What cancelled tv show broke your heart? I loved the days and nights of Molly Dodd. About a single

[applegrove]

woman sleeping around in New York City and the characters she meets. I think there was a religious or conservative outcry that got it cancelled.

[BuddhaGirl]

1. Arrested Development

Smart writing, and hysterically funny...sadly, those types of shows often don't last

[hughee99]

5. +1 brazillion

[OriginalGeek]

18. they are doing a mini-series and move this year!

Can't wait!


Also to answer OP in addition to AD:
Firefly
Dead Like Me
and probably a bunch more that I put out of my mind to lessen the angry.
Mostly because of Fox.

Although they killed some shows that needed killing too.

Sometimes I wonder if Fox execs moved to or ran SyFy on the side. They never met a great show they didn't want to screw.

[geardaddy]

42. Agreed.

I still watch the old ones on streaming Netflix. It is the best show.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Star Trek nt

[HopeHoops]

103. The five year mission that only lasted three seasons.

[Xipe Totec]

3. Oh, and Gregg the Bunny nt

[Xipe Totec]

4. And Caprica nt

[dawg]

49. I really liked the way they did that show.

It was totally different from what anyone expected it to be. Little known fact: The actress who played Zoe Greystone also got the chance to portray nondescript girlfriend Ann Veal on one episode of Arrested Development.

[cliffordu]

6. Firefly.

Damn them.

[dawg]

52. Agreed.

[Danger Mouse]

86. speaking of shows that were cancelled too soon...

[rbnyc]

106. + 1 (nt)

[Lucinda]

75. Ditto

[oneshooter]

94. Yea, there was to much of the storyline not even touched.

[7wo7rees]

7. Deadwood

They cancelled it at least one season too soon. Cocksuckers.

[applegrove]

8. "cocksucker"! LOL! I was quite taken aback by the language when I first started watching

deadwood. After a while it sorta grew on me.

[RZM]

21. LOL

What's so bad is that the ending wasn't really an ending. It was just the end of a season. No real closure or anything like that. Great show.

I think that one reason it ended was that David Milch wanted to make that crapfest 'John From Cincinnati,' which was canceled one season too late (it only lasted one season).

[msanthrope]

34. You know, I didn't make it through the Season 2 premiere because that was my drinking word.

I loved that godamn show.

[catchnrelease]

113. I hold a grudge!

I cancelled our account with HBO after that BS, and have not gone back. I agree, I think Milch wanted to do the unlamented beach series instead of properly finishing up Deadwood. HBO is notorious for cancelling popular series out from under the fans........... Not just cocksuckers, but Yankton cocksuckers!

[PassingFair]

9. Carnivale.

Felt like they threw me off of a cliff when
they "wrapped it up" WAY TO EARLY, with
TOO MANY LOOSE ENDS.

[nolabear]

13. Amen! And Deadwood too, but they needed to finish the arc.

I actually bought the DVD set and I don't do that stuff lightly.

[GoCubsGo]

30. Yeah, I don't understand why the cancelled that one.

I kept waiting for the next season to see how the last episode would resolve itself, but nothing. Damn HBO.

[PassingFair]

32. Money.

It cost a lot to produce and the cast was top-notch.

[JustAnotherGen]

38. Amen on that

And I would have liked ONE more season of Big Love - Post Bill's death.

[IcyPeas]

117. Loved Carnivale too.

apparently there were not enough viewers either.

[Charlemagne]

10. Capitol Critters

aired from Jan-Apr 1992 (13 episodes total) but darnit, I liked it. I must have been 9 years old when it was on.

[my2sense]

11. Sex and the City

Felt like I was losing 4 friends....

[applegrove]

27. Yes I kinda first found a group of girlfriends in "the view". That quickly translated into Keri and

gang when I started watching.

[LynneSin]

35. It was sad that it was cancelled but it was dying down anyways *spoilers*

I still watch repeats on E! and HBO On-Demand. And there is a major quality difference between the earlier shows and the ones towards the end. It just really felt during season 6 that the women were forcing some of those puns that came so naturally when the series started

Rumor has it they are casting for the "Carrie Diaries" on CW based on the young adult books written about Carrie Bradshaw when she graduated High School and first went to NYC. I liked the first book but the second one was awful. Really, what was Candice Bushnell thinking (she's the writer who created 'Sex and the City'). In the 2nd book they had Carrie in NYC where she met Samantha and Miranda right away (and Charlotte at the end of the book). THe problem is this - Carrie did this at age 18, which she was the same age as Miranda and a year older that Charlotte. Yet Charlotte and Miranda both went off to college (heck Miranda graduated from Harvard Law). It would have made more sense if these 4 had met after college when they first migrated to NYC (which was how it was eluded to in the 2nd SATC movie)

[roody]

12. Cybill

[freshwest]

14. I don't know about heartbroken, but ticked off. Now and Again. They left it hanging.

Now and Again is an American television series that aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain. In an attempt to get the project up and running, they take the brain of overweight family man Michael Wiseman, who is killed in a subway accident.

