This week I wrote briefly about the fact that Journeyman is dead, may it rest in peace. Great show, cool concept, interesting characters and solid writing.
It ended too early, as a lot of shows do, and it’s a bummer it’s not coming back.
Now, we had a question a long time ago about your favorite shows that were canceled too early, and everyone gave a list of the ones they loved.
But now I want to narrow it down a bit.
You can bring back one canceled show – Which one do you choose?
This is a really tough one for me. I’d have to chose between three, and Journeyman isn’t even one of them. It’s between Firefly, Sports Night and Arrested Development.
I longed to see where Sports Night was going. The ending was on a high note, but I miss Casey, Dan, Natalie, Jeremy and Dana. Arrested Development was awesome as well.
But I’m going to go with Firefly. It didn’t even get a whole season, while the other two shows I listed above each went for 2 and 3 respectively.
It would have been awesome to see how it ended up, so that’s my pick.
Which is yours?
Lots of choices, but you couldn’t go wrong with Arrested Development.
Firefly is a good choice.
I’d like to see good continuations of Babylon 5 or Lexx although the original shows had definitive conclusions.
Threshold showed promise but didn’t get a chance to develop an audience.
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I liked Threshold, but it wasn’t awesome or anything. Sort of like Surface. I got into it, but it was pretty average
A lot of shows start weak but do better as the writers and actors fall into their roles. Kicking butt right from the start is what separated Lost from shows that tried to follow the same general formula like Threshold and Surface.
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I have two. Sports Night would be first but Arrested Development is a close runner up.
Kory, are you guys watching AD finally? How do you like it?
@ Mike – We are pretty much hooked on it and are usually watching one episode each night, if not more!
Good stuff! Glad you gave it a shot
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I’ve got one that I think no one else will mention – The Guardian starring Simon Baker. It aired on CBS and was about a lawyer with a drug problem who has to do court-ordered pro bono work at a legal aid clinic. An original television show with good story lines and excellent acting. So, of course, it was canceled before it ran its course. Plus, it was set in Pittsburgh, which is a refreshing change from the usual settings.
I also love Arrested Development, but I am just now getting into it on HDNet so I have a few episodes to go before I start longing for more
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I would say Sports Night, but they did such a fantastic job wrapping it up that I can’t wish it back. It was a perfect package – start to finish.
Which leaves me with Veronica Mars…. oh, how I miss you VM.
Notable other:
Arrested Development – I mean, never nudes, banana stands, Lucille 2, and Gob’s magician tricks! It was a classic.
Veronica Mars for sure is a good one.
“Dead Like Me”
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Freaks and Geeks!!!
Arrested D.
Millenium
Invasion- it was lame but want it wrapped up
Revelations
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Oh my gosh… I totally forgot – My So Called Life. It ended way to early. Nothing got developed as it should have!
OH MY GOSH!
Freaks and Geeks – nice one DadofIan
Rob – never saw Dead like Me…
Arrested Development. “Hi. I’m Bob Blablah.”
Actually, it’s “Bob Loblaw” I believe…
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ROTFL!
Gotta be either CHiP’s or Dukes of Hazard, both shows were cut down in their prime.
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Doubt anyone’s going to bring up this one, but if you get a chance to see the one season that was created, I recommend it highly: Odyssey 5.
It should have been a five-year run of X-Files type conspiracies and mysteries.
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Never heard of it I don’t think…
By the way Porter, nice sketch
Glad you liked the sketch, Mike.
Odyssey 5 had been on Showtime, but I saw it when it got rerun on one of the HD channels…maybe UHD? Five astronauts on a shuttle mission witness the destruction of Earth and are sent back five years in time by a mysterious space traveler to figure out how and why.
Peter Weller starred, and when you put Buckaroo Banzai in sci-fi, I’m there. I just checked, and Netflix has DVDs. I think you’d like it quite a bit.
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Law & Order: Trial by Jury ended way too soon. One season for a L&O series? Didn’t help that Jerry Orbach died and the series was up against NUMB3RS.
Favorite short-lived show ever though has to be Nowhere Man. “My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I’m a photographer, I had it all: a wife, Alyson, friends, a career. And in one moment, it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it; they want it; and they will do anything to get the negative. I’m keeping this diary as proof that these events are real. I know they are… They… have to be.” One season with a thrown together resolution once it got cancelled?! The series deserved better.
Nowhere Man was awesome, although…I bought it recently and couldn’t get back into it.
But my friend and I watched it religiously every week and it was great at the time…almost ahead of its time in terms of serialized TV.
Nowhere Man was definitely a great show. Funny you say you couldn’t get back into it, Mike. We bought it when it came out on DVD and started watching then got pulled away. Since then, we’ve watched all sorts of series on DVD, some like Buffy and Sports Night multiple times, but haven’t gone back to finish it up. I wonder if part of not going back is not being as drawn in this time around.
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Porter, it just didn’t have the same draw for some reason…maybe like you said, we know the story, we remember how it ends, that picture, etc., plus for me at least, it’s been hard to get into series filmed in 4:3, as spoiled as that sounds
Oh, this list is too long.
Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Futurama, Jericho (though I hear there is still hope)- just some I can think of right now that I would kill to have back on the air.
Baljot, yup, still hope for Jericho!
But nice picks otherwise, I really do miss Veronica Mars.
Good news is that Arrested Development will at least have a movie.
Surface. It started airing in The Netherlands last month. I heard about Treshold, but I’m not going to watch it if it’s aired here because I will know upfront NBC will leave us hanging with an open end, including many unanswered questions.
Trijnie, yeah, Surface was a fun show…but it’s definitely not coming back
Enjoy it though, I think the season at least gives you a good story.
Dead Like Me was a great show, and I was disappointed when I found out it was done. Good news- Feature length follow-up movie (straight-to-dvd?) is coming out soon. Bad news- Rube is out and Daisy is someone else, but it looked like everyone else was coming back.
Babylon 5 got it’s 5-year run, but only after the network made them ruin what was left by cancelling it, which caused them to have to jump the storyline a year, and then uncancelling it, at which point everything that followed was an anticlimax.
Anyone remember how Farscape ended? Boo-hiss.
I think the one that I would bring back (the final episode answered a few questions, but in doing so, unraveled ends that hadn’t been loose before) is John Doe. The only problem is keeping up (in the writing dept.) with someone who knows everything except anything related to himself. Personally, I think he may have not only been an experiment that either got away or was thrown away, but, since he doesn’t know anything about the organization that’s after him, and the only things he doesn’t know about are personal, doesn’t it stand to reason that he was more deeply involved? Like maybe he was in charge, or founded the whole deal in the first place? Not that it matters, now…
I’ve been subbing dvd’s for tv for a couple of years now… are Dexter and Eureka still running? Dresden Files got canceled after the dvd cases were printed… after waiting for a year for season two I only recently found out. Grrr…
Dexter and Eureka are both still going.
Heya Imp, nice one with John Doe. I really loved that show, even though perhaps it wasn’t the best thing out there.