TV shows canceled too early

It's Your Move was a funny show. Haven't seen it since it was on USA Network 10-15 years ago.

 

Fair enough. The aforementioned Smith only had three episodes air of the seven they had already filmed. They did exactly that, and provided the scripts/storyboards/whatever of the remaining five episodes, posting it online briefly and offering it on iTunes/Amazon/etc.

 

Party Down
Greg the Bunny
Action
Human Target
Fastlane
The Hour

 

Happy Endings.

 

Buckwild certainly is up there with Deadwood among the great works of television art that didn't get a proper ending, but considering this is the network that only gave Rich Girls one season I guess we shouldn't be surprised. At least the Tom Green Show got to go out with dignity.

 

Class of '96

Playmakers

 

Please tell me this is supposed to be in blue font ....

 

A couple of shows that are well in the past come to mind for me.

There was an NBC show in 1996-97 called Dark Skies that I thought was really good. The premise was that the infamous Roswell UFO incident was real and that aliens infiltrated our society have been influencing events ever since -- that everything we know as the history of the second half of the 20th century was manipulated by these aliens. I remember reading that the creators of the show had plans for how they were going to incorporate various historical events over the decades into the show. But nobody was watching. If I remember right it aired on Saturday night -- back when the networks still tried to program that night with original shows instead of reruns or reality crap. Then they pulled it off the schedule for a good two months and bizarrely brought it back for a final episode that tried to wrap everything up, since they knew the plug had been pulled. I love anything that deals with history -- or alternate history/conspiracy -- so I was disappointed that one didn't really get a chance.

And about 10 years ago CBS had a short-lived show that didn't make it through the fall called Citizen Baines. James Cromwell played a longtime U.S. senator who lost his seat and had to figure out how to go home and re-enter his life, reconnect with his kids, who are adults and have families of their own. I thought it was an interesting premise, but again, nobody watched and it got yanked.

 

Die. Now. Please.

 

He has. Plenty of times.

But he keeps coming back.

 

I think the show should have gone on forever and, like I said when I started this thread, this is about shows that got pulled too soon and couldn't close properly.

 

Actually, because of DVD sales/Netflix, more networks are allowing shows to shoot all 13 and/or give producers time to wrap up a show to some extent.

Man - Pushing Daisies was good, as was Back To You (though its premature demise brought us Modern Family). Eli Stone and Dirty, Sexy Money were good as well.