The title says it all
Shouldnt have been.
1: Jacka$$(best show ever dont know why it went bye bye.)
2:George lopez(as much as i hate the actor i liked his show)
3:primeval(liked it justed did)
should be
1:hannah montana
2:spongbob squarepants
3:jonas
Shows that should:
Family Guy, first couple seasons were okay should have never been brought back
American Dad
CSI Miami
CSI
CSI NY
Ice Road Truckers
American Idol
Axe Men
The Simpsons they've been around long enough.
I'm sure there are more.
Shouldn't Have been:
Well now I just don't know, i never saw Firefly so I won't put that.
barlio wrote:Was the English version of the Office meant to be only 2 seasons long, or was it cut short? I would say that is most disappointing to me.
It ended with the Christmas Special because the team behind it had told the story. Which is good, and how more shows should run - short, focussed runs with an ending in mind.
If you want more of the same try The Extras, same people, same kind of jokes and basically the same plot.
Though I haven't had a chance to watch either of them I've always heard that Arrested Development and Freaks and Geeks were really good.
They were. To the credit of the network, they gave Arrested Development a second season despite poor ratings, just because the show was good. But come the end of the second season ratings hadn't improved and ultimately the stations aren't there to spend a lot of money on shows people aren't watching.
By the way, I don't think Jackass was cancelled, I think Knoxville left to try movies (how did that work out?) and the rest went on to start their own shows like Viva La Bam and Wildboys.
I wish Desperate Housewives had been cut after one series. As a one-off it was pretty good, some funny lines and an interesting mystery. As an on-going show it was forced to get more and more improbable with its stories while at the same time the writing got less and less interesting. In fact, I could say the same for 24.
LunaHound wrote:Reboot . ( or did it end? i dunno )
Reboot ended as far as I know. It did have a lovely happy ending.
Come to think of it they never finished Exo-Squad! That was a great show with serious drama and action. Pity they canned it two episodes into a new arc.
LunaHound wrote:Reboot . ( or did it end? i dunno )
Reboot ended as far as I know. It did have a lovely happy ending.
What was the ending ? i saw the one on youtube where its supposed to be Bob and Dot's wedding.
and it left as cliff hanger ending. ( then someone said they'll be making a 4 ep real ending )
LunaHound wrote:Reboot . ( or did it end? i dunno )
Reboot ended as far as I know. It did have a lovely happy ending.
What was the ending ? i saw the one on youtube where its supposed to be Bob and Dot's wedding.
and it left as cliff hanger ending. ( then someone said they'll be making a 4 ep real ending )
As far as I know Bob, Enzo and that other chick return from the web, the computer is saved and all is well, with a little Enzo now running around besides the big Enzo.
garret wrote:The title says it all
Shouldnt have been.
1: Jacka$$(best show ever dont know why it went bye bye.)
2:George lopez(as much as i hate the actor i liked his show)
3:primeval(liked it justed did)
should be
1:hannah montana
2:spongbob squarepants
3:jonas
You want to cancel Spongebob? She Who Must Be Obeyed, Sir Frazzled, Zantar the Master of the Pit, Genghis Connie, several thousand gay men, and about 30,000,000 kids and their parents invite you to go yourself. Sorry, I was just...being serious
The show is funny, crazy, but has real morals (do good, be good to friends, responsibilty)
If you persists in this I know at least two Vietnam vets with kids who will volunteer to come to your house to help you with this problem.
Farscape is the only one I wish hadn't been canned.
Other than that, nothing I can think of.
I'm not one for asking for other shows to be cancelled just because I don't like them. I don't see why others shouldn't enjoy it if they do, more power to em an all. I mean if we let that idiology become norm, well we wargamers are fethed.
Arrested Development and Firefly for me. Would have been Futurama in the #1 spot there, but good news everyone! When Family Guy was cancelled I thought it was a shame, but it should have been left to die instead of being resurrected as now it just focuses on the college market with the same hackneyed jokes and structure from the first few series. Battlestar Galactica should have been killed before the last season too.
