TV Shows That Shouldn't Have Been Axed

The Job

Sport's Night

Action

Arrested Devolpment?

j/k :P

It was too expensive for Comedy Central to produce.

So unfunny, and so completely unrelated to the actual Bushes. I hated it.

Wonderful camp show of my childhood. They ruined it when they re-tooled it for the second season, getting rid of Dr. Heuer, changinf Twiki's voice, and putting them on some sort of exploring spaceship.

I wished they would have done more exploration of the ruins outside of New Chicago and the mutants who lived there, more soap-opera stuff with Buck & Wilma, more galacticc temptresses like Ardala. I thought that the whole idea of a half-rebuilt post-apocalyptic Earth was fascinating. Instead of that they did the "villain of the week" thing, interspersed with cheesy guest stars like Gary Coleman.

I found that one fascinating.

And Just Shoot Me

Only ones that come to(my tired, why am I still awake?) mind right now

Profit

Arrested Development (my current favorite show... so sad to see it go)

I was still hoping. But the producer, Hurwitz I think, said they will go on even if Fox cancels them. :thumbsup:

Arrested Development is the funniest show on American TV right now.

the first episode of the next season... I assume it's coming back.

I think it was only on for 4 years.

1. Mystery Science Theater 3000
-Contrary to what some fans thought, I felt the show was only getting better with age. Wittier, sharper, and definetely faster. Plus, the concept was infallible and would never get old.

2. NewsRadio
-Even after Phil Hartman's death, it remained the best sitcom on television.

3. Futurama
-Funnier than the modern-day Simpsons by far, but because Fox didn't have creative control, they let it flounder in a 7 PM EST timeslot.

4. Family Guy
-Luckily, this has been corrected, and the show is returning next year.

5. The Lone Gunmen
-I loved this wacky X-Files spin-off. Plus, you have to give it props for predicting MIHOP months before 9/11 even happened. Hell, if MIHOP is true, then they might have gotten the idea from the show itself.

I'm suprised Homicide lasted as long as it did. NBC did everything in it's power to kill it off, preempting it for god knows what countless times. You didn't see shows like NYPD Blue get the runaround that HLOTS got. No way to develop a fan base at all. The programmers at NBC ruined the best cop show I've ever seen. I'd love to see them in "the box" with Frank Pembleton.

When John Seda and Michael Michele joined the show--and after Pembleton left--it was hard to care any longer. But the first 6 seasons were the best TV has to offer.

and Gee were my favorite characters--and since I'd got thoroughly sick of the endless FrankenTim philosophical duologues--I can't say I missed Pembleton all that much.

I just adored Pembleton. It's that simple.

was absolutely masterful. My gripe with the show was the wholesale replacement of cast members to add pretty people like Callie Thorn, Seda and Michele. I thought Melissa Leo and Daniel Baldwin could run rings around them all. Ned Beatty and John Polito (sp) relied on acting ability to carry their parts, not GQ looks.

I can't remember whether he quit or the show was canceled.

I seem to remember three or four episodes. It was in the mid-70's and I tried to catch the show while traveling. I'm pretty sure there were at least three shows.

:D

Best. Show. Ever.

don't think it could maintain however

Cigarette?
Yes, I know

starring chris elliot. best show ever. kpants.

I loved this show.

Pretty boy modeling school!

Too strange for the average person.

but we're definitely the coolest people on the board. Yes, Chris Elliott. My favorite episode was when Chris was in the submarine he built with his dad. In the tub. Loved that show.

n/t

Clare Danes.

It's in re-runs now on Nickelodeon.

Wow, I didn't know that. Yeah, I was about 14 when that show was on TV so I was at just about the right stage for it. I'd probably still like it now though. :)

SciFi did not promote this show to the extent it deserved. IMO, it's one of the very very best science fiction series ever aired. If you haven't seen it and would like to take a look, watch the pilot first. Rent it. Then watch other episodes.

SciFi apparently will air a movie or a miniseries that will tie up the loose ends left over from when they canceled it. WOW, that was a dumb decision.... the series had a LOT of story left, even if Crighton got back to Earth. I hope they deal with that in a 'real' way; the episode where he was deceived into thinking he had made his way home was.... well, educational is the best word I can come up with. There was a distasteful moral to that story, and in retrospect it was a good episode overall. No, I don't know the name of it.

Farscape did NOT deserve to be canceled, despite its cost. They underpromoted it. Their marketing department colossally failed, to their everlasting shame.

The Great Farscape Cancellation was the stupidest thing SciFi has ever done.

The miniseries will fill in some gaps, and if it's successful enough, I think SciFi will re-think their decision to cancel the show and re-up it again. The replacements they ordered didn't do as well as they'd hoped. (Tremors and Scare Tactics) and they're now stuck with only Stargate SG-1 as their main friday night show, since they moved Scare Tactics to Thursday night.

But please don't take away my Scare Tactics.
I don't know why, but I friggin love that show!

This weeks promo looks pretty good. The guy starts crying. Good stuff.

:evilgrin:

And that series finale was HORRIBLE. It was a smack in the face to all the fans.

Firefly
Family Guy (OK, that one will come back)
...

it got pre-empted whenever football ran late

I miss Wanda. I loved that show!!!

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and Twin Peaks.

It was dangerously close to jumping the shark as it was towards the end, what with Bitch!Buffy and Marti Noxious torturing poor Spike every other week. It went off at just the right time (and many would argue it should have ended at 5 seasons. I disagree because we wouldn't have gotten OMWF, Tabula Rasa, etc).

BtVS was one of the lucky shows. It got 7 seasons to shine and gave us some of the best TV ever--and it went out with a bang. It went everywhere it could possibly go and it was time for everyone to move on. I shed no tears of regret over that. Besides I thought Buffy ended because SMG let her contract run out and ME didn't want to do the show without her, I don't think UPN actually cancelled it (wasn't it one of the more higher rated shows on there?).

Angel on the other hand? Worst premature cancellation since Farscape (which still ranks as Worst. Cancellation. Ever.). This season was getting really, REALLY good and it got canned out of nowhere by network suits (granted S5 was barely made to begin with and there were money/ratings issues involved). The only silver lining to this situation is that Whedon has said we will get a good, solid ending with no loose threads, because he meant the S5 finale to be "wrapped up" no matter what happened.

I'll have to just stalk James Marsters at cons. :(

As well as others mentioned earlier:

Futurerama

MST3K

The Lone Gunman

DUH and of course:

The Sifl and Olly Show!

which was much better than the simpsons at this point

Loved that show! Lame ass shows stay on forever... the good ones never do!

that's one of my all-time favorites...

I liked Jon Lovitz as movie critic Jay Sherman. It's been off the air for quite some time now. I'm not even entirely sure when it was cancelled.

Family Guy?

or

ooh. John Doe.

This November, I believe.

Not sure exactly

How they managed to keep the Simpsons for all these years really just amazes the hell out of me.

But, for the list, several Fox shows, including:

Futurama
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
potentially Arrested Development
they are ruining Bernie Mack by switching timeslots
The Critic

and probably many others that I am overlooking right now...

And, of course, one of my all time favorites, the ABC show Sports Night.

All around great show. Period.

Star Trek the original, cancelled after only 2 seasons.

And how 'bout BJ and the Bear? :grin:

Loved that show, based on a Brooklyn family in 1950's.

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Star Trek TOS

Now and Again (The one with Margaret Colin and Eric Close)

Magnificent 7

The Sentinel

Cupid (The one with Jeremy Piven)


(corrected a spelling error)

Little known 80's comedy with Tim Reid. It was a hoot, but got low ratings and was cancelled fairly quickly.

One of the best.

I know, probably no one's even heard of it.

It's (was) a BBC drama shown on BBC-America about the Royal Military Police's Special Investigations Branch stationed in Germany. It was pretty current. They were all set to start a new season and the Beeb axed it. Political implications, I've heard. Too bad; it was a good show.

Laugh if you like... it was awfully corny, but so innovative and sometimes tragically moving... nothing like it before or since.

Love Boat: The Next Wave

LOL...I love the original series so naturally I love the remake (though not as good)

Pina Colada anyone?

I loved that show!

While it hasn't been OFFICIALLY axed yet, it's deeply comatose.

FOX wrecked this show when it moved it to Friday night.

..always had very political overtones.

FOX killed it after 11 episodes. Idiots. Last time I checked, the complete series was still in the top 50 DVD sales on Amazon.com, and it was released before Christmas of last year.

