[Stridone]

Nice edit. ;)

Hahaha, didn't even notice it.

[Akahige]

this so much, season 2 was such a mess with 4 seasons worth of stuff cramed into one

[PandaJones]

Came to post this. Still can't believe they cancelled it.

Kill - Big Brother

[Sentry]

Came to post this.

I actually kind of hated that actor, but honestly grew to love the show and eventually even him. Really felt like it ended abruptly, unfortunately. :\

[SpectreFire]

Killed too early:

:lol

That wasn't killed off. People just stopped watching it.

[Trokil]

Too early:
Firefly
Pushing Daisies
My name is Earl
Stargate Atlantis
Lone Gunmen

[MedIC86]

The river :(

[Liamario]

Kill: The Simpsons. It's now been shit longer than it was good.
Save: The IT Crowd

[Anth0ny]

Killed too early: Dragon Ball GT (that last arc had potential!)

Please kill it: Fucking Simpsons. Should have killed it 10 years ago.

[shamo42]

Awake Terriers Firefly

I salute your good taste sir. Also Rubicon.

[SpectreFire]

Killed off too early: Absolutely none of them. Even the ones that ended on cliffhangers or unresolved were not killed off too early, they simply weren't given enough advanced notice to craft an effective end. I would say that many shows take a year or two to get their creative cohesion together, so I guess I'd argue that most shows that don't have the opportunity to respond to criticism to or reaction to their first season probably could have matured into a better product. Really, what I'd say is that there are a number of shows "managed poorly" in their debuts. But honestly, there are just as many interesting pilots that aren't picked up to series, scripts that aren't brought to pilot, or ideas that don't get developed into scripts. Turnover is good. Moving forward is good. That's not to say that I don't feel a pang of sadness when a great character doesn't get their due, or a great story doesn't have an ending. Obviously there's stuff I like.

I want to say I completely agree with this. The notion of a show being killed too early, isn't exactly true. Shows never get killed early, because it means being cancelled while its still completely viable, both creatively and viably. The problem is though, a lot of shows might have the former, but most don't have the latter.

Take Stargate Universe for example. I loved that show, and they really got their shit together in season two, but the first half of season one was a massive clusterfuck. They had a strong series premiere number, but messed up enough to lose half of those viewers by the mid season finale. The show just never managed to regain that audience due to a bumbled started. Same thing happened with Dollhouse, Caprica, and plenty of other shows.

Arrested Development didn't end because FOX were being dicks. It ended because it wasn't getting enough audience at that point. Most shows bleed viewers, and in Arrested Development's case, being a serialized comedy really hurt them. They couldn't gain new viewers as easily because if anyone tries to jump into season 2 or 3, they would miss so many of the inside jokes that make the series so good.

[tarius1210]

Saved: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Kill: Two and Half Men

[diamount]

Killed to Early:
V

Wish they would kill:

X-Factor

[CorvoSol]

Wished they killed earlier: Battlestar Galactica The last season and a half were horse shit, such a good show ruined by that final five cylon storyline that was way too rushed. And don't get me started on the last episode, Jeez....

While I agree that much of the end was nuts, can we agree that Gaeta's mutiny was the best part?

I have to agree with Wonderfalls. I loved that show. Pretty much everything on Fox needs to be killed off aside from Bones.

And even then Bones shouldn't go on much longer.


Too Early: Pushing Daisies. That show had so very, very much potential.

KILL KILL KILL: Glee. One episode of that show was enough to convince me no one should ever watch it.

[Yuripaw]

Too early: Twin Peaks

It wasn't going in the best direction, but I wish it could have been better. I wasn't completely satisfied with how it ended, because there was a lack of closure, even though some of the major questions were answered.

Kill: Grey's anatomy, law & order (all of them), too many to list.

[dorkimoe]

Too Early : Firefly, Chicago Code (wasnt that great of a show, but it was getting better and would have liked to see a season 2) oh and definitely Awake (dat finale)


Kill now: Dexter, all the singing shows, anything involving Teenagers on mtv and anything involving beauty pageants with kids, oh and almost 90% of the "reality shows" , real housewives and shit

[Stephen Colbert]

Save: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Sarah Conner Chronicles

Kill: 99% of Reality Television

[Shadow780]

Pretty much everything on Fox needs to be killed off aside from Bones.

Screw you buddy, New Girl is on Fox

[Arksy]

I KNOW I'm the only one who is going to say this, but damn you all, I liked this show.

[equap]

Life http://www.nbc.com/Life/
this show got killed off waaaaaaaaaaay too early :(

[Shadow780]

Life http://www.nbc.com/Life/ this show got killed off waaaaaaaaaaay too early :(

Yeah, I remember this. But life is fair getithuh, he's doing Homeland now.

Also



I loved the quirkiness but understandably it struggled to find an audience.

[Enco]

It was resurrected. They killed Terriers too early.

Yes! Terriers.

Such a shame. Was a perfect first season.

[dorkimoe]

Ill go ahead and predict that "Last Resort" and "revolution" are going to be killed off too early. Caught the pilot of both, really liked last resort and revolution has a great concept.

[the chris]

Only got six episodes, and only four were shown when it was cancelled(the other two aired later that year.)

[jimi_dini]

Shouldn't have been killed:


and



and I won't list Futurama, because they revived it. Still a super dumb decision.


Should have been killed years ago:

[krameriffic]

Dexter needed to end at its sixth season.

