cunningham1471 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Hi all. I'm sure we've al watched shows and though this is good and then down comes the axe and it gets cancelled before it really had a chance to get going. Which shows do you think had potential but never really got a shot? First on my list is going to be a rare home produced dram (at that time) by Sky... Hex The first series was a bit rocky as it was finding it's feet. However the second series was much better and had direction. If it had made it to a third series I think it could really have started to get noticed. Second show on the list... She Wolf of London. This show was stupid but so much fun. Basically think budget range episodic version of "An American werewolf in London" with the humour of "Primeval" and you get the jist of the thing. The show was never going to run and run for eight or nine series but could have made it to four or five I feel. I think it was hampered by the time it was made in the late eighties, early nineties. The SFX for what there were, were crap. Had it been made five or six years later things would have been different thanks to CGI. So that's two shows. which shows did you think I'm really enjoying this, only to see it get pulled after one or two series? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnosoul Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Hex was really good i also thought it found its feet in season two and ive always fancied watching She Wolf of London The three shows i think got cancelled to early are Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles it had a great storyline and was just hitting its stride when it got axed it had loads of great stories that could have been told if it went to season 3 there was talk of a tv movie to wrap things up but no word about it for over a year,second show Wolf Lake another show with a good storyline and great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carnosoul Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 atmosphere to it Third show Special Unit 2 a good action scifi show with good comedy elments micheal landes and alexondra lee were great as det o'malley and benson P.S. forgot to add Stargate Universe a great show that was diffrent from SG1 and Atlantis but was good in its own right and mayby unfairly compared to them the Godlike aliens and the message in the cosmic radition storyline was good and had a potential to go on for two or three more seasons there were hoping for a tv movie to wrap it up to wrap up the story (there was also talk of a SG1,SGA and SGU movie which would have been amazing )but it was turned down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 There are a few, but I think the best that got canceled after one or two seasons were: Tru Calling Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles Firefly Any more I think of I will add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinstowmarket Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 does anyone remember paradox on bbc1!? I thought that was underrated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quidditysea Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 dollhouse firefly tru calling! brimstone journeyman i could go on lol, so many shows have been cut down in thier prime! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avengers7 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 War of the Worlds American Gothic Alien Nation. All excellent series which could have gone on. I was glas though when Alien Nation came back for some TV Movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockstar6662 Posted April 22, 2012 Share Posted April 22, 2012 Firefly Stargate Universe Dollhouse Without question the best shows I've seen that were just finding their feet but weren't given a chance to develop and ended promising so much more. I'd also maybe add V and Terra Nova. Interesting as they were, not sure how much further they could have gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunningham1471 Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 does anyone remember paradox on bbc1!? I thought that was underrated I saw the first episode and thought it looked good. I'm aiting for it to turn up on Watch or the Syfy channel to see the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunningham1471 Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - I watched it but thought it was starting to sag rather than get better by the second series. By the second series Summer Glau's character was getting less and less to do. Once they were no longer running from an Terminator her character became irrelevent. Wolf Lake, Special Unit 2, Brimstone and Journeyman - Never heard of them. Firefly - saw a couple of episodes. wasn't impressed. Dollhouse - I expected this and Firefly to be mentioned because there are so many Whedon fans on these boards. lol I watched about 3/4 of this series and just couldn't get into it. But I find that with everything Whedon has done including Buffy and Angel. Tru Calling - The introduction of Luke Perry (I think it was) in the second series gave the show more direction and made it more interesting. Without him I think it was very similar each week. Stargate: Universe - I saw the first series and a half of Stargate SG-1 and liked it but never got around to seeing the rest. I never tried the various spin off series which I assume were very similar. V - Loved the original mini series. When it turned into an episodic weekly series it turned to pants very quickly. Then you get the remake which in my opinion didn't work as well. Each time I saw it all I could think of was Gene Roddenberry's: Earth Final Conflict. American Gothic - I agree this series had a lot of promise. I think it was of it's age which worked in it's favour. Too many shows today are trying to have so many sub-plots and underlaying themes and mysteries that IMO they start trying to be too clever for their own good. American Gothic didn't do do that and was better for it. Alien Nation - I agree this show was good. I liked that the aliens had already arrived and were part of society. Straight away it made it stand out form all the shows that have the aliens turn up and straight away there is a resistance to get rid of them. The TV movies were ok but not must see if you saw the series IMO. War of the Worlds - This was a funny show. The first series was ok and plodded along a little repetative each week but you sensed that it was going somewhere. Then the second series came along and it just went odd IMO. It changed so much from the first series. In many ways it was as if the first series hadn't happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunningham1471 Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 Another show to add to the list... Demons. This show was really bad and got slaughered, but if you look past the silly stories, bad acting and Philip Glenister's really bad American accent, the show had something that could have worked. This was obvioulsy supposed to appeal to the people that liked Merlin and Primeval, but it just didn't. Maybe ot was bad scheduling. Maybe it was because it was too silly and too lightweight. Perhaps it was because the first episode was just really bad.I think the biggest problem for many people was people assumed it was going to be the British version of Buffy. If people were expecting that then they were