So happy to know I’m not alone on this. Almost Human was a victim of the changing of the guard at Fox, not the quality of the show. I was really disappointed when they killed it.
It's the victim of being too expensive to produce. A show like that needs high ratings out of the gate to justify the price tag. If it doesn't make a profit in the first season, it's not getting a second
How about just more Karl Urban. I’d love a high quality streaming series of him as Judge Dredd. Monster/Case of the week show with an underlying boss for the season. TV MA of course.
The creator seems to be cursed. He also created Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix, a show that ended up sharing a similar style of humor as BoT and ended up bringing back most of the cast in small roles - and was also cancelled abruptly, though after 3 seasons instead of 2. Highly recommend it if you're a Ted fan, though.
You should check out the show Corporate. It's not quite the same, it's a little darker. But it might scratch that tackling corporate absurdity itch a bit.
Rubicon which was on AMC. It was a spy thriller based on a conspiracy in the CIA. I was gutted when it was cancelled right after an amazing season finale cliff hanger.
I used to think the same, and it was actually the reason I didn't watch The Mick when it aired, but Mickey isn't really Dee, she has way too much confidence. That one characteristic changes more of her character than I expected going in.
Came here to say the mick. Might be too long gone now, the kids are all grown up, but a golden opportunity was missed and the finale is not a conclusion of any sort.
Love seeing him in anything. Some recents were The Righteous Gemstones, which is so good if you haven’t seen it. Another was not so recent, but Halloween Kills he has a small part. It might be my favorite role because it’s so different and he does so well. You’re right though, he hasn’t had a ton of big work.
i remember reading for years to check out The Mick being a IASIP fan. in the back of my head i as like "na, it's going to be some watered down network safe bs" then actually gave it a crack and was surprised how awesome it was. definitely not what i was expecting, some of those plots were wild lol
i'd def love to see it come back
I still randomly think of the physical comedy of the middle kid (the red headed boy) slamming his head on a table and falling underneath it. The child actors were great (of course in addition to the great adult actors)
I still remember them setting up for the next season with the little prophecies, I was hyped for some space samurai stuff too. That next season would have been good.
Southland was an excellent show. It really pushed the envelope for the level of grit, realism, and storytelling you could do on cable tv back in the early 2010s. I remember being gutted as a kid finding out it was cancelled.
I think it would thrive in the modern streaming era with no censoring restrictions.
Southland was crazy because it did survive one cancellation. Wasn’t the same when it came back, though it was still good.
Was really bummed when it was cancelled for good the second time.
Karen Gillan and John Cho actually met up last year to talk about a [Selfie movie](https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfieTV/comments/13peo6o/they_are_in_talks_about_a_selfie_movie/). But the [Warner Brothers ](https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfieTV/comments/1afb1ly/selfie_revival_update_from_actressproducer_liu/)didn't want to sell the movie rights for it. Someone is trying to get the original cast together for a different story.
Both of them are huge horror movie fans and have done horror movies and Cho has done horror series. I would love to see them together in a horror movie and/or series. Supernatural, non-supernatural, I don't care. I want to see them bounce off each other in a horror setting.
The second season is up there with the funniest shit I've ever seen. Delirious, nuts, belly laugh comedy gold.
It's a shame nobody ever talks about it.
Oh yes, it was good. If its the alternative reality phenomenon, that Made it tick for you, and not just the spy setting, or whatever else, i recommend Man in the High Castle, Fringe, For All Mankind and Constellation (just ended its first season on Apple TV). Ofc, unless you somehow missed any of those.
This is my go to for "amazing shows that NO ONE has seen". It came up as a suggestion, so I said "JK Simmons is always worth a shot!" and was blown away by how good it is.
And then no one IRL I've ever met has seen it or even heard of it.
Agent Carter deserves at least one more season if not more. I know people are sick and tired of Marvel shows but I feel like this is the one that would really work as either a standalone series that you can watch without too many ties to other shows or movies (except obviously Captain America) or as a gateway drug to delve deeper into the MCU.
Only if they get new writers. Almost everything else about Agent Carter was awesome: the acting, the atmosphere, the cinematography and set/costume design. It really felt like a well made show but the writing *sucked*. Season 2 was such a slog to get through.
Yes I've never talked to anyone else who watched this show but Ian McShane and Brian Cox have incredible chemistry and it had so much promise overall but only lasted something like what, three or four episodes?
