Shows you're happy were cancelled?

Daemos

Right then, let's flip things around a bit and talk about shows that you're happy were cancelled.

And I don't mean shows you didn't like that you're happy don't exist any more, I mean shows which you did like, but for whatever reasons are happy it's gone.

Scrubs would be a big one for me. I think it started losing track of itself after season 6, and only seemed to go downhill from there. The host of cast members leaving after season 8 should have been the sign for them to pull the plug (no pun intended) but they somehow got another season out of it. It should have ended years earlier, so in the end it was a case of putting it out of its misery.

mikhail

Battlestar Galactica. I loved it for two and a half seasons, and then it seemed to lose steam badly, at least partly because of the writers strike, but also as the religious elements became more prominent, the humour thinner on the ground and the mythology more convoluted. Still a very good show, but I'm glad it didn't drag on for another couple of seasons and make me really regret having ever become a fan.

The Wire. A show which knew what it wanted to say, said it and left.

FatherLen

father ted. i know it ended under unfortunate circumstances but i dont think it would be as loved if it went on and grew stale.

silvervixen84

Lost needed to end, it should have finished way before it did.

Prison Break is another one that dragged on for longer than it should.

pablomakaveli

That 70's Show was a bit similiar ito Scrubs in that it went on a season more than it should have. Eric was'nt even in the last series and Kelso only appeared occasionally. Also the guy they drafted in as an extra character for the last series was a crap character as well.

TPD

Heroes, became pathetic by the end. Should have ended after two or maybe three seasons.

CarrickMcJoe

The Box with Keith Duffy though it has given fodder for Gift Grub to feed on.

xp90

JOEY!!!

FatherLen

xp90 wrote: »

JOEY!!!

should never have existed!

RolandIRL

mikhail wrote: »

Battlestar Galactica. I loved it for two and a half seasons, and then it seemed to lose steam badly, at least partly because of the writers strike, but also as the religious elements became more prominent, the humour thinner on the ground and the mythology more convoluted. Still a very good show, but I'm glad it didn't drag on for another couple of seasons and make me really regret having ever become a fan.

Season 3 of BSG was the weakest but it picked up for season 4 and ended it brilliantly. they ended the way any tv show should want to end, on their own terms and not canceled after going on for 5 seasons too long.
If it had gone on any longer, it would have been degraded and i would have given up on it.

Heroes deserved to be put out of its misery. season 1 was exciting and new but the origins is always more interesting than what happens after. should have been a bloodbath and start off with new Heroes.

I don't know why the networks expect shows to go on for a lot of seasons. they should limit them to say at most 4, and concentrate on keeping the quality high. when it's dragged out, it just becomes stale and loses viewers. shorter seasons and series are the best solution (tried and tested on cable) and doesn't make the viewer end up hating the show.

BTW i think cancelled is the wrong word for thread title...it should be shows that have ended, cos a lot of shows ended on a good note and weren't cancelled /pedantic

mikhail

whiteman19 wrote: »

I don't know why the networks expect shows to go on for a lot of seasons. they should limit them to say at most 4, and concentrate on keeping the quality high. when it's dragged out, it just becomes stale and loses viewers. shorter seasons and series are the best solution (tried and tested on cable) and doesn't make the viewer end up hating the show.

People have this odd misconception that networks want to make good shows. Networks want to make money, and if that means dragging a popular show on until its fans have deserted it, they'll do it without compunction.

wil

Reeling in the years

Should have been cancelled in 2008 before things really started going downhill;)
Though I am ever hopeful future episodes pick up.

Hannibal

The Sopranos!! was a massive fan and imo one of the best dramas ever screened but there's only so many guys you can 'whack' before you run out of decent actors

eddy121

Glenroe - was delighted to see the end of it

Sudden Valley

Heroes and Prison break. I'd only choose shows that were given time to improve but didn't.

ratedR

Yeah, Prison Break worked for a season, it was an excellent show for that one season, but that was it. It would have worked better as a movie or mini-series.

When they were back in Soma in S3 it was just pathetic, and the hurried ending to tie it all up was crap !

jaykhunter

Although I've never missed an episode, I won't be shedding a tear when the Simpsons gets shítcanned. At this point they've had more average/poor seasons than good. It makes me sad seeing how far they've fallen. It's not like we get one or two excellent episodes per season, and the rest are poor; we get one or two ok-decent episodes per season amidst a pile of crap. It's like the show just 'happens' rather than anything else.

The Goode Family was horrendous. Made by KOTH's Mike Judge, it was an animated sitcom about hypocritical douchebag eco-warriors. Couldn't have gotten canned quickly enough.

