Friday, 15 July 2005

Cancelled before their prime

Inspired by Alex Knapp: the top five TV shows that got canned before their time.

  1. NewsRadio
  2. Crusade
  3. Andy Richter Controls The Universe
  4. The Job
  5. Firefly

Honorable mentions: Big Apple, Now And Again, and The Ben Stiller Show.

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[Permalink] 1. Fersboo wrote @ Fri, 15 Jul 2005, 8:03 am CDT:

I am only familiar with NewsRadio and most I haven’t heard of. How about Sports Night? Along the vein of News Radio. I pretty much gave up on network tv when these two shows went away. I did give up on Comedy Central when they picked up Sports Night reruns and added a laugh trak.

 
[Permalink] 2. michelle wrote @ Fri, 15 Jul 2005, 9:34 am CDT:

I’d add Freaks and Geeks.

 
[Permalink] 3. Chris Lawrence wrote @ Fri, 15 Jul 2005, 2:52 pm CDT:

Fersboo: I never really watched Sports Night.

 
[Permalink] 4. Patrick Carver wrote @ Fri, 15 Jul 2005, 10:05 pm CDT:

I loved Andy Richter Controls the Universe. Still mad that one was cancelled. The episode with Conan O’Brien was the best, IMO.

 
[Permalink] 5. Hei Lun Chan wrote @ Sat, 16 Jul 2005, 4:23 pm CDT:
Newsradio was never as good after Phil Hartman died.

I’d add Wonderfalls to that list, though I think I’m one of five people who saw that show before Fox cancelled it.

 
[Permalink] 6. flaime wrote @ Mon, 18 Jul 2005, 6:58 pm CDT:

NewsRadio was terrible after Hartman was gone. The only one of your 5 that I watched was Firefly, and then only because it was Josh Whedon…
I’ll second the Wonderfalls mention, though. Best show on television for the 4 episodes they aired.

 
[Permalink] 7. Eric Lindholm wrote @ Tue, 19 Jul 2005, 1:40 pm CDT:

I sent NBC a letter when they cancelled “The Good Life” which was a great show, made so by a (then) little-known actor named Drew Carey. They cancelled it, Carey went to ABC, and the rest is history.

Should have listened to ME, corporate dumbasses.

 
[Permalink] 8. bryan wrote @ Fri, 22 Jul 2005, 9:38 pm CDT:

I watched every episode of newsradio in syndicated re-runs, and John Lovett was the Shark that Andy Dick jumped to spell the end of that show. That was really a case of cancelling a show “after its time.”

SportsNight was a good show, and cancelled too soon. Of course, if it hadn’t been cancelled, we wouldn’t have half the cast and writers of West Wing.

How’s that workin’ out for ya?

 
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