list of best cancelled shows...

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GRAYFURY

Monday, July 21, 2008 12:27 PM

Comcast has made a list of the best canceled shows ever. Guess who made the list...

http://www.comcast.net/tv/bestcanceledshows/slideshow/view/13/

"Smellin' alot of IF comin' offa' this plan!"

HUGHFF

Monday, July 21, 2008 12:34 PM

Not a great list IMHO. Example: how can they include Gilmore Girls which ran for years? They might as well add MASH.

Too many great shows are missing from the list too, especially Andy Richter Controls the Universe and The Tick.

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SMAUG

Monday, July 21, 2008 4:57 PM

Yea.. that's all kind of silly because ALL shows get cancelled (or planed exit) eventually.

They should just consider shows that have had 2 seasons or less.

I don't watch that much tv anymore.. but this is why I love watch shows on DVD instead of TV now. Even if a show sounds good.. I wait and see what the general buzz about a show is.. then I might check it out when I can buy it on DVD. Then once I catch up (if it's still on the air) I might start watching subsequent seasons "live".

Plus not to forget that you can watch it on your schedule (several episodes at a time if you wish) and you don't have to deal with commercials.

That's how I started watching BSG and Dexter. Although I will probably watch Dollhouse right out of the gate.

But anyway.. this way I don't get invested in a show that ends up getting cancelled after just a small handfull of episodes like Journeyman or Charlie Jade.

I do this because more and more often a really great show (or one that has potential if it can just get it's legs) gets cancelled because it doesn't have 30 million viewers right out of gate. But networks don't realize that by cancelling shows so early without giving them a chance.. causes more and more of us not to want to get invested in the next one that they may just cancel.

It's like they are alienating their own customers. But who cares.. American Idol pulls in 60 bazillian viewers each night.. they just need more shows like that! Right?

JEWELSTAITEFAN

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 6:23 AM

Remember, there are current genius Fox executives that can be found in Airports that still think cancelling Firefly was a good decision.
I'd agree with American Gothic. But no Due South? Dark Angel? Eishied?

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:12 AM

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Originally posted by Smaug:

It's like they are alienating their own customers.

It's the computerized American way.

MaxHeadroomisall

SMAUG

Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:47 PM

I actually had an idea one time that someone could launch a new network called "Pilot TV".

And the idea behind the network is to actually pick up and continue great shows that were cancelled before their time and also they could take older shows that maybe had 4-5 seasons but are old enough that they would be ripe for a remake or re-imagining (ala BSG). Like.. you are probably never going to remake Sienfeld.. but how many other great shows only lasted 3-4 seasons?

You could litterly LAUNCH the network off of a new Firefly series.. you wouldn't even need anything else new off the bat. Then you could re-run episodes of series that you are thinking about continuing or remaking and let your audience decide which ones are a go.

Like for example.. recent series that could be tested to see if it would be a go to pick up and continue production: (I didn't watch all these.. but I just know they had a lot of fans)

1) Firefly is a given.
2) Journeyman
3) Dresden Files
4) Jerico
5) Charlie Jade
6) Blood Ties
7) Veronica Mars
8) Freaks and Geeks
9) Dead like Me
10) Deadwood
11) The 4400
12) Wonderfalls

Then you could also re-run older series and judge wich ones would be a go to remake:

Here's a few I would like to see an updated remak/reimagining take on it:

1) Wiseguy
2) Profitt
3) Cupid
4) Quantum Leap

Anyone got any others?

CHRISISALL

Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:54 PM

Are you kidding?

Dark Angelisall

JONGSSTRAW

Thursday, July 24, 2008 6:16 PM

The Young Rebels
Star Trek - Animated Series
Project UFO
Supercar
The Monroes
The Who, What, or Where Game
The Mothers In Law
I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
Land of the Giants
It's About Time
Lotsa Luck
Man from Atlantis
Diver Dan
One Step Beyond
Shenanegians
Wonderama
Clay Cole Show
Lloyd Thaxton Show
Dance Fever
Solid Gold
Midnight Special
Alien Nation
Name That Tune
Bridget Loves Bernie
Too Close For Comfort
Occasional Wife
...
Just a few of the many shows I've enjoyed over the years that just vanished one day.

