If there was any TV show that was cancelled or cut short that you could see the planned continuation/ending of, which would you choose?
For me it would have to be The Owl House
The expanse. Last trilogy is fire.
Avenue 5.
Deadwood.
Firefly.
The good thing about The Expanse is that all of the characters are old in the last trilogy, so we could very well see it down the road with most of the original cast.
Niche show, but Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. Holy shit that was a great show and SO well written, but I can see why it wasn't well received on a traditional TV format - if you didn't watch from the beginning and keep watching to the end it wouldn't make a lick of sense. Definitely meant to be enjoyed with a serious watch of an entire series and not episodically.
I would give my left foot for a Season 3.
I just wanted to post this! It felt like they were setting up a really interesting overarching plot with the "backstage of reality", I wish they told us what their plans for that were.
So many good characters, so many potential plot lines. Allan Tudyk is good in everything he does
Pushing Daisies.
Yes, please and thank you!
Stargate Atlantis
I know not a lot of people liked Stargate Universe, but I would have loved a proper ending there too.
I haven't read the comic, but from what I hear it's pretty different from the show.
It had the ol "eh it's the last season just like writers do whatever the fuck they want" thing happen, and behold, there were several great episodes in the last season.
Better Off Ted
Such an amazing show. Predicted the future along with Idiocracy
Obligatory Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles mention.
I very glad to see so many Browncoats here.
Best show in the 'verse, 我的朋友!
My series fell off the gorram tv!
Raised. By. Wolves.
Yep. Very good show that absolutely needs to be picked up by another studio. Too bad by the time they do, the kid actor will be like fucking 27. Rip.
Firefly
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate Universe (yes, almost all the characters was unlikeable, but I’d still have liked a resolution)
Star Trek Prodigy
Star Trek Lower Decks
The Lazarus Project
Up vote for the Lazarus Project such a well thought out and interesting premise.
The Lazarus project, can second that..
But we got a thought out conclusion to Firefly.
Yes, but it felt rushed. Still better than nothing, but a whole extra season would not be bad now would it?
Pirates of Dark Water.
Yes, I'm old.
I'm glad to know that show wasn't just some sort of fever dream I had at 5 years old. No one I know remembers it.
Mini rant: I went to an anime convention (ConnectiCon) and was wicked excited to see that Pirates of Dark Water had a time slot. I'd finally get to see the full run!
Then someone had the bright idea to play it in a different time slot to cover something that fell through and so it wasn't played in the schedule time slot (due to rights issues or something?). I'm still annoyed.
I should probably just find an alternate way to watch it, it's been over a decade since that convention.
Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book's backstory.
I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.
I think it's would have depended if it were made as a planned story, or open-ended one that ends when it gets canceled. And after Buffy, my guess is it would have been more focused. On the other hand, it was on a more major network, obviously with way less freedom.
Santa Clarita Diet. It's not too late (6 years ago) and they could still bring it back for a finale run of episodes or film.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It's too late (16 years ago) but the show had just started to figure itself out and setup a HUGE cliffhanger that sadly goes nowhere.
SCD was pretty funny.
Sad that show was killed for something as shitty as Terminator Salvation.
Babylon 5.
Limitless.
Stargate Universe.
Another person who has watched Limitless!!!
We have had some b5 spinoffs over the years. They are... Below average :)
It would be great to see that series reboot. The writer would clearly do it, seems like Warner just won't do anything though.
I would probably go for Westworld despite it admittedly getting a little out there. If not that, then V.
Yesssss. This! It was only one season from the ending!
The show felt like it was going off the rails for a while but I really wanted to know where it was going and it’s a shame we’ll never know.
There are a few good ones I'd love to see, but at the top of my list are Firefly and Sense8.
I think Sense8 wrapped up okay. It was a movie length episode but it felt honest and closed it up.
It did, but I would love to see more of it.
Mindhunter, excellent production quality, unfortunately too high production quality for it's own good 😢
Yes man it’s a damn shame that one got canned, it was solid
Stargate universe.
Battlegate Univactica?
Dark Matter
(The space one)
Canadian Sci-Fi starring Roger Cross is the best genre
Crusade (Babylon 5 spinoff)
Rome
A series that basically nobody knows: John Doe
A guy wakes up in the middle of nowhere, not knowing who he is. But knows literally everything else. Basically walking Wikipedia
First season ended on massive cliffhanger and was cancelled
I always talk about this and also have the feeling no one knows about it. In any case I think I read somewhere that the idea was going to be along the lines of "right before you die you have a moment of clarity where you know everything, John had had a boating accident that led to that moment and he came back from the death". Honestly knowing what the future looked like sometimes I'm almost glad it got cancelled, because I think that would have been a bit of a boring explanation.
