwood

Sad Professor · 29-12-2006 03:03PM

Farscape. Best sci-fi show ever IMO.

Passport · 29-12-2006 03:40PM

Arrested Development - so good.

emeraldstar · 29-12-2006 03:43PM

oh yeah, Popular and Freaks and Geeks.....forgot about those, used to watch em. They were funny. Never watched any of the other ones though.

spurious · 29-12-2006 03:51PM

My so-called life.

Pazaz 21 · 29-12-2006 03:51PM

User45701 wrote:

I was just thinking of the shows that should not have been canceled

off hand i can think of

Firefly
Space Above and Beyond
Kidnapped
Enterprise (im only saying that because of what i read about season 5 )
Stargate SG1
John Doe
Earth Worm Jim

Also 2 shows that where cancelled then brought back which is good

Family Guy
Robot chicken

anyone have any others?

When did Stargate SG1 get cancelled?

John Doe,
Veritas:The Quest
The Prentender.

Killaqueen!!! · 29-12-2006 05:23PM

Invasion!

Mossy Monk · 29-12-2006 06:12PM

Freaks & Geeks was excellent

Kinetic^ · 29-12-2006 06:17PM

Krypton Factor.

29-12-2006 07:00PM

Karl Hungus wrote:

No, it was just as well that was cancelled. For the first 2 seasons, it was probably one of the best things to ever be on TV, but season 3 was an absolute shambles. They came up with some awful bull****, re-jigged the origins of the Millennium Group.

Infact, that's one show I wish was cancelled earlier. If they had left season 2 at the end, it would have the perfect apocalyptic ending as oppossed to the ****e that season 3 left us with.

Season 3 was very poor but I would have been interested to see how it would have developed. There was also talk of Morgan and Wong returning. Season 2 was superb, possibly the finest season of television I have ever seen.

Morgan and Wong's plans for season 3 we're very good. It was Chris Carter who decided to rearrange everything, making most of what had happened in the previous season pointless.

Kojak · 29-12-2006 07:03PM

Pazaz 21 wrote:

When did Stargate SG1 get cancelled?

About 4 months ago, AFAIK.

Futurama shouldn't have been cancelled, IMO. It was far better than the Simpsons (at its time of cancellation) but, Fox, thought otherwise :rolleyes:

Good to see it on the way back, though

Wertz · 29-12-2006 07:13PM

Sad Professor wrote:

Farscape. Best sci-fi show ever IMO.

QFE

The cancellation of no other show ever bothered me as much as Farscape...

BopNiblets · 29-12-2006 08:11PM

Arrested Development, Futurama (lucky it's coming back), The Lone Gunmen and The Job.

abelard · 29-12-2006 08:17PM

Lost, can't believe they've decided to bin it at this stage *
Futurama (yay it's return)
Carnivale
Popular (kinda sad but I really liked it)

*(only joking)

User45701 · 29-12-2006 08:22PM

Pazaz 21 wrote:

When did Stargate SG1 get cancelled?

John Doe,
Veritas:The Quest
The Prentender.

Whoever said lone gunmen good choice it was an alright s but ended terribly

SG1 was canceled several months ago bu they have announed a series of movies. Two will be relased in 07 with one more every year after that does not say how many years tho

Hobbes · 29-12-2006 09:21PM

Yakuza wrote:

I thought "Threshold" was starting to go places, right up to the moment they binned it. I wouldn't have minded another series of Angel, either.

Thought threshold is up on its second/third series?

mine are..

firefly
brimstone
the lost room
farscape
Crusade
Arrested Development

probably more I can think of.

Yakuza · 29-12-2006 09:41PM

Afraid not...Sky One showed all the episodes that were made (including some that weren't aired in the US), but that only ran to about 13-14 episodes. Yer wan who played Molly (Carla Gugino) was fairly easy on the eye, and Brent Spiner in his 60's activist / conspiricy theorist was a hoot.

Rantorama · 29-12-2006 11:15PM

Best Ever Spitting Image Moments has just started on UTV, made me realise just how great this show was.