being foolish. No british show can compete with the US shows as they don't have the money behind them. If you watch the last episode you see that things were starting to look a lot better. You had a sense that had it been recommisioned the second series would have been a lot tighter with a proper story arc for that series and not so bitty like this series was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators DavidB Posted April 23, 2012 Moderators Share Posted April 23, 2012 Journeyman was definitely one of my favourites in recent years that was cancelled. I really thought it could've been a modern day Quantum Leap, and had some great stories. I still watch it from time to time. The most recent big loss is probably The Fades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jael001 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Besides the ones already mentioned, these are my picks: I was loving Eastwick and was annoyed that it got left on a cliffhanger, it had plenty of potential and a good cast. I also really liked The Ex List which only ended up having 3 or 4 aired episodes. I hate that in the US they cut shows off before they've even given them a chance to get going, it's impossible to judge a show on 3 episodes, I dont get how they can just cancel them so quickly. Another show I liked that only got 1 season was The Forgotten with Christian Slater, that had plenty of potential for lots more seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Showmasters Admin Too Tall Posted April 23, 2012 Showmasters Admin Share Posted April 23, 2012 In the words of Alan Tudyk's charactor Wat in "A Knight Tale". "Pain, lots and lots of pain!" That's what the people that cancelled FIREFLY should feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelord81r Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 top of my head space above and beyond firefly ROME chicago code Boomtown Odyssey 5 No ordinary family human target Arrested Development star trek enterprise (ok they had4) Deadwood V First wave Crime traveller (yes! lol) Spaced (they chose to end though no?) im sure there are many more though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abigail94 Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Firefly and Tru Calling for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbug Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I am suprisded that no one has mentioned Randall and Hopkirk with vic and bob that was an excellant series it only got 2 seasons really disapointed that it got cancelled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelord81r Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 yer deff SGU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenGreen Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 There are far too many sadly, but from my perspective in recent years: Firefly Tru Calling Human Target The Cape The Bionic Woman No Ordinary Family Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriangill Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Similar to other replies Dark Angel Firefly Flash Forward Sarah Connor Chronicles Stargate Universe Terra Nova Tru Calling and... Crime traveller (yes! lol) ....I know Stargate: Universe - I saw the first series and a half of Stargate SG-1 and liked it but never got around to seeing the rest. I never tried the various spin off series which I assume were very similar.SGU was a spin off. SG-1 was the original tv series, followed by Stargate Atlantis (similar, just a different setting), and then SGU (very different from the previous two) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinstowmarket Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 I loved crime traveller! And I liked demons, if phil didn't do the accent and there was a decent title sequence it'd have worked! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timelord81r Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 (edited) forgot about flash forward, thanks 1of2 my anger had subsided, id forgotten about it, it seems, but now its back, im still angry about that being canned and the event coming out straight after. still upset! and... Crime traveller (yes! lol) ....I know I loved it back in the day, chloe was gorgeous and brilliant and ive always thought french was a good leading man, they worked well together and i liked the premise. been a while since ive watched it though. I loved crime traveller! And I liked demons, if phil didn't do the accent and there was a decent title sequence it'd have worked! yer i agree Edited April 23, 2012 by timelord81r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriangill Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 Sorry. I didn't even bother watching it anymore once the cancellation was announced. I should really. I loved it back in the day, chloe was gorgeous and brilliant and ive always thought french was a good leading man, they worked well together and i liked the premise. been a while since ive watched it though.Chloe was very surprised when I gave her a Crime Traveller image to sign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cunningham1471 Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 (edited) Stargate: Universe - I saw the first series and a half of Stargate SG-1 and liked it but never got around to seeing the rest. I never tried the various spin off series which I assume were very similar.SGU was a spin off. SG-1 was the original tv series, followed by Stargate Atlantis (similar, just a different setting), and then SGU (very different from the previous two) Thanks for that. By similar I meant set in the same universe and having the same feel, ethos etc. By the time Star Trek: Voyager turned up I was all Star Treked out! Star Trek: DS9 started off similar to the previous series but soon developed it's own identity with the whole Cardassian/Founders vs Federation war. It became a lot darker and almost more grown up. Similar to Babylon 5 at the time. When I watched the first series of Star Trek: Voyager it was like a step backwards and could so easily have been early SNTG episodes. IMO they realised it wasn't working so brought in Seven of Nine out of desperation to save the show. I gave up quickly on that and didn't bother watching Enterprise as I though ho hum yet another similar Star Trek show. I loved it back in the day, chloe was gorgeous and brilliant and ive always thought french was a good leading man, they worked well together and i liked the premise. been a while since ive watched it though.Chloe was very surprised when I gave her a Crime Traveller image to sign But did you tell her ...It's not for me it's for a "friend"? Edited April 24, 2012 by cunningham1471 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyT Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I'm not a Whedon fan generally, but I thought Firefly was a fabulous show and a big loss when it was cancelled. I thought James Woods' LA legal drama Shark was worth more than two series. Aaron Sorkin's post West Wing series, Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip was a marvellous, gripping series. And I had a soft spot for the spoof sci-fi series Hyperdrive. (As an aside, I know that neither Spaced nor Black Books were cancelled, but I could have happily sat through more episodes of both). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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