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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Somewhere I have the pilot episode I got off a torrent or newsgroup site ages back that was a digitized copy of an airtape or backup master. It had the slate and countdown and the person who posted it apparently lifted it off good old 3/4 U-Matic. Know that old format well. Quad looked way better as long as the heads didn’t clog. The days of the Ampex AVR 2 & 6 long gone.
Probably because the suits were told there is a ‘summer season’ and a ‘winter season.’ The poor guys could not think beyond that.
One of the things I liked about “The Invaders” was they burned up when they were killed.
Roy Thinnes mentioned in one of his commentaries on the CD’s that the invaders were a little too easy to kill but people sort of accepted that since they were in a strange world in which they had to undergo constant rehabilitation in those chambers to stay alive and keep their human form.
Of course their ultimate plan was to change the earth’s atmosphere to match their own. There also was the occasional invader who did not approve of what they were doing.
Talk about hard to watch!
I like Quark and get the humor. My wife isn’t that big on it. As a rule, I have always liked Richard Benjamin.
Yeah, the good ole days.... My kids can’t wrap their heads around the idea of ONLY have “kid shows” for a couple of hours on Sat. mornings. (”You mean you didn’t even have kid CHANNELS?”) rofl
Maybe somebody should bring 'Hot Tub Time Machine' to TV.
surface is the one I miss most that got cancelled early.
I miss independent channels too. There was a really good one in upstate SC called WHNS and it had a great line up of old shows and movies. It became a FOX affiliate a few years later.
No on the first one and yes on the last two.
Sure, there was Bogart and Bacall, and more recently Hanks and Ryan, but for raw sexual tension, nothing could beat Nabors and Buzzi. A classic unremembered.
I don’t wanna look; I probably liked most of the worst shows. :^)
Yup. I don't remember much about it, but I remember the show and wanting to watch it.
The Star Ship Troopers series, I only saw one and that was too many. I didnt even make it through the whole thing.
OK, turns out I didn’t like most of the shows they picked.... but I think I want to give “Kings” a try.
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