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
GLOW!
Covid really put the smackdown on that one
Firefly. Specifically, Shepherd Book's backstory.
I worry it would have fallen off. Now we can always dream of what could have been.
Wheel of Time
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.
Black Donnellys
Game of thrones
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?
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
Firefly
Outer Range for a newer cancellation, Dark Matter and Kings still sting.
The trifecta of 2005 TV shows:
The 2005-2006 season was an absolute disaster for new, promising sci-fi shows.
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.
That sounds like a cool premise!
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
I'd like to see the end of Utopia.
They set up a lot of things and it's a shame we didn't get to see how they played out.
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.
Stargate universe.
Battlegate Univactica?
Colony
HarmonQuest
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
Archive 81. First season was great. Loved the audio too.
Stargate Universe.
They killed it when the show just had caught steam.
They did the same with Star Trek: Enterprise. It finally picked up momentum in the fourth season when Manny Coto took over as show runner, then they killed it.
Its been along road...
1899
Ash vs Evil Dead
In recent memory:
Girls 5eva.
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.
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.
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.
Heroes, without the writer's strike.
They tried.
It was bad
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.
Firefly has aged like fine milk. It is painful to revisit. A few quality moments/episodes here in there, but a lot of problems. The anti-hero thing did not age well
Mythbusters, junkyard wars.
Junkyard Wars! I would watch 100 seasons of that show!
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.
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.
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
The Lazarus project, can second that..
Up vote for the Lazarus Project such a well thought out and interesting premise.
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?
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.
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.
Terra Nova. Not great but interesting concept.
Better Off Ted
Wonderfalls
Also Pushing Daisies and Dead Like Me
Yes all of Brian Fuller's shows deserved better
Alf
That final episode was brutal to young me
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.
I very glad to see so many Browncoats here.
My series fell off the gorram tv!
Best show in the 'verse, 我的朋友!
Pirates of Dark Water.
Yes, I'm old.
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.
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.
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.
Pushing Daisies.
Yes, please and thank you!
Obligatory Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles mention.
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.
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.
Dark Matter (2015) - They just leave it on a cliffhanger on that after doing a premonition scene teasing about future events? How can you have a prophecy in a story but never have an ending?
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.
Dark Matter
(The space one)
Firefly. 100%. No question.
Crusade (Babylon 5 spinoff)
Rome
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?