Brilliant But Canceled - your choices?

[tzikeh]

thecomfychair and I were talking about the news that ABC has picked up Rob Thomas's pitch to re-make Cupid, which I find... bizarre and wrong for so many reasons. That led to listing cancellations that made us bitter. Whether because the show was canceled mid-first season for any one of several ridiculous reasons, or because it was never given a chance to find its audience, or because of network politics--or because it was canceled after one or two (or even three or four seasons) when it had set up a clear plan for the following season, there are those cancelations that, when mentioned, can still stir up anger and frustration even years after the show was yanked.

I'm not talking about something that had run for eight seasons and you wanted to see *more*, dammit, but shows that were canceled for all the different WTF reasons: network brainlessness, or politics, or a lack of becoming an instant hit--you know what I mean.

My top five, in no order at all:

Cupid
The Invisible Man
EZ Streets
Farscape
Dead Like Me

My five runner-up votes, any one of which could have been in the top five list on a different day:

Firefly
Now and Again
Boomtown
Carnivale
Odyssey 5

So - hit me. What are yours?

ETA: Honorable Mention: Maximum Bob.

Comments

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

EYES!!!!

::is bitter::

I didn't love Standoff, but I did love seeing Ron Livingston every week for a while, and Bull, too!

[klia.livejournal.com]

EYES!!! K, K, T, and I started watching it together (we may gobble up a few eps tomorrow), and now I'm even more bitter about its cancellation than before, because man, it was SUCH a terrific show. Damn ABC!

I actually liked Standoff a lot. I tuned in against my better judgment to see RL and MC, and ended up really liking Emily and Cheryl, too. Did you watch the remaining 7 eps Fox burned off in the summer? Because it just got better and better. *cries*