Given a new life, Michael is kept in an apartment where he is trained by government experts, led by Dr. Theodore Morris, in the art of espionage. Despite his new life and new abilities, Michael longs to return to his wife Lisa and daughter Heather, who are themselves discovering that not all is as it seems with Michael's death.

The show mixed action with comedy (particularly in the relationship between Dr. Morris and Michael), and focused largely on Michael's emotional connection to his family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Again

There was another one about that time on SciFi I loved that got cancelled. People have been trying to bring it back for ten years with no luck. Another one was let go at the same time.

None of these had DVD releases, nor were the re-runs allowed for very long. I feel like it had to do with the effect of 9/11 and the industry cutting back and focusing on warlike themes.

I miss the ensembles they had playing the roles together so well, making it seem so credible yet delving into so many facets of the stories. They were popular with millions of viewers but TIIC appeared to be having problems within their management and not the shows themselves. Okay, maybe they couldn't afford them...

[csziggy]

17. That was such a good show! Thanks for reminding me of it

I liked it because I enjoy Margaret Colin - and have not seen her in anything probably since that show.

[elleng]

15. Brooklyn Bridge.

[csziggy]

16. Coronet Blue because you didn't know what happened to the lead

It was sort of a Bourne Identity takeoff for TV. It ran in the summer of 1967 and only 13 episodes were filmed, not enough for syndication so it was never re-run.


From the Wikipedia article about the series:
The series ended before the solution to these mysteries was revealed, but series creator Larry Cohen later told his biographer:

"The actual secret is that Converse was not really an American at all. He was a Russian who had been trained to appear like an American and was sent to the U.S. as a spy. He belonged to a spy unit called 'Coronet Blue.' He decided to defect, so the Russians tried to kill him before he can give away the identities of the other Soviet agents. And nobody can really identify him because he doesn't exist as an American. Coronet Blue was actually an outgrowth of 'The Traitor' episode of The Defenders."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronet_Blue

[HuckleB]

19. Freaks And Geeks.

I don't think there is a cancellation that compares.

[The Straight Story]

20. Twin Peaks

Although it had went downhill, Lynch could have rescued it.

[RueVoltaire]

59. I was just glad they aired the whole thing twice, before it went away.

Best scene ever!

[The Straight Story]

76. You can download it all on PirateBay

[Aristus]

22. I was a huge fan of Molly Dodd!

I had a crush on Blair Brown that was monumental, gigantic. I loved her like crazy; her red hair, her gorgeous skin, that dazzling smile. I was disappointed when the show was cancelled. And relieved at the same time. I had gone around in a kind of dreamy daze fantasizing about Molly Dodd for two or three years. It was time for it to end...

[applegrove]

26. I had a crush on one of her dates, a jewish piano teacher. There was so much character

in the characters on that show. I think I only followed it for less than a year. Didn't know it was on for three years.

[MiddleFingerMom]

72. Look for "Continental Divide" with John Belushi and Blair Brown.

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[Art_from_Ark]

23. I was really sad when The Alvin Show was canceled

After that, they canceled Astro Boy on me.
I was pretty unhappy when they canceled Mr. Terrific, and a little miffed when "Mr. Zing and Tuffy" was morphed into "Uncle Zeb's Cartoon Camp".
But the last straw was when they canceled Max Headroom.

[hughee99]

24. I was sorry to see Sports Night go,

in addition to Arrested Development.

[Angleae]

25. Battlestar Galactica

The original, not the remake.

[Skittles]

28. you must have a very bad memory

I loved Molly Dodd too and keep hoping it will come out on DVD but hey, it was on TV for four or five seasons (1987 - 1991)

[applegrove]

73. I only caught the last season then. It may not have played that long in Canada.

[Skittles]

98. if you hear about it going to DVD, let me know!

that was an awesome show

[applegrove]

99. I was just thinking that. I can't play it because my computer is a dinosaur. But it may work for you

http://www.ovguide.com/tv/the_days_and_nights_of_molly_dodd.htm

[mucifer]

29. Buffy the vampire slayer. Tho the show lasted a little too long.

They should have cancelled it after 6 seasons. To me it seemed like they ran out of ideas. But, boy was I addicted to that show.

