Top 10 Sci-Fi TV Shows Cancelled Too Soon
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The Expanse is quite literally the best science fiction show I have ever seen. On every front.
Space Above and Beyond was a real shame. It had real potential...
yes great show
I would add "Almost Human" staring Karl Urban, cancelled after only 1 season. The writing started our feeling a bit forced but the show really started to come together after a while.
Absolutely, it was only getting better and better. A Police Procedural set in the future was a novel idea and they stayed true to that premise but with the added twists that could come from being set in the future. The episode where a Smart House was hacked to think there was a fire and the house empty when there was a person inside, locking down everything and eliminating all the oxygen present was a brilliant way to “murder” someone in the future. Karl Urban was fantastic and the continuing story line involving his Android police partner was getting even more mysterious. Alas as with all ScFi series it was expensive to make and when Fox had to decide which series with low ratings would be renewed it wasn’t the expensive one.
As I came of age in the 80s the level of frustration Firefly engendered in their fans I still feel for the cancellation of MAX HEADROOM.
I agree, and was disappointed it did not appear on this list
I'd have included Dark Matter in the list (no, not that one! The one from 2015-17) I loved that show but they had to cram things into the third season as they knew it wasn't getting renewed. Firefly will always be the most egregious cancellation ever though.
YEESSS!! Finally someone recognized that series. Dark Matter was great.
And this goddamn cliffhanger in the last season of the Dark Matter!
The last episode left off on a cliffhanger that was going to begin to answer all the questions the first three seasons had been building towards. Ouch!
I loved Dark Matter thought it was great
For anyone who is curious, the show runners did finish the plot that would have been in season 4 in a comic book.
One series that would definitely make my top 10 would be "Earth 2". Cancelled after only one season it left me wanting for more. This was back when a season would still consist of 20 episodes or more.
Loved that series and Clancy Brown is in it too.
@@Stefan_trekkieTim Curry was also in a few episodes
This. I was actually just scrolling through the posts to see if somebody had already mentioned it, or if I had to look up the name of the show 😅
Yes, Earth 2 was awesome, especially that leading chick ... I forget her name ...
@@PoeLemicFYI - you are thinking of Debrah Farentino as Devon Adair.
Flashforward dropped after 1 season still hurts me to this day.
I read the book and the mistake they made was making it into a series instead of a movie.
Yeah, the series was going nowhere.
@@rodneymckay8860 i've read the book as well, but i tend to seperate the media (I know, i'm in miniority). Faithfull adaptations are waste of time for me, because I've already seen a movie of that kind - in my brain while I was reading a novel. Thus I really appreciate different approach. And tv series had that and the mysteries I just needed to hear answers two, alongside this BIG cliffhanger at the end.
In the simplest ideas laid strenght of this series - imagine entire world, 8 billion people lose concious at once, and after a fact you find out on CCTV footage there was this one guy who was awake. That's scary! That's intresting! That's captivating! I was hooked. And the characters were real human beings.
@@rodneymckay8860 As for a movie instead of series argument.... I don't know, i feel like there are reasons for it being serialized. Lots of mysteries, characters and potentials for future events. Narrative should shine in a longer form.
@@jakubskonieczny5750I agree. At that time, networks pushed for a 19 plus ep season and I felt that would’ve drained the well dry and strung audiences along like Lost. A 10 ep season on cable could have worked better.
I find it funny that the sarah connor chronicles is probably the best thing to come out of the franchise after the first 2 movies. Yet it got the axe while we got an endless delug of sequels to the movie
Altered Carbon was a good one.
I agree!
What, they cancelled it? If so, huge bummer, it would easily be no.2 for me on this list.
It was pretty obvious that it wouldn't survive season 2. Changing the entire cast isn't really a good idea for a TV show.
Second season was poop. First season rocked.
@jackochainsaw Same as the source material. Second book was disappointing, the third was... beyond weird.
The “invasion” pilot aired two weeks after Katrina hit the coast. Major impact on the ratings.
The Peripheral on amazon prime had an enjoyable single season. I’m still annoyed we didn’t get more.
Great show and book.
