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TV renewals that were a disaster

The retooling of Earth: Final Conflict for the second season onward had its moments, but it never lived up to the promise of the first season. Then there was the fifth season, which just plain never should have happened, had basically none of the principal cast, and looked like it was filmed in somebody's basement.
 
M*A*S*H survived several cast changes, but it should have ended when Larry Linville (Maj. Frank Burns) left. The stories became dull and David Ogden Stiers’ Major Winchester character was more irritating than funny.

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That was bad enough, but it REALLY went beyond bad when Radar left. At least his character allowed for some comedic content.. That and when they started letting Alan Alda run the content of the shows.

I realize that war is not funny, but the brilliance of the movie and the first few seasons of the show was that they highlighted the absurdity of war and how everyday people cope with trying not to go absolutely bonkers while surrounded by the carnage.
 
Enterprise - the first 3 seasons were bad enough, but the 4th was just fanwank being written by pros (and not the good pros, sadly). I'll take the 3rd season of TOS - even "Spock's Brain" - over that whole series, esp. ENT's so-called 'great' eps.

On a more-mainstream note, The New WKRP in Cincinnati should never have happened.

I'd also throw in the last couple seasons of The Dead Zone - the series started out great and fresh, but once Sarah and Walt started having problems, it went downhill.
 
How about Seaquest? It was a science fiction show that dealt with science and became a horrible over the top joke. One season was enough, more so because it ended well.
 
Firefly. Some of the decisions in later seasons were horrible. Like, after Book died and they revealed that his big secret was that he was God's brother. I hung around and kept watching, but when he kept appearing to the crew as a floating head in space was ridiculous.

And that episode when they all starting singing musical style when tripping balls on the poisoned steak was a bad idea. Although Niska's broadway number was memorable enough I guess.

Although nothing tops the tragic finale when River got that axe and murdered Kaylee. I mean, what was Whedon thinking? Does he get off on killing off characters or something? Frankly, the whole thing should have been left as about half a season with maybe a movie to wrap it up. That would've been a lot better.


Hah! Best post ever!
 
How about Seaquest? It was a science fiction show that dealt with science and became a horrible over the top joke. One season was enough, more so because it ended well.

Yeah, what a clusterfuck that show became. I kind of enjoyed the 2032 season, but it was hardly "SeaQuest" by that point.
 
How about Seaquest? It was a science fiction show that dealt with science and became a horrible over the top joke. One season was enough, more so because it ended well.

Yeah, what a clusterfuck that show became. I kind of enjoyed the 2032 season, but it was hardly "SeaQuest" by that point.


The show was never great, but had a good base. It would be in line for a reboot, more story arcs, more conflict, but keep the science parts. 2032 was OK because the show had a point to it again, aka war. Season 2 had killer plants and Seaquest just babysitting.
 
An intrepid crew led by the reanimated corpse of Roy Scheider and Bruce the Shark fights oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico?
 
I agree Prison Break and Heroes lasted a few seasons longer than necessary indeed. I'd also have to say Buffy and The X-Files might have been a season overdue, too. SVU should have ended two years ago!

I have to read the entire thread and think on it more. At first glance, I thought the thread title meant shows that were revitalized and brought back. My first reaction to that was Knight Rider and Bionic Woman! :0)

ETA: I was thinking of Seaquest, but then I also remembered Sliders! That one should never have been butchered by SFC!
 
The only one I'd have cancelled early is Prison Break - that's a one-season premise if ever I saw one. Ordinarily, I "solve" the problem of shows that drag on too long by ceasing to watch, but in Prison Break's case, it unaccounably became my bf's favorite show ever, and he insisted I watch that garbage, have apparently no awareness of how wretched it got after S1. :confused:
 
Yes season two of Prison Break left a lot to be desired but season 3 was pretty good and season four definitely gave season 1 a run for its money when they decided to drop the imprisonment angle and go after the Company.
 
Incredibly, this thread has lasted 77 posts and there has yet been no mention of Galactica: 1980.
 
^ That's because it's not a renewal as much as a spinoff and it's not really a spinoff as much as a pile of shit we are trying to forget.

Also Sliders was destroyed by Fox long before Sci-fi Channel destroyed the fraction that was left.
 
Buffy S6 & S7 - As much as I enjoyed the musical episode that was S6 I think and I think there were some good episodes for the whole I think the series would have had a much better end if it had ended with the WB finale and Buffy sacrificing herself to save the world. The whole Willow and magic being addictive like a drug stuff which followed in S6 was immensely irritating.

I agree that the Gift in s5 was probably better than the actual finale (I still liked it, though), but overall, I thought BtVS was great from start to finish.:)
 
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