[GoCubsGo]

31. Early Edition

I loved that show. It WAS time for it to go, but still...

[rurallib]

33. an older one - Ellery Queen!

[progressoid]

58. That was a good one.

Or at least in my memory is was. Wasn't that about the same time as Banacek? Used to like to watch that one too.

[rurallib]

79. just looked it up - 1975-76

Just borrowed the series on DVD from a friend. Great holiday TV

[Recovered Repug]

109. I loved Ellery Queen.

I especially liked how he broke character before the last break to review the case with the audience.

[AsahinaKimi]

36. Witchblade

(Yancy Butler)


Kimiko~yori.

[Sky Masterson]

53. I loved this show. It was cancelled long before it's time.

I even collected the trading cards for it and have several autographs.

[AsahinaKimi]

81. I have those as well

in storage somewhere....



Kimiko

[deutsey]

37. Frank's Place

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=franksplace

Frank's Place, an exceptionally innovative half-hour television program sometimes referred to as a "dramedy," aired on CBS during the 1987-88 television season. The program won extensive critical praise for the ways in which it used conventions of situation comedy to explore serious subject matter. As Rolling Stone writer Mark Christensen commented "rarely has a prime-time show attempted to capture so accurately a particular American subculture--in this case that of blue-collar blacks in Louisiana."



I loved this show.

[CherokeeDem]

40. Me, too...

What a cast and the setting and tone for the show was amazing. So many good ones gone....

[KamaAina]

50. Oh yeah chere!

For whatever reason, New Orleans culture does better on the big screen than the idiot box. Hopefully Treme will change all that.

[hamsterjill]

39. Highlander, the series

And no, it wasn't for the quality of the scripts, although they did produce some good story lines.

Adrian Paul. Hubba hubba hubba!!!!

[RFKHumphreyObama]

41. The West Wing

I would have loved to have seen what happened to the Santos Administration

[sakabatou]

68. +1

[geardaddy]

43. Law and Order: Criminal Intent

I could stomach it with Chris Noth, but when they cast Jeff Goldblum, who I like, it went waaaay downhill.

[KT2000]

114. Agree!

Another problem was the women they paired with Noth and Goldblum. Both were almost comatose.

Goren and Eames were the show - and they were such interesting story lines. Still miss it.

[geardaddy]

115. Yes, Goren and Eames definitely were the show.

Didn't they have a redux last year for a little bit?

[KT2000]

116. Yes and it got good ratings! n/t

[gratuitous]

44. Joan of Arcadia

The conclusion of the second season was a great set-up for a blazing third season. Was Joan just a victim of Lyme Disease, hallucinating her relationship with God in various guises? Or were her visions real, and the introduction of a sinister, mysterious stranger that might or might not be evil incarnate going to result in a big showdown?

The series was kind of talky, but for the ambivalent nature of the theme, it worked well. There wasn't any overt violence, and I was very interested to see how a good/evil confrontation might work without a bunch of car chases, shooting and explosions.

[sakabatou]

69. It pretty much got left behind after Joan in the hospital.

[sinkingfeeling]

45. Northern Exposure and M.A.S.H

[bigwillq]

46. My So-Called Life

Although it didn't "break" my heart. I never let TV shows do that to me. I used really enjoyed that show and wish it lasted for a few more seasons.

[CherokeeDem]

47. I'm going to show my scifi bias....

Star Trek (all series...I'm a geek), Farscape, Battlestar Galactica (the original), Space Above and Beyond, Firefly, Babylon 5, X-Files, the original Stargate...and my favorite of all Stargate Atlantis (took it off for that disgusting Universe).

Twin Peaks also broke my heart but I agree, it did go downhill toward the end...as did the X-Files...I didn't like the direction they took the story line in at all.

Right now, I am so bummed about The Closer having only six more shows...one of the best ensemble casts ever, terrific writing, love detective and murder mysteries shows and this is one of the best.

[progressoid]

56. Agree about the Closer.

Gonna miss that one. But I'm glad they are going to finish on a high note.

[wysimdnwyg]

62. My take on your choices

ST:TOS - Would be nice to have more episodes, but it was before my time originally, so I'll let this one go.

ST:TNG/DS9/Voyager - All three of these lasted the intended run and closed well.

ST:Enterprise - Weak attempt to keep the franchise going. Won't be missed.

Farscape - One of three on your list that I really wish had stuck around longer. That it is not in syndication pains me.

BSG (original) - I really liked the original, but I was young enough that it's cancellation didn't really faze me much. The update was better, though, and it ran the full course.

