HEY! I was watching that. TV 📺 shows that were cancelled too soon.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[yallerdawg]

1. 'Surface.' One freakin' season with NOTHING explained!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. Waiting for it to be on Amazon Prime!

[trueblue2007]

120. i was just gonna name this one. weren't those sea monsters awful !!!!! i loved this show.

[yallerdawg]

123. We bought the "Season One and Done" DVD, we liked it so much!

I have been skeptical of NBC series ever since. Now it applies to all of them!

[eShirl]

2. agreed!

also,


but especially

[Floyd R. Turbo]

8. Absolutely!

[annabanana]

22. LOVED Farscape!. . . .n/t

[sharp_stick]

3. We all know that pain

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[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Yep!

[Coventina]

4. Arrested Development

And no, the fourth season was not up to par.
The magic was gone.




Firefly.



Person of Interest



Andy Richter Controls the Universe

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. Indeed!

[Missn-Hitch]

27. Her? Absolutely!

[FM123]

31. I've made a huuuge mistake!

[Missn-Hitch]

58. Haha. We could throw quotes back and forth for a while.

Soooooo....maybe I'll put it in her brownie.

[DarthDem]

5. Two Jump Out

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - a mind-boggling, stupid cancellation.

Reunion - a fun mystery show with each episode portraying one of 20 years since high school for a group of friends, one of whom was killed in present day, so the premise was trying to work out who did it and why. Yanked by the network idiots after 13 eps and the killer was never revealed.

Both of these atrocities committed by Fox.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Yes!

[Runningdawg]

6. Jericho

and more recently The Bridge

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Yep!

[SouthernIrish]

13. Harry's Law and Genius

[Catmusicfan]

14. ahead of it''s time and awesome.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. It was! Great lines that are easily missed!

[Catmusicfan]

16. Bruce is such an underrated actor and this was a perfect showcase of range.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Speaking of Bruce,

[Catmusicfan]

46. Oh yeah Baby!

[Lars39]

50. Yep,my once a year treat.

[yallerdawg]

45. The best version of Mae West I ever did see!

Ms. Rutherford!

[Catmusicfan]

47. Yep

[irisblue]

17. Firefly.

Even the BDM(big damn movie) didn't settle it. And ::::::spoiler::::::












hell on you for Wash.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. I'll be in my bunk!

😏

[Leith]

21. You're Rascally

I like that.

[sarge43]

69. "Uh. That went well."

[Leith]

20. I Absolutely Agree!

It was one of the best TV shows ever on the air.

We never found out why the hands are blue, either.

[Binkie The Clown]

37. +1000 I want my Firefly! n/t

[area51]

65. And ...

I'm pissed they also

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killed Shepherd Book in the movie.

[hunter]

93. The movie sucked.

It lacked entirely the chemistry of the original series.

It had no respect for the fans who wanted more.

I don't know what they were thinking.

[Lucinda]

129. + eleventy billion

[femmocrat]

23. I liked these recent shows: Limitless, Conviction, and Timeless.

I think Timeless was eventually renewed. Don't know why the other two were cancelled. They were as good as anything else on network TV and good premises.

Also... there was one last year about a voice that only children could hear. Was it "Whispers" or something like that? That one was good and spooky.

I'm also disappointed that Aquarius was cancelled. There were plenty of ways to extend it into the 1970s.

[Nailzberg]

63. Correct about Timeless. It was cancelled and then un-cancelled.

Its kinda dopey, but I watch it.

[Rhiannon12866]

64. Oh! Timeless is coming back??

I liked that one a lot!

[Nailzberg]

89. NBC ordered 10 more, probably to start in Spring 2018.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/timeless-saved-cancellation-as-nbc-reverses-course-season-2-renewal-1003568

[Rhiannon12866]

91. Thanks so much! I really enjoyed both the history and the characters

I'm hoping that they repeat the previous episodes, though. I missed more than one and got kinda lost regarding the Rittenhouse conspiracy - and the role of Lucy's "father..."

[VermontKevin]

109. I watched that with my grandaughter! Glad it's coming back.

[mitch96]

79. Limitless, Conviction, and Timeless. +1

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[Stuart G]

24. Star Trek, original series..

Because of low ratings and very poor time that this program was on, ...the producers knew that it would be cancelled after the 3rd season. Some of the eps. in the first two season were truly outstanding sci fi as well as great drama...

