It wasn't cancelled, it was a great show that ended after one great season. *LALALALALA*
Brilliant But Cancelled
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It wasn't cancelled, it was a great show that ended after one great season. *LALALALALA*
Twin Peaks, most prematurely cancelled show of all time.
If you include series that came to a planned end exactly when the creators wanted to then this topic is just "Favorite series that are no longer producing new episodes".
Probably nobody will agree with me on this one, but I would have liked Flashforward to last longer.
And of course, Community, Community and Community.
Also, wasn't that great a show but I would have liked to see The Nine played out to find out how that character died.
I would also add, The (Actually Trying To Find A Person To Hire) Apprentice was a rather good show. Too bad it was cancelled after the second or third season and replaced with The (Stupid Catfight Donald Trump Yelling and Firing Arbitrarily) Apprentice.
I wouldn't have minded more Flashforward.
Crisis is just being aired here, and I've heard that hasn't been renewed. So far, I'm enjoying it so that may join the list. (We'll see how it gets at the end of the season.)
Of ones already mentioned, Sports Night, Firefly, Sarah Connor and Space: Above and Beyond certainly make my list. I'd have liked more Farscape too.
Oddysey 5 could have used an ending. Veronica Mars, Dead Like me and Pushing Daisies are also ones I would have liked more of.
The Newsroom would also be on the list if it had been cancelled by the network.
Absolutely "Firefly".
Other's to mention:
"Profit"
I think this lasted from six to eight episodes. If you enjoyed "Dexter", then you'll enjoy this show about a well-off company that has an employee named Jim Profit, a soft-spoken intelligent, manipulative, and downright evil man who's looking to move up the corporate ladder and he's willing to do more than step on some toes...
Available on DVD.
"Mysterious Ways"
It only lasted two seasons. Reportedly the expense of filming in the U.S. was too much so they wanted to move it to Canada, but the cast didn't want to go, so there went a heck of series.
Declan Dunn is a professor of history at a university, with his assistant Miranda -- a sort of ghothic looking quiet young woman who happens to ride a motorcycle and be weird. When he's not teachign class, he's out investigating miracles. Having miraculously survived death himself, he finds himself obsessed with finding a real miracle -- one that can't be explained away. Did an angel pull a kid from a frozen lake? It it really he spirit of a dead grandmother rocking in the chair and leaving the scent of her perfume whenever her favorite song is played? Is it really the finger prints of dead children pushing cars off a railraod track crossing where they died so long ago?
Clever, humorous, and fun. If you like "The X-Files", you'll probably enjoy this (minus government conspiracies).
"Vengeance Unlimited"
Framed for murder? Taken for everything you have? Open that mysterious package in the mail and call Mr. Chapel.
Oh my goodness, he'll help.
If you can get passed some of the left-wing garbage shoe-horned into a small number of episodes, you got an excellent series with wonderful characters, wit, humor, and just plain fun. Certainly not an original concept (some of you may have seen, for example, "Stingray"), but good nonetheless.
I also remember liking, but it's been so logn since I've seen it I can't really comment, a short-lived seires called "My Life and Times" (scored by Lee Holdridge, Alf Clausen, and the final episode by Don Davis).
Other's to mention:
"Profit"
I think this lasted from six to eight episodes. If you enjoyed "Dexter", then you'll enjoy this show about a well-off company that has an employee named Jim Profit, a soft-spoken intelligent, manipulative, and downright evil man who's looking to move up the corporate ladder and he's willing to do more than step on some toes...
Available on DVD.
"Mysterious Ways"
It only lasted two seasons. Reportedly the expense of filming in the U.S. was too much so they wanted to move it to Canada, but the cast didn't want to go, so there went a heck of series.
Declan Dunn is a professor of history at a university, with his assistant Miranda -- a sort of ghothic looking quiet young woman who happens to ride a motorcycle and be weird. When he's not teachign class, he's out investigating miracles. Having miraculously survived death himself, he finds himself obsessed with finding a real miracle -- one that can't be explained away. Did an angel pull a kid from a frozen lake? It it really he spirit of a dead grandmother rocking in the chair and leaving the scent of her perfume whenever her favorite song is played? Is it really the finger prints of dead children pushing cars off a railraod track crossing where they died so long ago?
Clever, humorous, and fun. If you like "The X-Files", you'll probably enjoy this (minus government conspiracies).
"Vengeance Unlimited"
Framed for murder? Taken for everything you have? Open that mysterious package in the mail and call Mr. Chapel.