"Teenage Kicks" starring Ade Edmonson; a deadbeat dad who got divorced/kicked out by his wife and is now bumming off his kids. Despite the jokes beng horrific, the racism is unacceptable. Now I'm a guy who enjoys parodying cultural differences, but this is exactly in the wrong zone of racism - not lampooning, not clever, not even slightly racist - just plain here's a racist character, let's make fun of him because of his race.

+1 for Scrubs. That more than ran it's course. Yep, LOST should've ended 2 seasons earlier. I completely lost faith in it seeing how bad Season 2 was. Heroes too.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

I'd agree with Scrubs and That 70s Show - both went on a series too long... When you lose 2 or more of the most popular characters, its time to call it a day. Still love both shows though...

iguana

I can't believe this wasn't the first one mentioned.

Big Brother.

It permeated absolutely everything during the summer months, no matter how much you wanted to ignore it people kept talking about it, it was in all the papers (even proper ones way too often), you couldn't listen to the radio because they all droned on about it. It was absolutely everywhere and I'm very glad it's now gone.

preytec

iguana wrote: »

Big Brother.

why did you have to bring that one back up. it wasn't a "show" it was a "shame". good riddance i say

Friends: i got so sick of that but i still see it on e4 all the time. thank god for the remote control

Capt'n Midnight

mikhail wrote: »

Battlestar Galactica.

Yeah the series where they escape the Cylons and arrive in California :eek:


Also series two of Space 1999

Capt'n Midnight

silvervixen84 wrote: »

Lost needed to end, it should have finished way before it did.

They should force the writers to have an ending before they finish the first series.

Dj

preytec wrote: »

Friends: i got so sick of that but i still see it on e4 all the time. thank god for the remote control

I agree i think it lost its edge after the sixth season

Freddie59

silvervixen84 wrote: »

Lost needed to end, it should have finished way before it did.

Prison Break is another one that dragged on for longer than it should.

Yep. PB should have ended after S2.

galwaybetty

Buffy the Vampire Slayer-

I loved seasons 1,2 and 5.

They should have ended it at season 5, even if they did have a fabulous musical episode. I really enjoyed the show but the ending at season 5 was perfect.

Friends-

I loved Friends and although I have loved similar shows such as How I met your mother and Two guys a girl and a pizza place, I think that it dragged on for far too long.

Look whos talking

I wish they cancel Fair City

Faith+1

Look whos talking wrote: »

I wish they cancel Fair City

The acting is so bad my friend from the UK once asked me "Is this Show a Joke"? I told him it was over 20 years old and is one of RTE's highest viewed shows, he nearly pissed himself laughing.

To be honest I couldn't blame him. It's complete Sh*te.

djkeogh

Flash Forward. I was so happy after watching an interesting premise turn to ****, to hear it had been cancelled. And just as well too cause the cliff hanger ending to the show was even more ridiculous than each of the episodes before it.

I think entourage has outstayed it's welcome now as well. The last season was a serious dip in quality and I fear this Final Season starting up will only further drag the shows name through the mud. Fingers crossed I'm wrong but I gotta bad feeling about it.

Wimbago

Big Brother
The new V
The Criminal Minds spin off

Those as I didn't like them

Prison Break, glad they didn't drag it to death completely

vard

TPD wrote: »

Heroes, became pathetic by the end. Should have ended after two or maybe three seasons.

Oh my god I couldn't agree more.

If they had ended it after season one I'd have called it one of the best modern shows ever.

They literally gutted it though. It's unbelievable how **** it became.

x_Ellie_x

Lost... I think that one certainly out stayed its welcome. They should have ended it a season or two before it did.

djkeogh

Wimbago wrote: »

Prison Break, glad they didn't drag it to death completely

I'd call 5 seasons of Prison Break pretty dragged to death. Season 1 was excellent and season 2 was interesting but from there on in they were draggin the arse outta it and it got increasingly more ridiculous with the writers killing characters only to bring them back again. Brutal stuff by the end

woodchuck

Futurama. I thought they made the right move by ending it while the episodes were still good. Now that they've brought it back it's definitely going downhill and will probably end up going the way of the simpsons

Lost. I'm finally free! And sorely disappointed...

Big brother. Thank f**k!

1huge1

Suprised no one has mentioned Stargate SG1, I thought it went very downhill after Richard Dean Anderson stopped appearing regularly and they brought in a new guy.

jc84

Prison break s1&2 were fantastic but 3 and 4 were bad especially 4

Medium - s1-5 were great but once it moved to CBS it just got silly the story lines were really ridiculous

CorkBabe33

ER was one of my all time favourite show but it definitely ran on longer than it should have. I think it should have come to an end after season 8 or 9. That said, I did enjoy the nostalgia of the final season because they brought back so many of the old characters ...