Another shout out for Arrestted Development and Farscape.
I really dug the animated JLA/JLU cartoons as well, really well written.
I thought, dodgy as some of the early episodes were, that Birds of Prey had promise at least, as did the Lone Gunmen spinoff from X files.
Going back many many years I rememebr being highly amused by an old sitcom starring George Clooney called ( I think ) Emergency Room ? I'm sure it hasn't aged well but made me chuckle at the time.
My ex girlfirend was big on "Kitchen Confidential" and I must confess, some what embarassingly, it did kind of grow on me.
legoburner wrote:Arrested Development and Firefly for me. Would have been Futurama in the #1 spot there, but good news everyone! When Family Guy was cancelled I thought it was a shame, but it should have been left to die instead of being resurrected as now it just focuses on the college market with the same hackneyed jokes and structure from the first few series. Battlestar Galactica should have been killed before the last season too.
How would they kill BSG before season 4 with the way season three ended? /boggle
BrookM wrote:As far as I know Bob, Enzo and that other chick return from the web, the computer is saved and all is well, with a little Enzo now running around besides the big Enzo.
They actually did a new season a couple years after Season 3 aired and ended, but it was never completed. Which is weird, because Season 3 was very much an ending, other than the new super virus running around the net which was supposed to be resolved with a movie(which became a new season).
Frazzled wrote:*Dark Shadows (Vampire soap opera for the the win!)
Whilst I love Dark Shadows, the show did originally air for nearly 5 years.
There's a Dark Shadows movie planned, as well. It looks like it's going to be another Tim Burton Johnny Depp/Helena Bonham Carter love fest.
As for me, Clerks: The Animated Series should never have been canceled. It still amazes me that Cartoon Network hasn't tried to pick it back up, but then that mean something good was on Adult Swim again.
I enjoyed Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law (featuring the voice of Stephen Colbert)
I'm glad Futurama is coming back in the regular format. The movies were pretty good but I prefer the old episodes
Agreed on Clerks. That show was surprisingly funny.
Firefly
Carnivale: HBO show that was cancelled just as it got really interesting
Crime Story: (dating myself here...) Michael Mann's 1950's crime drama, rated by Time as one of the best 10 shows of the 80s, cancelled after 2 seasons. A LOT of actors got their start here, including Kevin Spacey, Julia Roberts, David Caruso, Andrew Dice Clay (pre-profanity-laden comedy), Gary Sinise, and others
I want more Venture Brothers!!! It's the greatest animated show ever made. Not even Metalocalypse is as cool, and I am duty-bound as a rabid fan of death metal to long for it.
The Simpsons should have been put out of it's misery years ago.
24: As much as I love it, unless the writers can go back to the gritty basics of the first couple of seasons and stop the wildly OOT nonsense of the seasons 4 and 6 (5 was much better) then they should just kill it off now. I haven't actually seen season 7 yet so if they are already back on track I apologise.
Stargate and all it's umpteen spin offs cannot die soon enough.
My Name is Earl: Started out as one of the funniest shows on TV. Now it's really drifted from it's original vision and is just filled with surreal jokes about rednecks. I honestly can't remember the last episode where Earl actually did a list item.
Shows that shouldn't have been cancelled:
Terminator - TSCC: Really needed at least another season to wrap things up properly.
The Unit: Just heard this was cancelled, not happy at all.
That last episode of the Sarah Connor Chronicles really painted themselves into a corner.
24 lost me after the first season. They just repeat the same formula with variations.
I agree, the stargate shows jumped the shark multiple times. Mostly the replicators, then having other replicators in the Pegasus Galaxy.
Fifty wrote:My Name is Earl has been cancelled, and therefore joins the list of shows that shouldn't have been, IMO.
Oh right, well then I'm not sure how I feel. The first 2 seasons where excellent but 3 and 4 were inconsistent at best. There were enough flashes of genius to keep me watching but just too much filler material for me to keep raving about it. It wasn't so far gone as to be unslavagable but part of me is glad it's going to at least go out whilst being, on the whole, a good show.
