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Television Series that were cut short due to bad marketing...

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Nowhere Man - in the 90s you had the X-Files (which I hated) as well as a bunch of other "conspiracy" shows. It was the only one in that category that I actually liked, and it didn't last more than one season 🙁
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
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Dude, it lasted 9 years. 😛 Didn't it fizzle out because David Duchovney left?

My vote goes to Sports Night. It was critically acclaimed, and everyone I know who has seen it has loved it. I don't know if it just had a bad time slot or what... but it only lasted two seasons. West Wing, another Aaron Sorkin show, started the same year Sports Night ended and was pretty much identical in style and it lasted like 7 years. It could have lasted longer if Sorkin didn't leave after the 4th season.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
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Dude, it lasted 9 years. 😛 Didn't it fizzle out because David Duchovney left?

My vote goes to Sports Night. It was critically acclaimed, and everyone I know who has seen it has loved it. I don't know if it just had a bad time slot or what... but it only lasted two seasons. West Wing, another Aaron Sorkin show, started the same year Sports Night ended and was pretty much identical in style and it lasted like 7 years. It could have lasted longer if Sorkin didn't leave after the 4th season.
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Sorry, I was being sarcastic. 😀
 
Cop Rock
It was great but the great unwashed rejected it out of hand on the basis of "bad" reviews. It allowed the inner feelings of the various characters to be amplified with song and dance.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Marlin1975
Arrested Developement did not have many ads as it cost a lot of money to make. If the cost were lower they might have kept it longer. Family guy, american dad, etc... even with low ratings Fox knows they are cheap and will have great sales on DVDs and other channels.
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Arrested Development cost alot of money to make? They must have been paying the actors alot because that production of the show itself didn't look all that expensive (not like you'd see out of an effects driven adventure or sci-fi show).
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On-location shooting = skyrocketing costs.

Anyways, my vote goes for Arrested Development, Carinvale, and Firefly, with AD being my favorite comedy ever, and Firefly being the only cheesy sci-fi-ish show that I've ever cared to watch (outside of the occasional X-Files a while back). Carnivale was my favorite HBO show.
 
I don't think Arrested Development suffered from bad marketing. Sure, they stopped promoting it before they stopped airing it, but it had plenty of promotion in the beginning and later as well. The lowbrow audience is where I place the blame.
 
firefly was cut because it wasn't a good tv show. no amount of promotion would have saved it. sci fi shows don't work all that well to begin with, and that one was weird and not eay to get into.


arrested development probably suffered from lack of advertising and stable time slot, but that show was also very hard to get into. a lot of the jokes were very hard to get if you'd never seen it before. if you'd been watching for a while (or from the beginning) it was absolutely hilarious. otherwise, it was *huh?*
 
- Enterprise (can't beleive they really dropped that one, I mean come on! I'm not even a serious Star Trek fan, I mean I don't wear strange uniforms and don't build futuristic weapons at home but still, it was cool!)
- Space Above & Beyond
- Treshold
- Dark Angel
- Sliders

They wanted to cancel Sliders for a long time before the end and they should have, too bad things turned out as they did. One of the best series *EVER*.
 
Two shows belong here:

1) Homeboys in Outer Space
2) Platypus Man

both nixed by UPN...

cue xfiles theme.

honorable mention:

Sliders (the first 2 seasons, after that... well... u know)

the original cast, Rhys Davis, Rembrant, Jerry Connell, Wade was the best.
 
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