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5 Shows Canceled Much Too Soon

Ok, how can Chappelle Show be considered to be cancelled too soon, when Chappelle walked off the show? Only one on the list I truly agree with is Firefly.
 
What, no Arrested Development? Although new episodes start next week, so I guess it doesn't count.
Regarding Futurama, I think it's actually a good idea to end a show before it runs out of gas (cough cough Simpsons cough cough).
 
That is the sorriest list of shows I've ever seen- "Chappelle Show" wasn't cancelled. "My So Called Life" was critically acclaimed but the other shows are cult favorites that didn't have a major impact when cancelled outside of the die-hard fans that missed the shows (but I guess thats the nature of cancelled shows)
 
justpassingthough said:
That is the sorriest list of shows I've ever seen- "Chappelle Show" wasn't cancelled. "My So Called Life" was critically acclaimed but the other shows are cult favorites that didn't have a major impact when cancelled outside of the die-hard fans that missed the shows (but I guess thats the nature of cancelled shows)
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Not to mention it was presumably written by a 30-year-old who has no concept of TV before the 90's.
 
The WGA strike killed Pushing Daisies.
A quirky, sweet, imaginative show that lost all of it's initial critical praise and accolades and momentum and ratings after it's premiere breakout season.
Then the WGA strike happened.
The first season was cut far short as the strike loomed.

Then ABC held the show back far too long after the strike resolve before it ever aired the next season and opted for failed cheap reality programming.
The show had so much potential. :-[
 
This is a ridiculous list in many ways. As pointed out, it does not take into account older shows like WKRP. (I'm not sure Police Squad was ever intended to be more than 6 episodes) The fact that Futurama is on the top of this list is nuts. It's got 124 episodes, 7 full seasons and 4 movies. Firefly deserves to be on the list...but Enterprise? No. Even he trashed the quality of it in the last season.
 
And here I thought this was about shows which never really had a chance to get an audience. To that list I'll add Last Resort (ABC)

There's also the NBC show that featured Blair Underwood as POTUS who was battling aliens which aired last year (The title escapes me now). That's was another good one :)

I don't break away from my political & actuality shows to watch just any entertainment show on TV so it has to be a pretty good one to do that. So far, the only one that's managed to stay on the air is another NBC show - Revolution

Hopefully it won't suffer the same fate as its two predecessors.....

Cheers & 73 ;D
 
Pat Cook said:
There's also the NBC show that featured Blair Underwood as POTUS who was battling aliens which aired last year (The title escapes me now). That's was another good one :)
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The Event

I agree "Pushing Daisies" was cancelled too soon. On the other hand, what would "GCB" be without Kristin Chenoweth? And there's another show that shouldn't have been cancelled.

"Futurama" was around a long time. I've seen the newer ones on WGN. Obviously, there were topics that had yet to be covered. Interesting how 1000 years later people have "forgotten" what technology existed, until the 1000th anniversary of said technology happened.
 
Pat Cook said:
And here I thought this was about shows which never really had a chance to get an audience. To that list I'll add Last Resort (ABC)

There's also the NBC show that featured Blair Underwood as POTUS who was battling aliens which aired last year (The title escapes me now). That's was another good one :)
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Like 'Revolution', NBC hyped the heck out of 'The Event',then 'rested' it at midseason, didn't speak of it for three months while 'The Voice' was on, then wondered why nobody watched it after it finally came back.
Here's an idea, NBC...just commit to 13-week drama series.
 
'Gadget' was kind of like Scooby Doo..same plot every episode. At least Scooby had a different 'monster'.
After the first season of 'Inspector Gadget', they took a year off and re-ran season 1, which burned the show out even more. Then, in season 2, they added that stupid superhero 'agent in training('Capeman'?) Oh, and the same old bad guy, with the same bumbling henchman, who were only slightly more stupid than Gadget. Originality? 'MISSED it, by THAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT much!'
 
Worst of the Gadget spinoffs was the "Field Trip" series, a way for DIC to produce a cheap E/I show, using stock shots of various cities around the world and superimposing random animations of Gadget over them, with Don Adams providing travelogue-type commentary throughout.
 
Lateline. One of the funniest shows ever and an example of great, biting satire. NBC never did right by it.
 
Playboy Club got cancelled after just 3 eps they should have let it go 10 to 12 eps before deciding what to do with it FX or Spike should have picked it up
 
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