I really enjoyed the Peripheral and was shocked to hear it wasn’t coming back, but then again it is Amazon Prime, they have a complete built in fan base with the acquisition of MGM and the StarGate Franchise, a writer with scripts to solve cliffhangers from SG1 , Atlantis and SGU they are sitting on a goldmine with a built in fan base , and merchandise marketing and they want to reboot the damn thing or go in a different direction. Funny how they don’t renew the peripheral but are throwing money away at a divided fan base in Rings of Power
Yes, I was so ticked off when Peripheral was canceled.
Yes! I made a video about underrated sci-fi TV shows and had to list several ones that were cancelled too soon including The Peripheral. It was so promising!!
The cancellation of this show made me very angry. One day this way of canceling unfinished series will backfire … why should i start a new one anyway if the risk of getting frustrated is high.
The show "HUMANS" starring Gemma Chan, about sentient androids in a near future, ended before its big reveal of the "synth who sleeps".
"ALPHAS" on SciFi was a discount X-Men that ended on a cliffhanger. "Alien Nation", "Dark Matter", and "Terra Nova" all deserved longer runs.
At least Alien Nation got tons of movies.
The expanse was tough because the next books are set like 30 years in the future
This is true but I so love The Expanse universe and how the politics and technology is so believable during the build-up to discovering the protomolecule that I'd happily take 5 or 10 years of prequels and spin-off series set in the same universe until the Series 6 principle actors got a bit older so that, maybe with the help of some special effects, they could be convincingly on-screen aged 30 years from their Series 6 ages. And by that time people might not have Cas Anvar so embedded in their minds as the face of Alex so if they wanted to the producers might be able to get away with recasting Alex to get closer to the books and just ignore the slight (edit: not so slight!) non-sequitur with the end of Series 5/Series 6 although admittedly that would probably divide opinion quite dramatically.
The last season had enough material for at least 10 solid full pack episodes, not just six rush episodes!
@@JGARCIA2012FULL I agree, and re the last season it also looks to me as if, as well as trying to pack in the whole of the book 6 plot into a half-length season, the producers and writers were also trying to prepare for the possibility of the show being renewed to do the rest of the books ...
*SPOILER ALERT*
... because otherwise why put the Strange Dogs stuff into season 6? Looking just at the book 1-6 story arc that just wastes valuable screen time with a dead-end side-plot on an already too-short season 6, screen time that could have been used to flesh out the key plot lines of book 6 more fully, but maybe getting that Strange Dogs stuff in early would have made sense since it becomes super-important when viewed in the wider context of books 7-9.
Season 1-3 sheer spiky protomolecule brilliance. Season 4-6 taste the Amazon corporate smother. Although adequate, it somehow lacked that certain something, which became obvious as we watched the final 6 episodes. Money. Oh and the other thing that got my goat. They remastered the sound track, where did all that music come from? In space no-one can hear you scream you plonkers
For All Mankind did it.
Here are some of my favorites, with an elevator sinopsys attached for those that aren't familiar with them.
Dark Matter (amnesic criminals saving the galaxy)
Odissey 5 (astronauts going back in time to save Earth from AIs)
The 4400 (people plucked from the past to change the future)
Caprica (a cyberpunk series set in the Galactica universe)
Crusade (a cross between Space Battleship Yamato and Star Trek, set in the Babylon 5 universe)
I like both the old and the new 4400 but I knew the new one wouldn't last
Odyssey 5 was really good. That cancellation was a bummer.
I would have had Crusade on that list. It's only show I can think of where the showrunner pulled the plug because the network kept interfering!
@@Skoora Odyssey 5 was the show from early 2000s, starring Peter Weller?
@@me0on0utube There was any 'older' 4400 TV show? So the one from the late 2000s was a remake or a reboot?
Mindhunter was a shame to cancel, but raised by wolves was a sin to stop.
Loved me some Stargate Universe! I just really liked the darker tone the show set.
Pushing Daisies needed more seasons.
Great article! I think BSG: Caprica deserved mention as well, however.
Losing Caprica was painful! There were so many elements to explore.
Stargate Universe 2009 Colony 2016 and Krypton 2018. I miss those shows.
Colony was great! I ALWAYS WANTED TO join the Red Hats! Got three season though. Enemy coming: survival zero. Allies.
I loved Firefly.
The Expanse was awesome, and the got a lot of the science right too, apart from hearing sound in space.