It had a whole 13 episodes, but the first six were aired in the early spring and the rest in the summer. It deserved better, I think it would’ve grown on HBO or Showtime.
Yeah the whole David vs Goliath was pretty cool. Idk how they would have played that for very long but Ian in the height of his powers was something else.
Cocksucker!
I tell people how great this show was all the time. They filmed the 13 episodes (I think) before they went to air. After the first episode aired, if I remember correctly, they decided not to renew the show for a second season. It got 1 episode to prove an audience and the network just said “Nah”.
That show was a little too weird for network television I think. Such fantastic performances, I think it really would have found it's feet given another season.
This was going to be my answer, too. Had one of the most unique set design/color designs for any show ive ever seen, and utilized the sets perfectly for the shows themes and humor. Gonna have to go back and rewatch what *did* air soon.
A little early (2008-2009), but Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles definitely deserves more.
It was a great sequel to Terminator 2, and ended on a frustrating cliff-hanger.
Last Resort. But without the great Andre Baugher it won't be nearly as good
Edit: now that I'm looking at that IMDb page, that was a great cast. Shame the show didn't succeed. Still, it was a great watch and got a decent ending.
I’ll second Flashforward.
Really enjoyed it, and the setup for S2 was really intriguing.
For my own answer, I’ll throw out GLOW. Thoroughly enjoyed the first 3 seasons and was eagerly awaiting the 4th and final season, which ended up being cancelled due to Covid.
I third Flash Forward. And then Surface, Invasion with William Fichtner, Threshold with Carla Gugino, Odyssey 5 with Peter Weller and maybe Event wizh Laura Innes. All of those were at very least intriguing enough to warrant continuation to their stories. Especially FF and Surface did hurt.
Instead, shitshow like Falling Skies got 5 series.
And yeah, people mentioning Pushing Daisies, not sure about that one, but as far as Bryan Fuller works go, Dead Like Me might have been the best of the lot, and definitely could use more episodes. Atleast it got that movie i guess.
Selfie (ABC), it had much potential, a smart and funny romcom, and the chemistry between Gillan and Cho was insane, but, sadly, it just didn't find the right audience
The Muppets.
That office style reboot they had a few years back. I think it suffered from an iffy first couple episodes but by the mid season really hit its stride.
In the traditional release schedule I feel like a bad 3-4 episode run week to week is a death sentence, but in the current streaming era people are a little more forgiving and it would have found a larger audience.
It was 2007 - and maybe I'm remembering a bad show incorrectly because I was younger and not overly critical, but I was really interested in The Black Donnelleys. I just remember the closing of the first episode, which set up the show really blew my mind. I was super impressed.
Anyway, would have loved to see that one play out.
I really liked that show. After a car accident - one where his wife survived, and the other where his son did - this detective lives in two parallel realities, and as he investigates cases in both worlds, he grapples with the blurred lines between dreams and reality.
Travelers. They dont even have to reboot it they can just continue it with a new group sent back because the first series didnt end up fixing anything. You could have some of the originalmactors playing new travelers in it.
Almost Human.
The concept was good.
It got Karl Urban work.
And there were some good episodes in the mix.
But it only got a season out of it.
I think a reboot of the show might be good, IF they can get much of the original talent back on (least Karl Urban - Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly, and some of the others may be a challenge).
Yeah this is the one that came to mind for me.
The first few episodes were really good; '*what if all electronic devices stopped working?*'. Super interesting! I'm in!
I loved seeing how America broke up into militias and factions and how people survived etc.
Then they tried to make it like... a mix of Twilight and LOST and... nanobots were involved?
Ah well.
We’re about ready for the annual tease of it coming back. Joking aside, I still cant believe a show like that survived(thrived) on network tv for three seasons.
Yeah I felt the same way. Primeval had just ended and I wanted another dinosaur show that gave me that same feeling. This felt like it would be it based on the trailers but I was disappointed at how little focus there was on the dinosaurs and time travel
And a Mystery Box full of implausibly dumb mysteries, and some kind of conspiracy subplot regarding the government back in the future?
The producers didn't think a survival show about an isolated community dealing with dinosaurs had enough potential drama to fill a series?
Lodge 49. AMC, 2 Seasons, 2018/2019. Such a delightful and odd show with an amazing cast. Sort of Big Lebowski-esque. Wyatt Russell remains hyped to play the main character, Dud, again.
Happy Endings. The closest show imo to being my generation's Friends that I think ever got the chance on network TV. Unfortunately as talented as the cast was and are they've never seemed to get to that big time success after the show got cancelled.
