what was the best show on tv... that never got a fair shake/ cancelled way too soon.

We all have gotten into a show that was so amazing- only to see a network cancel it way too soon or to have it get stuck in a constantly moving timeslot only to get cancelled. I know we are all thinking firefly- but what else was out there?

i vote for 'Better off Ted'. It was an amazing off the wall comedy about life in a super corporate envoirnment. It got almost no marketing. It was a midseason replacement and got renewed as a midseason replacement again only with a different timeslot. When it was cancelled they aired the remining episodes 2 at a time to mow though the rest and then it was never heard from again. this was great television.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpUPW4FL6Mo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUvu-9yDnUE

both full seasons are on netflix streaming.

It wasn't amazing but I was peeved that it got canceled. A show called Reunion, aired on Fox in the mid-00s. Each episode was a different year, followed the lives of high school friends and their connection to one of the friends that was killed in the present day.


Stupid show but I liked it and it stuck with me. Got canceled mid-season and never got to see who the killer was. Yeah the answer's on wikipedia but who gives a shit.

Freakazoid.

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The way I see it, there's two kinds of kids in the world: kids who like Animaniacs, and kids who don't like Animaniacs.

Which are you?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8OKMlqxLs&feature=related

i cant resist- here is one more from better off ted- they inserted a commercial from the fake company in the show into every episode. its a great way to seperate acts.

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Don't like.

The obvious choice is Arrested Development.

I also think Space: Above and Beyond was cancelled way too soon.

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Don't like.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1RjI7G8rFw&feature=related

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HBO gave them some of the worst time slots.

Turth be told i didn't give it a chance when it frist aired,then i didn't watched it untile years later as reruns.

Good show but it was on a crappy network know as fox :p

This is an easy one for me... FIVE different shows actually.


ahead of it's time, and last ONE season. :(


Favorite Cop TV show that lasted one pilot
and 13 episodes and was canceled. Dick Wolf had too
many shows on at once and New York Undercover did better
than this one. James McCaffery would become the voice of
Max Payne later, but watch Swift Justice and you see that
the character is based on Mac Swift from this show.


don't get me started. BROWN COAT 4 LYFE!



wasn't feeling the show at first but it grew on me. Then as FOX
had done before, they canceled a show people were caring about
for more mindless reality shows.

and lastly...

i loved sarah connor chronicles. i own both seasons on bluray. i really truly wanted to like 'the good guys' but i couldnt get into it. i see a lot of fox on your list, mike- no love for cop rock?

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i loved sarah connor chronicles. i own both seasons on bluray. i really truly wanted to like 'the good guys' but i couldnt get into it. i see a lot of fox on your list, mike- no love for cop rock?

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Yeah FOX tended to have stuff I liked but they always ended the shit. Good Guys did drag at times but it was funny. Much better than the other crap on the air. Just now started watching Arrested Development (and love it). Only current sitcom or show I watch now is "Community"

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Yeah FOX tended to have stuff I liked but they always ended the shit. Good Guys did drag at times but it was funny. Much better than the other crap on the air. Just now started watching Arrested Development (and love it). Only current sitcom or show I watch now is "Community"

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you are in for a treat. look up cop rock on youtube. it was a gritty cop drama/ broadway musical circa early 90's. also it was abc- not fox- my bad. it was pure amazing. lastly- good on you! glad to see another community fan!

Better of Ted was just a poor man's Andy Richter Controls the Universe.

There's only one answer to this one: Firefly.

Human Giant. even though the cast went on to lots of other funny projects, i still think it deserved more seasons. it was The State for the 00's. GODAMMIT MTV, AT LEAST RELEASE THE 2ND SEASON ON DVD!!

A rag tag bunch trying to do good in space, man I was so into this way back in the mid 90's, only 6 episodes made it to air



Best damn version of Spider-Man in animation, a pity that it got canned during the Disney buy out of Marvel



This team was more mentally screwed up then anything which made for some great dynamics. Damn shame it ended on a cliffhanger



Boggles my mind why this wasn't picked up



Really well done show, while it had two seasons I'm not sure why it was canned yet damn Tim & Eric( at the time ) had their show still on

You know what I completely forgot to mention? Pirates of Dark Water. Will Ren ever find the thirteen treasures of Rule? :conf:

Jericho. Absolutely loved every minute of it but it got a little out of hand the last couple of episodes. Maybe due to it being cancelled and they had to wrap it up?