Oh my goodness, he'll help.
If you can get passed some of the left-wing garbage shoe-horned into a small number of episodes, you got an excellent series with wonderful characters, wit, humor, and just plain fun. Certainly not an original concept (some of you may have seen, for example, "Stingray"), but good nonetheless.
I also remember liking, but it's been so logn since I've seen it I can't really comment, a short-lived seires called "My Life and Times" (scored by Lee Holdridge, Alf Clausen, and the final episode by Don Davis).
Oh my, yes! Yes, indeed. I caught this on Netflix a few years back. WOW, what a find. It was definitely a show ahead of its time. Network affiliates refused to air it some markets because of its "immoral" and dark main character---a show a solid ten years before Dexter. Jim Profit was a fascinatingly twisted and calculating character, but viewers actually rooted for him, to some degree.
There was such incredible potential there.
You know what's great about "Profit"? It doesn't have to be over!
Considering the success of "Dexter" and shows on HBO and Showtime, this could return. Profit is older, almost in charge of the company, and he;s making his moves towards becoming president (the creators said that where he was headed). Only now he may have competition from a new employee who seems to have something of a similar personality...
Yes, it can return. They should hyonestly look into it.
Considering the success of "Dexter" and shows on HBO and Showtime, this could return. Profit is older, almost in charge of the company, and he;s making his moves towards becoming president (the creators said that where he was headed). Only now he may have competition from a new employee who seems to have something of a similar personality...
Yes, it can return. They should hyonestly look into it.
Man in a Suitcase
Public Eye
Department S
Strange Report
Ace of Wands
Blakes 7
Survivors
Star Cops
The Main Chance
Airline
The Sandbaggers
Public Eye
Department S
Strange Report
Ace of Wands
Blakes 7
Survivors
Star Cops
The Main Chance
Airline
The Sandbaggers
The list of shows I'd consider to be brilliant but cancelled are few. They are:
Utopia
Firefly
The Middleman
The shows I really liked but were cancelled are:
Jericho
SGU
SGA
Star Trek Enterprise
...and thats all I can think of right now. Out of all of these though, I want Utopia back the most, followed by Middleman (Firefly supersedes both but is incredibly unlikely at this point - Utopia was just canned a few months back and The Middleman pulled off a crowd funded Graphic novel/cast read through last year so theres still some steam in that engine yet).
Utopia
Firefly
The Middleman
The shows I really liked but were cancelled are:
Jericho
SGU
SGA
Star Trek Enterprise
...and thats all I can think of right now. Out of all of these though, I want Utopia back the most, followed by Middleman (Firefly supersedes both but is incredibly unlikely at this point - Utopia was just canned a few months back and The Middleman pulled off a crowd funded Graphic novel/cast read through last year so theres still some steam in that engine yet).
Veronica Mars
Life
Journeyman
Perception
Community
Bummed about Enterprise as well; same with when Futurama was first canceled.
Life
Journeyman
Perception
Community
Bummed about Enterprise as well; same with when Futurama was first canceled.
Was B7 cancelled or simply not renewed? Think by the time S4 came around the some were thinking the show had run it's course.
Plus they got two more series then what was expected. The story goes that the Liberator filiming model had to be repaired unexepectly when it was anounced the S3 would be made (so a good thing they didn't blow it up).
You're aware that despite being cancelled maybe three times, that the new season of Community is due out any day now?
Although it's debateable if Yahoo Screens is TV.
Star Trek Enterprise for sure.
Stargate Atlantis anyone?
Stargate Atlantis anyone?
Hell no.
I checked this out. It certainly sounds good! Unfortunately, it does not seem to have a DVD release yet. If I *did* find a way to watch it, would I be frustrated by the ending (or lack thereof)?
I thought about Crusade, but I think it's more of the potential that's the draw with it. If this was just for "cancelled shows you want revived", then sure, but sadly, I don't think what we actually got of Crusade was really that great.
I liked The Event, but there was enough wonkiness and plot contrivances in the middle of the season that I don't think it qualifies as brilliant. Another one for the list of "cancelled shows you want revived", though...
Fair enough. I guess using that criteria, my list would be different... it's hard to argue with stuff like The Wire or The Shield. But I guess I was thinking more along the lines of the criteria used by the OP:
I hadn't heard of this one before, either, so I looked it up... also sounds interesting! Sadly no region 1 DVD release, apparently.
Tell me more... (OK, OK, I'll Google it myself.)I liked Life too. But if it had gone on too much longer, then Damian Lewis wouldn't have been available for Homeland, and well...
