What shows got canceled before they had a chance....

[BrooklynKnight]

Dilbert was excellent, the DVD set was most worth it. They managed to actually take the strip and expand the humor in ways that you could never, ever fit into a comic strip. Unfortunately, it was on UPN, where quality goes to die.

They did more in 30 episodes than many shows did in two or three times that many episodes.

Thats cause UPN prefers to focus on the african american demographic, and I've heard some credible rumors from their staff (in secacus nj) that many shows were intentionally screwed over to screw their ratings. At LEAST in the New York market, I dont know about other markets that UPN is in.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Anyway....

7 Days has been mentioned a few times. It had about 2 Seasons on UPN, I loved that show. I love Time Travel....

Special Unit 2 was another Sci-Fi show on UPN, a comedy one, quite funny.

Jake 2.0 got killed after 1 season.......also on UPN.....

(ARE WE SEEING A TREND HERE FOLKS?)

Roswell, which got picked up by UPN but was canned after 2 wobbly seasons there (or was it one?)

Nowhere Man, another UPN show.
Viper
FX
Highlander: The Raven


There are some WB Shows that never got made or got shortchanged too...

Birds of Prey, got really bad ratings for the first episode. The producers of the show quickly fixed things and things were actually looking up, it was doing better, and then after the 8th episode WB canned it, allowing the 9-11th episodes to air, then aired a 2 hour series finaly.

After the first season of smallville, WB started producing a BRUCE WAYNE show for HIS teenage years. However, the success of Spiderman made the Movie branch of Warner determined to make a new movie, and for some reason didnt allow the TV show to happen. You can find info on these two shows at gothamclocktower.com (i think thats the site).

Another show that had a Pilot made but has never aired...

GLOBAL FREQUENCY (http://www.frequencysite.com/) was to be made for 2005 Spring for the WB but it kinda got shelved too. The TV Pilot leaked online, and this show absolutly ROCKED. I've watched it, and it really kicks arse!
It would be an incredible follow up to Smallville for the genre crowd. Or Charmed.

Veronica Mars. Hey wait, but Veronica Mars wasnt cancelled? Its even starting season 2 in a week!... True, but what many people dont realize is that originally it WAS cancelled. It was only through a HUGE grassroots campaign by fans of the show were able to save it for a second chance. Word is however, that if ratings dont INCREASE this season, that there wont be a 3rd. Yet again, why UPN SUCKS OGRE BALLS!

 

[DarrenGMiller]

I just remembered another one. It was on Fox right after X-Files on Friday nights. It had Dan Aykroyd as narrator (IIRC) and was called something like Psi Ops.

DM

 

[Bront]

7 Days has been mentioned a few times. It had about 2 Seasons on UPN, I loved that show. I love Time Travel....

Special Unit 2 was another Sci-Fi show on UPN, a comedy one, quite funny.

I liked both of those shows. I had completely fogotten about them. There was another future time traveler show that was on UPN that they canned that I like, wish I could remember the name, but the main character was named Darian and he had a Credit Card that had his holographic companion.

I was a big Witchblade fan after the first season, but I thought that ending it the way they did realy screwed things up and the fact that things didn't quite match up with the now alternate future just didn't seem right. They might have been able to save it, but I didn't have my hopes up.

Other shows I enjoyed that were canceled:
Prey (Though I seem to be the only one, I thought it was clever)
Dark Angel
Titus (Well done comedy)

I'm sure there's more.

 

[danzig138]

There was another future time traveler show that was on UPN that they canned that I like, wish I could remember the name, but the main character was named Darian and he had a Credit Card that had his holographic companion.

Time Trax. Decent show. Another one that I enjoyed, but it was cut down far too soon was Tracker. I thought Adrian Paul gave a good performance in that one.
I also have to agree with Birds of Prey./ That show should have been kept on if for no other reason than having more flashbacks with Dina Meyer in the Batgirl suit. And more Lori Loughlin-as-Black-Canary visits.

 

[Taelorn76]

I know it was not a great show but it had potential, Whichblade on TNT.

 

[Taelorn76]

Shows I miss:

Pirates of Dark Water
Critic
Dilbert

Pirates of Dark Water was great.

Gargoyles(sp) was another show that I thought got canceled to early.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Time Trax. Decent show. Another one that I enjoyed, but it was cut down far too soon was Tracker. I thought Adrian Paul gave a good performance in that one.
I also have to agree with Birds of Prey./ That show should have been kept on if for no other reason than having more flashbacks with Dina Meyer in the Batgirl suit. And more Lori Loughlin-as-Black-Canary visits.

Woops, I missed that one, Yes, Time Trax was good, and quite funny too. I remember walking around clicking my dads car alarm at tree's as a kid!

 

[wingsandsword]

I liked both of those shows. I had completely fogotten about them. There was another future time traveler show that was on UPN that they canned that I like, wish I could remember the name, but the main character was named Darian and he had a Credit Card that had his holographic companion.

Time Trax wasn't on UPN, it was an early 90's offering predating UPN by a few years. It was part of the "Prime Time Entertainment Network" syndication block that most notably was the distributor for Babylon 5.

Yeah, I recall the show well, it was kinda cool.

As for UPN killing off shows that aren't targeted directly at the "urban" audience, that's what I've heard for why Enterprise was axed. Three seasons of mediocre rubbish, then a good season and it got cancelled right then. UPN is trying to be a broadcast version of BET.

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Yanno, I bet if the entire cast of Enterprise was black save for the token white alien it woulda stayed on the air -_-