Shows That Didn't Make It but You Loved Greatly

[urglen]

Red Dwarf loved that show, but over the years I've started to suspect that I may have been the only one watching it. Or maybe just the only one in Canada.

I love Red Dwarf, but I think claiming it "didn't make it" is a little odd...I mean it got eight series plus the Back to Earth mini-specials, not forgetting a new series has been commissioned recently.

Yeah I'll concede that it made a good run just seemed to me like they had to fight for it more then most shows to keep itself on the air. They had about three years between a couple seasons and another year between series 8 and the Back to Earth specials.

What's this about a new series?!?! I never heard about that gonna have to do some internet lurking it seems.

 

[tomtom94]

Red Dwarf loved that show, but over the years I've started to suspect that I may have been the only one watching it. Or maybe just the only one in Canada.

I love Red Dwarf, but I think claiming it "didn't make it" is a little odd...I mean it got eight series plus the Back to Earth mini-specials, not forgetting a new series has been commissioned recently.

Yeah I'll concede that it made a good run just seemed to me like they had to fight for it more then most shows to keep itself on the air. They had about three years between a couple seasons and another year between series 8 and the Back to Earth specials.

What's this about a new series?!?! I never heard about that gonna have to do some internet lurking it seems.

The problem with series 7 (which had a three year gap from series 6) was that Craig Charles had been wrongly imprisoned on rape charges, I think... then Grant and Naylor split up which meant writing was more difficult.

On the subject of a new series, Robert Llewellyn said a new series had been commissioned by Dave at Dimension Jump last year, and that it would probably be filming this year.

 

[ninjajoeman]

thats 70 show I thought it was good

 

[JanatUrlich]

Does anyone remember Smith? It got cancelled like, halfway through the first series. It had Ray Liotta and Amy Smart in it and it was totally siiiiiick

 

[MimsySnark]

Arrested Development.


I learned how to embed! YAY!

Ha! Great video--thanks for the 30 seconds of bitterness-laced joy! I have all the DVDs for the show, and loove it!

Also, yes, yes, Firefly!

Several people have also mentioned Carnivale--what a cliffhanger, huh? HBO really needed to give this show just a bit longer to find its audience. It was so riveting to me.

Here's a couple of very different show no one has mentioned yet, and I"m curious if anyone remembers/enjoyed these: Wonderland (not Wonderfalls, mind you!) and Sports Night. Both aired sometime around the turn of the millennium, on ABC. Sports Night was by Aaron Sorkin and barely got 2 seasons. Wonderland only got 6 episodes, but it had such a fantastic premise--a gritty drama based on the people living and working in a mental institution.
I also miss Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip--actually "miss" isn't appropriate as I never watched it on TV, but I recently caught up with it on Hulu, and mourn what might have been with that show!

 

[Zeraki]

Firefly and Titus.

 

[Kayevcee]

I would have liked to see Crusade continued, at least long enough to finish the 'save Earth' plotline, but the series was basically shot in the paddocks and we were lucky to get 13 episodes.

Space: Above and Beyond was another fine sci-fi series that died before its time. It had 13 fantastic episodes and a cracking finale which showed the writers knew they were for the chop and decided to go out with a bang. I would have liked to see more, but I'll take what we got.

-Nick

 

[nomadic_chad]

They've been said already but they're worth mentioning again.

Firefly
Arrested Development
Dead Like Me
Spaced
Sports Night

and somehow not mentioned....

Freaks and Geeks

 

[Uber Evil]

Home Movies

I thought that was still on?

 

[quantum mechanic]

I know it's been said many times already, but Firefly.

 

[Clankenbeard]

Let's see...
Samurai Jack...

I don't know if you were told allready but, the reason was because the voice actor for Aku died(I don't remember his name,look it up if you want to know).

...Histeria,and alot of other cartoons that came out in the 90's that I can't recall the name of right now.

Phil LaMarr (Green Lantern, UBS Guy, Mad TV, Pulp Fiction) isn't dead, is he? I love that guy. EDIT: Oh, you said Aku--not Jack. I checked out WikiPedia and apparently, Genndy Tartakovsky (animator/director) is working on a Samurai Jack Movie with J.J. Abrams' (Star Trek, Lost, Cloverfield) as producer. Wikipedia said:

Samurai Jack was available to be viewed by American residents via the Toonami Jetstream website, Production on the show was halted in 2004, but it was never officially canceled. In return, Tartakovsky has announced plans to direct a theatrical film, but whether or not this will be used to resolve the series has yet to be announced.

The feature film is currently in pre-production, and is being produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Frederator Films.

 

[blindthrall]

Yeah, Firefly was pretty cool but they got a movie. What did this guy get?

Some live action shit that peed on his lovably retarded face.

EDIT: Well, I got ninja'd, so I guess I have to come up with something else. Aeon Flux? No that was to weird to ever work. I've got it. Masters of Horror. Every week, a different awesome horror director would either do an original story or a short story he thought really deserved to be on film. The shows were an hour long, and the directors included John Carpenter, Eli Roth, Tobe Hooper, and Dante Algheri. It was like watching a new horror mini-movie every week, most of them being better than what you see in the theaters. Carpenter did a story called Pro-Life where a girl raped by Satan tries to get an abortion, but her Christian father Ron Pearlman goes to war to prevent it. They did lots of old sci-fi horror stories, and they even did Dreams in the Witch-House by H.P. Lovecraft.

While Hollywood makes a movie about Stretch Armstrong.

 

[mcpop9]

BoBoBo-Bo Bo-BoBo
freak'in awesome
should have continued it http://www.bobobo.us/

 

[BabySinclair]

The Dresden Files, well done show based on a good book series. I think that it was just a matter of SciFi never giving it a good time slot

 

[BlumiereBleck]

DRIVE! and War at Home :[ short lived

 

[Trikeen]

I loved the cartoon 'Dave the Barbarian' but for some reason it only had 22 episodes. Didn't even finish the first season.

 

[Kinguendo]

Why arent people saying Arrested Development?! D:<

And Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was a fantastic show!

 

[DarkxReaper56]

Another vote for both Dead Like ME and Jericho

 

[Chipperz]

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Good cast, well written, no audience.

It was cancelled!? I got the first two seasons on DVD and need to know what happens next!!

Also, I want to see more Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire, which was genius, and Dollhouse, which was easily Joss Wheadon's best work that noone's ever heard of.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Let's see...
Samurai Jack...

I don't know if you were told allready but, the reason was because the voice actor for Aku died(I don't remember his name,look it up if you want to know).

...Histeria,and alot of other cartoons that came out in the 90's that I can't recall the name of right now.

Phil LaMarr (Green Lantern, UBS Guy, Mad TV, Pulp Fiction) isn't dead, is he? I love that guy. EDIT: Oh, you said Aku--not Jack. I checked out WikiPedia and apparently, Genndy Tartakovsky (animator/director) is working on a Samurai Jack Movie with J.J. Abrams' (Star Trek, Lost, Cloverfield) as producer. Wikipedia said:

Samurai Jack was available to be viewed by American residents via the Toonami Jetstream website, Production on the show was halted in 2004, but it was never officially canceled. In return, Tartakovsky has announced plans to direct a theatrical film, but whether or not this will be used to resolve the series has yet to be announced.

The feature film is currently in pre-production, and is being produced by J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions and Frederator Films.

First: From what I can tell, the show was cancelled long before the guy died, which makes it even sadder because now he won't be able to finish his (excellent) work in his role of Aku.

Second: A Samurai Jack movie? Sounds intriguing, I'm gonna have to keep an eye open for that.