Oye Beltalowda!
They're sticking to the book. It's not cancelled, the next episode is due in a couple of decades time !
@@richardfox4803 The books were not written by J. R. R. Martin, just his editors.
@@damouze That seems to be a bit of a non sequitur, what am I missing ?
The Expanse was great until Marco Inaros. That just went on too long. I haven't yet read the books so who knows, maybe they did do it faithfully but I probably would have skipped over most of those chapters because Inaros was annoying and killed any sympathies I had for the Belters. Plus spending all that time "writing out" Cas Anvar's character from the show (giving him nothing more than a freeze-frame as a farewell) killed a lot of time.
@@kevinfisher5492 The show follows the storylines in the books pretty well, up until the cancellation of Cas Anvar, whose character Alax Kamal is pretty much alive in the books at the point where the sixth season ended.
Note: I am using the word 'cancellation' here, not because the allegations were false, but because Cas Anvar was pretty much given the boot solely on the basis of those allegations (at least according to what was said to the media at the time). IMHO opinion allegations alone are not valid grounds to fire someone. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.
Great list! 😀 Another that came to mind: Continuum. It was slated to have 7 to 10 seasons, but it got wrapped up short after only 4 seasons.
That was a good show with an unexpected Twilight Zone ending
Yet another one of my favorite shows cancelled too soon
V is the reason I won't watch any new sci-fi show on ABC, NBC, CBS. I gave up on FOX after Terra Nova. Hearing the same reason "low ratings/high production costs" gets old. Then a show like "La Brea" got to close out it's story with 3 seasons.
I'm surprised Almost Human didn't make your list.
cries in "stargate universe"
Stargate universe jumped the shark with the communication stones. That destroyed the very premis of the show.
The viewers of stargate Universe was only 600,000 in second Season. A far cry from Stargate SG1 with millions. I bought the 1st season Blu-rays.
So happy Farscape got the Peacekeeper Wars. Gave the excellent show a good ending.
Raised by wolves for me was the greatest science fiction show in years/decades. Hopefully the creator will publish comics or books to continue the story.
I have only seen clips on RUclips, but the android mother is frighteningly omnipotent
Raised by wolves was the most intriguing show I have seen. While Farscape will always be my favorite show ever, Raised by wolves is a close second. Farscape got closer, Raised by wolves never did.
As soon as I saw the subject I assumed Firefly would be number 1 on the list. I did not find the show until after it had already been cancelled due to when it was on, and the almost complete lack of promotion. I absolutely fell in love with the show when I did find it.
Raised by Wolves was - IS - destined to be a cult classic to be discussed for generations, I believe. It is such a visionary and intriguing work. Of course, the totally blind and short-sighted HBO executives aren't interested in this. I still hope their better and more far-sighted competitors like Apple TV would take it up and finish the series.
Raised by wolves is just a strange show. Glad we got two seasons…
2000s were full of short lived series... Treschold, Terra Nova, Flash forward... All R.I.P.
Jericho (2006) or Straczynski's Jeremiah (2002)......
@@subraxas Jericho was pretty good, happy that they made second season
@@subraxas Jeremiah was awesome. It is not often that a comic book series gets a remake on TV that well.
Terra Nova, of course.
@@mleko23
The cancellation of SG: Universe hit me very hard. hoped so much a petition would work. one of the worst unsolved cliffhanger endings in television history. another show from the 2000s i really liked was "Treshold", about an alien invasion by corrupting humans to spread their signal across the globe. I think it was the first bigger role for Peter Dinklage. cancelled after one season -.-
For the expanse, I don't think their budget could have done justice to the laconian empire arc
_Dark Matter_ by Joseph Mallozzi & Paul Mullie (the guys who made _Stargate_ a thing). It was a fun watch, but it was cancelled after season three when there were still planned story for two more seasons.
Coz it was shit
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It was fantastic!!!
Invasion was a reimaging of Invasion of the Body Snatchers... my wife and I still say, "Mommy, you smell funny."
Add B-5 Crusade, VR, Burning Zone, Almost Human, Stiches, Space Rangers, and Birds of Prey to the list.
Almost human had a lot of potential that was only just beginning to be hinted at when it got cancelled.