[Archae]

38. DS9 also, too much left hanging.

Next Generation went to movies.

Voyager ended.

Enterprise ended.

DS9 left us dangling.

[WinkyDink]

25. "Tour of Duty." "Foyle's War." "Get A Life." Every other show I ever loved!

[irisblue]

41. I loved Tour of Duty

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[WinkyDink]

66. Both LT and Sarge were so good-looking!

[Iggo]

75. Didn't Foyle's War have like nine seasons?

I know they're only three or four eps per, but I'm used to that with my Brit shows.

[longship]

102. Seven seasons, two of them framed after the war.

I have them all on DVD.

Wonderful cast. Michael Kitchen (Foyle) does so much without speaking a single word. Honeysuckle Weeks (Samantha) never shuts up. The interplay is absolutely astounding. The scripts are universally very good, always a good sign in any entertainment.

I binge watch them all again on occasion.

[Iggo]

118. I haven't watched the post-war seasons yet.

Seems to me like it should have ended with the war, being that Foyle's War was how he spent WWII as a cop instead of in the military.

I do like that look on his face, almost painful, while he's waiting for whoever he's talking to to catch on to what he's saying. Like you said, without a word.

[applegrove]

26. Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

[blaze]

39. Oh, yes!

I'd forgotten about that one.

[applegrove]

40. It was sex and the city before sex and the city.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

28. Deadwood and Firefly.

[ms liberty]

30. mr liberty loved Deadwood. He was upset when it ended. n/t

[Missn-Hitch]

59. Deadwood. Shakespearean dialogue. Loved it.

It needed two more seasons for sure.

[ms liberty]

29. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The Charmings.

That's two that stick out.

[rurallib]

32. I'm an old guy

and really don't watch a lot of TV these days - but from a ways back:

- Eerie, Indiana - what a fun quirky little show. I heard there was an attempt at a revival but it really sucked.

- Ellery Queen (from the early 80s I think) - one season and a fun show. Believe it was reworked into "Murder She Wrote"

[Phentex]

70. Loved Ellery Queen!

I have always loved mystery shows and books. I never got into Murder She Wrote but I watched a few episodes with my mother in law last summer and it was pretty good.

[rurallib]

72. Murder She Wrote was a big family TV watch for us

We had a pit sofa back then. The two girls @8 and 6 years old, the cocker spaniel, my wife and I would all gather under blankets with a huge bowl of buttered popcorn and a bottle of pop. Then we would watch the show. Since Murder was on for so many years this was a tradition that lasted a while.

We always wondered how jessica could have any friends because it seemed like many of her friends ended up dead.

[Phentex]

73. LOL!

It really was a family show. The kind they don't make anymore.

[Wounded Bear]

74. I kind of got disinterested in Murder She Wrote...

around the time that I learned to spot the murderer by half way through the show.

In the end, it was pretty formulaic, a problem suffered by many detective shows that run too long.

[FM123]

33. The Good Wife

[FakeNoose]

53. It had a good run

I loved The Good Wife and I have all the episodes saved on disk.
But it was ready to go, the stories were all told on that series.

Great writing and acting on that show!

[forgotmylogin]

34. My picks: Firefly and Hannibal

Firefly was too good, seamlessly combining Space Opera and Western Pioneer Adventure genres following a heart-of-gold outlaw adventuring around the universe in a rickety cargo ship with his renegade crew. It should have lasted much longer with its new-fangled take on Star Trek/Star Wars/Indiana Jones tropes, great characters, and richly-imagined worldbuilding that was both plausible and fantastic.

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Hannibal had three seasons that were some of the most shocking and daring TV on a broadcast network filled with heady psychology and gruesomely amazing imagery. They were able to bring the series to a shocking dramatic conclusion, but I read there were master plans for 6-7 seasons that would include reimagining the events of Silence of the Lambs. I wish Netflix had picked it up. Hannibal is manipulative and frightening, feeding his cannibal shenanigans, holding elaborate dinner parties and *helping the FBI* as a legitimate expert in the psychology of serial killers (BECAUSE HE IS ONE). One episode featured Molly Shannon (?!?!) as a serial killer whose M.O. was manipulating children to kill their families and was initially not aired because it was *too* *shocking* despite a lack of overtly explicit gore.

