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t.v.shows you are sad to see retire or get cancelled.......I for one do not watch much t.v.

post #1 of 46
5/21/12 at 9:12am
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but got hooked on a short lived sitcom on NBC, Best Friends Forever.


It made it to only four episodes before being cancelled, I thought it deserved more time.

Anyone else out there looking to vent their frustration with a "fave" being cut from t.v. schedules?
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post #2 of 46
5/21/12 at 11:16am
My case is a rather peculiar and almost off-topic one: while one of my favorite TV shows did NOT get retired/cancelled, its continuation and current season is a total disappointment to me- namely "Two and half Men" without Charlie Sheen feels somehow worse than if the show would have gotten cancelled altogether.
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post #3 of 46
5/21/12 at 11:23am
30 Rock next season. I will be very very sad. Community was a scare for a little while, hopefully fan support keeps it going even though it's going to be in the Friday night death slot next year. LOST- still hung up. odious, since you're an NBC person, did you ever see a show called Love Bites? Very shortlived, something like 6 episodes. It was a mess, to the extent that it didn't even have a real cast. But one or two of those episodes really pulled through and were just great.
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post #4 of 46
5/21/12 at 12:41pm
Was very sad when Thirtysomething was canceled after four seasons many years ago.
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post #5 of 46
5/21/12 at 3:14pm
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Originally Posted by icanzapyou View Post

30 Rock next season. I will be very very sad. Community was a scare for a little while, hopefully fan support keeps it going even though it's going to be in the Friday night death slot next year. LOST- still hung up. odious, since you're an NBC person, did you ever see a show called Love Bites? Very shortlived, something like 6 episodes. It was a mess, to the extent that it didn't even have a real cast. But one or two of those episodes really pulled through and were just great.


Sorry, I don't know much about Love Bites, as for Community......can't get enough of it! Their episode where they were players in a video game was funny and Brita, in another episode, as a magician's assistant.......WOW!

30Rock is the only show brave enough to venture a live episode.
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post #6 of 46
5/21/12 at 3:16pm
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Originally Posted by hednic View Post

Was very sad when Thirtysomething was canceled after four seasons many years ago.

That has been a while, maybe a reunion show should be considered, this time AARP-something!
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post #7 of 46
5/22/12 at 2:32am
It'll be a sad day when The Simpsons is ceased.
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post #8 of 46
5/22/12 at 8:53am
House as of yesterday. Sigh. Well, I'd say I'm sad to see it go because the fact that it's ending reminded me that I loved the show. But really, I feel like it should have ended somewhere around season 6, and maybe compressed some of the more enjoyably bizarre episodes before that (the sit-com episode, for example).
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post #9 of 46
5/22/12 at 8:59am
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Originally Posted by Ken_Russell View Post

My case is a rather peculiar and almost off-topic one: while one of my favorite TV shows did NOT get retired/cancelled, its continuation and current season is a total disappointment to me- namely "Two and half Men" without Charlie Sheen feels somehow worse than if the show would have gotten cancelled altogether.

How is that going? Haha I can't bring myself to watch it for two reasons. a) I kind of always thought it was understood that Charlie's tremendous good fortune and Alan's horrible continuous plight was purely fictional. But then, after Charlie Sheen's meltdown, I kind of don't think he himself understood the difference between fiction and reality. You can't simply be that depraved and expect things to always work out, Charlie! C'mon! b) I loved this show to no end, on an obsessive level. When Chelsea came into the picture, I was, maybe unreasonably, hoping to see some kind of dynamic change in the show, maybe to Charlie's character. But then she left and nothing really took her place anymore. She filled a role and to me, there was no going back.

And last reason, I suppose, was that I started watching It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is brilliant on a level beyond anything Chuck Lorre can ever hope to accomplish (points finger at Big Bang Theory). Just my two-cents.
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post #10 of 46
5/22/12 at 10:56am
30 Rock is my show for sure. I also really like Parks and Recreation with Amy P. And Hedonist, I agree, whenever Simpsons get cancelled, if it does, I will be in mourning!
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post #11 of 46
5/22/12 at 12:14pm
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Originally Posted by Ken_Russell View Post

My case is a rather peculiar and almost off-topic one: while one of my favorite TV shows did NOT get retired/cancelled, its continuation and current season is a total disappointment to me- namely "Two and half Men" without Charlie Sheen feels somehow worse than if the show would have gotten cancelled altogether.