OUT2THEBLACK

Friday, July 25, 2008 1:25 AM

Oooh , the Young Rebels ! Great call !

Any list that does not include Earth2 is lacking something lovely...

"This time , WE'RE the Aliens !"

Add , My So-Called Life , and American Dreams to my list , for starters...

I also liked 240Robert...

This could take quite a while...

Dang , I'm still sore that they didn't allow
New Amsterdam to get its legs...

TRAVELER

Friday, July 25, 2008 1:56 AM

The Guardian

New Amsterdam

Cleopatra 2524

Queen of Swords

Original Star Trek

Judging Amy

http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler

JONGSSTRAW

Friday, July 25, 2008 12:32 PM

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Originally posted by out2theblack:
Oooh , the Young Rebels ! Great call !

Any list that does not include Earth2 is lacking something lovely...

"This time , WE'RE the Aliens !"

Add , My So-Called Life , and American Dreams to my list , for starters...

I also liked 240Robert...

This could take quite a while...

Dang , I'm still sore that they didn't allow
New Amsterdam to get its legs...

Glad you liked the Young Rebels mention. That show was really something special. I watched it mainly because I was obsessed at the time over Hilary Thompson, but it also had Lou Gossett (Enemy Mine) and Alex Hentelhoff (the plant manager who would go on to invent "transparent aluminum" in Star Trek IV ). Being a history buff I totally loved the show, just like I loved The Swamp Fox and Daniel Boone.

KPO

Friday, July 25, 2008 1:14 PM

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Are you kidding?

I thought this was a nice idea...

Problem I imagine is whether all the stations that own the rights to the shows that they've cancelled would allow them to succeed in anyone else's hands...

Truth is nobody's friend

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, May 9, 2025 7:21 PM

“They couldn’t care less”: ‘Firefly’ Cancelation Hits Even Harder When Joss Whedon Sacrificed Another Show for Space Western

https://fandomwire.com/they-couldnt-care-less-firefly-cancelation-hits
-even-harder-when-joss-whedon-sacrificed-another-show-for-space-western/

BRENDA

Friday, May 9, 2025 10:58 PM

Alien Nation is on my list as well now as The Rookie. At least Nathan got about seven seasons on that show. Also the original Battlestar Galactica.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:29 AM

OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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BRENDA

Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:57 AM

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OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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OG Alien Nation because as far as I know. No one has tried to remake it.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, May 11, 2025 4:01 AM

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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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OG Alien Nation because as far as I know. No one has tried to remake it.

I think you're right about that. I just don't hear "Alien Nation" thrown around too often and I thought maybe they'd come out with a recent reboot or something. I pay so little attention to new stuff that it wouldn't surprise me to find out it's been remade twice at this point.

I couldn't give you much of a review for the show myself. I do remember watching it with my old man every week when I was a kid. It was just one of the sci-fi shows that we watched together over the years like War of the Worlds, the 80's Twilight Zone, Max Headroom, etc.

Personally, I didn't think much of it and it was one of my least favorite shows that we watched together, and I don't really remember much outside of what the two main characters looked like. I very much remember the alien costume/makeup, but I could be putting some other dude's face in place of the human partner.

But you can't take that review seriously at all since I was probably between 6 and 10 years old when that was on and most of anything that they were talking about would have been over my head and/or really boring to me. It's just nothing I would have watched on my own and it was just spending time with Dad that counted. The fact that it was basically a cop show doesn't help with me either. If there is one popular genre of TV show out there that I've avoided and never even finished a single episode of in my life it would be a cop/lawyer TV show.

I've heard good things about Alien Nation since, on YouTube and such. Obviously, the premise serves as a platform for Progressive messaging, and I wouldn't have had to watch any YouTube videos to even know that. As an adult, you can just look at the title of the show and a poster for it and glean as much.

But I don't think that necessarily means that it's bad or that I wouldn't even enjoy it on a second watch all these years later. I don't take offense to most mid-80's progressive policy or talking points, and even happen to agree with a lot of them. By the late 90's I think a lot of it had been working and doing good. My group when I was in my late teens and early 20's was what the kids would call quite diverse. But we didn't even think about that. We just hung out and had a good time.

I'd say it's a shame we all didn't keep in touch, but really we were all probably better off going our separate ways and growing up. We had a lot of fun and most of us didn't get into too much trouble, but we were all going nowhere together.

