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There isn't any other show I was devistated with more when I heard it was canceled.
There isn't any other show I was devistated with more when I heard it was canceled.
Favourite Cancelled Series
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Pushing Daisies without a doubt. Stupid ABC. I am somewhat amused because they got Scrubs, and the 8th Season is also it's last. So they'll pretty much have Lost as the show with an established fan base, given how shoddily they're also treating Ugly Betty. I have no reason to watch ABC any further at this point in time.
And Angel. Stupid Execs at WB even admitted after the fact it was a mistake. Ah well. At least we got the Awesome After The Fall comic which probably did more than they could have done on the series anyway.
And Angel. Stupid Execs at WB even admitted after the fact it was a mistake. Ah well. At least we got the Awesome After The Fall comic which probably did more than they could have done on the series anyway.
Carnivale- I actually like the final episode as a quasi-resolution in a "things go on" type of way but boy do I wish I could've seen it all play out!
Twin Peaks- Again, the final episode works as a finale and the movie does clear a few things up but this show was so cool and awesome and I wished we got more. Sure, it was weak during the latter half of season two but it really pulled together at the end.
Crusade- JMS has talked about a few things that would've happened and it makes me sad to know we'll never see them. It woul've been a good show.
Invasion- I liked this show quite a bit. I know some people were down on it but I thought it was nifty.
Star Trek:TOS obviously.
Had Jericho not come back for a second season I'd have said Jericho but I thought its second season lost a lot of the spark and mystery that made me like the show.
When Enterprise was cancled I was furious but I found that going back to them I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did the first time around. It really wasn't a very good show.
Twin Peaks- Again, the final episode works as a finale and the movie does clear a few things up but this show was so cool and awesome and I wished we got more. Sure, it was weak during the latter half of season two but it really pulled together at the end.
Crusade- JMS has talked about a few things that would've happened and it makes me sad to know we'll never see them. It woul've been a good show.
Invasion- I liked this show quite a bit. I know some people were down on it but I thought it was nifty.
Star Trek:TOS obviously.
Had Jericho not come back for a second season I'd have said Jericho but I thought its second season lost a lot of the spark and mystery that made me like the show.
When Enterprise was cancled I was furious but I found that going back to them I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did the first time around. It really wasn't a very good show.
Space: Above And Beyond
Firefly
Journeyman
Kyle XY (won´t be renewed after this season)
Crusade
The Pretender (some dipshit had the ingenious idea to not produce the last part of the movie trilogy required to at least finish the main story)
Odyssey 5
Earth 2
Full Metal Panic (probably not cancelled but stopped way before the whole story was told)
The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr.
Highwayman
Earth: Final Conflict (first they killed it off along with the main character and the rest can only be labeled as necrophilia)
Boston Legal (worth another half season)
Dark Skies
Firefly
Journeyman
Kyle XY (won´t be renewed after this season)
Crusade
The Pretender (some dipshit had the ingenious idea to not produce the last part of the movie trilogy required to at least finish the main story)
Odyssey 5
Earth 2
Full Metal Panic (probably not cancelled but stopped way before the whole story was told)
The Adventures Of Brisco County Jr.
Highwayman
Earth: Final Conflict (first they killed it off along with the main character and the rest can only be labeled as necrophilia)
Boston Legal (worth another half season)
Dark Skies
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Star Trek: Enterprise
Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol <-- not sure if this was actually cancelled, although I think it's likely, because the second season was so much shorter than the first
Star Trek: Enterprise
Disorderly Conduct: Video on Patrol <-- not sure if this was actually cancelled, although I think it's likely, because the second season was so much shorter than the first
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Boston legal.
I would have liked one more season of SGA.
Boston legal.
I would have liked one more season of SGA.
This is kind of an odd topic for me, because nearly all my favourite shows aren't running any more. Indeed, many have been over for decades. I'm not sure how you define "cancelled" as opposed to "it had reached the end of its life" or "they just didn't make any more". Is there a distinction?