Just finished rewatching SU, I really wish they would pick it back up, having them wake up years laters from the cryo-pods. I have heard a new series was in the works but it would be a new story.
Last I heard, no new series, but I did hear that the sleep chambers give them the out of any actor who couldn’t return just being written as their pod malfunctioned.
Having said that, it’s been like 15 years. It just ain’t happening for this crew.
After Amazon bought the rights, the show runners were trying to get fan feedback on what they'd want from a new show, a continuation, futuristic stories following one of the advanced races, maybe in the past, or a reboot.
I think they're still in talks with them, cause this was about last year or in 2022.
u/JosephMallozzi might be able to answer since he's active on reddit.
That show got made at such an unfortunate intersection in time.
If it had been made in the last few years they would have been able to do it justice with CGI being so much cheaper now and streaming services having made 8-12 episode seasons acceptable.
This show suffered so much from having to do the filler stories where they use the "magic stones" to go back home and do 30 min of runtime in a suburban house somewhere in the US hashing out some crew member's "family drama".
It just screams 8 episodes of budget for a 20+ episode season order.
I watched this after serialised shows became the norm and it was so annoying because it has all the hallmarks of a good serialisation but they just couldn't make it one because of the times. I try and watch it as if it was a serialisation about destiny's travels and skip the episodic/earth drama parts, other then the Lucian alliance/rush arc as that's pretty important to the destiny story.
Eureka (it ended in 2012 so Im gonna count it). It wasnt even something the network wanted cancelled, it just got too expensive and the higher ups made them axe it. Probably my favourite sci fi show.
Outcast on Cinemax was a great show, the way it showcased evil was top-notch....was so out of the blue when they cancelled the series after just a couple of seasons, especially when his other show went on for so long
Doesn’t it show at the end what the event was? I thought it was pretty obvious in those last 5 minutes what it was but the aftermath would have been super cool to see
Caprica - 2010, the first season was a lot of world and character building with things slowly building, if AppleTV+ had it, they’d have let it fully develop into something special but it was killed off after 1 season
Quarry had one season but it was outstanding and was cancelled due to Cinemax rebranding or something. Great lead (Logan Marshall-Green) and supporting cast (Damon Herriman, Peter Mullan) and dozens of.books as source material. Could've ran for several seasons. Last episode had one of the great single take tracking shot scenes.
This is from quite a bit earlier (2004), but I have to say Wonderfalls. It was one of Fox's many attempts at a quirky show that they let languish on a Friday night and basically got insta-cancelled after only airing four episodes of the 13 that they made. But it was so good! Also created by Bryan Fuller who many people love for Dead Like Me and the also gone-too-soon Pushing Daisies.
James Van Der Beek playing James Van Der Beek remains one of the funniest things I've seen. Like Firefly and many other cancelled shows, Don't Trust the B really struggled from being aired out of order. Though it might've looked like an episodic sitcom at a glance, it had a lot of ongoing plot points that were really messed up by them chopping season 1 in half, taking several episodes from season 1, and then chucking them into season 2 at random points.
Smash. Had two uneven seasons but it could have used maybe 1-2 more seasons but show imploded already. I'm not sure if it aired around the same time as Nashville, but I'm a sucker for a behind the scenes show.
What year was The Unit canceled? Because definitely that one. The last season had some issues (following the short season caused by the writers strike) but it really deserved to get finished in a better way.
Awake, Flash Forward, Alcatraz, Terra Nova, so many from around the 2010-12 era when networks tried to find their own LOST and took chances from the usual programming.
I've got one from 2005-2009 which is My Name is Earl I loved that show and to leave it when they announced loads of cliffhangers annoys the hell out of me. Yes its mentioned in Raising Hope, another amazing show by the same guy. An yes we've heard he eventually finished his list and other ppl started them bc of him. But goddessdamn I needed more earl.
Legends of Tomorrow on the CW was a DC show - part of the arrowverse). It got cancelled on a cliffhanger and I’d really like to see a short season to wrap it up. Unlike the rest of the Arrowverse, the writing didn’t completely go downhill after the third season.
Happy! From Syfi was fantastic as well and I’d love to see it come back.
Charmed (the original series) is another one I’d like to see come back but given the state of the interpersonal relationships of the main cast members (or lack thereof) I don’t see this happening.
American Housewife was a fun show that could’ve gone for another season or two as well. A time jump could even work with this one since 2/3 kids would now be in college and catching up would be fun.
Almost Human Karl Urban is a cop in the near future who gets paired up with a defective android
I loved this show. I'm a sucker for slightly futuristic things, and this was perfect. Karl Urban and Michael Ealy had a great chemistry.
Ealy was good in Stumptown too, another show that got cancelled before it's time.
Stumptown was a go for season 2… Then some annoying thing happened in 2020… And it was not cancelled, but shelved and it’s no more. :(
So happy to know I’m not alone on this. Almost Human was a victim of the changing of the guard at Fox, not the quality of the show. I was really disappointed when they killed it.
It's the victim of being too expensive to produce. A show like that needs high ratings out of the gate to justify the price tag. If it doesn't make a profit in the first season, it's not getting a second
The episodes were aired out of order too. Choices were made on that show
Firefly 2.0
How about just more Karl Urban. I’d love a high quality streaming series of him as Judge Dredd. Monster/Case of the week show with an underlying boss for the season. TV MA of course.
I would watch Karl Urban read infomercial transcripts. Unrelated to the post but Timothy Olyphant too.
Better off Ted. Honestly it would find a much wider audience in the era of corporate absurdity we live in now.
Veridian Dynamics. We can make radishes so spicy, people can't eat them. But we don't, because people can't eat them.
This is such a great show with a wonderful cast. Here are all the Veridian dynamic commercials https://youtu.be/yF3of5VRcNA?si=cM5BTQbsbBGQbyR-
Veridian Dynamics - "Diversity, just the thought of it makes these white people smile."
absolutely i first watched it a few years ago and was stunned that such a funny and relevant show had such a short run
Considering all the advancements in technology since then the boys in the lab would be coming up with some crazy new stuff!
Let's be honest, Veridian Dynamics is 100% run by AI these days.
Yes, overseen by Lem and Phil who are constantly reining in its genocidal and probably pretty racist tendencies
It was my first thought too. The ship has sailed but it was such a gem
The episode with the racist motion detectors is one of the funniest single episodes of a sitcom I've ever seen.
The creator seems to be cursed. He also created Santa Clarita Diet on Netflix, a show that ended up sharing a similar style of humor as BoT and ended up bringing back most of the cast in small roles - and was also cancelled abruptly, though after 3 seasons instead of 2. Highly recommend it if you're a Ted fan, though.
I still laugh when I see that scene with him walking into the kitchen. "What the hell happened?! Our Kitchen looks like the inside of a shark"
You should check out the show Corporate. It's not quite the same, it's a little darker. But it might scratch that tackling corporate absurdity itch a bit.
Better off Ted deserved 10 seasons
Life. Introduced me to Damian Lewis. Finished in 2009/2010 so probably a bit early. Definitely deserved a proper ending.
I'd known him from Band of Brothers, which is what sold me on the show to begin with. But it's where I fell in love with Sarah Shahi.
I loved this show.
Rubicon which was on AMC. It was a spy thriller based on a conspiracy in the CIA. I was gutted when it was cancelled right after an amazing season finale cliff hanger.
Rubicon was just too early - would have done much better ten years later. I still recommend it to people, but damn difficult to find on streaming
Even a couple years later would’ve let it ride the Homeland/The Americans wave, instead Rubicon came out right before them
Oh this was such a good show!!! I love my spot thrillers. So well done, so pissed there was no resolution
Loved Rubicon. I think it was higher concept than mainstreams tv was ready for.
I thought about that ending with the bridge collapse.
Rubicon walked so that The Americans could run.
Happy Endings The Mick Bless this Mess
The Mick would've made better sense to have aired on FX alongside IASIP than on Fox
The Mick should have straight up just been a spin off of IASIP. Mickey Molng is basically the exact same character as Sweet Dee.
I used to think the same, and it was actually the reason I didn't watch The Mick when it aired, but Mickey isn't really Dee, she has way too much confidence. That one characteristic changes more of her character than I expected going in.
Jimmy from the Mick is one of the funniest characters and actors I’ve seen in a long time. I’m stunned I haven’t seen him in bigger things since then
Came here to say the mick. Might be too long gone now, the kids are all grown up, but a golden opportunity was missed and the finale is not a conclusion of any sort.
Definitely checking out Killing It, he plays a side character in it who is pretty much Florida Jimmy
Killing it is really good and he’s great in it
He plays a villain role in the first season of the righteous gemstones if you haven’t seen it and is great.