Loved Birds of Prey when it was on the CW !! Gone too soon
I'm glad that someone also remembers Space Rangers. :)
Yeah… B5 Crusade was good! Good characters… again! And some humour to soft up the scifi elements. Good stuff!
Did anyone watch The Lost Room? A cop tries to find his lost daughter in a world full of mysterious objects with incredibly special powers. I thought it was super intriguing and so much mysterious world-building in 9 short hours. I wish it had been picked up long enough to give us some more answers. What about Century City? A lawyer show set in the near future with cases dealing with futuristic technological concepts, imagining what the legal and social implications might be. It starred Ioan Gruffudd and Viola Davis. I'm surprised that no one else has tried the "lawyers in the future" concept more often.
As I recall it was a mini-series and not really written to become a full series. It was excellent though.
The Lost Room was great. But it was a mini-series.
Nah....."The Peripheral" is the only one I miss.
From all the list, the OA was the dearest to me. It was the most inteligent screenplay, and great characters.
I loved the OA.
We may have to wait for 10 years, but there will come a day when we can feed the 2 seasons into an AI (ChatGPT 8?) and say, "Create 3 more seasons, with video" and it will do it.
@@stevechance150 AFAIK, the story was conceived for 5 seasons, so the material is available. It's just that Netflix chose not to continue.
Oh man, I love the OA.
I think Star Trek (The Original Series) deserves a mention on this list.
why? Star Trek is forgettable, largely consider dumbed down sci-fi, often derided and has no realism or world building at all
Although set in current times, I would argue that Utopia (the British version) counts as sci-fi and thus deserves a place on this list.
Yep that American remake was effin pointless
How could Star Gate Universe not be on this list???? I also really liked Sense 8
Maybe Darrel has not watched it. It could be as simple as that.
For me, the OA was a consistently fascinating show that ultimately didn't pay off at all. Of all the shows on this list, it's the one that let me down the hardest.
Two other honorable mentions might be USA Network's Falling Water (2016 - 2018) and Netflix's Sense8 (2 Seasons, 2015 - 2018).
Sense 8 definitely should have had more seasons.
came here to mention the OA.. that was probably my favorite show at the time and I was really bummed it got killed after 2 seasons.
Good run down, as always I enjoy your content. A couple I'd add to the list would be "Colony" and "Counterpart" - both needed a final wrap up season IMHO.
Honorable Mention: Dark Matter
Does anyone else remember Nowhere Man from the early-mid 90’s? It was about a man who whose identity was erased by mysterious someones. Good show, at least in my memory. 1 season.
Love this list. I always hate cancellations for scifi. It got so bad I didn't want to watch anything syfy channel put out because they always canceled season 3 or 4. Terminator really killed me it was starting to get really rolling, and Shirley Manson was the villain and was really good. Lastly, Star Trek Enterprise should have been left alone 😔
Flashforward got the ax a couple of episodes prior to the end of the season. The cliffhanger opened some intriguing possibilities. The TV show departed from the novel; so, no help there. We never found out who the bad guys were, nor their agenda. Dominic Monaghan did wonderful job as top tier genius digging through the evidence of the vast conspiracy.
Maybe a potential list may be, "Shows destroyed by incompetent writers". "Space:1999" is a candidate, as would be "The Burning Zone".
Space 1999 did not have bad writers, just silly story lines, and producers who were afraid of bad ratings but did the opposite things of what should have happened. Imho Fred Freiberger destroyed the second season.
Let's include _The X-Files_ in that. The last few seasons, Mulder and Scully weren't protagonists--they were just _spectators._
@@josepherhardt164 But this video/list is about shows that got cancelled too soon, as in prematurely. The X-Files had its proper run; the OG series ran for like 9 long seasons, if I remember it correctly. That's more than enough.
@@daxbashir6232 I was commenting on DavidGreen's list of shows destroyed by incompetent writing. A bit of a side issue to the main topic (as you said).
Add dark skies to the list
One season only
Again another that needed on a cliffhanger
That was a great show. Jeri Ryan was in it.
The same lead actor Eric Close was also in Now and Again with Dennis Haysbert as an improved housing for the brain of an insurance man in his fifties played by John Goodman. Witty, intelligent and funny, this could have been a great series to expand on.
