Show's that were unfairly cut down in their prime or before they even had a prime

(6 Pages)
←
1
2
3
4
→
Last »

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

#16 civilian_number_two

Canada's Next Top Model.

Group: Head Moderator
Posts: 3,382
Joined: 01-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:In Your Dreams
Interests:I like stuff.
Country:Canada

Posted 08 April 2006 - 10:13 PM

FRIENDS. 10 years just wasn't enough. Those people were like my friends, you know, like members of the family. I was happy to invite them into my living room from week to week to share their joy and their heartbreak, their laughter and their love.

"I had a lot of different ideas. At one point, Luke, Leia and Ben were all going to be little people, and we did screen tests to see if we could do that." -George Lucas, in STAR WARS: the Annotated Screenplays (p197).

#17 barend

Anchor Head Anchor Man

Group: Crappy News Team
Posts: 11,839
Joined: 12-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:Nieuw Holland
Interests:The Beers of Western Europe, Cognac, and constantly claiming the world would have been a better place if Napoleon had won.
Country:Australia

Posted 09 April 2006 - 09:26 PM

really?

>>The Adventures of Heinrich Von Bastard<< (A Web Comic)

Also: The Chefelf.com Lord of the Rings | RoBUTZ (a primative webcomic) | KOTOR 1 NPC profiles |

Music: HYPOID (industrial rock) | Spectrox Toxemia (Death Metal) | Cannibalingus (80s style thrash metal) | Wasabi Nose Bleed (Exp.Techno) | DeadfeeD (Exp.Ambient) |||(more to come)

#18 civilian_number_two

Canada's Next Top Model.

Group: Head Moderator
Posts: 3,382
Joined: 01-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:In Your Dreams
Interests:I like stuff.
Country:Canada

Posted 10 April 2006 - 02:08 AM

It makes me sad, Barend, that you have to ask. I know I'm not sarcastic often, but come on.

#19 barend

Anchor Head Anchor Man

Group: Crappy News Team
Posts: 11,839
Joined: 12-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:Nieuw Holland
Interests:The Beers of Western Europe, Cognac, and constantly claiming the world would have been a better place if Napoleon had won.
Country:Australia

Posted 11 April 2006 - 02:31 AM

yeah, well maybe it was the dead pan way in which you said it...

#20 Despondent

Think for yourself

Group: Members
Posts: 4,684
Joined: 31-October 03
Location:a long time ago
Interests:Laughter. Louis pups. Percussion. What binds us. Bicycling, Tennis.
Country:United States

Posted 11 April 2006 - 02:56 PM

wah wahhhhh (muted trumpet)

The Cowboys (with Mark Hamill,) based on the John Wayne movie.

#21 SithAvenger

Wow, my avatar changed.

Group: Members
Posts: 1,898
Joined: 06-June 05
Location:Err... here I guess.
Interests:The Interests of a Normal Teenager: -Movies -Things that are awesome -Girls -(Good) Tv shows -Doing evil stuff the good way -Videogames -Hangin' with my friends
Country:Mexico

Posted 13 April 2006 - 05:53 PM

I agree with most of the show said here.

I must add:

Invader Zim
Clone High

Sorry, you won't be seeing a smartass sig here. Try with the next poster.

#22 civilian_number_two

Canada's Next Top Model.

Group: Head Moderator
Posts: 3,382
Joined: 01-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:In Your Dreams
Interests:I like stuff.
Country:Canada

Posted 14 April 2006 - 12:46 PM

Fine. SQUARE PEGS. While I have no idea if it was any good, I liked it when I was 14. They should release its one season on DVD.

#23 Chefelf

LittleHorse Fan

Group: Admin
Posts: 4,528
Joined: 30-October 03
Gender:Male
Location:New York, NY
Country:United States

Posted 14 April 2006 - 04:25 PM

QUOTE (Despondent @ Apr 11 2006, 03:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

wah wahhhhh (muted trumpet)

The Cowboys (with Mark Hamill,) based on the John Wayne movie.

Also in that vein: Brisco County, Jr., anyone?

#24 barend

Anchor Head Anchor Man

Group: Crappy News Team
Posts: 11,839
Joined: 12-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:Nieuw Holland
Interests:The Beers of Western Europe, Cognac, and constantly claiming the world would have been a better place if Napoleon had won.
Country:Australia

Posted 20 April 2006 - 10:21 PM

I used to love that...

i had mixed feeling about the elvis character, and briscoe's over abundant knowlege of advanced physics in 1885 but it had bruce campbell in it....

but no, i really did enjoy it.