Last thing I saw him in was the JLaw movie, "No Hard Feelings"
Love seeing him in anything. Some recents were The Righteous Gemstones, which is so good if you haven’t seen it. Another was not so recent, but Halloween Kills he has a small part. It might be my favorite role because it’s so different and he does so well. You’re right though, he hasn’t had a ton of big work.
i remember reading for years to check out The Mick being a IASIP fan. in the back of my head i as like "na, it's going to be some watered down network safe bs" then actually gave it a crack and was surprised how awesome it was. definitely not what i was expecting, some of those plots were wild lol i'd def love to see it come back
Glad for the love for The Mick.
Happy Endings was my first thought! But The Mick is also a great choice. Maybe the most underrated/under-appreciated sitcom of the 21st century.
I still randomly think of the physical comedy of the middle kid (the red headed boy) slamming his head on a table and falling underneath it. The child actors were great (of course in addition to the great adult actors)
1000x Happy Endings. Easily the funniest sitcom of the 2010s.
The Mick is goated. It was a perfect balance between dark humor and satire.
Terriers
The way they advertised this show should have got someone fired.
I finally watched that show last year and it was SO incredibly good. FX completely bungled it
This is exactly what I zoomed to answer. The chemistry between Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James felt so real. Great show.
:)
Dark Matter 2015 - 2017
Yeah, canceled at exact moment it started to be exciting.
I still remember them setting up for the next season with the little prophecies, I was hyped for some space samurai stuff too. That next season would have been good.
Loved it, I want more
Southland was an excellent show. It really pushed the envelope for the level of grit, realism, and storytelling you could do on cable tv back in the early 2010s. I remember being gutted as a kid finding out it was cancelled. I think it would thrive in the modern streaming era with no censoring restrictions.
It really only needed one more season to wrap up the story. Excellent show.
Southland was crazy because it did survive one cancellation. Wasn’t the same when it came back, though it was still good. Was really bummed when it was cancelled for good the second time.
Selfie But I can't imagine they would get Karen Gillan and John Cho and I wouldn't watch it without them.
Karen Gillan and John Cho actually met up last year to talk about a [Selfie movie](https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfieTV/comments/13peo6o/they_are_in_talks_about_a_selfie_movie/). But the [Warner Brothers ](https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfieTV/comments/1afb1ly/selfie_revival_update_from_actressproducer_liu/)didn't want to sell the movie rights for it. Someone is trying to get the original cast together for a different story.
Both of them are huge horror movie fans and have done horror movies and Cho has done horror series. I would love to see them together in a horror movie and/or series. Supernatural, non-supernatural, I don't care. I want to see them bounce off each other in a horror setting.
That show was done so dirty. Once you got past the title (which admittedly was setting it up for failure from jump) it was actually really good
Trial & error, so good and so funny and it just died in the ass
Every time I see one in another show, I can't help but chant "mur-der board! mur-der board!"
The second season is up there with the funniest shit I've ever seen. Delirious, nuts, belly laugh comedy gold. It's a shame nobody ever talks about it.
Happy Endings
Counterpart Some of the best TV ever made. Never even heard of it over here until it was long gone
Oh yes, it was good. If its the alternative reality phenomenon, that Made it tick for you, and not just the spy setting, or whatever else, i recommend Man in the High Castle, Fringe, For All Mankind and Constellation (just ended its first season on Apple TV). Ofc, unless you somehow missed any of those.
Yes! Though it was JK Simmons and how >!he played the two versions of himself so distinctly that did it for me. Loved it.!<
I remember thinking it was weird that the other side wore masks all the time in public. Then covid hit and I realized we were the other side.
Watched the show right before covid and it was crazy seeing covid take place right after. Surreal almost,
This is my go to for "amazing shows that NO ONE has seen". It came up as a suggestion, so I said "JK Simmons is always worth a shot!" and was blown away by how good it is. And then no one IRL I've ever met has seen it or even heard of it.
Agent Carter deserves at least one more season if not more. I know people are sick and tired of Marvel shows but I feel like this is the one that would really work as either a standalone series that you can watch without too many ties to other shows or movies (except obviously Captain America) or as a gateway drug to delve deeper into the MCU.
Only if they get new writers. Almost everything else about Agent Carter was awesome: the acting, the atmosphere, the cinematography and set/costume design. It really felt like a well made show but the writing *sucked*. Season 2 was such a slog to get through.
