Great Cancelled TV Shows

[teutonicman]

Spoiler: Samurai Jack

Spoiler: underGRADS

Damn these were fantastic shows.

 

[jjboat]

How has Arrested Development not been mentioned yet? Best show ever.

Thank you! someone had to mention it. and agreed, it is most definitely the funniest show ever released. i guess no one mentioning it earlier just goes to show why it was canceled.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

I wish Dark Angel had a better ending, even if it was hammy as hell and also Jessica Alba in a catsuit is always a good thing.

Other than that, I loved Pushing Daisies, it was so much fun to watch. Wish that had gone on longer.

 

[Psycho78]

There was a cop show called Life that I really miss. The main character had been in prison for years and had to catch back up with modern society, and was trying to find out who framed him. He was a great but unconventional detective and played well off his female cop partner. There was also a lot of questionable morality like The Shield.

 

[Eric Gonzalez]

Well, on Great cancelled TV shows, I'm going to have to turn on the 80's machine for some of these.

The Last Precinct
Sledge Hammer
Max Headroom
Transformers (Original Animated)
Silverhawks
Kidd Video
Turbo Teen
Bionic Six
The Littles
Press Your Luck (Game Show, I Know!)
Mr. Bean
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Jayce and the Wheel Warriors
Samurai Jack
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show
Whose Line is it Anyway (U.S and U.K)
Police Squad!
Dungeons and Dragons


I may remember some more later on.

 

[jjboat]

How has Arrested Development not been mentioned yet? Best show ever.

This. The number of great shows that Fox has cancelled is beyond belief. Firefly, Futurama, Arrested Development, Sarah Conner Chronicles, etc.

The really sad thought is most of the great shows Fox cancels are ones that are very well recieved. All four that I mentioned won awards during their first seasons, but still eventually got canned. Thankfully Futurama rose from the ashes, Firefly got it's ending in Serenity, and Arrested Development movie should be out soon.

canceled beyond belief? I mean i love me some firefly and arrested development, but lets be honest, these shows were canceled because they failed to find an audience big enough to support the cost of making the show. its not like fox is evil for cancelling them, its the publics fault for not watching them.

 

[Fayathon]

Not usually the first to get to it, but mine is definitely MEGAS XLR. I would have loved one more season of that show.

This, so much. And Samurai Jack. I will never get over it.

From non-cartoons, Firefly of course and John Doe. I also liked Dead Like Me, but I watched it years ago and I didn't really remember it was cancelled, somehow I had a feeling it ended normally. Apparently, it didn't.

Edit: I noticed someone mentioned Rome, and despite I haven't watched it yet, I am already sad about it having only two seasons and being cancelled. I simply know I'll love it, being an insane antiquity lover, and then end up disappointed because they cancelled it.

From what I've heard Samurai Jack is getting a movie or some such to put a proper close to the story, but I don't have anything substantive to back that up. One can hope though.

 

[DuttyDawn]

Greg The Bunny.

This. I loved that show. I own that show.

 

[Zenhurak]

Reaper. Loved that show so much.

 

[Maylo]

Arrested Development! That was my favorite show ever. :C At least the movie's coming... eventually.

Also, Pushing Daisies.

 

[Nimzar]

Firefly and Pushing Daisies are the ones that really get my goat[footnote]WTF is that expression supposed to mean? Get my goat? I don't even own a goat.[/footnote].

 

[Sokarred]

Kyle XY

Also for the guy that said Farscape, the show had a good number of seasons, and a TV movie that wrapped up the story.

 

[Vault boy Eddie]

Drive
Jericho
Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles

Totally agree with Jericho and SCC, also Keen Eddie and the only redeemable thing on G4, code monkeys.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Since someone already mention Samurai Jack, Jayce and the Wheel Warriors (didn't get a proper ending), Invader Zim and Tick I would also inlcude these into my list-

Sym-Bionic Titan
Legion of Superheroes
Time Squad
Possisbly Teen Titans
Ring Raider
He-Man reimage (well maybe but I though it was alright)
The Visionary (That never got a proper ending as well)

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

Boston Legal was the best and smartest comedy I have ever seen...and you didn't watch it. For shame.

I watched. It was awesome. Denny Crane.

OT:Boston Legal for sure.
And Megas XLR
Anything else on Toonami.

 

[Siris]

The Same and Max cartoon

 

[krychek57]

Pushing Daisies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Daisies

Better off Ted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Off_Ted

 

[dalek sec]

Stargate SG1, the movies just don't cut it you cant cram a seasons worth of stuff in to an hour and a half.

Also Stargate Universe was finally getting good and now its been cancelled.

Count me in too for going to miss Stargate Universe as well.

This season has been amazing and even worse it'll been the end of Stargate as a whole for awhile anyways... D:

 

[Vankraken]

Surprised nobody has said Mission Hill. Such a great show but too bad it was on the WB.

Arrested Development was possibly the best show ever made and like most great shows the masses didn't bother to watch it.