My main issue with 24 is the writers inability to find a theme and stick with it. Constantly changing bad guys and threats several times during each season means that a day typically becomes several mini story arcs as opposed to the one big one the show was initially. Season 4 was particularly bad in this regard.
Constantly trying to one up the threat level from season to season doesn't help either. A small yet credible threat like in season one (assassination of presidential candidate) worked nicely. In season 6 when Jack was chasing multiple nukes around it was just nuts.
Like I said still haven't seen season 7 so they may well have corrected this already.
Just to change the subject I've just finished watching the Shield which is a cracking example of how to end a show at the right time. It went out on top like nothing I've ever seen before, leaving you hungry for more whilst at the same time glad they won't give you any. I think this is partly down to the 13 shows a season format. This means the makers kept the story tight and the filler minimal. The best show on TV I've seen in the last 10 years and yes I have seen the Wire.
I've dipped into 24 here and there, and it is well directed and tense.
..but I pretty much gave up when i saw a scene with a nuke going off in.... New York ( ? or somewhere) and the next scene was..... everyone just carrying on and some cleaners going to work at/in a motel.
Now, I'm pretty dedicated to my job... but there's limits you know ?
Most series are best left at one season unless the writing or premises are good. 24 is more a one off gimmick. Heroes suffers under the writer strikes and the bad desire to milk the cash cow. Most comedy series become stale because the jokes are just plain horrible.
If Enterprise had stuck to the template of the first half of season 1 then I would have been sad if it ended, but the second they stared traveling time I just stopped caring.
I started watching my name is Earl about a month before it was cancelled.
Family Guy shouldn't have been canceled to begin with, but I think if it hadn't been canceled and continued then it would have fizzeled out. Sometimes getting canceled is the best thing that can happen to a show.
reds8n wrote:I've dipped into 24 here and there, and it is well directed and tense.
..but I pretty much gave up when i saw a scene with a nuke going off in.... New York ( ? or somewhere) and the next scene was..... everyone just carrying on and some cleaners going to work at/in a motel.
Now, I'm pretty dedicated to my job... but there's limits you know ?
Indeed, that was season 6 and it was in LA. I remember the casualties being stated as 12000. Now considering that 9/11 had 3000 casualties and was big enough to dominate all media for about 6 months and change US foreign policy for the next decade it seems rather bizarre that an incident with 4 times that many casualties can be forgotten about within 2 hours as the writers move onto the next sub plot. That was a prime example of the sort of OOT nonsense that's becoming very detrimental to the show.
The pace, tension and characters remain top notch hence even during that season I kept watching. The writers just need to start toning things down.
Shouldn't have been cancelled: Murder One (shouldn't have been so badly re-tooled ofr season 2 either), Terminator: TSCC. It was just starting to get it's legs, and there was a megabudget movie that would have worked as a promotional tool, alas it was too expensive on a per-episode basis
Should be cancelled: Doll House. I love Buffy & Angel, but I'm sorry Joss, this one just doesn't work and Ms. Dushku doesn't have the acting chops for Echo
Sarah Connor Chronicles. Only seen the first season thus far, but thoroughly enjoyed it.
Space : Above and Beyond. You think Firefly got stiffed? Try having the last episode as the characters shot down, in space, and then fin. Sucks!
Firefly. It was good, it was fairly original, and I, like thousands others (if not millions) throughly enjoyed it. Seemingly, Fox hit it with the big bad 'Not The Simpsons' hammer...
Doctor Who, circa 1989. Why did you do it BBC? Sylvester McCoy's stories I number around the best out there. It was Colin Baker who stuffed it to the point where not even Peri's outstanding cleavage could make it interesting! Oh, and now that Russell T Davies is out of the picture, here's hoping Stephen Moffat brings back the Timelords. Stupid thing to do wiping them out. Tosser.
Blade, the TV Series. So much promise. Writing was slightly ropey and not having Snipes in it was an adjustment, but deserved a second crack at the whip.
Should be cancelled / should have been cancelled sooner.
