Worst Cancellations This TV Season

[Vasquez Rocks]

UK TV doesn't really work in the same way as in the U.S. - I don't really get why a company would go to the effort and expense of making a show and then bury it in a ratings deadspot, using lack of popularity to bury it.

Why would they do that - what is the advantage or the business reasoning behind it ?

No network wants a show to fail, that's just something fans like to claim when one of their favourite shows fails to find an audience and it's easy to point out "mistakes" in hindsight but those mistakes didn't happen out of malice if they even were mistakes in the first place. Many shows thrive in the friday night death slot, many shows become successful without a big advertising campaign and many shows crash and burn despite getting one. Airing episodes out of production order is not a big deal unless the series is heavily serialized.
If enlisted had found an audience people would praise Fox for many of the same decisions, how it was smart to put it on friday etc.

Please name these many shows on FOX that have thrived being on Friday nights. I can't think of any except The X-Files and that was 20 years ago. Nothing recent I can think of.

Believe it or not Enlisted did have character development. Unfortunately it was all out of whack from the episodes being out of order. Normally I'd agree that it shouldn't be a big deal for a sitcom.

One of the later episodes was aired early because FOX thought Pam Oliver being in the episode would garner more viewers being that it was the week of the Super Bowl. Pam Oliver?!

Also, I like to point out Seinfeld, Cheers and All in the Family all did horribly in the ratings during their first seasons, but the networks of the past let them find an audience and look what they became.

 

[Danny99]

I wish Intelligence got a chance to figure itself out. Sure, it was generic crime drama, but it had so much potential.

Also, not happy about Surviving Jack being cancelled. I had real reservations about Christopher Meloni in a comedy, but he has far exceeded my expectations. I think it would have benefited from a different time slot (Thursdays at 7:30pm here in Canada) but the story and the acting was there.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Here's the thing about all this cold war shitty tv espionage drama.

The bad guys, consistently the Russians, hardly ever the Chinese, don't hatch one plot a week, its one plot a week that is ruined by the American hero... But while that one plot is ruined, the other still active 51 plots are simmering away in the background waiting to pounce, destroy America and leave Russia to dance on their fuck### yankee doodle graves.

52 plots. (1 per week, y'know?) thrown at America like a pot of Spaghetti, too see what sticks against the wall, and somehow America saves itself with blundering and sheer luck? Months of meticulous planning of thousands of interlocking movements trending towards a master stroke that will...

The Bad guys deserve to win because they have a better work ethic.

Russia had 52 plots a year to destroy America (per spyshow), so what type of pussies were America that they didn't even have one plot a year to destroy Russia in return?

Was there a Russian TV show in the 80s that had Russian secret Agents defending their borders from the west?

(I'm really liking the Americans, Keri Russel's character is petrified by the American way of life. An ignorant people too drowned in wealth and fairytale religion to notice that their leader is a batshit war mongeror.)

I miss Chaos.

Aired horrifically out of order, but the CIA running around the world doing everything I just complained about.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

Aired out of order, constantly pre-empted and moved until it landed in the death slot. Someone at Fox had a hardon for making Firefly fail, simple as that.

Same thing happened to Almost Human.

Someone at Fox in the acquisitions department likes sci-fi, throws some money at a new series, the series tries to tell an interesting story with cool, likable characters, someone else at Fox in the scheduling department hates sci-fi, goes out of their way to sabotage the new series, series under-performs, gets cancelled. Rinse, repeat.

I really wish sci-fi series could or would consistently go to Showtime, HBO, or AMC and stop wasting everyone's time on the big 4 networks.

Picture Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles on AMC, or Almost Human on HBO.

As an aside...how the hell is Hannibal on NBC? I love it, but damn, they don't swear or show tits, but every episode is a masterclass in generating body horror nightmare fuel. I just rewatched Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal makes it look like the Country Time Jamboree.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The only cancellation that really affects me at all is Community. And even then, I'd been prepared for this ever since Season 3. I'm still a little stunned that it lasted this long. By all rights, a show this clever almost never makes it past Season 1, if that.