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 30-12-2006 12:01AM

I can't believe that nobody (including myself) has mentioned Twin Peaks!
*slap muh fro*
My God, if ever there was a show they never should have cancelled.

ixoy · 30-12-2006 12:19AM

My list of the fallen:

American Gothic - Buck with a B, but "Oh F*ck" said me when it got cancelled. Great lead with Gary Cole.

Arrested Development - Still too bitter to talk about this.

Brimstone - Good potential there. Not quite sure if it fully realized itself during the course of the show but liked the concept and wanted to see more.

Carnivale - Changes in pace in S2 couldn't save this epic good versus evil showdown. Some beautiful moments. Sigh.

Crusade - Gary Cole again! So the show itself wasn't amazing but the potential it had with the storylines that JMS revealed for it make me so sad.

Dark Skies - Great idea for a show and it was surprisingly well executed, with some interesting twists. A better planned version of alien mythology than the X-Files ever achieved. And it got axed naturally..

Farscape - Obvious innit? Least it got a wrapup mini series though.

Firefly - Obvious innit? Least it got a wrapup movie though.

Millennium - Disagree with Karl on this. S3 wasn't as strong maybe as the previous seasons but I still really liked it. Amazing stuff like "Saturn Dreaming of Mercury" still there. One I'm still cut up about ending years on.

Nowhere Man - I really wanted to know who Tom Veil was (okay, he was

Gemini[/i] but that's only a small bit of the story). The ultimate conspiracy show.

Odyssey 5 - Christopher Gorham featuring in a show here for the second time! Something about it created the most memorable bunch of characters in sci-fi in recent years. Sometimes the mystery seemed a little bit off but Peter Weller et co always carried the show on. Died way too early.

Popular - Fell down a little in the second season but a great teen show that gave the two fingers to the others. Nice to see others noticed it too. It's winging its way to me on DVD.

Space: Above & Beyond - Semper Fi, no alas. A neat concept and the first sci-fi war series that I'm aware of. Corny as hell at times but great spirit and a cracking slaughterhouse of a finale that never got resolved.

Stargate: SG-1 - Admittedly, it's getting further movies but I think the shakeup in S9 would've enabled it to go many years. Still 10 seasons is better than nearly everyone else...

Total Recall: 2070 - Aka 'Bladerunner: 2070'. OK so it wasn't always good but something about it made me feel it had the potential to explore interesting areas about AI. Another doomed project for Michael Easton.

Twin Peaks - "Where's Annie. Where's Annie" ARGH! Frustating as f*ck ending.So much Lynchian potential there. Garmonbozia!

VR.5 - Anyone else remember this? Mixing virtual reality technology and the human mind, it was very creative. The hints we got of VR6 and VR7 in the show make it all the more damned annoying that it ended early. Michael Easton starred in this one, also making another appearance on my list.

Hobbes wrote:

The Lost Room

Huh? It was conceived as a mini-series. The mini-series was shown with room for
perhaps a full series, not yet decided. No cancellation.

slayerking · 30-12-2006 12:29AM

MACGYVER......
Man, I miss that show. So good. Have season one and two on DVD.
Classic stuff...
Anyone else watch it years ago?...

wyndham · 30-12-2006 02:12AM

Joey

Passport · 30-12-2006 02:13AM

wyndham wrote:

Joey

Ha ha the jokers are out at this hour, very dry.

User45701 · 30-12-2006 02:20AM

I Left Out Dark Angel great show terrible clif hanger ending
also if anyone remembers its short run on sky 1 i thought that the strangers was funny at times

Killaqueen!!! · 30-12-2006 03:09PM

Dunno if this counts but remember Love & Marraige? I wish that was still on..:(

Lump · 30-12-2006 03:30PM

Jaysus, what a bunch of amateurs.

Thief
Arrested Development
Over There
The Evidence

What should be cancelled:

The Simpsons
Winning Streak
Lost
Big Brother
I'm a celebrity
Anything with Celerity in the title

Thank you,

John

Charlie · 30-12-2006 04:56PM

Anybody ever catch Andy Richter Controls the Universe, it was on TV3 and Paramount at like 2am for a while. It was an absolute gem of a show and I cannot understand how it was cancelled, funnier than anything that is presently out there.

seabee · 30-12-2006 05:33PM

charlie mchugh wrote:

Anybody ever catch Andy Richter Controls the Universe, it was on TV3 and Paramount at like 2am for a while.

