My first column for SyFy.co.uk is up now - the top ten most egregiously-cancelled shows...(obviously including the current losses V and Human Target) http://www.syfy.co.uk/blog/10-tv-shows-shouldnt-have-been-cancelled
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Actually read your article. Haven't ever heard of Star Cops, and I didn't know that they made a series about the Trippies. Those were some of my favorite books as a child, even though I'm certain I'm one of only a handful of people in my area who know about them.
You are absolutely correct about Enterprise. Personally, I don't agree about V, as that show wasted a great premise, IMHO.
And thank you, so very much, for sticking Farscape on that list. I feel that it was the most perfect science fiction show ever written, and I'm glad that you essentially called out the network on their own website. Maybe you could do a "should have been aborted in utero" list and feature Tremors: The Series.
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You are absolutely correct about Enterprise. Personally, I don't agree about V, as that show wasted a great premise, IMHO.
And thank you, so very much, for sticking Farscape on that list. I feel that it was the most perfect science fiction show ever written, and I'm glad that you essentially called out the network on their own website. Maybe you could do a "should have been aborted in utero" list and feature Tremors: The Series.
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I wondered about that.
That's actually part of the reason I did include it- to point out that sometimes the untimely end of a show can be *not* due to suits being cunts...
I deliberately didn't want Firefly in the top spot. SGU... I think Stargate went tits-up round about the end of SGA season 3, when they got rid of Weir and Beckett, and would have rather they'd rested it for a couple of years and brought the franchise back refreshed - but if I didn't have to mention Human Target (which I did, part of the brief, though i also enjoy it anyway.) SGU would have had its slot.
V wasn't part of the brief, in case you're wondering - in fact a lot of commenters on SyFy UK's facebook page seem not to have known that it was cancelled. Most of the commenters are Americans, oddly.
Jericho and Invasion really needed to be on that list. Unlike Farscape and V, they were improving. Shows like Farscape that are degenerating or like V that never "generated" to begin with should be cancelled.
I guessed thats why you did, and I agree with what your saying, but its just, you know, cancelled usually comes with the connotation of corporate asshats wanting a cheaper show.
I guess SJA just kinda stuck out from that list for the wrong reason.
Damn, I completely forgot about Jericho. That was an awesome show. Shame we never got to see the second American Civil War.
The UK have the Syfy channel as well? I had no idea!
Yep. The programming can be a little different from what I gather the situation is over in the United States - Battlestar Galactica, for example, was shown on Sky One, not Syfy. Generally though pretty much what one would expect.
Would have given a nod to Charlie Jade and Caprica myself, if I was gonna make a list. Mostly the former, which usually comes to mind as one of the best one-season sci-fi series I've seen. Granted, the series does work as a single season arc, but the finale also laid groundwork for the non-existent second season pretty well. Caprica is a little less polished in plot structure, and I haven't finished watching it yet, but damn it, I liked it and it had promise, and to say either thing about a sci-fi series recently seems vanishingly rare.
I think it was interesting that the blog listed a series the writer considered rubbish, if only on the principle it should have had a conclusion anyway - is the case for cancelled sci-fi TV that fragile?
Given how often it's argued about you'd think there were at least ten good-to-great series someone could roll off as axed before their time.
It was always pretty hit or miss in the quality department and I noticed in S4 the proportion of bad eps to good was increasing. I was glad to have the PK Wars wrapup, but I don't think it really needed another season. They'd had a good run and went out well. Really, all I'd like to see is Ben Browder in another good series. Farscape is like BSG and DS9, it was great while it lasted but I'm glad they didn't try to draaaag it out.
Caprica and Heroes belong on another list, shows that needed serious restructuring before they were worth saving. Caprica was unfocused from the start and never got it together. Heroes was like a sane person who just went insane one day and never got any better. Still can't figure out what happened there.
I wanted to include Tripods because of the foolishness of adapting only two parts of a trilogy.
I mean, you could get a top ten cancelled out shows out of maybe every two years, so I wanted to be sure there was a range of qualities and reasons...
Yeah, and SGU/the Stargate franchise generally belongs on that list too.
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