The Most Unjustly Cancelled Series This Decade

[Omra]

I wish this would happen...

[Geoff G.o.B]

I'm not sure if its a good or bad thing that over here in dear old blighty we've only heard of about half of them. Whats worse is by the time we get them and go "what a great show", its already laid out in the chapel of rest, thanks a bunch for the hooking me into a dead end program TV networks!

I think its safe to say with the current quick fire ratings hit approach taken by so many networks if regrets were like popcorn, we'd all be fat  :wallbash:

[Rico]

Sometimes I think I'd rather know if something is going to be canceled quickly (one season or less).  I wouldn't even start to watch it as it airs then.

[Geekyfanboy]

Sometimes I think I'd rather know if something is going to be canceled quickly (one season or less).  I wouldn't even start to watch it as it airs then.

But then you would miss out on some really good TV. I hate when my favorite TV shows are cancelled but I'm thankful for every episode produced.

[Rico]

Sometimes I think I'd rather know if something is going to be canceled quickly (one season or less).  I wouldn't even start to watch it as it airs then.

But then you would miss out on some really good TV. I hate when my favorite TV shows are cancelled but I'm thankful for every episode produced.

No I wouldn't miss them.  Notice I said when the shows air.  If I heard a series was good after it was over and out on DVD, I would pick up the DVD set.  Then at least I would know it was over and wouldn't be so crushed when I got to the end of the series.  I did this with "Firefly."  I'm just tired of faithfully following shows as they air, suggest them to friends, get invested and have them yanked in May every year.

[Geekyfanboy]

Oh I gotcha.. I misunderstood.. I agree with you.. sometimes it's easier to have a wait and see attitude since everything seems to come out on DVD now.

[Feathers]

I'm not sure if its a good or bad thing that over here in dear old blighty we've only heard of about half of them. Whats worse is by the time we get them and go "what a great show", its already laid out in the chapel of rest, thanks a bunch for the hooking me into a dead end program TV networks!

I was going to make a similar point.

Farscape is the great crime for me it was a great show and deserved a much longer run. The Peacekeeper Wars did make up for some of that but not enough for me. (The only reason I'm catching up with the final season of SG-1 is the Browder/Black combination there)

Enterprise is someway behind in my list since I think they made a bit of a mess of season 4 by trying to cram so much stuff into it. The last episode was very weak too which didn't leave a strong urge to see it back again.

Of the rest, most are fairly alien to me since they either never made terrestrial TV over here or I simply missed them.

FWIW I always think Babylon 5 is the prime oddity in this regard having been cancelled (and had seasons 4 and 5 compressed into season 4 - very well done, too) and then renewed by someone else after which they had to come up with a new season 5 arc (not so very well done).