I usta watch it on paramount, didn't know it was cancelled.
i'd like to add "Undeclared" to the list - a college based comedy which was shown on rte2 and trouble (i think)

keithkk16 · 30-12-2006 06:16PM

Arrested Development 1 of the best comedys ive vere seen on tv. I miss It so much:(

sarahn11 · 30-12-2006 07:32PM

lol great comment about lost being cancelled!!! what a way to end it tho' eh?? i think however there would bemass riots, but a very original ending!!!

shows that shouldnt have been cancelled:
My so called life....Feckin brilliant! i used to love this!!

Jack and bobby, another great show i used to never miss...ended on a great cliffhanger too!!>:(

Young americans, thought it could have been better than dawsons creek.....and Katie Moening!!!

was oz cancelled? i didnt think it was, but if so it is on the list!

Wertz · 30-12-2006 07:57PM

Oz came to a conclusion, the story wound up and IMO (as a fan) I think it had run it's course, like a lot of great shows. I just hate to see something cut short when it seems to have a lot more to give...

1huge1 · 30-12-2006 08:05PM

User45701 wrote:

I was just thinking of the shows that should not have been canceled

off hand i can think of

Firefly
Space Above and Beyond
Kidnapped
Enterprise (im only saying that because of what i read about season 5 )
Stargate SG1
John Doe
Earth Worm Jim

Also 2 shows that where cancelled then brought back which is good

Family Guy
Robot chicken

anyone have any others?

in the end stargate sg1 got so so poor

and i was going to say that 70's show but now that i think about it that was terrible in the end aswell

Summerland that shouldnt of got canceled it looked like it was going places
even if it was corny...

Mossy Monk · 30-12-2006 08:10PM

this thread prompted me to acquire Freaks & Geeks, and even now it is still a great show. pity the Americans never got the appeal

LundiMardi · 31-12-2006 04:36PM

V

Pigman II · 31-12-2006 05:21PM

LundiMardi wrote:

V

Have to disagree. I'm a huge fan of V but I have to say it should never even have been picked up as a series in the first place let alone never cancelled. The 1984 19-ep series was for the most part junk and 'The Final Battle' prior to this is notably weaker than the original mini-series.

Hopefully Kenneth Johnson will be able to get his new series of 'V' produced sometime before I die of old age and we'll finally be able to see some more of what the show was originally meant to be about.

31-12-2006 06:27PM

Pigman II wrote:

Have to disagree. I'm a huge fan of V but I have to say it should never even have been picked up as a series in the first place let alone never cancelled. The 1984 19-ep series was for the most part junk and 'The Final Battle' prior to this is notably weaker than the original mini-series.

Hopefully Kenneth Johnson will be able to get his new series of 'V' produced sometime before I die of old age and we'll finally be able to see some more of what the show was originally meant to be about.

V: The Second Generation is currently in production. It's to be a four hour mini series which Johnson has said will lead into a possible series, much like the new Battlestar Galatica.

dubmick · 31-12-2006 08:39PM

The West Wing

chalkitdown1 · 01-01-2007 02:06AM

3 pages and 48 replies in, and not one single mention of Deadwood? You should all be ashamed of yourselves.:mad: Ya, I know there's supposedly two TV movies on the way, but I'll believe it when I see it.

As for my choices...

Deadwood(My absolute favourite show of all time. I was gutted when HBO pulled the plug)
Firefly
Arrested Development
Carnivále
Homicide: Life on the Street
Undeclared
Freaks and Geeks
Sports Night
Angel
Brimstone
The Tick
My So Called Life

OFDM · 01-01-2007 02:19AM

Deleted User wrote:

Good Vs. Evil
Brimstone
Millennium
Invasion
American Gothic
Smith

All sucked.

They shouldn't have cancelled Space Above and Beyond or Firefly though...

The live action version of The Tick was good too...

Shows that defiantly should not have been cancelled

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