I hadn't heard of this one before, either, so I looked it up... also sounds interesting! Sadly no region 1 DVD release, apparently.
Utopia is probably the best British TV show I've seen in a very long time (as a British person, it surprised the HELL out of me, I didn't think we could make beautifully shot, serialised genre shows in this country, but here we are. And just like yours, they get cancelled too! :P ). The VERY boiled down premise is thus: A graphic novel that foretells the end of the world comes true, and only a ragtag group of internet loners know about it and try to prevent it. That's an EXTREMELY simplified premise, but I went in blind and had my mind blown so I'd like to keep you and anyone else who hasn't heard of it in the dark too. It just has an amazingly in depth story thats beautifully shot and as twisty and cliff hanger-y as LOST. It's on Netflix, and its worth a months sub imo :P
As for The Middleman fund-raiser, they did a thing on Indie-Go-Go to reprint all the old out of print GNs and a new one that acts as a crossover between the TV Universe and Graphic Novel universe. The cast read through brought back everyone from the TV show (who is still alive after the LAST read through of the graphic novel version of the unmade season finale :P) and cast Amber Heard as comic book Wendy. It was brilliant
My list is pretty short; from time to time I've had various shows where their cancellation disappointed me deeply, but upon later reflection, they weren't that great. These are the few I'm still mad about:
My So-Called Life
Freaks and Geeks
Firefly
My So-Called Life
Freaks and Geeks
Firefly
Oh, I forgot about another great one!
"Nowhere Man" (1995)
It had a good full season of 25 episodes, so at least we got that.
Thomas Veil is an artist who has a gallery. Amongst his works is a photo that appears to show men being hung by American soldiers in a war zone.
He has a good life, a good wife, things are okay. He goes out to dinner with his wife and during their meal he goes to the bathroom. When he comes back out his wife is gone and there is an old couple sitting at the table eating. He can't find his wife and the waiter he knows claims the old couple have been eating at that table for years and that he never safe a wife.
He goes home and his key won't open the door. He bangs on it and she finally appears but says she doesn't know who he is. Then a man with a shotgun backs her up, claiming to be her husband. Veil leaves.
He goes to his gallery. The key won't work. He finds a way in and the place has been ramsacked. The photo of the hung men is gone. But luckily he still has the negatives.
Veil spends the 26 episodes traveling acrosss the country trying to get away from this mysterious organization that wants the negatives that appears to be everywhere he goes. He also covertly tries to investigate this organization and find out who they are, while also trying to keep himself from getting killed.
It gets more mysterious more disturbing and as the series comes to a close (with no resolution episode), what we thought we knew about what he and what they wanted, takes a disturbing turn and the ramifications would have high-reaching and epic implications.
Fans of "The X-Files" should not skip this show. Also, coincidently, Mark Snow scored every episode of this series.
"Nowhere Man" (1995)
It had a good full season of 25 episodes, so at least we got that.
Thomas Veil is an artist who has a gallery. Amongst his works is a photo that appears to show men being hung by American soldiers in a war zone.
He has a good life, a good wife, things are okay. He goes out to dinner with his wife and during their meal he goes to the bathroom. When he comes back out his wife is gone and there is an old couple sitting at the table eating. He can't find his wife and the waiter he knows claims the old couple have been eating at that table for years and that he never safe a wife.
He goes home and his key won't open the door. He bangs on it and she finally appears but says she doesn't know who he is. Then a man with a shotgun backs her up, claiming to be her husband. Veil leaves.
He goes to his gallery. The key won't work. He finds a way in and the place has been ramsacked. The photo of the hung men is gone. But luckily he still has the negatives.
Veil spends the 26 episodes traveling acrosss the country trying to get away from this mysterious organization that wants the negatives that appears to be everywhere he goes. He also covertly tries to investigate this organization and find out who they are, while also trying to keep himself from getting killed.
It gets more mysterious more disturbing and as the series comes to a close (with no resolution episode), what we thought we knew about what he and what they wanted, takes a disturbing turn and the ramifications would have high-reaching and epic implications.
Fans of "The X-Files" should not skip this show. Also, coincidently, Mark Snow scored every episode of this series.
I remember Nowhere Man, it followed Voyager right?
That was a weird final episode. I enjoyed the show but it's a good example of why when you write a show about pursuing a central mystery you need to have a resolution in mind.
That was a weird final episode. I enjoyed the show but it's a good example of why when you write a show about pursuing a central mystery you need to have a resolution in mind.
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