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Television Series Cancelled Too Early?

Started by Queequeg, May 01, 2014, 11:40:54 AM

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crazy canuck

#75
May 01, 2014, 11:05:04 PM
Man from Atlantis could have gone a few more seasons.

Queequeg

#76
May 01, 2014, 11:05:20 PM
I loved Cupid with Paula Marshall and Jeremy Piven.  Still holds up. 
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sbr

#77
May 01, 2014, 11:08:44 PM
Man from Atlantis just caused a serious flashback. :lol:

Sheilbh

#79
May 01, 2014, 11:24:09 PM
Rome.

The BBC were mad to cancel Ripper Street, but it's been picked up by Amazon.
Let's bomb Russia!

Barrister

#80
May 01, 2014, 11:26:20 PM
I just remembered the classic case of a show cancelled too early:

Police Squad!

Those are six really funny episodes of comedy...
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CountDeMoney

#81
May 01, 2014, 11:32:00 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 01, 2014, 11:26:20 PM
I just remembered the classic case of a show cancelled too early:

Police Squad!

Those are six really funny episodes of comedy...

That show suffered from being too intelligent for TV audiences, who needed the attention span necessary to appreciate it like Airplane![/] in a movie theater.

Syt

#82
May 02, 2014, 12:19:37 AM
As a kid I was disappointed that Pirates of Dark Water was cut short.

About Firefly: in just 14 episodes they managed to create very memorable characters with complex relationships among each other and a lot of mystery (What's with Blue Sun? Who are the Hands of Blue? What exactly was done with River, and are there more like her? What's with Book? Why did someone like Inara throw in her lot with this motley crew? Etc. - some of that gets answered in Whedon's comic books, like Book's backstory).
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Josquius

#83
May 02, 2014, 01:01:53 AM
Firefly is the obvious answer.
I've just read a show I enjoy called Hello Ladies isn't getting a second series either :(
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Razgovory

#84
May 02, 2014, 02:33:13 AM
Futurama.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

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Norgy

#85
May 02, 2014, 02:43:42 AM
Twin Peaks.

Josephus

#86
May 02, 2014, 06:10:46 AM
Quote from: Norgy on May 02, 2014, 02:43:42 AM
Twin Peaks.

No.

Season one of Twin Peaks was among some of the best TV produced by U.S. networks.
But by mid-season two, it, well certainly, peaked.
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Duque de Bragança

#87
May 02, 2014, 06:15:50 AM
Carnivale

grumbler

#88
May 02, 2014, 06:17:50 AM
Quote from: Josephus on May 02, 2014, 06:10:46 AM
No.

Season one of Twin Peaks was among some of the best TV produced by U.S. networks.
But by mid-season two, it, well certainly, peaked.

Agreed.  By its nature, Twin Peaks was unsustainable.
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Norgy

#89
May 02, 2014, 06:18:55 AM
Quote from: Josephus on May 02, 2014, 06:10:46 AM
Quote from: Norgy on May 02, 2014, 02:43:42 AM
Twin Peaks.

No.

Season one of Twin Peaks was among some of the best TV produced by U.S. networks.
But by mid-season two, it, well certainly, peaked.

I re-watched that one and "Rome" recently. I feel both ended too quickly. But, yeah, there was a certain degree of craziness about the second series. And not always good crazy.

"Carnivale" could've done with a third series.
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