There's a good point - I think it's more often that shows don't get cancelled early enough. There's a reason "jump the shark" became a well-known phrase!
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post #12 of 46
5/22/12 at 12:16pm
But having said that above, I still get pangs of sadness when I think about The Wire. It needed to end when it did, but I do miss it.
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post #13 of 46
5/24/12 at 1:19am
I can't believe they canceled Luck after just one season and really can't believe they canceled Deadwood with so much more potentially interesting story to tell. I also didn't wanna see The Wire or Friday Night Lights end, but both of those had a few major arcs and the writers probably felt the told all the story they could without revisiting scenarios.
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post #14 of 46
5/26/12 at 8:55pm
I was very sad to see the end of Desperate Housewives - it was the only show my wife watched which I didn't mind watching with her, mainly because it was pretty quirky a lot of the time.

But I think it was a rushed ending. Orson seems to have gotten away with murder. And after going on and on about being "family" for the last two epsiodes well, apparently they weren't - yet another quirky aspect of the show.
Regards,
Renato
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post #15 of 46
5/27/12 at 2:15am
The Sopranos.
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post #16 of 46
5/27/12 at 3:38am
The 4400's
the eleventh hour - Cannot believe they cancelled this as it was really good showing how science could solve weird and bizarre cases without the supernatural or aliens getting involved in the plot.
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post #17 of 46
5/27/12 at 3:46am
I'll be desperate if they'll ever decide to cancel Breaking Bad.
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post #18 of 46
5/27/12 at 5:57am
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I'll be desperate if they'll ever decide to cancel Breaking Bad.

I just discovered this last week. Brilliant. Glad to hear it's still going.
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post #19 of 46
5/27/12 at 7:02am
Breaking Bad is supposedly ending after a season and half. AMC bought more 16 more episodes and then it's supposedly over.
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post #20 of 46
5/27/12 at 9:50am
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Breaking Bad is supposedly ending after a season and half. AMC bought more 16 more episodes and then it's supposedly over.

you mean 16 more episodes after season 4?
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post #21 of 46
5/27/12 at 10:26am
Yes. I don't recall the exact split for the seasons, but I do remember there were 16 because it reminded me of how The Sopranos ended with a half season. I don't recall exactly where I read it but it had something to do with Mad Men demanding so much cash that it was messing with AMC's budget.
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post #22 of 46
5/27/12 at 10:34am
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Yes. I don't recall the exact split for the seasons, but I do remember there were 16 because it reminded me of how The Sopranos ended with a half season. I don't recall exactly where I read it but it had something to do with Mad Men demanding so much cash that it was messing with AMC's budget.

According to IMDB Season 5, which is supposed to be broadcasted starting from July, it's made of 16 episodes...looks like the last one...
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post #23 of 46
5/27/12 at 10:40am
While I regard Breaking Bad as the best tv show ever so far, I think 5 Season should be enough to tell the ballad of Walter White. I don't want them to get bigger and less realistic just to milk the cash cow until it drops dead.

Currently enjoying Sons of Anarchy very much.
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post #24 of 46
5/27/12 at 10:47am
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Originally Posted by Nasenmann View Post

While I regard Breaking Bad as the best tv show ever so far, I think 5 Season should be enough to tell the ballad of Walter White. I don't want them to get bigger and less realistic just to milk the cash cow until it drops dead.

I wholeheartedly agree but you can't deny that the day they will broadcast the gran finale, it will be a sad day...
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post #25 of 46
5/27/12 at 10:56am
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I wholeheartedly agree but you can't deny that the day they will broadcast the gran finale, it will be a sad day...

Can't deny that.
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post #26 of 46
5/30/12 at 8:32pm
1- bored to death (zach galifinakis and ted danson were amazing too bad it got cancelled on there 3rd season one my fav shows
2- Las vegas ( nbc made a really dumb and weak decision on canelling las vegas when was starting to get really good plus i heard they got some unrleased episodes)
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post #27 of 46
6/3/12 at 12:17am
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Originally Posted by morrison74 View Post

The Sopranos.

Bring on the next generation!
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post #28 of 46
6/3/12 at 1:34am
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Bring on the next generation!

How would that play out though? There maybe might be a compelling story line with Meadow being a lawyer and out for revenge, but Anthony Jr is flat out incompetent and there's really no help to be had. I like to think of Lilyhammer as a follow up to The Sopranos, even though I know it's not. Stevie Van Zandt is totally doing an imitation of his character Sil from The Sopranos and it's easy (for me at least) to imagine Lilyhammer is how that situation played out.

As much as I dug The Sopranos, I'm glad it went out strong.
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post #29 of 46
6/3/12 at 10:29am
Was going to say The Sopranos too but I remember it did get worse towards the end.

I'm Alan Partridge, Mr Bean, The Office, Extras...all of them could have done a few more.
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post #30 of 46
6/5/12 at 3:40pm
i was always very said to see millenium (made by the same guy who created the x-files) and space:above and beyond get cancelled. If i could breathe new life into a couple of cancelled shows, these would be the ones.
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post #31 of 46
6/8/12 at 5:31am
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1- bored to death (zach galifinakis and ted danson were amazing too bad it got cancelled on there 3rd season one my fav shows

Awww it got cancelled? Shame. I enjoyed the dynamics of the few eps I've seen.