I liked Suburgatory a lot but I hardly ever watched it.

I kept meaning to try Being Human. I got the 1st 2 seasons on a blind buy at a deep discount but I haven't watched them yet.

Largely, I've been lucky. But I guess I've been pretty stand-offish about getting into new shows lately, so that narrows the odds a bit.

Most of my favorite shows are coming back next season, although practically all of them have done something to piss me off! (Downton Abbey demonstrated that it has absolutely no business continuing without Matthew. Lost Girl had that stupid Rainer storyline. Doctor Who, despite its heavily celebrated 50th anniversary, has only produced a grand total of 17 episodes in the last 2 1/2 years! SNL, while admittedly always a bit of a crap-shoot, has been wildly inconsistent ever since Seth Meyers left.)

 

[urbandefault]

I liked The Neighbors but I think once they started to go past the "fish out of water" thing it started that downhill slide. It's a good joke, but it can't sustain.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I loved how they kept breaking the fourth wall.

Oh! And the musical!

"STOP! WRONG SORT OF INDIAN! WRONG SORT OF INDIAN!"

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I loved how they kept breaking the fourth wall.

Oh! And the musical!

"STOP! WRONG SORT OF INDIAN! WRONG SORT OF INDIAN!"

That was my favorite episode, loved it.

 

[bryce]

I pissed most about the loss of The Neighbors...I love how they *demolished* the 4th wall.

Community I will miss, but it went out on a good note. Almost Human I think was shakey but had potential. Tried to get into Intelligence, but failed.

Stopped watching Raising Hope a while ago, but I did like it...just lost touch.

At least glad The Blacklist survived.

 

[Masiral]

I loved how they kept breaking the fourth wall.

Oh! And the musical!

"STOP! WRONG SORT OF INDIAN! WRONG SORT OF INDIAN!"

That was my favorite episode, loved it.

We may have lost The Neighbors, but in its place we shall have...Galavant!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPNVhGbw_Sg[/yt]

 

[Shaka Zulu]

I loved Believe and am pissed off that it's gone.

 

[Mistral]

You should have put up a poll.

 

[Corran Horn]

I enjoyed both Community and Enlisted immensely. It's a shame both were canceled but I can see why.

 

[Morpheus 02]

I loved Believe and am pissed off that it's gone.

Don't know if i mentioned it in this thread...but they people who scheduled the show were idiots.

First, they went up with first run walking dead episodes.

When that was done, i suspect much of that audience went to Resurrection (more logical).

They should have found another night for the show.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I loved Believe and am pissed off that it's gone.

Don't know if i mentioned it in this thread...but they people who scheduled the show were idiots.

First, they went up with first run walking dead episodes.

When that was done, i suspect much of that audience went to Resurrection (more logical).

They should have found another night for the show.

I thought the guy who played the lead man, Think he was called William was a terrible actor.

 

[Aldo]

I enjoyed Believe well enough, but since news of the cancellation came out, I stopped watching the show. I'll catch up with the last three episodes eventually, but right now I have too much other stuff backlogged I need to catch up on to waste my time with a story that probably won't even get a proper conclusion.

 

[Vasquez Rocks]

For fans of Enlisted (since there seems to be a few here) the final four episodes will start airing June 1st on Sundays at 7/6C.

http://www.heraldnews.com/article/ZZ/20140520/NEWS/305209982/11755/ENTERTAINMENT

 

[Mr Light]

That's great! I kept it on my DVR listing just in case they burned them off!

 

[Guy Gardener]

If you're going to watch most of it in one sitting, look up the correct viewing order because there's multiple episodes about how Piz is having a hard time before the episode where he meets her, and the episode he grows the balls to ask her out. There's other stuff that could be in play that we don't know is out of order important because we haven't been watching it in order.

BAH!

 

[Q2UnME]

Any word on if any of the cancelled shows are being "shopped" to other networks/cable or have been picked up by cable/internet sources? I'd personally like to see more Almost Human and perhaps a revamped Intellegence.

Q2