Posted on 09/15/2010 6:13:35 PM PDT by KevinDavis
Following up on Part 1 of our massive fall TV preview, here's Part 2: a complete look at all the shows that have been canceled or that ended, all the new and returning series that are headed your way in the TV midseason and beyond, and an overview of dozens of movies and miniseries in the works.
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Warehouse 13 was really good this week. Looking forward to more.
Second episode of SOA was last night, and that’s an entertaining filler this early in the season...
Defying Gravity, ABC
This one is still a shame. (Thought it was NBC, but who remembers...)
And least some of the actors are getting work (Warehouse 13, Eureka ...)
I enjoyed that show... It is to bad..
Archer is OK but Frisky Dingo was Reed’s masterpiece.
“Second episode of SOA was last night, and that’s an entertaining filler this early in the season...”
I wish they would show the Mayans MC more, their bike are way cooler.
Rent the DVD. It has all the unaired episodes. They were good. And they started to explain some of what was going on. And the season had an ending, even though it was open for the future of the series.
>>> Defying Gravity, ABC. This one is still a shame
Yes it was. A good sci fi show totally wasted by being mis-marketed as a Greys Anatomy (chasing away the audience who would have appreciated it most), and then hidden away at 10pm on Saturdays when the sci fi audience would be least likely to be at home viewing the television.
If you are interested in where the show was heading before cancellation:
Interesting — two Camelot shows-the current Merlin plus the new, sexier, bigger bucks one, two Roman historicals - Spartacus and Ben-Hur, one about starting life anew on a refuge planet after the end of earth, folks from a dying future earth taking refuge in the age of the dinosaurs, a lot of dreck too.
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Defying Gravity was definitely a good show and, unlike most television treatment of the subject, actually had a pretty mature (if not somewhat conservative) take on abortion and childbearing, which surprised me. It would have been interesting to see how things played out with the religious character. Great cast and great acting. A shame ABC didn’t give it a better slot and the full season. I could have been a great SyFy Friday show, too.
For the cancelled list, I probably would have given Day One a chance. I was enjoying FlashForward despite the complaints many people had about it and think it ended pretty well and it least had some resolution. Never watched Dollhouse because I found the premise too creepy (just as I find the body-swapping in SGU pretty creepy) to bother with it. Heroes was incredibly uneven but I think the Thanksgiving dinner episode made the whole thing worth watching because it was hilarious. Lost, on the other hand, had some great episodes but I thought the ending, and much of the last season actually, was pretty awful.
Of that list, I’m most disappointed by the cancellation of Legend of the Seeker (followed by Defying Gravity, which I mentioned in another reply) and FlashForward. I thought Legend of the Seeker was an excellent show and they had some really good character episodes and great casting and acting. It’s hard to do fantasy right on TV and they did a pretty good job of it.
Of course I’m still angry about NBC canceling Journeyman. :(
I’m happy Warehouse 13 seems to be going strong. It can get goofy but I enjoy it. Of the new stuff, I’m looking forward to Camelot, The Cape, and Terra Nova. I don’t have HBO but I’ll probably pick of Game of Thrones, if it gets good reviews, on DVDs because I’ve read the books. I wish George R. R. Martin would finish writing the books, though. If they want to give viewers a good taste of what readers experience, they should wait five years before they release the second season. I assume Ashes to Ashes is the third Life on Mars series. Too bad Live on Mars didn’t do better in the US, since I thought the US version was pretty good (it’s another recent cancellation shame, along with Kings and Pushing Daisies — at least Chuck is hanging in there). I’m also interested in Outcasts but, sadly, don’t get BBC America, which also leaves me Doctor Wholess.
I really did enjoy Spartacus but sometimes (OK, quite a few times) it felt like I was watching a porn movie.
Wait. They canceled Firefly??
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I am with you on Journeyman. It seemed to have such potential with a true twist on the typical time-traveling story line. I remember when that show debuted, it came along with another show, Chuck. I definitely recall thinking Chuck would be DOA and the Journeyman would be a mainstay on the schedule. Go figure.
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