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:

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.

If it went back to its original premise and got away from the conspiracy storylines that eventually killed it

Heroes is a great example of a show being cancelled for good reason. Season 1 was ground breaking but whether it was the writers strike or just a lack of talent in the writing room, too many plot holes began to grow and even the comic book tragics gave up on it. Treating your fan base as idiots doesn't end well.

The best example is where is Caitlin and why doesn't Peter Care that he left her in an ultimate time and history of earth?

Revolution on the other hand is a show that should have been axed yet seems to be rating well even though it doesn't follow any scientific reasoning what so ever and is the same ep over and over.

Fawlty Towers wasn't axed or cancelled - Cleese split up with Connie Booth between series 1 and series 2 and didn't want to write series 3 without her as he didn't think he could keep the quality up.

Similarly, Boston Legal was never meant to go any longer.

Twin Peaks was cancelled due to falling viewing figures once the novelty wore off. The reveal of the killer's identity was an attempt to pull the figures back up. Those who worked with David Lynch claim that if the network hadn't forced the issue Lynch would have gone for years without ever providing a solution to the case.

My personal call would be for Seinfeld. They could have gone on forever if they wanted to.

+1 so much.

Never seen such a great show fall from grace so hard.
That Caitlin F up was hilarious.

By the time I stopped watching, every second episode would kill off one of the main characters in an attempt to boost ratings.... Only for every single one to always be brought back to life with some pathetic excuse soon afer. ](*,)
(It wasn't really him who died, He got injected with immortal blood, she had an identical twin sister etc etc).


Apparently it's in talks to be brought back soon with an entirely new cast (and hopefully new writers).

Needs more subtlety, better character development , better dialogue and a slower pace this time.
Given that it has a large cast and each season revolves around a climatic finish, they could learn alot from and even mould it around Game of Thrones which does these things perfectly.

No I agree with both of you. My point was, as bad as the show might have become, it ended without a resolution. So even if you stopped watching regularly, at some point you think, hey what happened in the end? and when the answer is, well, they just stopped, that shits me.

+1

was a great show with epic dialogue and a fair few babes!

Rubicon.

Not really axed/cancelled, but The Thick Of It.

Tron: Uprising
SW: The Clone Wars

Farken Disney :evil:

Obscure and mildly disturbing trivia... Rhona Mitra's dad is a plastic surgeon... He did her boob job. That is all.

Well...he did a good job. But that's messed up.

Agree on both counts.

Really?! when did the animated series get axed?
It'd only just won a major award for best animated show!

When Disney acquired it (couple months ago I think). Google it man. Its gone. There are some final episodes around that hopefully get put on the bluray release or something.

(btw, i still haven't seen the latest season)

:twisted: now I'm pissed off.

Futurama.

I guess that's an advantage that animated series have over live-action, the animated characters don't age in the time they're away.

Edited by petszk: 23/7/2013 11:42:18 AM

I'd add Tru Calling to the list of "wish they hadn't been cancelled" list.

It was just starting to establish an interesting overall, series-long story arc when it had the rug pulled from under it's feet.

I know! they were going to go on a whole [spoiler]Tru's Boyfriend becoming a sociopath because he lived when he was supposed to die Tru, needing Presiely's help in killing him to save many lives and a real matrix of life and death and how it all intersects.[/spoiler] I loved this show as it was a great replacement for Buffy.

Angel should be added to this list as Joss tried to bluff the studio into giving them a season renewal and they decided to just cut it rather than continue on with the series. Though it does end awesomely!

They werent cancelled or axed i dont think, but i havent seen them in a while, brits usually do this...

IT Crowd
Outnumbered
Spy

Spectacular Spider-Man

The Bill

IT Crowd is having a special one hour finale in the near future.

Spy has been cancelled unfortunately as far as I'm aware. Thought I read something about it a few months back.

Outnumbered he been renewed for a 5th season this year.

Yeah, you must really miss that whole year you were old enough to watch The Bill :lol:

You better not be joking about IT Crowd and Outnumbered. Although Outnumbered did 6 seasons if im not mistaken.

Spy was one of the most original shows and was extremely funny. I love it, cant believe they cancelling it. British TV is so much better than US tv, yet we get served up crap from there time and time again.

Edited by zimbos_05: 23/7/2013 12:34:43 PM

Yeah, Benjo's right about The IT Crowd.

NewsRadio
The Critic
Flight of the Conchords
Dr Katz: Professional Therapist
MST3K

According to Wiki anyway, it says Outnumbered's 5th season will be aired in 2013.

I really liked the concept of Flash Forward and was disappointed it got axed, thought it had potential.

Rome was another one, brilliant show, brilliant cast, and a loyal following but IIRC it was costing HBO a fortune to produce.

Ill look in to that.

Edited by zimbos_05: 23/7/2013 05:31:38 PM