Great shows that got canceled

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Permalink Reply by Mr Yakushi on August 23, 2008 at 4:45pm

I loved Newsradio, and I felt it was canceled before it's time, but a lot of that had to do with the death of Phil Hartman. I'm not a big John Lovitz fan (to say the least), and the show just went down hill when he joined the cast.

The other big one for me would be Carnivale. I thought it was an amazing, complex show, although it never really did much ratings wise. The main criticism I saw was that the first season moved too slow, but that was what I liked about the series; it unfolded piece by piece like a good book. I felt the second season was somewhat rushed so they could get to the Ben/Justin face off (which wasn't supposed to come till season 3), and the last bit with Sophie at the end was confusing. Overall, I wish they would have given Carnivale a longer run to tell it's story, but no such luck.

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Permalink Reply by Hgreen on August 23, 2008 at 9:01pm

I never saw carnivale, although it sounds good... I loved Newsradio though that was quality TV

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Permalink Reply by Mr Yakushi on August 23, 2008 at 9:19pm

You should pick up the Carnivale first season dvd set. You can probably score it for around $50.00, maybe less if you catch a sale.

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Permalink Reply by Hgreen on August 23, 2008 at 9:21pm

what was it about?

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Permalink Reply by Mr Yakushi on August 23, 2008 at 11:36pm

This is from Wikipedia:

The two seasons of Carnivàle take place in the Depression-era dust bowl between 1934 and 1935, and consist of two main plotlines that slowly converge. The first involves a young man with strange healing powers named Ben Hawkins (Nick Stahl), who joins a traveling carnival when it passes near his home in Milfay, Oklahoma. Soon thereafter, Ben begins having surreal dreams and visions, which set him on the trail of a man named Henry Scudder, a drifter who crossed paths with the carnival many years before, and who apparently possessed unusual abilities similar to Ben's own.

The second plotline revolves around a Father Coughlin-esque Methodist preacher, Brother Justin Crowe (Clancy Brown), who lives with his sister Iris in California. He shares Ben's prophetic dreams and slowly discovers the extent of his own unearthly powers, which include bending human beings to his will and making their sins and greatest evils manifest in the form of terrifying visions. Certain that he is doing God's work, Brother Justin fully devotes himself to his religious duties, not realizing that his ultimate nemesis Ben Hawkins and the carnival are inexorably drawing closer.

There is more then that, and the plot itself is very complicated. It's one of those things where if I tried to explain it in depth, it would spoil things for you.

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Permalink Reply by Caitlin on August 23, 2008 at 5:11pm

There was a show I watched when I was 12 called Birds of Prey. I honestly don't know if it was actually good, or if it was just good because I was 12, but it was the first show that I made sure that I sit down and watched during prime time. It didn't even make it to the second season :(

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Permalink Reply by Grant on August 24, 2008 at 3:21pm

Freaks and Geeks was a great one that got canceled.
I'd also add:
Arrested Development
Lucky Louis
Firefly

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Permalink Reply by David on May 24, 2009 at 1:17pm

I think three seasons was enough for Arrested Development. I look at that as less as a cancellation and more of a quitting while we're ahead.

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Permalink Reply by Gerald Harvey Peckinpah on August 24, 2008 at 3:54pm

Carnivale, Meadowlands, Firefly, Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks, & Undeclared.

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Permalink Reply by Hgreen on August 24, 2008 at 9:21pm

damn you've had your hopes crushed pretty often

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Permalink Reply by Frank on August 24, 2008 at 10:20pm

Arrested Development and Veronica Mars

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Permalink Reply by Californication on August 25, 2008 at 2:41am

They've already been said but:
Arrested Development
Veronica Mars
Firefly
Freaks and Geeks
Beauty and the Geek (not the crappy last season)
and Lost (its basically been canceled, ABC has banned it to 10 for the last couple years... bastards)

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