If Dark Skies had not been cancelled, we would not have gotten Jeri Ryan playing Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager.
Lockwood and Co was one of the best shows I've ever watched. It was marketed badly and never got the publicity it deserved.
I loved it. I was super disappointing they didn't go for a second season.
Never heard of it. What was it about? What kind of science-fiction was it? Space-based?
The Dresden Files (SyFy)
Now and Again (CBS)
Travelers (Netflix)
awesome shows that were cancelled too soon.
Dresden Files. What a great show with so much material from the books to cover.
OMGoodness I'd forgotten about 'Travelers'. It was such a good show
@@me0on0utube Was so close to a "happy" ending and then BOOOOOM!! Brutal last season almost cruel!!
I'm watching Travelers now for the first time. Am on the first season. There are three seasons on Netflix, so I tentatively presumed that it got concluded (3 seasons are often enough these days). So you say that the show was still slated to continue beyond that?
Sarah Connor Chronicles was a great show...
Firefly, of course. Space Above and Beyond. Dark Matter (2015-2017) DARK ANGEL!!
Automan ('80s cheesefest.... Mix Knight Rider and TRON)
If you’re gonna mention Automan then you HAVE to mention Manimal, too! Cheesy, yeah, but I loved them both.
@@jasonmoquin Manimal was not sci-fi. It was more like a modern-day fantasy of sorts.
Space Above and Beyond was epic! Great character development. Raised by Wolves was really different. I was disappointed when Debris was cancelled.
What was "Debris"?
I think another mention should have been Almost Human with Karl Urban and Michael Ealy. It setup for an amazing season 2 which we never got.
Dollhouse, aka an updated live reimagining of Joe 90...
Was it?
"Dark Matter" and "Stargate Universe" come to mind for me.
Firefly started with two strikes against it because of a show that should have been on your list, Dark Angel. Fox cancelled Dark Angel and brought in Firefly pissing off the fan base that would have loved Firefly.
Stargate Universe was a fresh way to see the known Stargate - haha! - Universe.
Another brilliant series cut down too soon. Robert Carlyle was excellent in it. And left on a cliff hanger.
Space Above and Beyond had low ratings because Fox had just been awarded NFL football coverage and the show was always being preempted by late running football games on Sunday evening.
Farscape did four seasons. Not a bad run. Plus a mini series to wind up the show. I think that's a good run... It may have been cancelled but after 4 seasons maybe it was time. The Peacekeeper Wars was a great conclusion to it.
Two that come to mind for me were Threshold and John Doe; both of which had great potential and only lasted a season. Indeed, Threshold was pulled before all it's episodes aired.
The whole "bad ratings" line is something that needs to be sorted out by the networks and creators. There are so many of both, all vying for eyeballs in a world that streams on demand rather than watching each week for the next episode in the series. People don't watch shows in a way that leaves "ratings" making any sense any more.
These are all great picks, I would looooooove Space: Above and Beyond reboot! Holy crap that show was so good and the first and only season ended on a huge cliffhanger. :( I would also love another season of Nightflyers - it wasn't a perfect show but it got better and better as it went on.
it was but we would get something similar with the BSG reboot.
My vote would go to the Tripods. A sci fi series from the 80's.
Only two books of three were filmed, so we never got a closure.
It was about huge metallic tripods that kept humanity in check by implanting so call "caps" in their brains when reaching the age of 15.
This inhibited their curiosity and aggressiveness. Humanity were living like in the 18:th century despite living a hundred years in the future, where only some relics from the old times could be found.
The mystery of the tripods made them extra scary. You didn't know if was some AI doing this to try to help humanity or if it was some aliens occupying earth.
The Tripods were not really hostile either at the beginning, they did their job and you were supposed to play along.
The story was about some children escaping just before getting capped at 15.
The horror of seeing one of these Tripods showing up at the horizon at night with its eerie green glow was terrifying for me as a child watching it.
Such a good series. I read the books and watched the show, loved them both.
Great books and partial series
dito, loved the books as a kid.
SAAB is a masterpiece and will always be in my top 10. Along with Firefly and The Expanse. Gotta confess I haven't seen Invasion but now I have to and will be put on my list of things to watch.
Saab, the Swedish car manufacturer? :D
Threshold is the big one for me. Terra Nova as well.