Sex and the City. Lame. Lame. Lame.
Friends. 10 seasons. 1 joke. Recycled umpteen times. Made stars out of utterly talentless hacks.
The Simpsons. The stories are getting poorer and poorer. Endings just sort of end, without really being a decent ending, and the original charm has long been lost.
Brainiac, Myth Busters and all those other "zany" science shows can stop now, it's not funny any more and I already know what Kari Byron looks like naked.
I don't want Stargate to go away, I was really pissed off when they cancelled Atlantis. Killing off Carson was a slowed thing to do as well, even if it was a cool twist. I was fine with ending SG-1, because 10 years/seasons is long enough.
Family Guy needs to be cancelled. It's just The Simpsons for adults now.
Shouldn't have been Cancelled: Firefly Sonic SatAM (It was good DAMNIT!) Futurama (but it is coming back, so that is good) Stargate SG1
Should be cancelled: The Simpsons Star Trek Enterprise should be retroactively cancelled IMO. CSI of all kinds need to be axed Stargate Atlantis Stargate "Anything But SG1"
shoulda been:
Star Trek: Enterprise - after the pilot.
Heroes.
Supernatural
Doll house (yet more proof that Joss is not the be-all and end-all).
The simpsons
All reality tv shows (kitchen/bathroom/neighbour makeover shows, big-brother crap and all similar shows).
24
Lost.
Shouldn't have been:
Farscape. I coulda done with a longer stretch on that show.
Space: Above and Beyond.
Killing off Rodney in SG:A was the best thing they did (apart from replacing Weir).
Rodney was an annoying git.
Supernatural was pretty good. At least the first season was, I didn't see the second one.
Lost isn't bad either. I'll never watch an episode, but it has some pretty religious fans. I'd say that the show has merit, even if it's not exactly my "cup of tea" (as you unamericans say).
Nice to see Firefly gets several mentions. To me its an honourable mention because it is well eclipsed.
The only program that really tops that on the too-short-a-run level is Fawlty Towers. And I am suprised that has not yet been mentioned, twelves episodes was too short a time to be exposed to such a work of genius. Though I do admit the show should nevertheless still be on the short side to ensure that absolute maximum quality was provided throughout.
Fawlty is fine as it is, anything more and it would've been stale or horrible. Besides by the second season John and Connie, who both wrote it were divorced.
Big Brother needs cancelling and everyone associated with it needs shooting. Surefire way of improving the genepool. Maybe all viewers should be sterilised too.
I think I am the only person who thought Firefly was just ok. They had a maarthon on the sci fi channel. I watched about 8 episodes and thought they were purely ok-the concept wasn't working for me (the one with horses made me laugh).
I'll echo a few good ones mentioned earlier:
Firefly
Crime Story
Space: Above and Beyond
My Name is Earl (which makes no sense to me)
I'd add the live action "The Tick" with Patrick Warburton. The last few episodes were excellent, imho. I think Firefly had a bit of the same problem, the first episodes were more the show getting its legs, and then it got better towards the end of the run, but after it was already doomed.
Shows that should cancelled:
Anything that qualifies as 'reality' TV
American Dad (I like Family Guy, but can't get into Dad)
Frazzled wrote:I think I am the only person who thought Firefly was just ok. They had a maarthon on the sci fi channel. I watched about 8 episodes and thought they were purely ok-the concept wasn't working for me (the one with horses made me laugh).
Interestingly, I loved Serenity.
The moment that made me love Firefly was the guy getting kicked into the engine. Also, Jobal Early.
It never gets aired in order, so you probably saw random episodes. But yeah, the later ones are better. Highlights are the finale, Ariel, and Our Mrs. Reynolds.
dietrich wrote:I think Firefly had a bit of the same problem, the first episodes were more the show getting its legs, and then it got better towards the end of the run, but after it was already doomed.
Frazzled wrote:So, er did it get better after the first 5-8 episodes?
Yes, imho. I also think the western motiff got a little better - either I didn't notice it as much, or they handled it better. I think it's the later, they weren't so pre-occupied with it. Ariel is great, especially the last scene.
