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Name a canceled TV show that should have been given a second chance.

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Reaper, TSCC, Dresden Files and of course Firefly.

P.S.: They got to finish it but I wish Dollhouse would have been allowed to be stretched into 3 seasons. The last few episodes were really crammed together.

P.S.S Heroes should have been canceled after the disaster that was season 2.
 
Wolf Lake, they killed it like 1/3 the way through the first season.

Best werewolf show ever from the creator of Carnivale, but you cannot just end it with Lu-Diamond Phillips
being injected with werewolf blood!

Invasion and especially Threshold fall into this category as well. Threshold was awesome, but they ended it abruptly🙁

They also axed Happy Town, which was shaping up to be pretty good.
 
sandorski said:
hehe. I've spent the last 3-4 weeks watching Seasons 1-6(half way through 6) and soon should be done 7. I know when I'm finished I'll go through withdrawals, but I really don't see how they could continue that Series and a Spin Off would pretty much suck in comparison, IMO. There was just so much going on in 24 that you pretty much needed the National/International aspect of it.

What you describe is kinda like what A Team was. Perhaps they'll resurrect a TV Series after the Movie comes out. Perhaps not.
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haha, that was my thought as well.

I'd love to see Jack Bauer teaming up with The Unit guys on some sort of mission...but of course that's impossible. Jonas Blain & David Palmer can't be two insane badasses and one person at the same time. 🙁

Unless.... :hmm:


either way, put David Mamet in charge of the next Jack Bauer project and I'll be happy. 🙂
 
+++ to whoever mentioned The Bernie Mack Show, been watching it on FX lately and it's even better than I remember. RIP to the show and the man 🙁
 
Flipped Gazelle said:
Heh... I've grown so accustomed to poor grammar and folks spelling things out phonetically - and ignoring word meanings - that sometimes I barely notice these things anymore. :$
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I often miss such things as well; but the overwhelming prevalence of "should of" on these boards and elsewhere is like an army of giant fever blisters--their frightful pestilence appearing out of nowhere in sea of relatively mild imperfections, demanding that their presence be acknowledged, and that justice be meted swiftly against their tyranny!
 
QueBert said:
They were supposed to have 13 episodes for the final season. HBO pulled the plug on the show and gave them 1 final episode to tie up all the lose ends. It was only technically a few episodes short, but they ended up having to rush the story to finish it in episode 10. An extra almost 3 hours would have really added to how the show ended.
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Oh, right. It was a very short season. Still, I tend to like the 5th season way more than a lot of people give it credit. Should have been even better, I guess.

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Firefly (of course)
Jericho (the "2nd chance" they gave it was total bullshit)
Kings
Black Donnellys

Over There (haven't seen this one mentioned)
 
IHateMyJob2004 said:
To those that watched The Sarah Conner chronicles, they think they lost a good show.

Season 1 sucked but mostly due to the writers strike. Season 2 though. it was well done. Very good story arc, etc. Not the best acting but to me, story matters. Season 1 turned to many people away and they could not recover. The viewership never happened.
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season 1 dragged on during the first half, but the final half was awesome. The last 2 or 3 episodes that season were epic; and I preferred it to the 2nd season overall.

But I think you're right--it was the opening of the first season that failed to keep viewers tuned-in.

Real shame, and I always detest TV Sci Fi as it's quite wretched. I initially dubbed the idea of SCC as utter crap, but watched a few episodes then just kept watching. It really was damn good. 🙁
 
I don't watch TV anymore (except for the evening news), but...

American Gothic (Coz Gary Cole was teh devil, and he's a cool dude.)

Young Americans (hey... I liked it. Good characters, good acting. Sue me.)

Enterprise (Yeah, I liked this one too. Not making any excuses.)
 
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