But I do think of a lot of those people I used to hang out with from time to time and wonder what a relationship would be like with them today. Would we accidentally bump into each other and pick up conversation like the last time we saw each other was a week ago instead of 20 years ago, or would all of the bullshit and politics have driven a big wedge in between that now?

I never talked politics back then. None of them did either. We didn't give a shit about the names Clinton or Bush, and the only time they ever came up is if SNL did a funny skit about them that week. I think it's a shame that the kids today don't get to feel what that was like.

9/11 was the true turning point. Nothing was ever the same after that.

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BRENDA

Sunday, May 11, 2025 4:59 AM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by Brenda:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

OG Alien Nation because as far as I know. No one has tried to remake it.

I think you're right about that. I just don't hear "Alien Nation" thrown around too often and I thought maybe they'd come out with a recent reboot or something. I pay so little attention to new stuff that it wouldn't surprise me to find out it's been remade twice at this point.

I couldn't give you much of a review for the show myself. I do remember watching it with my old man every week when I was a kid. It was just one of the sci-fi shows that we watched together over the years like War of the Worlds, the 80's Twilight Zone, Max Headroom, etc.

Personally, I didn't think much of it and it was one of my least favorite shows that we watched together, and I don't really remember much outside of what the two main characters looked like. I very much remember the alien costume/makeup, but I could be putting some other dude's face in place of the human partner.

But you can't take that review seriously at all since I was probably between 6 and 10 years old when that was on and most of anything that they were talking about would have been over my head and/or really boring to me. It's just nothing I would have watched on my own and it was just spending time with Dad that counted. The fact that it was basically a cop show doesn't help with me either. If there is one popular genre of TV show out there that I've avoided and never even finished a single episode of in my life it would be a cop/lawyer TV show.

I've heard good things about Alien Nation since, on YouTube and such. Obviously, the premise serves as a platform for Progressive messaging, and I wouldn't have had to watch any YouTube videos to even know that. As an adult, you can just look at the title of the show and a poster for it and glean as much.

But I don't think that necessarily means that it's bad or that I wouldn't even enjoy it on a second watch all these years later. I don't take offense to most mid-80's progressive policy or talking points, and even happen to agree with a lot of them. By the late 90's I think a lot of it had been working and doing good. My group when I was in my late teens and early 20's was what the kids would call quite diverse. But we didn't even think about that. We just hung out and had a good time.

I'd say it's a shame we all didn't keep in touch, but really we were all probably better off going our separate ways and growing up. We had a lot of fun and most of us didn't get into too much trouble, but we were all going nowhere together.

But I do think of a lot of those people I used to hang out with from time to time and wonder what a relationship would be like with them today. Would we accidentally bump into each other and pick up conversation like the last time we saw each other was a week ago instead of 20 years ago, or would all of the bullshit and politics have driven a big wedge in between that now?

I never talked politics back then. None of them did either. We didn't give a shit about the names Clinton or Bush, and the only time they ever came up is if SNL did a funny skit about them that week. I think it's a shame that the kids today don't get to feel what that was like.

9/11 was the true turning point. Nothing was ever the same after that.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

No worries. If I heard my ears would have pricked up but then I would worry about the damage they would do to it.

It was on in

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, May 11, 2025 8:51 AM

Yeah. I think TV like that was good and did open up a dialogue. They could sneak in those "gotcha" moments and trick you into walking a mile in somebody else's shoes if you let them. I really liked the movie 12 Angry Men, but back in its day it had to be told in movie form for the most part. By the 80's there were so many shows being made and more networks like Fox popping up that they were able to do a lot more with it.

I keep up with some old friends, but they're all from school and mostly before I was out partying and stuff even though some of them were involved in some of that. I mean more my "crew" that I got into trouble with regularly. A couple of regular white guys, with our black and Mexican and Chinese friend kind of at the core of it all, but we had a lot of people we were always hanging around with that would pop up regularly whether it was at a random house party or one of the bars. Hung out with more Mexicans those 5 years than ever before or again in my life. Hell... after I survived that beat down and didn't go to the court cases for the 3 guys involved that didn't stab me and I happened to bump into them at a party about a year later, the rest of their pretty mixed crew treated me like a king for a while there. Never let my guard down around 'em, of course, but that was my closest experience to "thug life" and I've got a few stories out of it.

