Posted on 09/21/2010 6:18:38 PM PDT by KevinDavis
The new TV season starts in earnest this week, and as usual it brings with it the promise of all kinds of new sci-fi, fantasy and horror treats for us to watch. And all too soon it will also bring with it an inevitable round of cancelations as shows that seemed like they were just getting going get cut short when the ratings take a sudden downturn (or maybe a slow decline).
Before we fall in love with too many new darlings only to lose them too soon, we thought it was a good time to look back over some of the most promising new network shows in the last 10 years that also seemed fresh and young ... only to flame out spectacularly.
The list could go well past 20 of course, but all of these stood out in some way during their brief time in the sun, either because so many viewers tuned in at first that cancelation seemed impossible, or because creatively they seemed a cut above the average TV fare.
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Flash Forward would have been a great mini series but it seemed to go on and on and one especially with the long break.
Flash Forward and JourneyMan were the only two I ever thought of watching. I was hooked on each from start to untimely end. JourneyMan if only because Kevin McKidd is a Scot that can talk American.
firefly was awesome. i have it on dvd
I picked up the Firefly DVD so I could revisit well-made Sci-Fi.
“Tis all a matter of taste...”
My dad didn’t like too many TV shows but he watched this one every week. I thought it was pretty good at the time.
But then, I was only 9 years old!
Bought the DVD and actually enjoyed it. As a 70’s kid who watched too much TV, I did not remember it all.
Good series in spite of Andy Griffith.
I’d rather not remember. It is up there in bad TV with Supertrain.
Anyone remember “Nowhere Man”?
Older stuff...
Misfits of Science?
Automan?
I loved it and was very sad when it ended. Loved Gene/Jean. The person will both male and female DNA. He would be all macho and yelling, then his female side would come out.
I think it was just a bit too warped for tv. Even on SNL, Buck Henry had a different kind of humor.
The “Star Lost” IIRC, with John Boy Walton sort of like the Amish Bruce Dern of “Silent Running”
Stinkeroo.
Primeval was cut short too. There was talk of making a final round of episodes to wrap it up.
Thanks wally_bert I was beginning to think it was all in my head.
Sci fi of that time was a work in progress. :)
Jekyll was never meant to be an ongoing series. It was a complete story in 6 episodes. The Brits still do that sort of thing. I wish we would.Tell a damn story with a beginning, middle and end rather than try to sustain something until it simply runs out of steam and gets cancelled.
Check out Dead Set, if you're into British TV horror. Zombies vs self-centered idiots in a "Big Brother" style house on a TV studio lot.
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