Yup, the creators talked about the planned premise
I kind of like it. Depending on how they reveal it and build up on it
I think about that last shot, looking up at the bartender all the time. Weirdly the only other thing I can think about the main character being in is blade 3.
That sounds like a cool premise!
I don't know if you guys have heard but there was this one sci-fi show on Fox that was aired out of order then canceled after only one season. It got a movie for some closure, but would have been nice to continue.
I forget the name... Burnybug or something like that... It's not very well known on the internet, so I'd be surprised if anyone else were to bring it up in a thread like this.
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1899
Carnivàle.
Had to scroll way too far to find this.
Oh man, this is a big one. Still worth a rewatch without the ending. That first season especially is so good. HBO lost their nerve and cut the second season budget and pushed them to speed it up.
Mythbusters, junkyard wars.
Junkyard Wars! I would watch 100 seasons of that show!
Firefly
The OA
Yeah this one so much. I think its still amazing and the two seasons can each kinda stand on their own, and still have satisfying endings, but just knowing that they had an entire 5 season arc planned out drives me crazy considering how great that show was.
I was so sad to hear about it getting canceled. It wasn't too long after the release of season 2.
Wonderfalls
Also Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me
Yes all of Brian Fuller's shows deserved better
Surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet but
Firefly
Had such a cool universe and cast of characters and was getting super interesting right when it was cancelled
I'll mention one nobody has said yet: Kaos.
The last episode was definitely setting up a second reason that looked interesting, but then it never happened.
My one is a show that may or may not have been related to Twin Peaks - after Season 3, Lynch was apparently working on something with a working title of either Wisteria or Undiscovered Night. IIRC it was a tie up with Netflix and was being made by Twin Peaks Productions, which has only ever made TP material, so the chances seemed high.
Unfortunately COVID happened, the project stalled and was eventually dropped, and of course Lynch died not too long ago.
I'd love to know what it was planned to be, TP or not.
RIP David
If you want a trippy show, see if you can find David Lynch's "On The Air".
Apparently following the OG Twin Peaks cancellation, there was still a contractual obligation to fill and Lynch pulled together some of the same cast for a wacky 1950s era show about television production.
There are bootlegs floating around from a Japanese laserdisc, but as far as I'm aware, that's the only home release that was ever made.
7 episodes were produced, only 3 made it to air in the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Air_(TV_series)
Streaming for free on the Internet Archive:
https://www.cbr.com/david-lynch-obscure-90s-sitcom-streaming-for-free/
Watching that on shrooms is life changing
I started watching that once, but found it pretty hard to get into. Should have another go though, thanks for the reminder.
Have you ever seen Hotel Room? 3 unrelated stories, set in the same hotel room in different years. One has Crispin Glover and Alicia Witt and is excellent. The other two are decent enough too. I think they're all on YouTube.
Archive 81. Absolute S tier banger of a show that Shitflix cancelled after 1 season.
Red Dwarf, but with both Naylor and Grant continuing on from before the split. It felt to me that the quality dropped once they fell out and Grant left.
GoT, shame it got cancelled after GRR ran out of material, what would a sixth and seventh series looked like? Not some badly written, overly nasty, fan fiction, but actual quality as we had in the earlier seasons and books?
True Detective season one, by that I mean actually carrying on that plot line with the abuse cult rather than the "reboots" with new casts and settings in the future seasons. Those are great, I still want those, but I also want more of what we had in season one.
Hannibal, its time to revisit this overly stylized wardrobe of a cooking show
If HBO were smart, they'd just call Redo on the last one or two seasons with new, but seasoned writers. I rewatch genre shit like this all the time, but I can't be bothered with this one because the ending is so rushed. I constantly want to, but not once since the ending.
I'd sign a petition demanding it. D and D lost star wars but I wonder if any assisting writers, hbo managers etc got sacked for not stopping it.
Freaks and Geeks
Definitely my pick as well. Really good show. "There is a party. And even the geeks are invited!"
Sandman. Only comic I've ever really read and the show was surprisingly on point. Even given Gaiman's evil history I think it's doing us fans a disservice by killing it.
Was it killed? I didn't know. Bummer.
The second season is coming. But I won't be watching it. Which really hurts because the comics meant a lot to me.
I haven't seen this one mentioned yet, Daybreak.
Teen drama series about teens trying to survive in a zomble apocaylse, it was well written but what really makes me want a season 2 is the cliffhanger that shifts the entire show on it's head.
