Cancelled tv shows you miss?
- Thread starter Sandman0077
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Arch27
Member
The Tick (the cartoon, not that horrid live action version).
Police Squad - sure we got the Naked Gun films, but the original show was far more clever.
I miss a time in America where quality was desired over quantity. This is one of the reasons why we have all those crappy reality shows. 24-hour networks that demand constant programming - need to fill air time with as much crap as they can, so they go for the low-budget shlock where they don't have to pay writers.
I like the Brit sitcoms that are short and sweet - Spaced & Black Adder come to mind immediately.
I like older US TV shows from the 50s-60s and a few from the 70s. Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Thriller, Mr. Ed, Leave It To Beaver, Perry Mason, M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple... just to name a few. Yeah - those first five are almost all the same.
I just don't understand the love for some of the shows people want back, but then I'm sure the same can be said about what I like.
Police Squad - sure we got the Naked Gun films, but the original show was far more clever.
I miss a time in America where quality was desired over quantity. This is one of the reasons why we have all those crappy reality shows. 24-hour networks that demand constant programming - need to fill air time with as much crap as they can, so they go for the low-budget shlock where they don't have to pay writers.
I like the Brit sitcoms that are short and sweet - Spaced & Black Adder come to mind immediately.
I like older US TV shows from the 50s-60s and a few from the 70s. Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Outer Limits, Thriller, Mr. Ed, Leave It To Beaver, Perry Mason, M*A*S*H, The Odd Couple... just to name a few. Yeah - those first five are almost all the same.
I just don't understand the love for some of the shows people want back, but then I'm sure the same can be said about what I like.
DKnightBegins
New Member
I saw the title of this thread and immediately thought of Flashforward. I was pretty excited to see it on the OP list! I loved that show and couldn't believe it was cancelled. I briefly considered contacting the writers so they could tell me what they had planned for the next season but decided that was too crazy. Ha..
How about this one:
The Flash
It had a pretty good rendition of the Silver Age Barry Allen Flash's costume...
The Flash
It had a pretty good rendition of the Silver Age Barry Allen Flash's costume...
Riceball
Master Member
Quantity over quality and the need for lots of programming wasn't the reason behind the rise of reality TV, it was return on investment. Reality TV shows are really cheap to produce and at the same time they generate good ratings which equals advertising dollars which meant that the networks have to shell out less money for programming for the same or more money for every commercial they air thus netting more profits.
Sandman0077
Sr Member
FlashForward was the first show I think I really followed and wanted to see how it would end, only to get cut. Even with the slow first half of the first season, I thought they really made up for it with the second half. I was shocked when I heard it was over. They could have at least made a tv movie to rap it up. That last episode left it open for plenty more. Hopefully it gets picked up. I doubt it by nowaq though. :'(
I'm with you on contacting the writers. I wanted to but never got around to actually doing it.
Here's one out of left field: Profit
That show was WAY ahead of it's time and brilliantly done. Loved every moment of the six episodes shot. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. :thumbsup
That show was WAY ahead of it's time and brilliantly done. Loved every moment of the six episodes shot. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. :thumbsup
If memory serves, it was also Adrian Pasdar's first leading role...
SSgt Burton
Sr Member
He did have the lead role in "Near Dark", however "Profit" would have indeed been his breakout role.
"Profit"... man I remember the promo commercials for it! One about a spider in the middle of a web, and Pasdar narrating that it spins an intricate web, waits for its prey etc... Only to have Pasdar stomp it with his shoe, and utter, "Amatuer."
Kevin
24
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Journeyman
Firefly
ALIAS
Stargate (ALL of them!)
I too actually liked Ben Browder and his character! At first I didn't but he quickly grew on me.
MacGyver
Buffy
HOUSE
Chuck
Early Edition - Who wouldn't want tomorrow's newspaper?
No Ordinary Family
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Journeyman
Firefly
ALIAS
Stargate (ALL of them!)
I too actually liked Ben Browder and his character! At first I didn't but he quickly grew on me.
MacGyver
Buffy
HOUSE
Chuck
Early Edition - Who wouldn't want tomorrow's newspaper?
No Ordinary Family
Arch27
Member
My quality over quantity comment wasn't from the perspective of those who keep airing the trash - it was from that of those who keep supporting it. If Americans would wake up and stop watching that garbage, the networks might be inclined to make better programming. I'm quite convinced that the primary rise to power for most reality television was the writer's strike of 2007-2008.
I should state that there is, in my mind, a clear division between decent "reality" based entertainment programming and what I consider garbage. Exploitative and degrading shows, shows that perpetuate and encourage deplorable behavior, and shows that intend to deceive are the target of my hatred. Informative and honest shows get a pass.
For example - Mythbusters: good. The Bachelor: bad.
NakedMoleRat
Legendary Member
I'm gonna go with,
Greatest American Hero,
John Doe,
Hard time on planet earth,
My life and times,
Otherworld,
Police Squad,
Quark,
Sliders,
Planet of the Apes (The TV series)
Greatest American Hero,
John Doe,
Hard time on planet earth,
My life and times,
Otherworld,
Police Squad,
Quark,
Sliders,
Planet of the Apes (The TV series)
MXE -- Most Extreme Elimination
DON'T GET ELIMINATED!!!
And Iron Chef Japan. It was so much funnier and to me some of the dishes created out of eggplant or seaweed on that show were just insane.
DON'T GET ELIMINATED!!!
And Iron Chef Japan. It was so much funnier and to me some of the dishes created out of eggplant or seaweed on that show were just insane.
The original Iron Chef was a trip. The woman who did some of the voice overs would sometimes make a guest judge sound like a total idiot. And some of the episodes were comedy/horror shows. One time the secret ingredient was octopus. Still alive. Iron Chef Italian just sort of popped the head off and started beating the tentacles with a huge seven or eight inch thick daikon(?) radish while they squirmed around until he broke the radish.
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