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

Jump to content

  • (6 Pages)
  • +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

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

#1 User is offline   Lord Aquaman Icon

  • Legend
  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • 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 27 March 2006 - 09:45 PM

Any titles come to mind, any that you can think of? I guess the first most obvious one is Arrested Development - at least I think it was cancelled.
I am the Fisher King.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
0

#2 User is offline   Otal Nimrodi Icon

  • Miracle Ghost
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 5,442
  • Joined: 26-June 05
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:I like my my little pony characters like I like my suspected criminals. Mirandized.
  • Country:United States

Posted 27 March 2006 - 09:56 PM

Does Futurama count? Or Sliders? At least I liked Sliders, and it needed longer. And that TV show, what was it called. Oh well, it had a good run. It should have had a longer one.

This post has been edited by Otal Nimrodi: 27 March 2006 - 09:58 PM

Want a Tarot reading?

PM me, we'll talk.
0

#3 User is offline   Despondent Icon

  • Think for yourself
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 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 28 March 2006 - 12:59 PM

the great teddy z.

the book of Daniel.
0

#4 User is offline   Heccubus Icon

  • Ugh.
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Head Moderator
  • Posts: 4,954
  • Joined: 30-October 03
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:Canada

Posted 28 March 2006 - 06:36 PM

The Critic
Mission Hill
The Oblongs
Home Movies

Great shows that should have never been cancelled. Thankfully, I have all but one season of Home Movies, and The Critic to keep me from missing them too much.
0

#5 User is offline   barend Icon

  • Anchor Head Anchor Man
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 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 28 March 2006 - 06:45 PM

the tripods
ended on a cliffhanger... that becomming the final episode as a result of cancellation was quite a substantial downer! thankyou BBC for fucking us around again... and PUT DVD by season box sets out you lazy cu-
well anyway...

Quark
great sci-fi sitcom about an intergalactic garbage ship. I don't rightly know that it was cancelled... but it never saw a single re-run... what's up with that... it's not comercially available on DVD either... probably because those brilliant smaktard execs are up there going; "I don't think it would be comercially viable to release this one, as it has no ratings recorded for its re-runs"

again.. it's much like the argument for the BBC not putting out Dr.Who DVD box sets... "let's see if the fans will buy the few random episodes we've released of a show that NEEDS TO BE WATCHED IN ORDER!!!!"

This post has been edited by barend: 28 March 2006 - 06:46 PM

0

#6 User is offline   Otal Nimrodi Icon

  • Miracle Ghost
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 5,442
  • Joined: 26-June 05
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:I like my my little pony characters like I like my suspected criminals. Mirandized.
  • Country:United States

Posted 28 March 2006 - 06:47 PM

Firefly.

I was shocked no-one else brought it up. It was an excellent Sci-Fi show which had a great deal of humor, without being a comedy, a balance hard to strike. Plus, it's just fun to use Companion as a verb.

This post has been edited by Otal Nimrodi: 28 March 2006 - 06:48 PM

Want a Tarot reading?

PM me, we'll talk.
0

#7 User is offline   Cobnat Icon

  • Viva Phillippena Radio!
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 2,631
  • Joined: 25-December 05
  • Location:I am in atheist heaven.
  • Interests:Body Disposal.
  • Country:Australia

Posted 28 March 2006 - 06:50 PM

The Sopranos (spell check? Its been so long I forget)

Oz

Other good shows I cant think of right now.

This post has been edited by COBNAT: 28 March 2006 - 06:51 PM

0

#8 User is offline   Heccubus Icon

  • Ugh.
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Head Moderator
  • Posts: 4,954
  • Joined: 30-October 03
  • Gender:Male
  • Country:Canada

Posted 29 March 2006 - 02:03 AM

The Sopranos is still on. I see promos for a forthcoming season constantly.
0

#9 User is offline   Sailor Abbey Icon

  • Queen of the Harpies
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 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. <br /><br />Oh, and beautiful women.
  • Country:United States

Posted 29 March 2006 - 07:50 AM

QUOTE (Otal Nimrodi @ Mar 28 2006, 06:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Firefly.