Throughout the series, Josh (the main character) is trying to get a girl called Sam, in the finale Sam rejects her because she notices he wasn't really in love with her. Josh was just trying to play a hero getting a damsel in distress, it was a amazing breakdown of toxic masculinity that makes so much sense if you rewatch the series with the twist in mind. Sam then becomes the leader, the position that Josh has been working for the whole series and that's the cliffhanger. I remeber people getting mad because those were the exact types of people Josh was. A season 2 could have gone even deeper into the toxic masculinity angle and that would have been awesome.
I’ll go with some not mentioned.
1899 - Same creators of Dark, so I feel like it would have been worth it.
Lie to Me- it was one of the “of the week” type shows that kept my interest back then
Freak and Geeks - Crazy it got one season. Almost every single cast member went on to be super famous.
Green Lantern The Animated Series. Would have been great to have a fully finished story for this.
Clone High
Duckman
Mostly because both ended with shocking cliffhangers.
Alf
That final episode was brutal to young me
Ash vs Evil Dead
Final Space.
Sense8
Yes, I fucking love this show.
It's incredible, there's nothing else quite like it too
Inside Job could have continued but I am not sure they had a bigger story planned.
Game of thrones
I can't believe they cancelled it before the end. And there were no final seasons at all.
Season 4 was so good, then then they just left it there.
Firefly
The 4400
Top Gear (the UK version)
Edit: As a side note, I would love to see a Eureka reboot
The 4400: original or reboot?
I'm surprised no one mentioned My name is Earl, it's a tv show about a guy who wins the lottery and is immediately hit by a car, he then hears about Karma so he decides to turn his life around by making amends for all of the wrong things he did. It's a very fun comedy, and it was cancelled on a cliffhanger because the producers specifically asked if they were getting a next season and were told yes.
This one is the one that hurts me the most, because they knew how the ending was going to be, but didn't got thr chance to film it, and it would have been perfect. Essentially he would have gotten to an item on the list that he just couldn't do, whenever he tried something would prevent him from doing it, and it would seem that karma was against him. But then someone would come to him wanting to make amends for something they've done to him, and he would ask where the person got the idea, and it would be because someone made amends to him, and he would keep pulling at that thread until he found out that he inspired people around him to make their own lists, and those people inspired others, and so on and so forth so he would feel that he finally did more good than bad and would tear up the list and continue with his life. Oh, and the cliffhanger? It wouldn't matter, it was just going to be an excuse to bring some celebrity, they didn't even knew who the father was going to be.
PS: if you liked My name is Earl, and you weren't aware there's another TV show by the same people called Raising Hope which is the same style of comedy, with a bunch of the same actors, and they make constant references to MNiE.
I love MNIE and Raising Hope! Shame the ,ast season of MNIE wasn't good.
Last man on earth
I loved this show so much. I just started rewatching it last night. I'm a big fan of Will Forte and as happy as I am we at least got 4 seasons, I was always a little surprised at it's popularity. It always felt very niche, but still aired on a rather popular network.
I’ll throw in something most people haven’t watched: The Brink
The Last Man on Earth.
I'm here to see if anyone else said this. 100% agree!
I need to know if the male affection and hand sniffing continued to escalate!
Terra Nova. Not great but interesting concept.
HarmonQuest
Absolutely would love more Owl House!
Mr. In Between
No need, that final smile was all it needed
I completely agree. The show ended fantastically but I'm just being greedy and want more! 😞
Raised by wolves. Like, more than anything. I want to know what happens so badly.
It was such a unique, utterly batshit crazy show that just really started going off the rails in the best possible way at the end of season 2. There was something so hauntingly bleak about it all that I fell head over heels in love with and its cancellation hurts to this day.
Stopped at first season after I heard it was cancelled. Really wanted to know what's the point of this honey pot planet and that wierd snake thing. Really like the concept of the show
Firefly
Raised by Wolves
Game of Thrones, but written by the author
Wheel of Time (in case you missed it, it's canceled)
Years and Years
Utopia (UK, 2013)
I have a WoT quote in my wedding ring so not an entirely unbiased fan. But good riddance to that show. "Alternative turn of the Wheel" my ass
Really like earth 2. This point it would have to be a reboot. I swear there was a British version that was somewhat decent that was also cancelled but I cant remember its name.
Space: Above And Beyond
Babylon 5: Crusade
Honestly, I'm ok with where The Owl House ended. It would have been better to have a longer season, but I'm ok with where it ended, I got the closure I needed. There are however other animation shows I'm pissed ended way too soon:
These were all great shows that deserved better than what they got.
Rubicon
Pushing Daisies.