Can't wait for the feature film to come out. It starts shooting in June with the original cast.

god damn, I loved that show.

until the fans couldn't even find it in the schedule.

I like how they ended it at the end of the season.

I loved that show...but from what I understand it was way too expensive to produce (something like $1 million per episode). It was awesome Captain Harlock-esque space opera and I loved how it explored moral/social issues without being preachy about it (the whole thing with the In-Vitros, etc).

On a more shallow note it had a really hot cast too. I have to satisfy my B.D. Wong lust on Law & Order SVU now (why are all the cute ones gay??).

Gone too soon...:-(

NBC says since she makes so many anti-Boo$h jokes if he's not re-selected the jokes would fall flat.

How's that for slippery logic?

I love that show! </Gir voice>

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But after Rob Morrow left... the cancellation was sort of a mercy-killing...

Still... I wish it could have gone on forever...

sacrificed for the confederate fundies affronted by the insult to andy griffith's "Mayberry, RFD".




:mad:

Great show!

"I'll Fly Away"
"Homicide, Life On the Streets"
"Pickett Fences"
"A Year In The Life"


I'm sure there are more but these are the ones that I could think of quickly.

Edited to add "Hill Street Blues"

come baaaack.

It's getting the ax after this season. :cry:

Watched the latest episode (Time Bomb) and was amazed about the quality of it. But my personal highlight of this season remains "Smile Time". Kept laughing throughout the episode.

(From the ep):

Frampkin: No name calling at Smile Time.
Lorne: BAD PERSON!

They yank this and leave pap like "charmed" on?

There's been some very compelling storytelling this season, the whole thing with shaking it up and putting them in the villains' lair, killing Fred, etc. Smile Time alone was classic TV, especially when the puppet vamped! LOL!

Now we're forced with this truncated wrap-up. I'd really hoped after S7 Buffy that at least one of Joss' shows could wind down in the manner intended.

Smile Time was the funniest epidode of Angel I have ever seen.

I'm going to miss that show. I like it better than WWE Wrestling. :cry:

Wesley and that slayer, what's her name, the tough one. Wow. The possibilities.

I also miss The Brak Show and Space Ghost, Coast to Coast. I need
a fix of wacko each week. :)

The Sentinel was another. SIGH!

Faith is the one you're thinking of, right?

:)

Futurama (thank God for Adult Swim), The Tick, Arrested Development (My most favorite new show. I will never watch Fox again). It seems that if a show is intellegent, it gets canned. TV certainly caters to the lowest common denominator.

And NOTHING SACRED.

Homicide was way too intelligent for network TV, and Nothing Sacred was stupidly pulled after pressure from conservative Catholics, who probably never even saw the show, because there was nothing anti-Catholic about it, other than that the priests and nuns were human beings and didn't wear halos and glow in the dark. It disappeared so completely that there are still episodes in the can that were never shown, and no one has picked it up.

great scripts, great actors, and really interesting music. Way to good for network television.

I liked that recent Randy Quaid-Mare Winningham show (I think it was called "The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire). It had an excellent cast and real potential as a quirky comedy-drama.

Continuing the Randy Quaid theme, I also liked "Davis Rules" before they ruined the living daylights out of it by tossing out the Patricia Clarkson character and others. It did change networks, though, so I guess that's why the writing also went downhill.

And count me as another fan for "Homefront" and "Homicide: Life on the Street."

Part of me, though, says that a TV should die a natural death after a while. Both "Homefront" and "Homicide" had interesting final episodes in that regard.

But I thought it was very good. I remember the episode about the gay priest as exceptional.

I Liked That Show.

By the end.

I am so sorry to this day it wasn't picked up by HBO, and "Sports Night" is a big mega-ditto as well. It was hilarious. I can only hope that FOX or the producers will bring it out on DVD someday.

Other shows I am PO'd over (still,)

"Life Goes On"

"Once And Again"

Julie

Not sure if axed or not, but what a show!

Lots of Reverend Jim and Latka episodes...

:toast:

I loved that show.

Also

The Tick
Brisco County, Jr.
Now and Again

Was Quantum Leap cancelled? If so, that's on my list too. :)

I know, it was cheesy, but it was fun to watch. UPN just yanked it with no explanation, and left four episodes unaired.

It was at least as entertaining as Enterprise, if not more so.

I really liked that show. So did Mrs. V.

man that was a great show!