13 Shows That Should Not Have Been Cancelled

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Of course, everyone agrees with Firefly, but there are some that I had never even heard of. The only one I want on DVD would be The Lone Gunmen, and if anyone else had heard of it, there was a show called Reunion last fall that was a teenybopper show, and it was about a murder. The twist though, is you wouldn't know who exactly it was that was killed till the last episode. Sadly, I don't think it made it past episode 4 or 5.

Duckman!!

And I'm still waiting for the fuckin DVDs, Klasky/Csupo!!

the 96 dr who?

that deserved to be cancelled - in hindsight, i think mcgann would've made a good doctor, but the series seemed intent on removing everything that makes dr who, dr who.

oh, and i'd argue about him being the shortest dr - sylvester mccoy played the 6th doctor for the regeneration scene before becoming the 7th doctor as colin baker told them to shove it

Profit

Action

Futurama

Deadwood

Rome

Justice League Unlimited

The animated Tick.

Farscape. Yeah, Farscape. I fucking said it. Anyone got a problem with that?

Oh, and 'I'm with Busey'.

I loved Brisco County, Freaks and Geeks, and Jack of All Trades. I would add Cleopatra 2525 with a pre-Firefly Gina Torres in it to the list.

And if McGann had only had a decent script I would have loved to see him in the role for a good long while. At least I got to enjoy him in the Hornblower series.

I agree with a lot of the list, though I never gave a crap about Firefly and while I liked Sports Night, West Wing was much better.

Some more recent ones...

I really liked Daybreak on ABC, but it was too high-concept for the audience it was trying to reach. I also liked Knights of Prosperity (also on ABC) but I don't know another person who found it even remotely funny.

Well, I can agree with Firefly and Brisco County. Most of the others I never heard of.

FUTURAMA

Brisco County Jr. was awesome, so was Undeclared and many other of those shows.

It's coming back, and we can hope that having a break actually keeps the quality up rather than them getting burnt out.

Arrested Development should definitely not have been cancelled. FOX totally messed that up. They couldn't figure how to market a 7-syllable show, so they figured "why not put it on after cartoon shows?" If Arrested Development had been on any other network, there would have been 3 full seasons, plus maybe one or two more.

Everyone=a handful of fans.

Rome wasn't canceled Storm. HBO just decided to cram 2 seasons worth of info into the 2nd because of the skyrocketing costs of making each episode. I sure would have liked to see the last 6 or 7 episodes done in 14 or 15, but just wasn't in the cards.

Anyone remember when The Question was sporting a Brisco AV?

IIRC, Lone Gunmen sucked and so did Sports Night.

Dumbasses.

From the list....

Firefly - obviously.
Brisco County, Jr - wonderfully entertaining.
Sports Night - was great.

Not to disrepect some other good shows on there but let me go a ways back and point out some others most not mentioned yet:

Harsh Relm - outstanding concept, well executed

Invasion - Sean Cassidy can't get an audience behind his marvelous work

American Gothic - another Cassidy show, even better than Invasion

Crusade - maybe it wouldn't have worked out but it needed more time

Nowhere Man - a masterpeice. shoehorning so much solution in at the end, and still not really answering the question, was wrong on two level.

Legend - that cast was too good for it to get canned so easily

Roughnecks - admitedly they told most of the story they could tell when confined to the battlfield, but the show was cancled before the Earth Campaign was going good and they ought to have found the grace to let them finish that story. Plus, it's the best video presentation of a Heinlien work I've seen anywhere.



I'm sure I'm forgeting some.....

The article is inaccurate/incomplete in that Sports Night eventually dropped the laugh track.

Of the remaining shows on the list, the only one I semi-regularly watched was Andy Richter Controls the Universe. I occasionally watched Arrested Development, but never on a regular basis (even though I loved the show).

I didn't watch Firefly at all when it originally ran, mainly due to working Friday nights (football season).

Both Firefly and Sports Night would've benefitted, IMHO, from a move to another network. Especially a cable network. There were rumors during the summer of 2000 that Sorkin was in talks with HBO to move Sports Night there, but that obviously didn't happen (assuming the talks were even true). It's a pity, because I loved that show.

Farscape

Invisible Man

John Doe

Carnivale

Television shows I wish had not ended when they did.

Star Trek-wish we could've seen rest of the five year mission.

Crusade-worth successor of Babylon-5, would've gotten steadily better

Space:Above & Beyond-great series

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr--nothing more need be said

Jack of All Trades--Bruce Campbell good-Angela Dotchkin better

Battlestar:Galactica--possibly, I had heard some story ideas from Glen Larson that wouldn't sent the show way off the deep end in later years.

RipTide- two seasons wasn't truly enough for this "beach bums fighting crime"

Eisenhower & Lutz--Scott Bakulas true calling

Blacke's Magic--I thought Hal Linden and Harry Morgan were a riot

Underfunded-comedy/drama about a long suffering Canadian Secret Service agent has appeared only as a cable pilot so far.

Masquerade-only if they could've prevented Jon Erik Hexum from accidentally killing himself. The idiot.

Lost
Survivor
American Idol
Ghost Whisperer


Umm...wait...

Dead Like Me (was on showtime so nobody saw it, now it's on scifi in rerun form)
Arrested Development (Fox screwed this one up)
Sliders (should have been aired in order on Fox and not moved to scifi)
Firefly (another Fox screw up)

FOX totally fucked over the fans with that cliffhanger.

Dead Like Me, and Cleopatra 2525 with a bigger budget.

I would watch that every Saturday on WGN as a kid, around the time Andromeda came on.

Then Comcast stopped carrying WGN in my area.

That picture of Mal Reynolds sitting in a chair while no less than four women are standing shows that chivalry is indeed dead

Quark! It was a hoot that the first officer was a plant!

And how could I forget Sledge Hammer and Police Squad!

What so sad is how many of these shows missed the opportunity to be carried in a place they could thrive like FX.

If "Rescue me" The Sheild" and "Nip/Tuck" can find a solid audience on FX then several of these show would have beniffited from that market...or from USA too, for that matter.

This list is crap. It didn't include "Pig-Sty", "Max Headrom", "Wizards and Warriors" or "Ned and Stacey".

^you missed "heil honey, i'm home" out

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