[onecaliberal]

35. Newsroom - loved that show

[RobinA]

48. This!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers that show.

[onecaliberal]

49. I was really upset when they cancelled it.

[MuseRider]

36. American Gothic

Also Firefly.

[Solly Mack]

43. Yes!

[MuseRider]

56. That was the first place

I ever saw Lucas Black and was so impressed. Also Sarah Paulson. I already loved Gary Cole. It was a fine cast with a very cool story.

[Solly Mack]

57. I agree. I still say "Someone's at the door" from time to time when it fits.

[MuseRider]

61. I just put my DVD's in to watch

since I had not seen them for such a long time. They will not play. They went all the way through the scene at the hospital with Sheriff Buck taking Caleb out. Someone's at the door. I had forgotten how much that creeped me out! Now to find something that plays old DVD's.

[Solly Mack]

62. Oman! I hope you get them to play.

Yeah. It's a creepy thing to say but fun!

[bbgrunt]

42. Smith with Ray Liotta only made it

through 3-5 episodes, but it was before its time. A little too dark for tastes in the early 2000's. However it was very well done and engaging. Maybe the production costs ran a little high.

[AJT]

44. Better Off Ted and Testees

2 very funny short lived series.

[DetlefK]

77. +1 to both.

[JDC]

52. Terriers

Was a 1 and done(season)

[pansypoo53219]

54. carnivale.

[Missn-Hitch]

60. Good pick.

[Va Lefty]

55. Dead Like Me, Rome

[sarge43]

67. Kings, The Dresden Files and, of course, Firefly. n/t

[Lucinda]

130. Never saw Kings but totally agree with your others!

[sarge43]

131. Kings starred Ian McShane - enough said n/t

[Rhiannon12866]

68. Joan of Arcadia!

I followed that faithfully and the big cliffhanger season finale didn't resolve anything - we expected to see what happened the next season, but it never came back.

[gratuitous]

85. Joan had a very interesting premise

Was she really interacting with God? Was it a fever dream brought on by Lyme Disease? What did all the manifestations mean? And yes, the end of the second season was all set up for some kind of apocalyptic showdown with Satan or a reasonable facsimile. Then poof! Done. The supporting cast was first rate, and the ancillary story lines were very good as well.

Newsradio died too soon, but so did Phil Hartman and while the show tried mightily to keep going after his murder, it just wasn't the same.

In a similar vein, SportsNight was a real hoot that ended way too soon. I remember one episode where the on-air talent had confided some secret to his producer girlfriend, and it got back to him. He gathered everyone together to find out how his secret had gotten out. Producer says, "Well, I told my assistant, but she kind of needed to know. She's the only one I told." Assistant: "I kept your secret. I told only my boyfriend about it, because it was just too juicy not to share." Assistant's boyfriend: "I told many, many people."

[Rhiannon12866]

95. I admit it did get a little strange at the end

I took it literally, LOL, figured that's what the show was about - her seeing God in various forms. It was a TV show, after all. I guess I could have accepted that it was a dream brought on by illness - physical or otherwise, but I had gotten used to believing the premise. So I really wanted this resolved, but it never happened.

Your SportsNight story reminded me of another one I was a real fan of - WIOU. The story was behind the scenes of a struggling local TV newsroom. I really liked that one and I got my cousin to watch it - and then her colleagues - since she worked in a local Colorado newsroom.

[sakabatou]

112. The one where she had Lyme disease, right?

[Rhiannon12866]

114. That was a possibility, it went off the air so we never found out what was going on...

There was never any resolution to the season finale cliffhanger.

[sakabatou]

115. Yep

I believe it was due to ratings that it was taken off air, but

[Rhiannon12866]

116. I thought it was a very good show, mainly due to a stellar cast

Though the premise was kind of out there. I even uncharacteristically wrote a letter to the network at the urging of my friend who was also a fan - and so did my aunt! The finale had a huge buildup, but not all that much happened. It was supposed to be resolved in the next season - which never materialized.

[Phentex]

71. Once and Again...

it was a cheesy drama, possibly critically acclaimed, but never found a large following. So before it could die a natural death, they had to write a quick ending and try to tie everything up.

