This season's cancellations

[JDragon]

Lie to Me also got canceled which is a bummer, my wife I both enjoyed that one.

 

[Kzach]

Lie to Me also got canceled which is a bummer, my wife I both enjoyed that one.

I thought it started out strong with a lot of good episodes in the first season. But then it just... I don't know, got weird and far too contrived. His daughter was always a target and it was always a personal vendetta or something. I got tired of it after about half-way through season 2.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

ABC is doing a pilot for a series about Edgar Allan Poe solving weird crimes. Not quite what your asking for, but it's something (and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it'll turn out to be good).

I looked it up- I don't think its been greenlighted so far, but its not dead, either. However, I wonder if they've ever seen Gerard Depardieu's Vidocq?
Vidocq (2001) - IMDb

There actually is a Law & Order: UK. It airs on BBC America.

Personally, I don't like it. The actors are okay, but the are literally just refilming old L&O scripts. Apparently, Dick Wolf didn't want them doing anything original.

There are some variances, due largely do differences in UK and US law, but some episodes feel like they just dubbed in British accents.

 

[Dragonwriter]

The spam (Chaquan) just got reported. EDIT: Spammer removed. Thanks mods!

Anyways, I'm definitely sad to see several shows go. Human Target (even with the S2 differences) and Breaking In will be quite missed. Lie to Me doesn't hurt quite as much for me, since I lost most interest when Cal started being a complete jerk to everyone.

A few others are on my 'sad to see it go' list. Even The Cape. (Yes, I know I'm in the minority on that one, but I found it more entertaining than the rest of the stuff in that timeslot. )

A few of the shows coming up in the fall might have some promise, but as always, it remains to be seen if they live up or not.

 

[Tyranthraxus]

I have noticed.. and perhaps not surprisingly that nobody has mentioned the cancellation of V.

I saw maybe 3-4 eps of the new series. But it never really grabbed me.

Im going to try Fallen Skies (new tnt series about alien takeover) but will avoid Terra Nova ( Dinosaurs just dont do it for me)

 

[Kzach]

I have noticed.. and perhaps not surprisingly that nobody has mentioned the cancellation of V.

When the combined hotness of Laura Vandervoort and Morena Baccarin can't keep my interest, let alone the interest of the masses, then nothing can save it.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I have noticed.. and perhaps not surprisingly that nobody has mentioned the cancellation of V.

I saw maybe 3-4 eps of the new series. But it never really grabbed me.

Im going to try Fallen Skies (new tnt series about alien takeover) but will avoid Terra Nova ( Dinosaurs just dont do it for me)

Fallen Skies...

Wasn't there a show named like that already? Or what was it called. It was also about an alien invasion, and originally supposed to go over several decades of history showing the invasion going on?

Oh, that was Dark Skies. Coincidence?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have noticed.. and perhaps not surprisingly that nobody has mentioned the cancellation of V.

Saw the original, and nothing in the ads made me think they had improved enough on it for me to look at it.

Im going to try Fallen Skies (new tnt series about alien takeover) but will avoid Terra Nova ( Dinosaurs just dont do it for me)

I'm curious about both, but more about the latter than the former. Here's why:

The summary at IMDB (here) reminds me a little bit of Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile series. So I want to see if there's any connection.

 

[Vyvyan Basterd]

Here's a better link for cancelled shows.

I will miss:

The Cape
The Event
The Good Guys
Lie To Me
Mr. Sunshine
No Ordinary Family
Outsourced
$#*! My Dad Says
V

The Cape and No Ordinary Family were fun to watch and I really think people missed the point of the genre and didn't give it enough credit.

The Event and V. I knew I shouldn't have watched these. Too many of these shows go unresolved. I wanted to see how things played out.

I will really miss the Good Guys. If I'm going to enjoy a crime show, it needs a good deal of humor and interesting characters (Bones and Psych come to mind).

I agree Lie To Me was starting to lose me, but I was hoping they would resolve Cal's issues and bring him closer to center again.

Mr. Sunshine was my semi-replacement for Better Off Ted. These shows are the closest thing we get on TV to Office Space and I really enjoy that humor.

I didn't think I would like Outsourced for the same reasons people mentioned above. But the show was not about making fun of American unemployment via outsourcing. It was a fish out of water comedy and had its funny moments. Enough that I would not have minded another season.

$#*! My Dad Says turned out to be better than I thought it would be. It's not a terrible shame that it's gone, but I would have kept watching.

And I don't think people are saying that L&O:LA should have been cancelled because the cast was terrible or the writing stunk. But I'm sure the newest incarnation suffered from the glut of crime clones. And even if L&O:LA was the best of the best, people are less likely to tune in if the are embedded in the older series, no matter how mediocre they are in comparison. The cancellation of any crime clone is a plus in my book, it sounds like it was too bad that LA had to bite the bullet instead of one of the others.

 

[Fifth Element]

"Hey, let's make fun of the fact that people can't get jobs!"

Did you watch the show? Because that's not what the humour is based on.

Edit: As Vyvyan said above. Like any other sitcom, the humour is character- and relationship-driven, really.