I don't talk to any of them after having moved away for a good job and I slowly stopped coming back into town on weekends and we lost touch. I don't think I even have any old contact info on any of them saved anywhere to try, even if I wanted to. At one point after I finally sobered up I got rid of a lot of old stuff and just wanted a clean break from everything.

It would be interesting to see how they're doing.

It was all Perot and Clinton and GWB jokes with some Bob Dole sprinkled in for us.

Aw yeah... Max Headroom and War of the Worlds were great. Even as a kid. I never went back and watch Max Headroom as an adult but I've always wanted to. I was too young to get that one too, but Max was awesome. I was a little older when War of the Worlds came out and understood what was going on in that show and I loved it on the rewatch in my late 20s. But I think even if I wasn't it would have been interesting enough to keep me liking it anyway.

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BRENDA

Sunday, May 11, 2025 9:20 AM

TV was good for opening up discussions back in the day. I saw 12 Angry Men but I didn't like it. Now, I couldn't tell you what it was about except it was a court room drama and the 12 were the jurors.

I was never a party girl but a couple of my friends were. Pot, alcohol as well as just regular cigarettes. My dad was a smoker and I knew what could happened, so I have never gone near them. Alcohol, I tried once and when the wine I sampled numbed my upper palate, I never went near it again. Never did drugs either and I can't stand the smell of pot.

I think SNL was funnier when I was a teenager with Dan Ackroyd, Gilda Radner and that rest of that crew.

Don't think I've seen Max since high school unless out of curiosity I looked it up on YouTube. Think I did find War of the Worlds one time. I think it was one of the first American productions filmed up here. It was filmed in and around Toronto.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, May 11, 2025 9:56 AM

Yeah. I liked 12 Angry Men. Dunno why. Saw it when I was in my early 20's when I still had an aversion to black and white movies too. Didn't watch it with anybody else. I remember I watched it on TCM alone in my gram's basement. Maybe because I'd already been in court a few times myself I enjoyed it.

Good for you on the drugs and booze. Never got too wild with my experimentation, but the few things I did, I did way too much of. Glad the cocaine didn't stick. I loved cocaine the half-dozen times I tried it. But the problem was I couldn't come down and I'd be up 2 days straight, and of course, I'm so cheap that I would never buy that on my own. I only did it on special occasions where somebody else had it and was feeling especially generous.

I grew up watching The Best of Saturday Night on Nick at Night with the old man and my brothers too, so I know what you mean. I don't think the cast ever came close to the original few years until the Farley/Sandler/Hartman/Spade/Meyers days. Probably hasn't been that funny since. I thought it was still funny when Will Ferell was on, but I barely watched it at that point and I haven't paid attention since.

I think the funny thing about that show is whatever age you were around high school is probably going to be your favorite seasons of SNL. I bet there are people somewhere between you and I who would say that the Joe Piscapo days were the best.

I remember kind of hating the 2nd season the first time around on War of the Worlds, but when I watched it in my late 20's I actually liked the 2nd season a lot more than the first.

I had a huge crush on the girl in that show at the time. I can't remember her name now. I remember never seeing her again until I went to the theater with my brother and his friends to see Snakes on a Plane and couldn't believe she was in it. I hadn't seen her in 15 years or so, but I just knew that was her. She was quite a looker when she grew up. Hope she did something nice with her life. I don't think the acting career panned out for her.

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BRENDA

Sunday, May 11, 2025 12:14 PM

I must have seen 12 Angry Men on tv and I had sort of grown up with black and white movies. My parents liked John Wayne and a lot of his stuff is black and white.

Yup. Never did any of that stuff. Course alcohol and people like me doesn't mix. I have a friend who I HOPE has given up smoking after having open heart surgery and then a stroke a couple of years ago.

Don't know if I was watching repeats or not but yeah what I watched of SNL was original crew. Loved Gilda Radner's Miss Litela and her, "Never mind". I saw pieces of the Church Lady but no.

I like Richard Chaves as Colonel Ironhorse in War of the Worlds and I just found it interesting after hearing part of the radio show that was done in the '30s and freaked everyone out. Adrian Paul and another actor worked on the show before Highlander the tv series.