Also Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones would not have improved with more seasons. The problem wasn't that they didn't have enough time to finish it, it's that it was unfinishable. There was almost no way to provide a satisfying conclusion. It's true of pretty much every series that lived and died by constantly escalating conflict with no resolution.
seconding Stargate Atlantis. all they needed was one more season, and the outline floating aroind the internet from one of the writers of what that would look like kicked ass
also have to say Super Android Metalder, which is a weird case- the show was cancelled and a rush ending was written, and then the show that was gonna take it's place had delays so they ended up stretching out that rushed ending. that lead to a very wonky set of final episodes for a show that deserved much better
The Peripheral
The Middleman. Without a doubt one the funnest comic book series adaptations. Natalie Morales and Matt Keeslar on a ridonkulas romp of silly yet intelligent adventures. Poor show only got 13 episodes but each ones a gem.
Loudermilk.
GLOW!
Covid really put the smackdown on that one
Wheel of Time
I'd like to see them make WoT. But like, from the beginning so we can forget about... whatever the fuck the writers for amazon were doing.
Let HBO take it.
This
In recent memory:
Scavengers Reign 100%
other notable mentions are Pantheon and Sense8
Outer Range for a newer cancellation, Dark Matter and Kings still sting.
Marco Polo. Such a shame Netflix chose to drop it.
I know netflix has canceled a number of things I liked but outside of that one mexician kunfu anime thing I can't name off the top of my head so I guess the original reboot
Colony
Black Donnellys
Oh, yes. Which reminds me, Reaper.
Heroes, without the writer's strike.
They tried.
It was bad
Dark Matter (the 2015 one, not the new one which is totally different but also sci fi and has the same name for some reason)
Constantine series. Damn is it good
Warrior. My God what a good show.
Wheel of Time, it kept getting better then they stopped.
WoT is for the best. What Rafe did to the story was inexcusable. Casting and cinema were great, but the writing was cursed. Maybe one day an animated series can rise from the ashes to do it real justice.
Archive 81. First season was great. Loved the audio too.
I really wanted to like it, it started out so interesting. The last few episodes just didn't go in a direction I liked.
Jericho... y'all young ones don't remember 😉
I remember CBS receiving literal tons of peanuts on their doorstep from fans who wanted a second season... only for said season to only be about 5 episodes ;_;
The story continues as graphic novels, though.
Ha, yeah, I recall the peanut protest.
Counterpart! The show was cut after season 2 and had a promising premise. Also, the actors were great and the story was really starting to pick up.
For anyone interested: Imagine your reality splitting into two and the resulting consequences a decade later. How much in common would you have with your other self if the split occurred in your childhood, adulthood, or even middle age? What choices before and after define you? Now add a brutal Cold War between the two realities. Would you trust you?
The trifecta of 2005 TV shows:
The 2005-2006 season was an absolute disaster for new, promising sci-fi shows.
House of Cards
Girls 5eva.
Didn't "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" get canceled?
I desperately want it back.
Inside Job
Great News
I would love to see more of Class of 3000 with music videos that had closer visual distinction as season 1 instead of season 2 where they toned down the different animation styles for the music videos. I want more Jalapeno Head Sunny in my life.
That, or a continuation of Chop Sockey Chooks. That show had what I'd consider an extremely unique setting ( I can't recall any other giant mall cities ) and a visual style that I really like. Though, I'd love it more if they made it more of a PG-13 style so they could get away with cooler things, but you know that would never fly.
Bloodline. It was cut short, I think. They had to rewrite and compress the ending. Damn that shit was good
Magic City
Cursed.
Shadow & Bone (but what I really want is the six of crows spinoff).
WoT.
Dead Boy Detectives.
Sym-Bionic Titan!
Bookie. Possibly my favorite show ever.
Lie to me. It was a fun, different crime/drama show. It deserved to at least wrap up a few things.
The 4400 Terminator chronicles
The Patriot on prime is one of the greatest tv shows I've ever seen, worth watching even though it was cancelled after 2 seasons. Barely anyone has watched it but it doesn't have a bad episode
Obvious answer: Firefly
Unpopular answer: Dr Horrible's Sing-along Blog.
I for one agree wholeheartedly on both.
Let's crowdfund Act 4, but done with stop motion Lego.
Dr Horrible had a great ending. That show is as pure and perfect as it can be. Also, Firefly actually got a good ending unlike so many other shows.
I can't disagree, but that doesn't mean I don't want more.
Also apparently Joss Whedon is a cunt :(
Rewatching old shows is painful. So much homophobia and sexism and racism was played for laughs
I haven't rewatched firefly in over a decade I think. What has aged so terribly? Also why is the anti hero thing so bad? Played out now?