FabSwingers.com forum: Television series that were cancelled too soon

By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Recently Atlantis and Forever have joined my list of quite a few.

Last Resort is on the list, as are Firefly, Dollhouse, Believe and Moonlight.

I'd have loved more of The Finder, although I understand why it was cancelled.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Falling skies is over after this 5th series never to return

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

they said that after season 2 so I never looked for it and then it was back. I have them all to catch up on though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

MacgyVer and airwolf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"they said that after season 2 so I never looked for it and then it was back. I have them all to catch up on though

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only 3 more episodes young lady

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By *oward1978Man
over a year ago

Rotherham

Supposedly The Following isn't coming back for a fourth season. One of the few TV shows I really watched and the third season ended in such an interesting way as well! Annoying

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By *nicorn hunterCouple
over a year ago

beccles

Warehouse 13.loved that show.

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

Lie To Me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Definitely agree with Firefly.

Stargate Universe was cut short and possibly even Heroes.

Justified was very enjoyable, so shame that's over.

Only two show's I've ever been happy with the endings (although I miss them both), Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

OMactualG!

Check this out - cancelled after 2 programmes, for some strange reason...

Heil Honey I'm Home Full Uncut Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lie To Me"

Another good shout.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

But we can look forward to the spin off from the walking dead on the 23 aug,and the strain is back

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"OMactualG!

Check this out - cancelled after 2 programmes, for some strange reason...

Heil Honey I'm Home Full Uncut Episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf9jJx0NSjw"

It's a shocking monument to bad taste

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By *unkrockguyMan
over a year ago

whitby

Jericho got cut short, had potential.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lie To Me

Another good shout."
that was great!!

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By *aeriequeenWoman
over a year ago

Manchester

"Supposedly The Following isn't coming back for a fourth season. One of the few TV shows I really watched and the third season ended in such an interesting way as well! Annoying

Nooo I didn't know this!

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By *ENDAROOSCouple
over a year ago

South West London / Surrey

Resurrection, Dracula and Revolution.

I agree about Believe.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Resurrection, Dracula and Revolution.

I agree about Believe.

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has revolution gone?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Resurrection, Dracula and Revolution.

I agree about Believe.

Crap, didn't realise Revolution had been canned

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By *olyCheshireCatMan
over a year ago

Cheshire

Utopia! Don't know what the hell Channel 4 were thinking

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"they said that after season 2 so I never looked for it and then it was back. I have them all to catch up on though

only 3 more episodes young lady"
not for me I stupidly missed them all after season two as I thought it was done xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Merlin, still a little heart broken now over it lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jungle gold it used to be on discovery channel i think.

Time commanders it used to be on bbc2 on a sunday.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Firefly, firefly and firefly.

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By *icky999Man
over a year ago

warrington

"MacgyVer and airwolf "

aaaaarghh! airwolf ear worm

the black donellys

smith

top gear

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The black donnellys and sky's hit and miss

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dracula, Revolution, star trek series (trekkie here) V, firefly, starate atlantis,almighty johnsons, outrageous fountunes, Caprica, true blood, breaking bad, dexter, s, the inbetweeners

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Deadwood.

Rome did turn out to be pretty good though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is in the night garden still going? That upsy daisy was a right slag!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Dracula, Revolution, star trek series (trekkie here) V, firefly, starate atlantis,almighty johnsons, outrageous fountunes, Caprica, true blood, breaking bad, dexter, s, the inbetweeners"
and battle star galactica the new one i bought the complete dvd boxset

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

"But we can look forward to the spin off from the walking dead on the 23 aug,and the strain is back"

Fear the walking dead on the amc channel.....exclusive to bt tv, or other means

survivors and the obvious firefly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Angel... It was cancelled in the middle of the season..

Fringe...the final season seemed very rushed...disappointing.

Star Trek: Voyager and TNG

Yup, I'm a trekkie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Angel... It was cancelled in the middle of the season..

Fringe...the final season seemed very rushed...disappointing.

Star Trek: Voyager and TNG

Yup, I'm a trekkie

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TNG ? The night garden?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fawlty Towers. I win.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The A-Team and the Sopran....

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By *U1966Man
over a year ago

Devon

Blakes 7

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Angel... It was cancelled in the middle of the season..

Fringe...the final season seemed very rushed...disappointing.

Star Trek: Voyager and TNG

Yup, I'm a trekkie

TNG ? The night garden?"

The next generation... 'Make it so' and all that jazz

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Numerous shows have been cancelled too soon.

Warehouse 13

Burn Notice

Spartacus

By Any Means

Touch

Believe

Just a few that got axed too soon in our opinion.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Try calling ended six episodes into season two just when it was getting interesting

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes Fringe, how could i forget that. Battlestar galactica was one of the most amazing sci fi series but I don't see how they could have gone any further with it the end was disappointing like fringe, but hey we are all cylons lol

A good night in for me would be watching some sci fi and getting done slowly while watching lol

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By *ngel n tedCouple
over a year ago

maidstone

"Blakes 7"

In these days of remaking things that don't need to be remade, why not try remaking something that is crying out for a glizty, star studded remake ffs!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Another one for us was the series Flash Forward.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Another one for us was the series Flash Forward."

Oooh yep.. I was really getting into that before it disappeared.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Crystal maze..should have kept Richard o'brian as the host...went downhill after he left !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I believe firefly was cancelled because the creator / writer Joss Whedon fell out with sponsors because he would not continue buffy the vampire slayer so they cancelled firefly on him. However he has made a success on the marvel movies, good for him. I'm full of useless information

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Life (the US cop show). Utterly brilliant, not sure if it was cancelled or if only two seasons were intended.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sons of anarchy

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

Swingtown.

Was swinging ever really like that?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Dead Like Me.

Lots of others and many of those already mentioned.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Swingtown.

Was swinging ever really like that?

Swingtown was getting into really interesting storylines too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bored to Death.

Would've liked a second series of The Assets. Also the second John le Carré book.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Firefly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Booth At The End.

Sublime and brilliantly written. It was all set at one booth in a diner where people asked for favours from the devil and he gave them tasks to complete.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes was brilliant but I thought they could have done more with the Life on Mars story line.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"The Booth At The End.

Sublime and brilliantly written. It was all set at one booth in a diner where people asked for favours from the devil and he gave them tasks to complete."

I liked that one too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Torchwood until the joint American British story

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather

"Supposedly The Following isn't coming back for a fourth season. One of the few TV shows I really watched and the third season ended in such an interesting way as well! Annoying

Dammit! I wish I had known this yesterday, caught the first episode and thought it looked promising :-/

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Lie To Me"

I loved that show.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Prison break

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather

"I believe firefly was cancelled because the creator / writer Joss Whedon fell out with sponsors because he would not continue buffy the vampire slayer so they cancelled firefly on him. However he has made a success on the marvel movies, good for him. I'm full of useless information

Actually I think it got really low _iewings because it was poorly advertised, it's gained fame since cancellation and has a cult following now.

I'm putting pushing daisies forward, was a brilliant show.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Hannibal.

The writers had a full 7 seasons of ideas around the various stories. It's now being cancelled after 3, at the end of the Red Dragon story.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Prison break"

It's coming back next year.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm looking forward to watching the return of Twin Peaks.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"Swingtown.

Was swinging ever really like that?

Swingtown was getting into really interesting storylines too.

I know, I was really getting into it.

Damn those puritanical yanks!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Torchwood until the joint American British story"

Stalker was good but canned after series 1 and left it with a cliffhanger. I really enjoyed the tomorrow people.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a Knockout....

and

Jeux Sans Frontières....

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By *isexmistressWoman
over a year ago

Prestwich

"It's a Knockout....

and

Jeux Sans Frontières....

Also benny hill..Their knickers in a twist brigade do real feminists no favours.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Deadwood."

I'm a little surprised/disappointed no one else mentioned this.

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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

"Deadwood.

I'm a little surprised/disappointed no one else mentioned this."

I didn't watch it but I think it has appeared on a couple of 'cancelled shows _iewers would like to see back' lists.

Perhaps I should watch it.

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By *ighland_RoseCouple
over a year ago

Brigadoon

Farscape

Laid (bet no one has heard of that one!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Farscape

Laid (bet no one has heard of that one!)"
i loved that it war an australian show

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Farscape I have that on my laptop so many thing i am forgetting to mention.

Ben browder was the perfect man. He was hot, had a huge bubble butt and had a huge package.

Farscape was one of the tv shows not made in America but has good special effects and original storyline.

It was nice seeing him and Claudia black in stargate

It easier to see we have sci fi fans here, we need our own comic con

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By *ighland_RoseCouple
over a year ago

Brigadoon

"Farscape

Laid (bet no one has heard of that one!)i loved that it war an australian show"

You're right! You win a prize!

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Whitechapel

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By *dventuroususCouple
over a year ago

sunderland

Inbetweeners

in the flesh

porridge

fawlty towers.

All made far to few episodes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Queer as Folk only had two series wish they would make a reunion tried getting into that cucumber thing but could'nt x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The River. It was so bad yet thoroughly entertaining.

I knew it wouldn't get renewed, because it was so ridiculous, but I still felt sad when I saw it confirmed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. It was a sad shame this show got cancelled as we won't be able to find out how things are going on between all the new characters plus we won't find out if Gaz comes back and if Donna is pregnant or has the "C" word.

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By *anchestercubMan
over a year ago

manchester & NI

"Inbetweeners

in the flesh

porridge

fawlty towers.

All made far to few episodes. "

I find a lot of BBC shows have a short number of episodes.

Each series of Allo Allo only had about 8-10 episodes I think and the Vicar of Dibley was even less. I don't know why they don't make more when the show is popular.

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By *avebi48Man
over a year ago

Lordswood

always thought Sinchronicity should have continued past one series but hey ho, 6 episodes what all she wrote...

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By *ampWithABrainWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

Angel

Lie to me

Heroes

By any means

Flash forward

Life - was cancelled

Agree with all of these. Lie to me especially annoying as another TV company wanted to take it over but the originals wouldn't let them!!