Dal'yth Dude wrote:Should be cancelled immediately: Heroes
How Dare You?
Heroes is my favourite TV show.
I'll save my snarky comments about about your taste.
Why do I think Heroes should be cancelled?
- Characters change way too much with little to no motivation.
- Humor is defined by those two wacky asians and their hijinks.
- How many times does Ali Larter have to die and come back?
- dropped plot points or plot devices. Whatever happened to Molly, the meta GPS?
- Using future events to motivate people gets old, yet it is a core premise in nearly every season. Then in the last season they explicitly state that one can't change the future without ramifications. D'uh!
- Sylar, the most dangerous person in the universe who everybody wants dead is now in Nathan's body with nobody caring or worried?
- In season 2 the first half of the season is Maya and her brother running through central america. The same scene over and over. Then after she gets to America with Sylar she's pretty much dropped before she gets killed. All that build up for a bunch of nothing.
- Suresh was supposed to be a 50 something year old scientist without powers to provide the moral compass of the show. Instead he becomes a young hunk they have to give powers to. One season he is good, one he is doing the devil's work. As long as he has a lab he doesn't care after 5 minutes of whining to his benefactor
- Speaking of powers, why give Ando a power? Again, a normal interacting with a meta is a theme that could be explored in greater depth, but instead, they just give Ando a power that guarantees his sidekick status. Remember HRG's point about a team being a normal and meta?
- no budget for effects. So Nathan, Peter and Sylar go head to head behind a closed door and all we get to see are some flashes of light thru a keyhole? Really? Who approved that? Even the disappointing ending to season 1's climax looks like an ILM masterpiece next to that.
- No continuity. Pretty obvious by most of the posts above, but there seems to be little continuity in the show. When one of the producers was asked about that, he stated that DVRs and internet downloads were the reason. Apparently recording and re-viewing shows makes it *less* likely people can follow what is going on!
- too many characters, too many powers, and no coherent focus
The last season and a half I kept watching thinking to myself "Self, it can't get worse." Now I watch it to see how many drinks I can stomach in an hour.
Twin Peaks deserved at least another season and a real ending. But it was doomed by too many writers in the kitchen and ABC's incredibly dumb decision to move a hit show to Saturday night, which is death for television not aimed at octogenerians. Not sure there's ever been a show that hit such heights and lows so quickly. It was a pop culture phenomenon at the end of season one (cast members on SNL, cover of Rolling Stone, etc.), then got cancelled ignominiously before the end of season two. Quite the rise and fall.
Some other shows that deserved better, just off the top of my head:
Doctor, Doctor (with Matt Frewer)
Brooklyn South
EZ Streets
@reds8n, that show with Clooney was called ER. So yes, George Clooney was on TWO series with that name. Weird.
@Redbeard, was Crime Story the one with Dennis Farina that opened to "Runaway"? If that's the show, it was a good one.
It's astounding to me that and Survivor and Desperate Housewives are actually still on the air (they are, aren't they?). ER was like that. Was it last year or the year before they ended it? I remember seeing a commercial for the series finale and being surprised because I thought it died 5 years earlier. Call it the Abe Vigoda effect.
Heroes is a spectacularly cheesy show. Cheesy effects, cheesy plot...seriously, I'm still waiting for Electrawoman and Dynagirl to show up. It's funny to me that there a lot of people who watch Heroes who probably wouldn't be caught dead reading a comic book...when in fact there are many superhero comics that are better written.
Firefly really was a great show. I honestly didnt know about it until the movie Serenity came out. I loved that movie so much! Then I was shown the shows, and I still cant understand why it was ever canceled.
Reboot was one of my favorite shows growing up too. My god was that a bad ass show!
Automatically Appended Next Post: Ill add that I watch heros. It started out really good, and I used to read comic books. The last few seasons have been steadily getting worse. Infact he season that just ended had a couple shows in it that just made me mad I watched them.
yourself. Sorry, I was just...being serious