SAaB - I enjoyed this one, and it could have gone longer, but it didn't really get the chance to carve out its niche.

Firefly - Perhaps the most underrated sci-fi show of all time. Fox blew it with this one. The decision to skip syndication in favor of a feature film was right, as the smaller budgets of syndication would have caused problems. Still, there does seem to be much more to tell in the story of Serenity and her crew.

Babylon 5 - It ran five seasons, had three or four tv movies and a weak spinoff. And by the end, most of the main characters had moved on (or at least off of B5), so it was time to go. (I actually bought the entire series on dvd, and while I really enjoyed it, I couldn't make it past even the first disc of season 5 before I got bored.)

X-Files - Ran a good four or five seasons longer than it should have. And with two movies (although the second was clearly just an attempt to make money, not because they had a good story to tell), X-Files fully realized its potential.

SG-1 - With 10 seasons, including two without the main star, SG-1 really dragged on towards the end. Another great show that had its time in the sun - and then some.

SGA - A weak offspring of SG-1 that finally started to find its groove in the last couple of seasons. If they could lose most of the first three years and then extend the last two to fill out the full five years, this would have been better, but it still was OK to end this one.

SGU - I disagree with your assessment of this one. I found SGU to be a much better alternative than SGA. The darker story lines were reminiscent of the BSG update and made the show much more interesting. I was very disappointed that this show had to end, and even more so with the crappy excuse they came up with for the close of the story.

[Phoonzang]

48. Pushing Daises

God, that show was great...

[dawg]

51. I loved that show too.

If you haven't had the chance to watch Dead Like Me, you should probably try it. Both shows were created by Bryan Fuller, and although Dead Like Me is grittier and lacks some of the magic of Pushing Daisies, I still enjoyed it.

[Phoonzang]

104. I watched Dead Like Me and Wonderfalls after watching Pushing Daises

They were great. Of course those shows were cancelled too.

[PassingFair]

57. +1. My daughter's been home for winter break....

And she made her new boyfriend watch all of them from the beginning....

I had forgotten how BEAUTIFUL the sets and the costuming was.
Truly unique and magical.

That must have been an expensive show to produce!

[amyrose2712]

54. Monk.

And I am dreading the cancellation of House.

[GoCubsGo]

61. I hated that, too.

I do like how it ended, however. And, at least there are reruns. I have mixed feelings about "House". I don't really care much for the current stuff, and some of it's getting really repetitive. I mean, in virtually EVERY episode, the patient vomits blood and/or bleeds from their eyes/and or every other orifice. I am beginning to wonder if that is some sort of running joke.

[amyrose2712]

63. Sigh. I know tis not what it used to be.

Which is why Im afraid it is going to go. But I still think it is better than Bones these days.

[sakabatou]

70. After House got shot, it kinda jumped the shark.

[ceile]

55. Medium and L&O

I'm still in shock over L&O.

[progressoid]

60. Yeah, the sudden drop of L&O made no sense. n/t

[frogmarch]

64. Father Ted and Gilmore Girls

I'm glad I can still watch GG reruns on the Family channel every morning, though, and that I have all the Father Ted episodes on DVD.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

65. Denis Leary's AMAZING "Rescue Me" nt

[motely36]

66. Homefront

I loved that show, and I am always glad when I see actors from it in other things.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

67. Six Feet Under nt

[Divameow77]

71. The 4400

I hate when they cancel a show after the season finale cliffhanger. What happened???

While I loved Sex and the City I felt it was time to end it. I didn't care for the 1st movie and pretty much hated the 2nd.

[LanternWaste]

74. thirtysomething, Homefront and Young Indy Chronicles.

thirtysomething, Homefront and Young Indy Chronicles.

I at least have the first and third on DVD, but the release fro Homefront is still TBD (as it has been for fifteen years)

[barbtries]

77. i can't remember the title of the show

and the star's name is on the tip of my fingers, but...dang. it'll come back to me while i'm driving down the freeway later. it was a comedy and it was really funny and was gone almost as soon as it aired.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

78. Nothing Sacred

It was a show about some Catholic priests and nuns and their struggles with various issues. There was nothing anti-religious about it, but conservative Catholics protested it, so the show was cancelled in mid-season with three episodes left.

To this day, Nothing Sacred has been shown in other countries, but it has never been syndicated or shown in the U.S. or even released on DVD.

