Favorite Canceled Shows?Follow

Rurouni Kenshin?

I'm not entirely sure but aren't they planning on making a movie now? I thought they stopped the TV series just because of the extremely high costs, the writers strike and something important for the production burning down. But since I got all of this from third hand I may be completely wrong. :)

Well, eventually there was the entire reign of Caligula, not to mention the reign of his extremely warped pedophile grandfather.

Old Rome still had plenty of juicy fodder for an adult-only series. Problem was, the production values were too high. The show simply cost too much to make.

We'll never really know what Rome was, or at least what it was meant to be, because the producers decided to end it in the face of the astronomical production values.

There's good reason to believe that the show was, indeed, intended to be about the emperors in sequence season by season, seeing as how the first season was about Julius Ceasar and the second about the rise of Octavian/Augustus, which is certainly suggestive of a scheme where each season focused on a different emperor.

Yes, because of the chronology of these events, most of the actors crossed over from one season to another the first two seasons. But seeing how willing they were to swap the actor who played young Octavian for an older actor when they fast-forwarded several years, and how many major characters died along the way, there's no reason to believe they wouldn't have been willing to replace the whole cast as history marched forward.

In fact, the only thing that suggests they might not have had exactly that scenario in mind is the "view from the gallery" thing they had going on with events transpiring with Vorenus and Pullo always getting mixed up in it all.



It looked that way, but that's not actually what happened. The show was intended to go on longer than two seasons, but the production costs were simply too high. A pity, because it was so incredibly, incredibly gorgeous.

Rome was cancelled due to extremely high production costs. They had originally planned to (A) stretch out the plotline into the birth of Christ (the coming of which is hinted at towards the end of the series in the subplot with the Jewish dudes) and (B) expand a whole lot more on the subject matter in the second season. Instead, they learned that the second season would be their last and had to mash everything into the final episodes which hurt the pacing and made stuff pretty confusing at times.Link

Edited, Feb 5th 2009 11:06am by Jophiel

I watched it once. I was very disappointed.

Edited, Feb 20th 2009 9:55pm by TirithRR

I will always miss Firefly, but a close runner up would have been Space: Above and Beyond.

Maybe I'm just remembering it through rose-colored glasses, but I loved that show a lot. They ended the last season with a massive cliff hanger (One main character dead at least, two others chances of survival very, very low) and then it got canceled. Never found out what happened. :(

Edited, Feb 15th 2009 11:23pm by AsuranConvict

Do Stargate SG1 and Stargate Atlantis count since they're still continuing the story/making new ones only in movie format? If so, then that. If not then... Red Dwarf, Angel, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Firefly was a great show that was ended much too soon.
THANKFULLY Whedon was able to get Serenity out to decently wrap things up.
Hope one day he'll be able to do that for some of his other shows now that other series are doing the dvd-movie continuations (SG1, Atlantis, Dead Like Me, etc.)

Firefly was never really my thing. A couple friends made me watch it, it was ok, but definitely not something I'd watch all that often. I did like Pushing Daisies, but I only watched it like three times. But it was really funny when I did watch it. Other than that, I really liked the few episodes of The 4400 I watched.

But Law and Order ____ Are all original, moving, amazing television series! (Well, actually, I like most law and orders... But still, there are more than CSI!)

And c'mon...who cares what they have Liv doing, as long as we get to watch. :D

I was never much of a TV person, but I did enjoy Whose Line. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet... And I can't stand Titus as a comedian, couldn't imagine liking him in a sitcom.

Jericho.

Anyone who knows me personally remembers my participation in the Jericho nuts campaign. For those of you unfamiliar with the campaign, fans sent over forty thousand pounds of peanuts to CBS to bring the show back on the air after the show was canceled. Unfortunately, CBS canceled it again seven episodes later. Suffice to say, I don't watch anything on CBS anymore. :)

Alright I lied, unfortunately I'm really enjoying Big Bang Theory. That is, until CBS cancels it. :(

Edited, Mar 2nd 2009 3:30am by Tamat