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Shock axings of TV shows
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The news of the recent axing of Shooting Stars came as a huge shock to its fans
Has there ever been any other time when the axing of a show has come as a bombshell
Has there ever been any other time when the axing of a show has come as a bombshell
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Might have been a shock to teh die hard fan but to everyone else it had stopped being funny
Does rather depend on who you ask.
Hustle springs to mind - the next series is it's last - this was a decision by the makers to end when on to.
Stargate Atlantis also ended when it was on top - it's parent show lasted 10 years - Atlantis only half that.
That was followed by Universe. Now I realise that for many people they hated Universe - partly for replacing Atlantis but also for being radically different to the two shows that preceded it. Personally while it was slow at the start - I thought it was brave of the makers to be radical - also I thought it was just getting it's stride when it ended.
What surprised me is not that SyFy cancelled it - but that MGM essentially dropped it's most lucrative TV franchise when there were still 200 odd countries buying it.
Eldorado.
Personally, I've never recovered from it being axed.
A very funny series with an interesting and quirky story. They lopped it off just before series 3 was due to start.
Unfinished storylines, established fan base and everything just dropped.
Sadly I think Misfits is heading the same way. They should be given noticed if a next series is to be the last and so they can at least conclude what the hell it was all about in the first place.
Especially with these sci-fi ones, we need to know where these special powers came from and why they had then - IE the whole point of both the above shows existence.
Still, I would prefer no ending to the one they did in Lost - 6 Years of my life wasted on that.
Also STV didn't help when they stopped showing it, because I liked The Bill, but forgot it was on most of the time as I had to hunting for ITV 1.
My husband really liked Stargate Universe, I watched it, but didn't really have an opinion, so he was annoyed it was cancelled.
I also really liked Pushing Daisies and that was winning awards when it was cancelled, but I thought the idea was getting tired.
yeah true I suppose. It was pretty pants on at 9pm but still thought they would work with it.
I think they cobbled together an ending for the series to show that they could go futher with it in a next series but it never came.
I loved Reaper!
It never pulled up any trees with tough, hard hitting storylines but it was well done and usually pretty funny. The devil was just great too!
4/5 misfits shows have been #1 on e4. Can't see it being cancelled any time soon.
For me the fact Farscape had to be axed after year 4 of a 5 year ongoing plot was a massive blow, especially as it was in favour of yet more bloody Stargate, which at that point was just being Star Trek lite.
Bringing in the original actors from Stargate over the Farscape didn't really change anything
Reboot too, if anyone remembers that, only one episode before Bob came back...arghhh!!
Quite shocked when they stopped making Robot Wars, imagine how amazing some of those robots would be now if they still had the TV show to inspire their evolution!
Going back a bit now, "Police Squad!" (In color!) was annoyingly axed after only 6 episodes due to being too clever for the average American audience, or so NBC said.
Crying shame!
PJ
Still gutted it was axed.
It was the death knell for Robot Wars when it went to channel 5.Though,i did hear that the reason they stopped making it was something to do with 'health and safety'
Robot Wars was a victim of its own success really.
I saw various complaints from the makers of the "star" Robots that they were more and more in demand, and basically as amateurs not paid very much.
They mostly had full-time jobs and gave up their holidays to film the TV shows.
I think they also got fed up with their pride and joy machines getting smashed up by the House Robots. Some of the robots costs thousands and any small malfunction meant they couldn't compete, so presumably no appearance fee.
Health & Safety was also an issue as the machines were getting stronger and deadlier towards the end. We went to the Channel 5 tapings, and one robot threw another right out of the arena in front of us, and it hit the plexi-glass side wall still in it's way UP.
I was a big fan of the 'Razer' robot,and as a viewer i was angered when during one of the grand finals,a robot altered its build so that razers weapon would be innefective. It totally ruined the series for me.Allowing modifications like that should have been against the rules.