[Auggie]

80. Two oldies: The Paper Chase and Lou Grant

[eShirl]

82. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

Sort of a steampunk western comedy... and it ended with a season cliffhanger!
oh, the humanity

[Va Lefty]

83. Dead Like Me

2 seasons on Showtime; really hated to see it go

[Neoma]

84. Firefly!

[Danger Mouse]

85. Invader Zim. So much potential, left unfulfilled, just because the prudes at Nickolodeon...

...couldn't handle a little nightmare fuel.

[Liberal Veteran]

87. Terminator: TSCC - for 2 reason.

1. They ended on a cliffhanger.

2. It gave Lena Headey a chance to snatch up the role of Cersei Lannister on Game of Thrones (she is good, but I was hoping for Tricia Helfer).

[Burma Jones]

88. Broke my Heart? I dunno, but I'm disappointed that "Bored to Death" won't be back

[Faygo Kid]

89. Frank's Place

On way too short a time. (And for an incredibly guilty '80s pleasure, The Charmings.)

[sarge43]

121. Second that

Lovely show. Remember the 'hide the body' episode?

[graywarrior]

90. Vengeance Unlimited with Michael Mann

[ellaydubya]

91. Boston Legal, Hillside Blues, St. Elsewhere

All great shows and mightily missed!

[GoCubsGo]

120. I miss Boston Legal.

Denny Crane is one of my all-time favorite TV characters.

[Ron Obvious]

92. Two very different entries:

I don't know about broke my heart, but I was very disappointed when Police Squad! (In Color!) ended after a mere 6 episodes, but at least every episode is a gem and this could have quickly jumped the shark after a couple of seasons. Too clever for the public apparently, since there was no laugh track telling them when something funny had happened, and they actually had to pay attention to get the jokes. I still notice new things when I re-watch the DVD every other year or so.

My other nominee is the recent HBO Rome miniseries. I'd have loved to have seen it continue through Augustus' and Tiberius reign, but of course we do have I Claudius for that.

[flvegan]

93. Get a Life.

Oh, and I.M. Weasel.

[femmocrat]

95. All My Children. I watched it for over 30 years!

And it ended with a cliff-hanger.

[libodem]

105. That would be me

As well.

[Bennyboy]

96. Studio 60, ED, Sports Night, Police Squad,

And Northern Exposure.

[Bucky]

97. My Name is Earl... ended (after four seasons) on a cliff-hanger

It was a show about redemption... and I guess I just need a lot of redeeming.

[Doc Holliday]

100. Entourage

The whole final season was a piece of shit...or, if you prefer, eight pieces of shit.

They need to give the whole season a mulligan.

[HappyMe]

101. Rescue Me & Six Feet Under

[HopeHoops]

102. M*A*S*H

[gratuitous]

107. The Cape

It didn't exactly break my heart, I knew it wasn't going to get very far based on its ratings, but I really liked "The Cape" from earlier this season. It ended very abruptly, and they pretended everything had been resolved, but no. It was a live action comic book series with a cop who was presumed dead soldiering on to clear his name and bring the real bad guy to justice. He couldn't operate publicly, and even had to hide from his wife and son, but he fell in with a gang of criminal folks who used a circus as their cover.

In joining with the bad guys, he is bequeathed the title Cape, a device of nearly supernatural powers for attack, defense, camouflage, flight and so forth. As The Cape cleans up the town, he finds himself in opposition to every bad guy and every cop in the city, all on a quest to bring the mastermind Chess to justice. One of the twists is that Chess, the criminal mastermind alter ego of a corrupt businessman who in echoes of RoboCop owns the city police force, doesn't realize that he is in turn controlled by his psychiatrist, played by Elliott Gould.

The action had progressed to a point where the corrupt police force busts up the criminal circus cover, and The Cape has to go on the run with the criminals and freaks who constitute the circus. During the confrontation, The Cape's best friend, another cop, is killed. The Cape has to take his friend's widow and son along with him as the remaining circus people make their escape. End of show.

Arrrrgh.

[madamesilverspurs]

108. Brooklyn Bridge n/t

[Grantuspeace]

110. WKRP

We don't need no stinking badges!

[Codeine]

111. Mystery Science Theater 3000!

I still have fond memories of their 30-hour-long Thanksgiving Day marathons on Comedy Central.

"It's thirty straight hours, and it's called Turkey Day."

[wiggs]

112. John from Cinninnati. nt

[IcyPeas]

118. Eastenders...

a British soap opera type show set in a working class area of London. It was on PBS for years and they pulled the plug even though it's still on in Britain.

I don't think it had a large viewership over here.

[sarge43]

119. Kings and, of course, Firefly

A special circle in hell should be built for the suits who made those decisions.

[mysuzuki2]

122. The Ed Sullivan Show.

God, I'm old!