Also:


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post #32 of 46
6/22/12 at 2:12am
Law and Order, for sure. I really mourn Frazier, too.
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post #33 of 46
6/23/12 at 11:09am
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i was always very said to see millenium (made by the same guy who created the x-files) and space:above and beyond get cancelled. If i could breathe new life into a couple of cancelled shows, these would be the ones.

Totally agree - what a show Millennium was, especially the second season. And Space:Above and Beyond was the best military SF show I've ever seen.

The best thing about Millennium is that even though the show was cancelled, we weren't left up in the air as to how it was meant to have been wound up, since they closed it off in the Frank Black episode of X-Files.

The only other show I know of where we got a conclusion despite an untimely cancellation was Firefly, where the story arc was concluded in the Serenity movie.
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Renato
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post #34 of 46
6/23/12 at 11:17am
+1 For Firefly which was really good. A shame they cancelled it.
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post #35 of 46
8/9/12 at 12:27am
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It'll be a sad day when The Simpsons is ceased.

*Gasp* We must never speak of this EVER again! When Boy meets World ended i was in floods of tears. I ocassionally watch the finale on youtube...it still has the same effect on me. Also, when Frasier ended. When he's reading that Tenyson quote....
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post #36 of 46
8/9/12 at 5:39am
Arrested Development (a travesty)
Firefly (great show, the movie Serenity was good too)
Better Off Ted (quirky and funny - on netflix)
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post #37 of 46
8/10/12 at 6:27am
Life On Mars
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post #38 of 46
8/22/12 at 6:22pm
The final episodes of Friends always tear me up a little.
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post #39 of 46
8/25/12 at 9:25pm
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Awww it got cancelled? Shame. I enjoyed the dynamics of the few eps I've seen.

Also:


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Oh, GOD, Firefly. I just watched my DVDs for the third time through. Plus Serenity. Sigh. Joss Whedon RULES.
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post #40 of 46
8/25/12 at 9:52pm
I've heard rave reviews about Firefly. I'll be sure to check it out.
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post #41 of 46
8/25/12 at 10:21pm
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I've heard rave reviews about Firefly. I'll be sure to check it out.

Oh, you definitely should! Such a shame that it was cancelled after only one season.

I just convinced a friend to watch the tv show and then the movie. He was ambivalent before he started watching ("I don't really like SciFi" and "Of course you think it's brilliant, you're a Joss Whedon fan girl"), but he was hooked right quick once started. Next I have to get him to watch Buffy...
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post #42 of 46
8/26/12 at 4:30am
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Oh, GOD, Firefly. I just watched my DVDs for the third time through. Plus Serenity. Sigh. Joss Whedon RULES.

From Wikipedia, this may have been THE problem:

" One of the struggles that Whedon had with Fox was the tone of the show, especially with the main character Malcolm Reynolds. Fox pressured Whedon to make Mal more "jolly", as they feared he was too dark in the original pilot, epitomized by the moment he suggests he might "space" Simon and River, throwing them out of the airlock to die. In addition, Fox was not happy that the show involved the "nobodies" who "get squished by policy" instead of the actual policy makers."

So they missed glamor, according Fox because they were playing the maverick losers, rather than the 'policy maker' leaders of a noble rebellion? I think the writers could have gotten them there, don't you?

But far worse was the instruction given. What kind of directorial advice is that to give to an actor?

"Be more jolly?"

Perhaps he should have gone back to the executives at Fox and explained to them that this would be contrary to the character. Here's a man who lost all on the losing side of a war and 'being jolly ' doesn't fit him nor does it make him sweet. ( bland and stupid? Perhaps.) Rather like turning the cynical, masculine and brokenhearted Rick Blaine (Bogey in Casablanca) into a warm and fuzzy Mr. Rogers

Well, it's a wonderful day in the Galaxy. A wonderful day in the Galaxy , Won't you be my, could you be my.--- friend?

*sigh*
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post #43 of 46
9/17/12 at 3:56am
was sad for scrubs now im dreading the office ending
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post #44 of 46
9/17/12 at 4:20am
Twin Peaks for sure.
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post #45 of 46
9/18/12 at 4:29am
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Arrested Development (a travesty)

I've watched this show from beginning to end 3 times, working on my 4th. It's a brilliant show, and I cannot wait until the new episodes.

I'm pretty sad about Breaking Bad ending next year, although I do think it is best left to end after 5 seasons. The 4th season wasn't all that exciting to me--some shockers, but the 2ns and 3rd seasons were gold.
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post #46 of 46
9/18/12 at 9:55am
JERICHO
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