Some random examples:
Blakes 7
Star Cops
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Man in a Suitcase
Public Eye
Enemy at the Door
Sapphire and Steel
Robin of Sherwood
Some random examples:
Blakes 7
Star Cops
Thunderbirds
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Man in a Suitcase
Public Eye
Enemy at the Door
Sapphire and Steel
Robin of Sherwood
Farscape
There isn't any other show I was devistated with more when I heard it was canceled.
Still hurts doesnt it? Even 6 years later.
The only other show I was pissed about being cancelled was Angel. Another show cut down in its prime. That was 5 years ago and like Farscape Im still pissed.
Oh I was also mad when Friday the 13th the series was cancelled. I have been hoping for a reunion show for 17 years.
Firefly
Ed
Pushing Daisies
MiddleMan
Wonderfalls
Strange Luck
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Cupid (with Jeremy Piven; ABC is resurrecting the show, with a new cast - no way it can live up to JP)
Jake 2.0
Odyssey 5
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG1 (it was getting good again with Ben Browder, although the Ori storyline dragged on far too long)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (the Darren McGavin version, NOT the new one
)
Nash Bridges
Moonlight
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (slow start, but it was getting better)
Sports Night (man, I miss that show!)
Ed
Pushing Daisies
MiddleMan
Wonderfalls
Strange Luck
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
Cupid (with Jeremy Piven; ABC is resurrecting the show, with a new cast - no way it can live up to JP)
Jake 2.0
Odyssey 5
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG1 (it was getting good again with Ben Browder, although the Ori storyline dragged on far too long)
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (the Darren McGavin version, NOT the new one
)Nash Bridges
Moonlight
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (slow start, but it was getting better)
Sports Night (man, I miss that show!)
Shows that reach the end of their natural lives - DS9, VOY, B5, BSG, Lost - or beyond their natural lives - X-Files, the Stargates - don't count as cancelled. I wouldn't count Farscape either.
Enterprise
Arrested Development (Although, they did nicely wrap things up in a really short order. There are rumors of a movie coming soon, and that scares the crap out of me).
Balls. Shows that end due to "creator canceled", I'll agree with you as shouldn't count, because the shows producers/writers/whoever said all they wanted to with the show and, in theory, brought their story to a close.
However, "network canceled" should count, regardless if you think it went "beyond their natural lives". Should SG-1 ended earlier? Maybe, but it was still going with a story-arc in mid-stream when the network gave it the axe.
Arrested Development (Although, they did nicely wrap things up in a really short order. There are rumors of a movie coming soon, and that scares the crap out of me).
Balls. Shows that end due to "creator canceled", I'll agree with you as shouldn't count, because the shows producers/writers/whoever said all they wanted to with the show and, in theory, brought their story to a close.
However, "network canceled" should count, regardless if you think it went "beyond their natural lives". Should SG-1 ended earlier? Maybe, but it was still going with a story-arc in mid-stream when the network gave it the axe.
Gotta disagree with you, Temis, on the 'gates: SG1 was reviving with Ben Browder and Claudia Black, and SGA wasn't even in middle-age. Both series were cancelled by network decree, despite their viability, and still had plenty of life and vitality. Certainly they were better than ENT, which IMO wasn't cancelled soon enough (like, in the womb!
).
What about when a show ends because the star or writer decides he doesn't want to do any more? I think Public Eye ended because Thames were propsing to shunt it over to Euston to shoot on film (as they'd done with Special Branch) and Alfred Burke didn't think that would suit the nature of the show or his performance, so he basically said he'd had enough. And then there are shows that got lost when the ITV franchises were reshuffled. Both Enemy at the Door and Sapphire and Steel went AWOL when that happened. (Although in the case of the latter, I think also that PJ Hammond has said he'd run out of ideas anyway, so might not have written any more. Would things like that count as cancelled?
In that case, The Red Green Show. Steve Smith decided to end it after 15 (!) seasons.