#25 Sailor Abbey

Queen of the Harpies

Group: Members
Posts: 2,122
Joined: 29-March 05
Gender:Female
Location:the land of Huskies
Interests:Defending the forces of evil from the whiney forces of good; spreading awareness about violence and its ability to solve all problems - from the very smallest to the very stupid…est…; sticking up for the little guy, as long as the little guy shares my point of view or is willing to convert in exchange for some ‘sticking up for’; and of course, plotting world domination and putting and end to reality tv once and for all. Oh, and beautiful women.
Country:United States

Posted 22 April 2006 - 07:16 AM

The Outer Limits.

What.?.

The Seppala Siberian Sled Dog

#26 Casual Fan

Mini Boss

Group: Junior Members
Posts: 118
Joined: 25-March 05
Country:United States

Posted 22 April 2006 - 03:00 PM

I think this is an impossible category, given the way the TV business works.

Sometimes shows get cancelled after only one episode, or less than one season. There are lots of these shows, and you can't really tell if they would have been any good. But I guess all of them were "unfairly" cut down, by definition. I never got the idea behind spending the money to produce actual episodes of a show, to the point where they can be aired on nationwide TV, and then show one and cut them down. Don't television executives watch these things before they put them on the air? Don't they show them to test audiences? If you have a season's worth of episodes in the can, what is the cost to the network of just airing all of them in the hopes that they eventually find an audience?

I guess I just don't get the concept behind the "pilot". If you are so unsure of what makes a good TV series that you to wait until a single episode airs before deciding whether to schedule it for a season, I just don't know about that business model. Imagine if this concept was used for other products.

OTOH, once an episode is on for at least a couple seasons, the tendency seems to be to milk it for all its worth, and not put it to sleep until the concept has visibly gotten tired. Hence the concept of "jumping the shark", which all series do eventually. Some teams of writers and producers have kept this to a minimum, such as with "Seinfeld" (I think it definitely got worse in its last two years, but it wasn't horrible), but usually what is happening is painfully obvious.

#27 Icey

n00b

Group: Members
Posts: 2,889
Joined: 06-April 04
Location:Not-Spain
Interests:Being infested by parasites. Fighting members of the Kennedy family, kidnapping the President's daughter. Moaning.
Country:United States

Posted 22 April 2006 - 05:53 PM

Anything that had Bruce Campbell in it and isn't being aired anymore, was obviously taken off air too soon.

#28 Lord Aquaman

Legend

Group: Members
Posts: 1,976
Joined: 19-November 04
Location:Atlantis
Interests:Movies, comic books, some mythology... basically anything that's larger than life.
Country:United States

Posted 23 April 2006 - 10:08 PM

QUOTE (Chefelf @ Apr 14 2006, 02:25 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Also in that vein: Brisco County, Jr., anyone?

I remember Brisco. Bruce Campbell post-Evil Dead trilogy. I blame the X-Files for wrecking Brisco's chances of becoming a big TV hit. I keep hoping that they'll put on DVD some day in the future; if they put "Ned & Stacy" on DVD, why not Brisco County, Jr.?

I am the Fisher King.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.

#29 barend

Anchor Head Anchor Man

Group: Crappy News Team
Posts: 11,839
Joined: 12-November 03
Gender:Male
Location:Nieuw Holland
Interests:The Beers of Western Europe, Cognac, and constantly claiming the world would have been a better place if Napoleon had won.
Country:Australia

Posted 23 April 2006 - 11:26 PM

Ned & Stacy was fantastic... more so at the time, but it just went places that other shows didn't even think of..

#30 Lord Aquaman

Legend

Group: Members
Posts: 1,976
Joined: 19-November 04
Location:Atlantis
Interests:Movies, comic books, some mythology... basically anything that's larger than life.
Country:United States

Posted 24 April 2006 - 04:29 PM

QUOTE (barend @ Apr 23 2006, 09:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ned & Stacy was fantastic... more so at the time, but it just went places that other shows didn't even think of..

Like beautiful red headed women being caught naked after having long, hot, passionate, sweaty sexual marathon trysts with their lovers?

I am the Fisher King.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.

(6 Pages)
←
1
2
3
4
→
Last »

You cannot start a new topic
You cannot reply to this topic

Chefelf.com Night Life: Show's that were unfairly cut down in their prime or before they even had a prime - Chefelf.com Night Life