I was shocked no-one else brought it up. It was an excellent Sci-Fi show which had a great deal of humor, without being a comedy, a balance hard to strike. Plus, it's just fun to use Companion as a verb.


Yeah that show kicks ass. I liked the movie too, Serenity. Good stuff. It was actually one of them most enjoyable films I’ve seen at the movies in a long time.
0

#10 User is offline   Cobnat Icon

  • Viva Phillippena Radio!
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 2,631
  • Joined: 25-December 05
  • Location:I am in atheist heaven.
  • Interests:Body Disposal.
  • Country:Australia

Posted 03 April 2006 - 12:05 AM

QUOTE (Heccubus @ Mar 28 2006, 11:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Sopranos is still on. I see promos for a forthcoming season constantly.


Yeah, but you live in the US, it takes 3 months to get one episode down here. So we only see really old episodes if we are lucky.
0

#11 User is offline   barend Icon

  • Anchor Head Anchor Man
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 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 04 April 2006 - 02:34 AM

QUOTE (Heccubus @ Mar 28 2006, 06:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
The Critic
Mission Hill
The Oblongs
Home Movies

Great shows that should have never been cancelled. Thankfully, I have all but one season of Home Movies, and The Critic to keep me from missing them too much.


i have the critic collection. pure magnificance.

i suspect it, like futurama, was cut down in its prime to punish the too popular to cancel simpsons for their japes about fox.

The Oblongs only had a premiere here, and they announced its cancellation before it finished...
some rich dude who died recently didn't like it aparently...
0

#12 User is offline   SimeSublime Icon

  • Monkey Proof
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Moderators
  • Posts: 6,619
  • Joined: 06-May 04
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Perth, Western Australia
  • Country:Australia

Posted 06 April 2006 - 08:59 AM

I used to watch the Oblongs on TV. It aired at 1am or something, I think. My brother came across it by accident. I remember being quite surprised when Heccubus first mentioned it here, I'd thought that nobody else would have heard of it.

Arrested Development was cancelled, but at least they had a bit of warnnig, and were able to wrap it up ok in time.

Sliders, on the other hand, went too long. When the main cast save Remrant all dropped out, the show just turned to shit.
The Green Knight, SimeSublime the Puffinesque, liker of chips and hunter of gnomes.
JM's official press secretary, scientific advisor, diplomat and apparent antagonist?
0

#13 User is offline   barend Icon

  • Anchor Head Anchor Man
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 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 06 April 2006 - 11:39 PM

what actually happened to the original girl?
0

#14 User is offline   civilian_number_two Icon

  • Canada's Next Top Model.
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • 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 - 02:48 AM

Not much.
"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).
0

#15 User is offline   Otal Nimrodi Icon

  • Miracle Ghost
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Members
  • Posts: 5,442
  • Joined: 26-June 05
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:I like my my little pony characters like I like my suspected criminals. Mirandized.
  • Country:United States

Posted 08 April 2006 - 06:19 AM

QUOTE (Sailor Abbey @ Mar 29 2006, 08:50 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Yeah that show kicks ass. I liked the movie too, Serenity. Good stuff. It was actually one of them most enjoyable films I’ve seen at the movies in a long time.


But it left me wondering... What's up with Book?

No, seriously, they killed him off without telling us why he could get into the Governmenty thing with his ID card. What was his secret?

I loved when he said that the bible is a might fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.

QUOTE (Sime)
Sliders, on the other hand, went too long. When the main cast save Remrant all dropped out, the show just turned to shit


Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that I officially considered it over after that, and what was on was some cheap knockoff.
Want a Tarot reading?

PM me, we'll talk.
0

  • (6 Pages)
  • +
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • Last »
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic