Any show that petered out before it was resolved. Flash Forward comes to mind, Heroes as well.
Must be difficult for writers to plane a story arc, not knowing if the show will take off. A short arc that becomes successful means there is nowhere to go, a long arc that doesn;t take off leaves things unfinished.

yes, David Lynch took TV to a whole new plain with Twin Peaks, Season 1 was excellent and season 2, though good leaves you happy that it ended. take the time to watch as much of it in one sitting then watch the film and it ties it all up nicely.

You'll end up dreaming of people talking backwards though. :lol:

Futurama? I haven't watched much of the newer series, but from what I've heard it's not bad.

Ah I see. Not that I'm that into trying new shows these days but do you think it's worth watching?

Speaking of which, has there ever actually been a show that has been cancelled and then brought back years later (be it as back to TV or a as a movie) that has NOT been regarded as a pathetic shadow of its former self?

Twin Peaks does have closure and it is all wound up in the Film Fire walk with me. Twin Peaks was cancelled due to the resolving of the Laura Palmer Murder, it was cancelled as everyone stop watching as they tried to keep the show going without the Palmer Mystery at its Core.

Really? I was a huge fan but the show lost its direction around season 5 and just limped along until season 9 where even Fox Mulder couldn't be arsed.

The Subsequent film was even a hollow gesture of a once former Awesome show.

Add Pushing Daisies And Dead like me, though, Dead like me was only Awesome whilst the shows creator was involved and not being drawn away from its original premise by Sony execs.

This.

Even though it got revived, it's just not the same. The writers lost their spark in the 7 year hiatus.


Nah I'm happy with how that went down.
It started really shit in season 1 aside from having a fascinating premise.
Then got cancelled but brought back straight away and was a million times better after the cancellation.

It made them cut all of those side actors that no one cared about, couldn't act and/or were given atrocious dialogue.
Was suddenly way more focused on the main story and wrapped it up pretty well. Didn't need to be dragged on any further IMO.




Also, surprised no one has said Twin Peaks.
I've only seen the first episode, but I'd watch the whole thing if I knew it would have an ending. Not worth getting into a show like that which will suck you in and abruptly end with no closure.



Show that I wish was cancelled: LOST after season 2 or 3.
Would have gone down as one of the greatest TV shows of all time if they quit while they were ahead.
Once JJ Abrams was no longer involved it just slowly deteriorated and turned into a joke.

But rather than being cancelled it preferably would have been concluded it at the end of Season 3 like JJ originally planned.

Also retrospectively Dexter should have been concluded at the end of season 2.
Just become more and more stupid since.


Round of applause to Breaking Bad and the Wire which are two of the very very rare cases where a drama show actually gets better as it goes on.

X-Files

Many of the shows listed weren't axed or cancelled but reached the end of their show run. Boston Legal was only picked up for 100 eps as Kelly wanted to tell a prises story arc. The same can be said for Avatar and Faulty Towers.

Firefly however is getting the fan power treatment, Jos stated that if the fans raised the capital he'd go back and shoot it so keep an eye out for the kickstarters.

Personally I miss Tru Calling, I'd have just liked them to have finished the second season rather than axing it before the major story arc had been resolved, same with Dollhouse, but the storylines were getting repetitive.

This guy. This guy gets it.

Came into this thread solely to see if anyone had said Darkplace.

Not sure if axed or they just got busy doing other stuff, but would love more Mighty Boosh

Saw the Pilot of that. Was fucking dreadful.

1 more season was all I wanted. :cry:

Minder with Arthur and Terry
The Professionals

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Tara was an excellent character. And Rhona Mitra is a fucking babe. Photos don't do her justice.

Avatar the last airbender :c

CSI: Miami.

-PB

Last Resort. Fuck you America.

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Here, here. For me the only thing that could've saved it for a few more seasons was if Tara came back and she and Alan stirred up some saucy shenanigans every second episode or so.

That said, it became boring seeing them win 99% of cases.

On topic, I would've liked the series Standoff to get a few more seasons, I thought it had a bit of potential.

Also, The Chicago Code that aired on Fox8 a few years ago, I couldn't believe it got cancelled. Such good characters. Should've at least got a second season.

Chuck

Bananas in Pyjamas.

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Yes minister/ Yes Prime minister

Part of Fawlty Towers' charm was that it was so short and sweet in its existence.

The borgias got cancelled last season without being able to finish the story:(

Rome too.

Arrested Development

Not sure if it got axed or cancelled, but I would have loved to see a few more series of Fawlty Towers

As good a show as Boston Legal was, they chose the right time to end it. Especially with Denny Craine's encroaching senility reaching that point where it was going to stop being playfully amusing and start to get sad for audiences.

Surely this could have been contributed to the Television thread.

Jericho.

Joffa wins Mack rep points.