I don't think it's time yet for Dexter to go. The problem is that they dilly-dallied around with seasons 5 and 6 instead of covering material that needs to be covered. There's still potential there, and things that haven't been explored. It's not like a lot of shows that just get stale or go completely insane. It just lulled into a comfort zone and hopefully season 6's finale will pull it out.

[AlteredBeast]

My favorite show of the last 5 years, I believe. Also would nominate Awake. :(

[Toppot]

Killed too soon: Sugar Rush (No one in America and few in the UK will know it)

Needs to be killed: I wouldn't kill off any show, if they are still around then a descent enough amount of people enjoy them and the show should live on.

[Messypandas]

FOTC - They didn't kill it but dammit, even mediocre FOTC is better than no FOTC

[i nerini del buio]

RUBICON

I cry myself to sleep every night thinking of Rubicon T_T

[An-Det]

Odyssey 5 was killed off far too early. Only one season and it was awesome, and from what I can tell because Showtime didn't want scifi stuff. Another is the V remake series. It wasn't a great show, but I liked it, and really wanted to see where they'd go after that Season 2 finale.

Heroes I think falls into both categories. The Writer's Strike ruined the show and it wasn't great for a while, a far cry from the awesome season 1. But season 4 wasn't bad at all and the show seemed on an upswing. So definitely one that should have been put out of it's misery, but simultaneously killed too soon as it was trying to repair.

[CrunchyFrog]

NBC's Awake. Solid if not spectacular show for its first season, especially for such an intriguing concept.

Kill: Nuke everything on Bravo from orbit (the announcer too, damn is he annoying), along with most of the stuff on Fox. And all of the red-neck reality TV that's been plaguing Discovery as of late. But really, modern network TV in general is crap.

[Fularu]

V really needed a third season.

[dead souls]

Killed too early: basically nothing. Way more shows overstay their welcome and since there are so many good shows on I rarely regret only getting 13 episodes of something. I'd rather have 13 great episodes than 100 where 50+ are garbage.

Needs to be killed: way too many to list. One easy example is Supernatural.

[ClosingADoor]

New Amsterdam.

This one. Need to rewatch it sometime, been a while since I've seen it originally.

[equap]

maaaan i really liked this show. :(

[Jethro]

Save: Star Trek Enterprise

Kill: How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory

[V_Arnold]

Studio 60 is self-contained, but I would have loved more seasons of it. One of the greatest shows in tv (and in fact, for me, with the most likable characters), it is sad that it only got one season.

I would not kill anything, so. TV shows are safe as well.

[Ville Pukema]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0182587/

Harsh Realm, as teenage nerd really enjoyed this one. I quess it just wasnt popular show so for mainstream, it didnt get continued. :(

[ElTopo]

Too early:
Carnivale
Wonderfalls
Pushing Daisies
Farscape
Pretender
Better Off Ted
Dead Like Me
Joan of Arcadia - Garbage, but I enjoyed the show as a guilty pleasure

Too late:
Earth: Final Conflict - that last season holds the title "Biggest decline of quality in a TV series between two seasons"... and the 4th season wasn't that good to begin with

Exactly right:
Daria - I love the show, but I can't help but feel that they ended it at exactly the right time

A series they should've killed?; Holy fuck it went on and on and on season after season with EVERY SINGLE episode being the exact same thing. Literally the only show I ever stopped watching after so many seasons in.

Michael T. Weiss is awesome, too bad he never got anything afterwards. This show should've gone on forever.

[Henke]

Twin Peaks is the very definition of a show cancelled too soon. Never getting closure on the greatest show ever made will haunt me forever.

[phaonaut]

I KNOW I'm the only one who is going to say this, but damn you all, I liked this show.

I liked this also, I think the mid-season break killed it.

[icarus-daedelus]

Twin Peaks is the very definition of a show cancelled too soon. Never getting closure on the greatest show ever made will haunt me forever.

Twin Peaks was killed off both too early and too late.

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Shit, I'm an idiot today. Forgout about Rome, maybe because it at least got ending. It did go way too early though.

[Henke]

Twin Peaks was killed off both too early and too late.

This is also true. Imagine how amazing the series would be if it ended at the resolution of the Laura Palmer murder.

Saying that, the Windom Earle stuff really brought season 2 back on-track after the dip halfway through.

[HP_Wuvcraft]

I see that the majority of this thread is living in a world where liking a show trumps ratings.

Killed too early:

You're fucking off your rocker, you are. If you thought that was a good show (admittedly, it had a good middle), and a good marketing campaign.

Ron Moore and his crew can't build worlds for shit. They can put ideas on paper, but that's it.

And as others have said, it just didn't have ratings.

Yes! Terriers. Such a shame. Was a perfect first season.

And one of the few cop shows set in a true coastal town, let alone one of the few shows set in San Diego.

[Whiskeymatt]

Scrubs went on too long. It had arguably gone on too long even with the "real" ending, but that tacked on last season was the stuff of nightmares.

[The_Hitcher89]

FlashForward :(

Scrubs, The Simpsons, Only Fools & Horses, Family Guy should have been canned long before they were/will be

[Bladenic]

Killed WAY too early: Party Down.

Needs to die: Whoever invented Reality TV.

[Ghost_Protocol]

Smallville should have been killed 5 seasons ago. Can someone please explain how the hell it lasted as long as it did? Did it really have enough viewers to justify it?