TV shows cancelled to soon

[Guest Shaved Bear]

but lets get the ball rolling on what shows were cancelled too soon, this should move everything nicely

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

Extreme Ghostbusters. I loved that cartoon, man...

[Guest Flyin' Squirrel]

The Lone Gunmen had a lot of potential. Also, Internet Slutts, which aired on the Comedy Network in Canada, was hilarious - although I can see that there likely isn't a huge market for a demented, profane puppet-show with internet-driven plots. Still, the episodes that aired were among the funniest material aired on Comedy, along with the early seasons of Kevin Spencer (which, while it still airs, has lapsed in quality).

[Guest areacode212]

Hey, this is MY old thread!

Anyway...my picks (for now) are Quantum Leap and Sports Night.

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

Futurama (if the rumors are to be believed)

[Guest TheMikeSC]

Oh, easy ones here.

 

"The Critic" and "The Tick" (the cartoon, not live-action)

                                -=Mike

[Guest Zack Malibu]

Herman's Head  

Clerks: The Animated Series

Shasta McNasty

 

I know you can get the Clerks series on DVD.  I hope FX decides to rerun some Herman's Head episodes one day.  Shasta, we hardly knew ye.

[Guest Army Eye]

Lone Gunmen is an interesting one. That sure got cancelled real quick.  I thought it had potential, but the first episode kind of soured me on it.  These three geeks saving the world from a WTC-level disaster was a little too much for me to swallow.

 

The Critic, YES.  This was one of the funniest shows on TV.

 

The all-time winner of this award has to be Police Squad!  I think it went for only six episodes or something like that?!

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Futurama.

[Guest teke184]

Futurama, Family Guy, The Critic, Action, Alien Nation (This DID get a nice run of tv-movies on Fox after the show got cancelled), etc.

[Guest TUS_02]

Would you consider the State as one?  Or because they pretty much fucked themselves over... they shouldn't count?

[Guest Army Eye]

What about TV Nation?  Anybody remember that show?  Now that I think about it, it didn't last long at all

[Guest MikeSharp12]

Am I wrong in believing that Quantum Leap had (at least) 5 seasons?  How could that qualify as being cancelled too quickly?

[Guest Mark4steamboat]

Shasta McNasty,Dilbert, and Family Guy. 'nuff said.

[Guest Hit Squad]

Newsradio could have gone on longer.

[Guest benoitrules2000]

FREAKS & GEEKS!!!

That show absolutely ruled!!!

I could'nt believe it got axed, it had the potential to be the next WONDER YEARS!!!

Also the critic was brilliant and shouldn't have been cancelled.

[Guest Scotsman]

It's not confirmed that Family Guy's been cancelled yet has it?  I've heard a lot of rumours etc but not heard any official word about it.

 

And to go along with the theme of the thread....Newsradio and The Critic.  Oh and Prisoner Cell Block H.

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

Futurama, and if it indeed has been cancelled, family guy

[Guest jimmy no nose]

I'm gonna back up Clerks The Animated Series.  There was so much more that could have been done with it.  And also Shasta McNasty.  As sad as it may sound that was possibly my favorite show on TV for a time.  It was just so not everything else in a good way.  I liked Futurama, but I didn't even watch it each week as I did the other two.  And Family Guy is one of the funniest shows on TV.  If it was on any night other than Thursday I believe it would have been one of the most watched shows on Fox.

[Guest jimmy no nose]

While I'm sure very few if any of you have seen this show, I would just like to add the TV show that I was a part of, Pro Wrestling Review.  We were a small time show, we did it for free and it was only on an independent network here in Pittsburgh(and was picked up on some satellite systems on the east coast) it was fun and it had a loyal following(although there were only about 5000 viewers).  Just today I was informed that our show has been banned from the network effective immediatly meaning that the show we taped on Wednesday will not be aired tonight as planned.  I'm not really allowed to say why as they have told us that "legal action may be taken" if we were to go into detail on our website or elsewhere but I just felt like saying it somewhere even if none of you care.  For those of you who have ever been able to catch the show, thank you for watching we'll be back, hopefully.

[Guest CoreyLazarus416]

So you had a show...that didn't have sponsors...that didn't have any financial backer...pretty much a glorified cable access show...and they cancel you and threaten legal action if you tell people the reason? Sorry, my friend, but you're fucked over. I'd find a good lawyer, because unless you signed a contract, they really shouldn't have ANY right to do such a thing.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

The Brian BenBen show.  

The Family Guy (its been off and on too many times)

[Guest Marshall]

Am going to have to say Clerks: TAS. It was was a great show. I heard that MTV were looking at it.

[Guest The Electrifyer]

THE MOLE 2!!!! Goddamnit, where is this show, it got cancled in like 3 episodes. Don't leave me in suspense, I want it back!!!!

[Guest Spaceman Spiff]

I'm a HUGE Newsradio fan, but I want to disagree w/ the cancelled to soon thought.  The show just wasn't the same after Phil Hartman was killed.  Plus, some of the characters didn't fit how they were originally portrayed (Dave hating Matthew, Lisa marrying a homeless/jailed Johnny Johnson).

[Guest LooseCannon]

Yeah Newsradio got real stupid toward the end, especially w/ Lisa's marriage.  Anyway for my pick, I'll go with Get a Life starring Chris Elliott.

[Guest Army Eye]

THE MOLE 2!!!! Goddamnit, where is this show, it got cancled in like 3 episodes. Don't leave me in suspense, I want it back!!!!

Yeah I was watching this too.  The only decent 'reality' show.  Contestants actually have to be skilled and smart to win.   Some concept, eh!

 

The stupid thing is that it good ratings in season 1, but ABC put it in an impossible time slot and then put it on hiatus after 3 episode.  Stupidity doesn't begin to cover it

[Guest Tolwyn]

It's a real SHAME they cancelled Space:above and beyond a few years back. Now that was a quality series.

[Guest gthureson]

I'll mention 'Max Headroom' again.   A concept slightly ahead of its time.   It probably would have worked a few years later.  It had some action, some humour, and didn't take itself too seriously, plus it had great character actors.  And Samantha Pays was smoking hot back then.

 

'The Flash' had promise.   It could have become a great show.  It was good while it was on, and it gave Mark Hamill work, which I always consider a good thing.  Luke Skywalker needs to eat too, you know.

 

'Bakersfield P.D.' was one of the funniest shows Fox ever had on their network.  So of course they cancelled it after about six weeks.

 

'Space: Above and Beyond' -- I got into that show in syndication of Sci-Fi.  Its not bad.   I had some conceptual problems with it, the number one being you don't use highly trained Marine fighter pilots as groundpounders.   Serious misallocation of military resources.   But they wants plots on the ground as well, so I could live with it.

 

'G vs. E' (Good Vs. Evil).   Now that was great show.   The first season was consistently very witty, great plots, and great actors.   The second season on Sci-Fi they played with the cast to try and widen the market, and the show suffered, but it was still good.   Far better than 'The Invisible Man' which replaced it.

[Guest Kwik]

Sports Night, most of all...it was unfortunate that there was no real resolution to the Season 2 (and as it turned out, series) finale.  As time would have gone on however, I think that Sorkin would have had to make a decision on weather or not to keep doing both shows, or just do West Wing, or Sports Night exclusively. This is just a hunch, but my bet is that he would have chosen West Wing.

And just to put a new wrinkle into things, I would have liked to see Red Dwarf made into an American show.  I know that there was a pilot that never "officially" saw the light of day, but I think that RD could cross over well into American TV.