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

There was an animated series called 'God, The Devil & Bob' remember it being really funny and generally poking fun at religion and the world in general- but the American God botherers got the hump and boycotted the network until it was cancelled- miserable sods

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Actually I think it got really low _iewings because it was poorly advertised, it's gained fame since cancellation and has a cult following now.

I'm putting pushing daisies forward, was a brilliant show. "

Buffy was cancelled by fox the recommissioned for a separate channel, until that too was pulled. Joss whedon still writes buffy now and its released in graphic novel form, they're now on 'series'10. Firefly was pulled because the execs 'couldn't see where it was going' and thought it was too confused, the final episodes weren't even transmitted. However serenity rounds it off nicely and gave joss his break into films

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

The Newsroom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On the buses?

Should bring it back as 'Blakey" has just passed away!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll recommend....

Banshee and Ray Donovan.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

On the busses ain't the on itv 3 or 4 around 5pm.

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By *oobsandballsMan
over a year ago

st andrews

Pushing Daisies

The Middleman

Constantine

Chuck

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Angel

Lie to me

Heroes

By any means

Flash forward

Life - was cancelled

Agree with all of these. Lie to me especially annoying as another TV company wanted to take it over but the originals wouldn't let them!!

Shame that Life was cancelled as it always had great re_iews, was well written and Damien Lewis was brilliant in it.

Thankfully in the two seasons it ran for the main theme of the show was properly resolved.

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By *o new WinksMan
over a year ago

BSE

West Wing. Only 7 seasons

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Is it worth pointing out that some of these (breaking bad, battlestar to name two) weren't cancelled and ran to conclusion?

US networks are ruthless,waiting for Person of Interest to go and Human Target if it hasn't already. Ripper Street was another I loved but thankfully it's been resurrected

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Terrahawks. Only ran for 3 series. Loved it as a kid!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jericho, great program only lasted a season and a half.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Is it worth pointing out that some of these (breaking bad, battlestar to name two) weren't cancelled and ran to conclusion?

US networks are ruthless,waiting for Person of Interest to go and Human Target if it hasn't already. Ripper Street was another I loved but thankfully it's been resurrected

Some of the series ran to conclusion simply because they were cancelled before the final season was created and so were able to round off the story arcs. This was the case with battlestar, dexter, and many notable others

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather

"Is it worth pointing out that some of these (breaking bad, battlestar to name two) weren't cancelled and ran to conclusion?

US networks are ruthless,waiting for Person of Interest to go and Human Target if it hasn't already. Ripper Street was another I loved but thankfully it's been resurrected

Angel was another one of note but I can understand that as after they got wolfram and heart it went downhill.

I liked the ending of Dexter I thought the ending was intentional as the only other ways to finish it were with his death or arrest.

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By *ee Viante OP Woman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

"Is it worth pointing out that some of these (breaking bad, battlestar to name two) weren't cancelled and ran to conclusion?

US networks are ruthless,waiting for Person of Interest to go and Human Target if it hasn't already. Ripper Street was another I loved but thankfully it's been resurrected

I thought Human Target was long gone? I thought only 2 series were made of that?

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By *hattyman80Man
over a year ago

stockport

Fawlty towers was gone far too soon. I think falling skies could have done a couple more series, man vs food and thundercats lol

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By *iSTARessWoman
over a year ago

London

Spaced

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By *hattyman80Man
over a year ago

stockport

"Spaced

I agree with spaced... The IT crowd too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Alcatraz, had the makings of a great TV show, but cancelled after one series.

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By *rank EinsteinMan
over a year ago

Burton upon stather

"Spaced

The paintball episode, awesome

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By *exyfuncouple-40Couple
over a year ago

Bloxham

Didn't realise forever binned thought that really good

Have to say shame they couldn't let life on Mars / ashes to ashes run a bit longer proper un p/c TV loved it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Eldorado...why bbc why lol..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

These discussions always tear me in half. I loved London's burning, Boon and Minder. It's best work of that era imo. But I can see why they struggled towards the end. In the modern era I loved The Office, Gavin and Stacy, Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. I'd love to see more, but wouldn't want them to go the way of the aforementioned shows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

As most of us seem to be science fiction geeks

Space above and beyond ??

Tried a bit to hard proper cheese in places but had storylines to explore that could have been interesting but only lasted

1 season

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Itv's best work. Not it's

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Whitechapel.

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

"Whitechapel."

I loved that. And they left it on a cliffhanger. Bastards!

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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago

Shropshire/Midlands

"Recently Atlantis and Forever have joined my list of quite a few.

Last Resort is on the list, as are Firefly, Dollhouse, Believe and Moonlight.

I'd have loved more of The Finder, although I understand why it was cancelled."

Blake's 7 and Survivors (the updated BBC version).

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By *athnBobCouple
over a year ago

sandwell

Whitechapel and Alkatraz both finished on cliffhangers. Bummer.

New Tricks ends at the end of this series as well.

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