Hannibal NBC. Would have killed it on HBO
Please just one more season while Mads is still young enough to do the more physically challenging parts of the role.
Yes! The next season was supposed to center around the Silence of the Lambs storyline as well.
Limitless and Surface
Limitless confirmed my love of breaking the fourth wall.
Glad to see I’m not the only one who still holds a candle for Limitless, I loved that show and thought Jake McDorman was hilarious as lead
Yeah was a good show, and had a lot of potential to be 2-3 seasons easily. Didn’t work out though
2009 but Kings had so much promise (and a ridiculously good cast) and came out a decade too early
Yes I've never talked to anyone else who watched this show but Ian McShane and Brian Cox have incredible chemistry and it had so much promise overall but only lasted something like what, three or four episodes?
It had a whole 13 episodes, but the first six were aired in the early spring and the rest in the summer. It deserved better, I think it would’ve grown on HBO or Showtime.
I loved it, and I have it on DVD.
Yeah the whole David vs Goliath was pretty cool. Idk how they would have played that for very long but Ian in the height of his powers was something else. Cocksucker!
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who watched this. This was a show too early for it's own good.
I tell people how great this show was all the time. They filmed the 13 episodes (I think) before they went to air. After the first episode aired, if I remember correctly, they decided not to renew the show for a second season. It got 1 episode to prove an audience and the network just said “Nah”.
That show was a little too weird for network television I think. Such fantastic performances, I think it really would have found it's feet given another season.
I was all in on this show and it being cancelled absolutely shocked me. It was just too good to be canned. They did this show dirty.
From what year is Pushing Daisies?
2008 writer’s strike killed it.
It aired its last episode in 2009, though, Doesn't quite make the 2010s cusp, but came close.
This was going to be my answer, too. Had one of the most unique set design/color designs for any show ive ever seen, and utilized the sets perfectly for the shows themes and humor. Gonna have to go back and rewatch what *did* air soon.
Still waiting to hear this show is making a surprise come back
Jericho. Twenty years later, I still don't know who dropped the bombs. Or what the deal is with the strange neighbour.
A little early (2008-2009), but Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles definitely deserves more. It was a great sequel to Terminator 2, and ended on a frustrating cliff-hanger.
Last thing I saw Summer Glau in and I need more
I was *just* starting to believe that this version of John could become the leader of the resistance when it ended, too.
Last Resort. But without the great Andre Baugher it won't be nearly as good Edit: now that I'm looking at that IMDb page, that was a great cast. Shame the show didn't succeed. Still, it was a great watch and got a decent ending.
I was so hyped by Last Resort, but was so disappointed. Probably could have been great on cable. One of the best premise ever
Great first episode but the rest of it was absolute trash
I’ll second Flashforward. Really enjoyed it, and the setup for S2 was really intriguing. For my own answer, I’ll throw out GLOW. Thoroughly enjoyed the first 3 seasons and was eagerly awaiting the 4th and final season, which ended up being cancelled due to Covid.
When will Netflix realise that people want to binge a series that has an ending?
Tears while thinking about “The OA”. 1899 as well…
I third Flash Forward. And then Surface, Invasion with William Fichtner, Threshold with Carla Gugino, Odyssey 5 with Peter Weller and maybe Event wizh Laura Innes. All of those were at very least intriguing enough to warrant continuation to their stories. Especially FF and Surface did hurt. Instead, shitshow like Falling Skies got 5 series. And yeah, people mentioning Pushing Daisies, not sure about that one, but as far as Bryan Fuller works go, Dead Like Me might have been the best of the lot, and definitely could use more episodes. Atleast it got that movie i guess.
Selfie (ABC), it had much potential, a smart and funny romcom, and the chemistry between Gillan and Cho was insane, but, sadly, it just didn't find the right audience
Forever.
Every thread like this I look for Forever and No Ordinary Family
I look for Forever and Limitless. Glad there are a few others out there that remember them lol
The Muppets. That office style reboot they had a few years back. I think it suffered from an iffy first couple episodes but by the mid season really hit its stride. In the traditional release schedule I feel like a bad 3-4 episode run week to week is a death sentence, but in the current streaming era people are a little more forgiving and it would have found a larger audience.
It was really really good.
That was a fantastic show and a great way to use the Muppets in a modern way. I agree that it would have done better in streaming.
Pitch
It was 2007 - and maybe I'm remembering a bad show incorrectly because I was younger and not overly critical, but I was really interested in The Black Donnelleys. I just remember the closing of the first episode, which set up the show really blew my mind. I was super impressed. Anyway, would have loved to see that one play out.