Lucky Louie. I loved that show, wish it had another season. Also Z-rock I found entertaining but the 2nd season focused more on the guests than the band's story so it lost a lot of viewers. It had Greg Giraldo on their and he was great.

My picks have already been mentioned: Space: Above and Beyond, Firefly and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. (Meanest fucking cliffhanger ever!)

Firefly
Jericho
Space: Above and Beyond
Freaks and Geeks

D'oh. I should have mentioned Jericho as well. At least they continued it as a graphic novel.

Dead Like Me; I love that show, but it got canned after 2 seasons. At least they did a movie to finish the story, but it was rushed.

I want to see the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5F1zYQF5M




JS

Obvious answer

http://mimg.ugo.com/201003/40496/twin-peaks-ps3.jpeg

Some good shows listed. This is why I dont watch anything until season 2.

1. Carnivale - Biggest cliffhanger of any end season show. Ever. Then canceled. Fuck me. Had such potential.
2. Rubicon - Great cast and writing. How this show didn't make it to season 2 and Mad Men (which I'm a fan of) continues, is completely beyond me.

As quite a few mentioned (despite OP saying besides Firefly) the true answer is indeed Firefly. Now if only I could get my wife to watch it :oh_no:

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back when my wife was just my live-in girlfriend, i got her to watch the show after a lot of coercing. now we are married. moral of the story? nathan fillion will get you a FUCKING AWESOME wife.

Arrested Development: It did get 2/12 (hardly 3) seasons and lots of praise, but its a shame they had to tie things up so quickly. At least when they did end the show they properly ended it, but it did all seem so rushed.

Honestly though, I would have loved maybe 4 24 episode seasons and then for them to end it before it got stale. That show was too good to on endlessly.

Wikipedia entry for the 1991 revival of Dark Shadows:
Though the series premiered to great success, watched by nearly 1 in 4 households according to ratings of the period, NBC frequently pre-empted or abruptly re-scheduled later episodes in favor of news coverage during the onset of the Gulf War. Ratings rapidly declined in turn and the show was not picked up for a second season as a result.

Finding a way to kill off a series watched by 1 in 4 households before it hits season 2 is mindboggling.

Another series that never should have died after 1 season: The Flash

Edit: I forgot Bruce!

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Fucking love that show

late night with conan obrien

Boomtown - great cop drama that got lost in the crowded NCIS/CSI/Law & Order market.

Hard time on planet earth
Twin Peaks

Misfits of science.

Also, i'd love to see more seasons of the british misfits show.

Automan
Manimal
Poochinski
Card Sharks
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice
Night Man

it's been years since I seen it so maybe my tastes have changed, but I always thought MTV's downtown was a cool animated show and I think it only got one season.

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It took 28 posts for someone to state Twin Peaks? This site is slipping.

Another show:The Hat Squad (1992)

http://images.tvrage.com/shows/6/5844.jpg

The Rotten Tomatoes Show. Hands down.

Oh, I totally forgot Clone High, that show was so hilarious, I was shocked when it never got a second season.

The Flash. Way ahead of it's time. Had the person who did the score to Batman the animated Series before that existed. Showed comic book TV shows didn't have to be so campy. Cancelled cause CBS kept changing it's time slot.

Police Squad. Cancelled after 6 eps but at least it went on to bigger things on the big screen.
Would've love at least another season of The Critic.
And a few others that were already mentioned by others in this thread.

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Police Squad. Cancelled after 6 eps but at least it went on to bigger things on the big screen.
Would've love at least another season of The Critic.
And a few others that were already mentioned by others in this thread.

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i dont know if you ever saw it, but The Critic got a bonus season as a web series- with almost all of the voices. slight reformatting, but it's still out there and it is always good for a chuckle.

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What do you know about life after death?

Pandamonium. From like 30 years ago. Can't think of anything better on tv in recent years.

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OMG! Thanks for this cdamm, that show was great but I never knew about this; searching the web now...!

Ones already mentioned...

Arrested Development
Better Off Ted

Not mentioned...

Veronica Mars - This actually had a pretty interesting story line, I got into it after it had long since been pulled off air and they should have kept it going. I know the whole teen girl detective may sound lame, but the show was well written, it knew how to take some good plot twist and worst of all, Gossip Girl is the show that took it off air for the time slot.

Titus - Huge fan of his comedy and loved bringing his approach to real life issues that aren't always talked about in sitcom form tackled. It got wiped out during the early 2000's during Fox's Swap & Cancel programming set up. Lasted for 3 seasons but should have kept going.