[TheDebbieDee]

107. I loved that show, too! Aparently, we were the only two people in America watching it...

I really loved the theme song, too! My favorite scene is the one in which the Gerritt Graham character thinks he has been receiving instructions from the distinct, disembodied voice of God (Dennis Haysbert's voice). Later in the episode the Gerrit Graham character is face to face with the speaking Dennis Haysbert and briefly believes that God is black. The expression on Gerrit Graham's face is PRICELESS!

[Phentex]

108. That's a different show, lol

but sounds interesting

[TheDebbieDee]

110. Sorry! You're right. The show I'm thinking of was Now and Again...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212395/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[Hoyt]

76. Backstrom.

[DetlefK]

78. The Thin Blue Line

British cop-comedy with Rowan Atkinson. The first season was mediocre. The second season was divine. There was no third season...

[JenniferJuniper]

80. Freaks and Geeks. Tragic.

[alphafemale]

84. Yes.

And so many of the cast have had fantastic careers.

Well...the "Freaks" anyway.

[mentalsolstice]

81. Freaks and Geeks! nt

[LonePirate]

82. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

I need to know more about Shirley Manson's character and what happened when John travelled to the future.

[hibbing]

83. Enlightened - Laura Dern

Was an HBO production I think, only 18 episodes. I like shows where you can enjoy the evolution of the characters, but often they get cancelled before you get that opportunity.


Peace

[JCMach1]

86. Sledgehammer

[shenmue]

88. Yes

[lame54]

87. Men of a Certain Age

[Rabrrrrrr]

90. Firefly. Star Trek: TOS. Warehouse 13. Fringe. Love, Sidney. Mike and Molly. American Dad.

On the other hand, this also means that all these shows ended before they turned into shit and so still live on as excellence.

But, many of them could have been continued for many seasons without going to shit: especially Firefly, ST:TOS, ST:TNG, and Warehouse 13.

[madamesilverspurs]

92. Brooklyn Bridge

[yuiyoshida]

94. WITCH BLADE!

[Jamaal510]

96. Cow and Chicken and Ed, Edd, 'N Eddy. nt

[CanSocDem]

97. MadMen.

I was hoping for another couple of seasons explaining how advertisers went from selling the product -to- mocking the consumer.

They transitioned nicely from the 50's-60's to the seventies with the 'teach the world how to sing' Coke spots but that was just the beginning of the 'soft sell'.


.

[Owl]

98. Nowhere man.

[Yavin4]

99. FX's "Terriers"

[OrwellwasRight]

125. Yep!

[Still Blue in PDX]

100. Forever. nt

[musette_sf]

101. Vinyl

Tantalizingly picked up for second season, later abruptly rescinded.

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[jodymarie aimee]

103. I think I saw 2 episodes

darn them to hell..I loved it.

[ghostsinthemachine]

104. Ed

Loved that show. Julie Bowen.

[RockCreek]

105. Jericho

[Sedona]

106. The Knick

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-knick-cancelled-season-3-cinemax-1202014854/

[nuxvomica]

111. My World and Welcome to It, Supertrain

The former was based on Thurber and swept the Emmys after being cancelled. The latter, well just the title tells you this was a great show.

[Rhiannon12866]

117. I was a big fan of Supertrain, too!

[sakabatou]

113. The Big O

I wish there was a 3rd season. Soooo many questions left unanswered.

[ailsagirl]

119. Crazy Like a Fox

This one goes way back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Like_a_Fox_(TV_series)

[trueblue2007]

121. another NBC FIASCO ...... they cancelled GRIMM i live in Portland and loved seeing my city.

the characters ..... the actors were great. There were lots more monsters for Nick the Grimm to chase.

[zanana1]

122. Shameless

I want to know how that dysfunctional family continued to screw up! I watched every episode and grew to love the characters.

[Awsi Dooger]

124. Johnny Bago

Summer series but I was sure it would be extended.

Cracked me up every week

[OrwellwasRight]

126. Ringer, Justice League Unlimited, Life on Mars, Journeyman

[OrwellwasRight]

127. Oh, and . . .

[lapfog_1]

128. Action

funniest show that's ever been on TV.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_%28TV_series%29