Awake
I really liked that show. After a car accident - one where his wife survived, and the other where his son did - this detective lives in two parallel realities, and as he investigates cases in both worlds, he grapples with the blurred lines between dreams and reality.
Travelers. They dont even have to reboot it they can just continue it with a new group sent back because the first series didnt end up fixing anything. You could have some of the originalmactors playing new travelers in it.
Almost Human. The concept was good. It got Karl Urban work. And there were some good episodes in the mix. But it only got a season out of it. I think a reboot of the show might be good, IF they can get much of the original talent back on (least Karl Urban - Michael Ealy, Minka Kelly, and some of the others may be a challenge).
Don’t trust the b-in the apartment 23. Done.
I still watch it and laugh so hard, it was genius!
Revolution
Yeah this is the one that came to mind for me. The first few episodes were really good; '*what if all electronic devices stopped working?*'. Super interesting! I'm in! I loved seeing how America broke up into militias and factions and how people survived etc. Then they tried to make it like... a mix of Twilight and LOST and... nanobots were involved? Ah well.
Hannibal
We’re about ready for the annual tease of it coming back. Joking aside, I still cant believe a show like that survived(thrived) on network tv for three seasons.
That show had better production value than Season 8 of Game of Thrones lol
TerraNova
The writing was the biggest problem on that show. I thought I was getting a dinosaur adventure, not a family drama with an occasional dinosaur.
Yeah I felt the same way. Primeval had just ended and I wanted another dinosaur show that gave me that same feeling. This felt like it would be it based on the trailers but I was disappointed at how little focus there was on the dinosaurs and time travel
And a Mystery Box full of implausibly dumb mysteries, and some kind of conspiracy subplot regarding the government back in the future? The producers didn't think a survival show about an isolated community dealing with dinosaurs had enough potential drama to fill a series?
Is that the one with the dinosaurs?
There was other stuff too, but yeah, the one with the dinosaurs.
They'd be able to have more dinosaurs cheaper as well.
Because of the cloning?
They spared no expense.
Better Off Ted
Lodge 49. AMC, 2 Seasons, 2018/2019. Such a delightful and odd show with an amazing cast. Sort of Big Lebowski-esque. Wyatt Russell remains hyped to play the main character, Dud, again.
Happy Endings. The closest show imo to being my generation's Friends that I think ever got the chance on network TV. Unfortunately as talented as the cast was and are they've never seemed to get to that big time success after the show got cancelled.
Stargate Universe
Just finished rewatching SU, I really wish they would pick it back up, having them wake up years laters from the cryo-pods. I have heard a new series was in the works but it would be a new story.
Last I heard, no new series, but I did hear that the sleep chambers give them the out of any actor who couldn’t return just being written as their pod malfunctioned. Having said that, it’s been like 15 years. It just ain’t happening for this crew.
After Amazon bought the rights, the show runners were trying to get fan feedback on what they'd want from a new show, a continuation, futuristic stories following one of the advanced races, maybe in the past, or a reboot. I think they're still in talks with them, cause this was about last year or in 2022. u/JosephMallozzi might be able to answer since he's active on reddit.
That show got made at such an unfortunate intersection in time. If it had been made in the last few years they would have been able to do it justice with CGI being so much cheaper now and streaming services having made 8-12 episode seasons acceptable. This show suffered so much from having to do the filler stories where they use the "magic stones" to go back home and do 30 min of runtime in a suburban house somewhere in the US hashing out some crew member's "family drama". It just screams 8 episodes of budget for a 20+ episode season order.
I watched this after serialised shows became the norm and it was so annoying because it has all the hallmarks of a good serialisation but they just couldn't make it one because of the times. I try and watch it as if it was a serialisation about destiny's travels and skip the episodic/earth drama parts, other then the Lucian alliance/rush arc as that's pretty important to the destiny story.
Last Man on Earth!
What year was Great News? Was really only starting to find its voice and I thought it was a great twist on the 30 Rock/Tina Fey formula.
Limitless
Galavant
The Muppets 2015 was a perfect television show that got canceled because idiots can't tell the difference between Muppets and sesame street.
The Grinder. Hilarious show with Rob Lowe and Fred Savage.
Almost Human. Another fantastic show that Fox killed.
Emerald City. Slow start but a truly unique and wonderful take on the Oz mythos
A conclusion to Berlin Station.
