Day #1 of the 30 Day Television Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #1 of the 30 Day Television Challenge

The prompt is A Television Series that should never have been cancelled

Note, there are ones that have been resurrected and they don't count. If it got saved, you can't pick it. Only those television series that got cancelled and weren't saved.

Also, you can't pick the same one that someone else picked. What would be the fun in that? This is a challenge after all. Try not to pick two - since it makes it harder for someone else. (Although there's A LOT of cancelled television shows out there...that should have been rescued.)

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[petzipellepingo]

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr , I'm still mad about that one.

[cactuswatcher]

Practically doomed from the start Moonlight still managed to be a fine show, that a lot of people refused to watch. The original driving force executive producer fell ill after some promotional material was shot and our old buddy David Greenwalt took over before the pilot was shot. Most of the originally cast main actors were replaced with younger actors except for Alex O'Loughlin (now better known for the Hawaii Five-O reboot).

The first episode aired on CBS in 2007. A lot of people watched that and didn't go on watching it. It was vampire series for adults, and for whatever reason folks didn't buy into it. A nice big budget wasted.

I thought O'Loughlin and Sophia Miles were very good. Some people thought Joseph Dohring as Joseph was great. I think they were just hoping for a younger Spike. I thought he was a) too immature, if not just plain too young and b) not a good enough actor for the part.

Some people thought it was a rehash of Forever Knight. I've seen Forever Knight. It wasn't even close. In fact when it was stealing, it stole more liberally from Buffy, which probably hurt more than it helped.

Anyway it's on my shelf with Firefly and I rewatch Moonlight much more often.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZXl6A_Mkuk

[wendelah1]

There were a lot of great shows that got cancelled, weren't there? I wish that The Crimson Field had gotten more than 6 episodes before being given the ax. It was a BBC drama series shown on PBS about a British WWI field hospital. It had good, complicated female characters, including both professional and volunteer nurses.

[cjlasky7]

Before I explode....

WONDERFALLS!

Four episodes on Fox, and down the chute. I bought the full 13 on DVD, and they are a cherished part of my video collection.

But:

The plotlines set up in s1 could have lasted for years. Would Jaye and Eric find happiness? Would Aaron start the Church of Jaye? Would Sharon come out of the closet and find true love? Would we ever hear one of William Sadler's Republican folk songs?

No. We wouldn't.

https://youtu.be/J8JGcy1mrXU

[cjlasky7]

Now and Again was a brilliant TV show, and I think everybody involved--Eric Close, Dennis Haysbert, Heather Matarazzo and (series creator) Glenn Gordon Caron--did their absolute best work.

They ended on a freaking cliffhanger!

Auuuuugh!

[jesuswasbatman]

My favourite show that fell below the radar: "Alphas". One of the few shows about society's response to superpowers that didn't fall into the usual "superpeople are metaphorical ethnic minorities and if you have problems with mentally unstable nuclear bombs walking around you're a Nazi" posturing. Also got cancelled on a massive cliffhanger.

[atpo_onm]

Most of the time I have to really ponder these prompts, but for once, a pick came to me in mere seconds. While this stunningly engaging series ended as well as it could considering, something I greatly admire the writers for pulling off, to this day I lament not being able to see what would have happened next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkIyHSitUMc

On the plus side, though... Lena Headey went on to a well-deserved career-making gig, so...

You know, while the trailer here heavily emphasizes the action elements of the show, for me, it was always the quiet moments that got to me the most. The ep that I've watched more than any was the one where Cameron is damaged in an explosion and reverts to her primary terminator programming. Finally taken down after apparently managing to self-repair her programming, John is urged to destroy her by his mother and uncle-- with frankly, perfectly good logic-- and he doesn't.

That scene-- where he hands her his gun, and allows her to point it at him... "Do you still want to kill me?" She hesitates, genuinely deciding, fighting her basic encoded instincts-- and hands the gun back to him, answers, "No."

No longer just a slave to her programming... a lesson to us all.

I could so handle a movie-- or several-- as a continuation of this series.