Daybreak (Taye Diggs) and Blade The Series - both were shown on the defunct channel Bravo, I still believe Daybreak was finding its feet in season 1 but rumours I read on the net was that the US audience were too slow to engage in it - that reminds me I need to watch it again
Harper's Island!! It didn't have to have the same cast or setting. They could have easily done a new mystery elsewhere and fiddled with the title slightly so it made sense.
An old one that I still love to this day: Bakersfield PD
YES! Fantasic series, and an amazing cast, thanks for the reminder! I hadn't really been thinking about sitcoms, but I really enjoyed Perfect Couples a few years ago, and Rob Corddry's The Winner always made me laugh, but a show about a grown man whose best friend is a teenage boy was never going to last...
Harpers Island is a good shout, I enjoyed it's sillyness and it could work as a retooled experience every year like American Horror Story or True Detective
Would have loved to have seen more seasons of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip though. Can't get enough Sorkin.
Flash Forward definitely showed real potential for a 2nd Season and had The Tomorrow People been given half a chance, it would have kicked it up a notch.
Now and Again. A show that got everything right - from casting to the blend of intrigue, sci fi and romance - but despite the network trying very hard to get it to work as they clearly thought so too it simply never found the audience it deserved.
A similar fate has just befallen the BBC's Our Zoo, axed after one series despite seemingly getting the balance right.
In both cases I think the scheduling killed the show.
I really wanted "American Gothic" to continue back in the mid 1990s, my teenage self thought it was an excellent show.
If we're talking Shaun Cassidy shows then Invasion is another one that I'd have been interested in seeing continue but they let season 1 play out at such a languid pace with no real sunse of urgency that people stopped watching because it was taking ages to get nowhere, and it got cancelled.
Ironically, it was alleged on various forums that the sometimes glacially slow pace of the storyline was the result of a note from the network not to "rush" the important plot reveals!
EDIT: Ah, I see somebody mentioned Invasion "up thread", I should probably have read through before contributing!
And some blasts from the past: It's Your Move, Tales of the Golden Monkey, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Automan, Street Hawk, Manimal. If you didn't see the first three of those then you really missed out.
Always enjoyed the X Files episodes that were TLG centric so I was confident Id enjoy the spin off series.
Exciting, funny, likeable cast, and endless possibilities story-wise. That Fox axed it when it was starting to gain traction is appalling.
A Gunmen reboot today could potentially be massive. Though the original cast would perhaps be slightly long in the tooth today, Frohike, Byers and Langley could cameo and pass on their paranoid wisdom to a younger, 2010s tech-savvy new group of conspiracy theorists.
And before anyone reminds me:
that the Gunmen died in the X Files final season, 'Jump the Shark' certainly made it look like they could still be alive (hey, it's science fiction!). Also, TLG have returned alive and well in the X Files Season 10 comic book series, which Chris Carter considers canonical
Another one that only lasted a season and was screened about the same time as Invasion (2005/6) was Surface (renamed from its original pre-production title of Fathom, perhaps illustrating a lack of depth ), which involved sink-holes appearing in the ocean, giant 'prehistoric' deep-sea reptilian creatures and ultimately an earthquake and tsunami that submerged the coastal towns of North Carolina (where most of the show took place) and elsewhere.
I'd have liked to see how the characters coped with a changed world where much of the land was now submerged and giant lizard creatures roamed the seas, though a huge draw for me was the producers' fondness for putting Lake Bell in a bikini (which speaks volumes as to my own superficiality )
terrace nova:
A feature length finale where it tied up the loose ends.
I like the idea of Terrace Nova - a disparate group of colonists sent back in time to an alternative-timeline prehistoric Earth who have to work together and build a patio to survive :D
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One series of that was plenty. The time paradox would have meant that Terranova would never have existed anyway.
Was this based on the old children's tv series of the 1970s?
Flash Forward
The Event
I'm another one who liked Flash Forward too.
Harpers Island is a good shout, I enjoyed it's sillyness and it could work as a retooled experience every year like American Horror Story or True Detective
Would have loved to have seen more seasons of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip though. Can't get enough Sorkin.
I'm racking my brain to think of something that I was sad to see cancelled after one or two seasons but really can't.
Could have had another series of the ringer too.
It had two seasons and one not so great follow up tv movie
The Event
Star-Crossed
A similar fate has just befallen the BBC's Our Zoo, axed after one series despite seemingly getting the balance right.
In both cases I think the scheduling killed the show.
If we're talking Shaun Cassidy shows then Invasion is another one that I'd have been interested in seeing continue but they let season 1 play out at such a languid pace with no real sunse of urgency that people stopped watching because it was taking ages to get nowhere, and it got cancelled.
Ironically, it was alleged on various forums that the sometimes glacially slow pace of the storyline was the result of a note from the network not to "rush" the important plot reveals!
EDIT: Ah, I see somebody mentioned Invasion "up thread", I should probably have read through before contributing!
Dark Skies
Firefly
John Glover who played the Devil in Brimstone recently appeared in Perception as a hallucination of the Devil experienced by the lead character.
I'd feel awkward watching Tales Of the Golden Monkey now given the currrent "unpleasantness" (to put it mildly) with the lead actor
Always enjoyed the X Files episodes that were TLG centric so I was confident Id enjoy the spin off series.
Exciting, funny, likeable cast, and endless possibilities story-wise. That Fox axed it when it was starting to gain traction is appalling.
A Gunmen reboot today could potentially be massive. Though the original cast would perhaps be slightly long in the tooth today, Frohike, Byers and Langley could cameo and pass on their paranoid wisdom to a younger, 2010s tech-savvy new group of conspiracy theorists.
And before anyone reminds me:
I only watched the 1st season of it recently and really liked it. Its a shame it didn't get picked up for a second second.
I'd have liked to see how the characters coped with a changed world where much of the land was now submerged and giant lizard creatures roamed the seas, though a huge draw for me was the producers' fondness for putting Lake Bell in a bikini (which speaks volumes as to my own superficiality
I like the idea of Terrace Nova - a disparate group of colonists sent back in time to an alternative-timeline prehistoric Earth who have to work together and build a patio to survive