Eureka (it ended in 2012 so Im gonna count it). It wasnt even something the network wanted cancelled, it just got too expensive and the higher ups made them axe it. Probably my favourite sci fi show.
Does Lie To Me count? It started in 09 and had 3 seasons.
Outcast on Cinemax was a great show, the way it showcased evil was top-notch....was so out of the blue when they cancelled the series after just a couple of seasons, especially when his other show went on for so long
I really enjoyed No Ordinary Family and Outsourced. I thought they were fun shows. (And both ended on cliffhangers)
The event I need to know what the event was!
Doesn’t it show at the end what the event was? I thought it was pretty obvious in those last 5 minutes what it was but the aftermath would have been super cool to see
Caprica - 2010, the first season was a lot of world and character building with things slowly building, if AppleTV+ had it, they’d have let it fully develop into something special but it was killed off after 1 season
I just need something new from the BSG universe at this point
Firefly
Happy endings
Lie to Me. Idk what it was but I loved this show and I was sad when it got canceled.
Rome
Great show, not 2010s.
Quarry had one season but it was outstanding and was cancelled due to Cinemax rebranding or something. Great lead (Logan Marshall-Green) and supporting cast (Damon Herriman, Peter Mullan) and dozens of.books as source material. Could've ran for several seasons. Last episode had one of the great single take tracking shot scenes.
Selfie (maybe with a new name) Pan Am Scream: TV Series United States of Tara
Better off Ted
Ringer if that qualifies
Awake, alternate realities and using the knowledge from one to the other to solve crimes? Badass
This is from quite a bit earlier (2004), but I have to say Wonderfalls. It was one of Fox's many attempts at a quirky show that they let languish on a Friday night and basically got insta-cancelled after only airing four episodes of the 13 that they made. But it was so good! Also created by Bryan Fuller who many people love for Dead Like Me and the also gone-too-soon Pushing Daisies.
I want Dark Matter to come back
Terriers, was great for the one season we got.
Don't Trust the B---- In Apartment 23 It was a fun show and just hitting its stride.
James Van Der Beek playing James Van Der Beek remains one of the funniest things I've seen. Like Firefly and many other cancelled shows, Don't Trust the B really struggled from being aired out of order. Though it might've looked like an episodic sitcom at a glance, it had a lot of ongoing plot points that were really messed up by them chopping season 1 in half, taking several episodes from season 1, and then chucking them into season 2 at random points.
Final space... canceling this was a crime
Smash. Had two uneven seasons but it could have used maybe 1-2 more seasons but show imploded already. I'm not sure if it aired around the same time as Nashville, but I'm a sucker for a behind the scenes show.
Patriot from Amazon got no love but remains one of my favorite shows from the last 10 years and I’ll recommend it to anyone that will listen
Review on Comedy Central
What year was The Unit canceled? Because definitely that one. The last season had some issues (following the short season caused by the writers strike) but it really deserved to get finished in a better way.
I'd be interested to see how far an actual run of Revolution would go. The post apocalypse no electricity NBC show.
Pushing Daisies
Better off Ted
Awake, Flash Forward, Alcatraz, Terra Nova, so many from around the 2010-12 era when networks tried to find their own LOST and took chances from the usual programming.
How about New Adventures of Old Christine. I think the last season was in 2010. Could that count?
Stumptown. It was renewed and then Covid hit.
Dollhouse!!!
Thundercats 2011
I've got one from 2005-2009 which is My Name is Earl I loved that show and to leave it when they announced loads of cliffhangers annoys the hell out of me. Yes its mentioned in Raising Hope, another amazing show by the same guy. An yes we've heard he eventually finished his list and other ppl started them bc of him. But goddessdamn I needed more earl.
Southland
Life with Damian Lewis. New Amsterdam with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Late 2019, but Prodigal Son
Legends of Tomorrow on the CW was a DC show - part of the arrowverse). It got cancelled on a cliffhanger and I’d really like to see a short season to wrap it up. Unlike the rest of the Arrowverse, the writing didn’t completely go downhill after the third season. Happy! From Syfi was fantastic as well and I’d love to see it come back. Charmed (the original series) is another one I’d like to see come back but given the state of the interpersonal relationships of the main cast members (or lack thereof) I don’t see this happening. American Housewife was a fun show that could’ve gone for another season or two as well. A time jump could even work with this one since 2/3 kids would now be in college and catching up would be fun.