Cancelled Shows

[elfdream]

Someone borrowed my Jericho DVDs and hasn't returned them. I'm in the mood to watch them again.

Sometimes shows get canceled because of conflicts with the networks. I think Firefly had that problem.

[C_Fresh]

(08-22-2011 09:53 AM)elfdream Wrote:  Sometimes shows get canceled because of conflicts with the networks. I think Firefly had that problem.

I've heard a lot of good things about Firefly but have never seen the show. Well, actually, I saw a couple minutes of one episode on the Syfy channel way back when. I almost bought the series at Target the other day when they had all those TV seasons on sale. Ended up getting season 2 of The Mentalist and season 7 of NCIS for <$20 each. My general rule of thumb is never pay more than $20 for a season of a show and less if its not 20+ episodes. Those two were $45 regular (more reasonable prices on Amazon but still above my cap). Also got a raincheck for season 2 of Fringe.

[paul]

(08-22-2011 09:53 AM)elfdream Wrote:  Sometimes shows get canceled because of conflicts with the networks. I think Firefly had that problem.

Between the online commentary that I read and listening to the DVD commentary for the episodes, I got the impression that Firefly was doomed before it even started. Seems that it had been a lifelong dream of Joss to do this Sci-Fi series, so when the Fox execs wanted him to do a few more seasons of Buffy, he added Firefly to his list of requirements.

Fast forward to the actual beginning season and Fox billed another show (Jonas 2.0?) at least 5 times as much as Firefly. (I know because both were starting after MLB playoffs and I watched nearly every game of the playoffs that year.) Firefly got the preview of the "naked girl in a box" scene from the "official" pilot, but when the time came down to it, the Fox execs told Joss the pilot was "too dark" for a pilot. He and Minear went away for a weekend and wrote "Train Job" to be the "new" pilot.

The talk around is that the execs never even cared what the ratings were or whether the show was popular, they were going to cancel it regardless because it wasn't the "direction" they wanted to go. Translated, they wanted to push their own sci-fi show and didn't want the competition. So essentially, yes, Fox's execs political motivations killed Firefly.

[Phatchick]

(08-24-2011 02:39 PM)paul Wrote:  The talk around is that the execs never even cared what the ratings were or whether the show was popular, they were going to cancel it regardless because it wasn't the "direction" they wanted to go. Translated, they wanted to push their own sci-fi show and didn't want the competition. So essentially, yes, Fox's execs political motivations killed Firefly.

And to help it along they aired the shows completely out of order. If you watch SyFy (or whatever the hell they're calling themselves this week) or Science Channel's showings you can see how it should've progressed. The old Universal Network did the same with Ledgend, which I have never forgiven them for. It was nice to see John DeLancie playing a hero.

[phil]

CSI Miami got cancelled, but I didn't watch it. I could never get in to it.

Harry's Law got canceled I kind of liked it when i watched it.

Terra Nova got canceled. In my opinion it took too long with alot of it's plot lines and got bogged down in trivial stuff. In my opinion they should have just made it a series of made for TV movies.

[dramaturge]

(06-11-2012 06:28 PM)phil Wrote:  Terra Nova got canceled. In my opinion it took too long with alot of it's plot lines and got bogged down in trivial stuff. In my opinion they should have just made it a series of made for TV movies.

This is very true. I think a 6 episode mini-series that could be re-visited later would have been excellent.

[exOBCstudent]

I can't believe they cancelled Lie To Me. I LOVED watching that show.

[C_Fresh]

(06-11-2012 06:28 PM)phil Wrote:  CSI Miami got cancelled, but I didn't watch it. I could never get in to it.

Looks like this show is gonna be dead in the water YAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!

It took me a bit to get used to the show but I did enjoy watching it on syndication back when I had cable. H and his sunglasses/pun were so obvious but I guess maybe it was intentional and part of the show's trademark. I liked Boavista, Wolfe, and whoever that petite, blond minor lab tech was.

I thought they had probably jumped the shark when they had the 'murder in space' and 'Ducane's out-of-body experience' episodes.

[NotUnderLaw]

(08-22-2011 09:53 AM)elfdream Wrote:  Someone borrowed my Jericho DVDs and hasn't returned them. I'm in the mood to watch them again.

Sometimes shows get canceled because of conflicts with the networks. I think Firefly had that problem.

Jericho has a third season and a fourth season in the making.

The catch? They are comics. Artwork is okay, story is great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Season_3

Also, I just saw this

http://screenrant.com/jericho-season-3-n...tt-168589/

[NotUnderLaw]

Battlestar Galactica.

Although, it did finish up and was planned. They had to reach Earth some day