- Survivors - a two series (twelve episode) post-apocalyptic TV drama broadcast on BBC
(I found it on Netflix and really enjoyed it. Ended on a cliffhanger and got cancelled the following year. )
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-Curb Your Enthusiasm (Not officially cancelled, but on the bubble and apparently up to whether Larry David wants to do it or not. I hope he does)
Oh yeah, I forgot, Survivors was really good.
I believe Curb Your Enthusiasm is a yearly renewal for HBO. LD won't commit to more than one season at a time for fear of running out of ideas. It drives HBO mad apparently because they would love to lock him into a long-term contract, but he's too neurotic for that. So, he calls them when he's got enough material for a season and ready to film. I believe next season is a go.
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Oh yeah, I remember watching that.
They ended season 2 on a cliff hanger, but it never got picked up for season 3 so we never found out what happened at the end
I believe Curb Your Enthusiasm is a yearly renewal for HBO. LD won't commit to more than one season at a time for fear of running out of ideas. It drives HBO mad apparently because they would love to lock him into a long-term contract, but he's too neurotic for that. So, he calls them when he's got enough material for a season and ready to film. I believe next season is a go.
Man the LD would be tough to work with. Not because he's difficult to get along with, but because of stuff like you mentioned; how flighty/neurotic he is. HBO must get annual headaches from this stuff.
I was watching some Curb behind the scenes thing a few months back, Vivica A. Fox said she didn't even know her character was leaving the show until she got her script for that week. His "wife" Cheryl Hines also mentioned she didn't know they were "breaking up" until she got hers too. Both didn't seem mad about it or anything, you can tell they like him. It was more of an exasperated, "Ohh Larry..." type of reaction, they know how he rolls.
I'm praying to the golden gods for a season 9, probably my favourite show running right now. Crazy to think if they do make a season 9, then Curb will have done as many seasons as Seinfeld.
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I'll add another vote for Clone High - the most quotable-in-real-life-meme show since the Simpsons as far as I was concerned.
I have actually started refering to Chris Butler as "Mr. Butlertron". When he finished his check last night I exclaimed "Awesome, now go get gold plated and lowered!"
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And, really, those people don't matter either. Being a popular show in Canada isn't going to stop a US network from cancelling a show that has low ratings in the States.
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I thought the Black Donnelly's was a pretty good show that was cancelled too early, mostly because Olivia Wilde was gorgeous in that series.
Also a lot of people are putting on shows that weren't cancelled too early. If the show ran 5+ seasons that is usually enough in my mind. Many of those shows weren't even cancelled, but just creatively stopped production. Look at Breaking Bad for example, could they probably have given is a couple more seasons? Probably, but they wouldn't be giving us the same quality for those two seasons, so they thought it would be best to end it while it's still on top. Then look at shows like The X-Files, 24, and even The Sopranos, all of them seemingly ran for too long and there was a drastic decline in quality in the last few seasons. Each of them may have been better served ending things a couple seasons earlier when they were still on top.
One that should have ran longer, and has only been mentioned once was Rome. Now that's a show that definitely was cancelled too early, but really only because it cost so much to film each episode
I'd say it's better than Game of Thrones after two seasons, but that's just me of course.
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Man the LD would be tough to work with. Not because he's difficult to get along with, but because of stuff like you mentioned; how flighty/neurotic he is. HBO must get annual headaches from this stuff.
I was watching some Curb behind the scenes thing a few months back, Vivica A. Fox said she didn't even know her character was leaving the show until she got her script for that week. His "wife" Cheryl Hines also mentioned she didn't know they were "breaking up" until she got hers too. Both didn't seem mad about it or anything, you can tell they like him. It was more of an exasperated, "Ohh Larry..." type of reaction, they know how he rolls.
I'm praying to the golden gods for a season 9, probably my favourite show running right now. Crazy to think if they do make a season 9, then Curb will have done as many seasons as Seinfeld.
Not to derail the thread, but if you're an LD fan like me you will get a real kick out of this:
The great CP is in dire need of prunes!
"That's because the productive part of society is adverse to giving up all their wealth so you libs can conduct your social experiments. Experience tells us your a bunch of snake oil salesman...Sucks to be you." ~Calgaryborn 12/06/09 keeping it really stupid!
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I have actually started refering to Chris Butler as "Mr. Butlertron". When he finished his check last night I exclaimed "Awesome, now go get gold plated and lowered!"
Ones already mentioned:
- The Norm Show
- Firefly
- Enterprise
- Millenium
- Dead Like Me
and the Canadian "The Outer Limits" did go 7 seasons, but I certainly wouldn't have minded 7 more.
Ones I didn't see previously mentioned:
- Original Trek
- Jericho
- Damages
- Daria
And there are a few that got RUINED too early due to poor ratings:
- The John Laroquette Show (thought to be too cerebral for a sitcom; got dumbed down after two seasons, ruining it's appeal)
- The 4400 (first two seasons were good, but the potential for greatness was ruined by poor writing and poor re-writing to bring back popular characters)