I was so pissed off when they wound up Stargate Atlantis in favour of Universe and then cancelled that as well🤷♂️
Oddly enough, I never heard of most of these. It's kind of hard to get good ratings when people who ought to be the target audience don't even know about the show.
I’m glad you had Space: Above and Beyond on your list. It was one of my favorite shows and I was disappointed when it was cancelled.
Great list. I think V was plagued with abysmal writing but the ideas were great, and it had a chance to grow beyond the original. Raised by wolves isn’t even available to stream in the US anymore. Taken off the platform. 😢
You forgot Space 1999 and Star Trek Enterprise .
As a big Terminator fan, I feel quite strongly that Terminator 2 concluded the entire story very nicely.
In the first movie Skynet sends the Terminator back in time to kill the mother of John Connor and thus prevent the birth of John Connor.
Not only did the Terminator fail to prevent the birth of John Connor it actually *CAUSED* the birth of John Connor. John sends his father back in time to protect his mother. Without a Terminator, there is no reason for Kyle Reece to go back in time to father John with Sara.
Interesting point, Kyle states that the picture he had of Sara, the picture that caused him to fall in love with her, was taken as she was thinking of Kyle Reece. He said he always wondered what she was thinking about...
However, as the remains of the Terminator now existed in the past, they were used to create Skynet in the first place. But when the second Terminator was sent back to go after John himself, Sara, John, and another Terminator work together to destroy all the research and technology that led to the creation of Skynet.
This breaks the time loop, so Skynet is never created.
All the Terminator stuff crated after T2 is just made to make more money from the franchise. Pure male bovine fecal matter.
While I agree with most of this list I would also ask you to give honorable mention to the Steven Spielberg series that was canceled too soon Terra Nova , I thought it was some of the best sci fi along with Falling skies that wasn’t on Sci Fi Channel , oh wait that’s when they became SYFY lol. Also how about the short lived and unresolved Star Gate Universe
I think 'Alphas', 'No Ordinary Family' and Dirk Gently: Holistic Detective Agency' were cancelled too soon.
Space: above and beyond looks 20 years ahead of its time
I love the show, but let's be realistic; no, it does not!
Anyone remember _The Invaders_ from the 1960's with Roy Thinnes?
Or what about the semi-post-apocalyptic _Jericho_ that ran for a season and a half (the very-rushed half season that was pretty much forced by reader activity and which _sort of_ gave closure to a few threads)? The main problem with _Jericho_ was dismal scheduling on Tuesday evenings where it would often be pre-empted and (if you were lucky) shown later that evening at 12:30 a.m.
I’m really glad that you put Raised By Wolves in there because that cancellation really ticked me off
A couple of forgotten gems:
DEFIANCE - cancelled after s3, the main arc was at least mostly resolved but there was a large cast with a lot more potential being set up.
CHARLIE JADE - a lesser known South African show about parallel worlds, had an interesting noir-ish style but took a while to find its direction. Cancelled after s1, main arc resolved but closed with a cliffhanger.
In my personal opinion, "V" was terrible, but what do I know. One show I still miss to this day is Travelers. The premise was simply brilliant. I believe it could have went on for many more years.
There are quite a few others that I would have mentioned, but here are 3 more shows that could have been included. Dark Skies, could have been one of the great Alien invasion shows, Dark Angel had enormous potential as a post apocalyptic show & Crusade. or any B5 spinoff, need I say more.
I remember 2 series that were interesting called 'Prey' (1998) with Debra Messing and 'The Event' (2010) starring Jason Ritter. Only one season each unfortunately! Great list, man! Cheers
Threshold, Prey, and Dark Angel should all have got more time.
Prey?
Never heard of it.
Always hoped Sliders' would make a comeback.
Great list, thanks.
Loved Sliders, fantastic show, but that final season was an awful one sadly
I was hoping Flash Forward would get a mention, just because it's the only series I got invested in that ended on a cliff hanger that was never resolved due to cancellation.
3:00 "Don't get on that ship. The book, "To Serve Man... It's a cookbook!"
Ill add "Dark matter " and also "killjoys " both cancelled way to soon
Absolutely enjoyed this video. I would also add FINAL SPACE. Cheers.
i loves Final Space and agree, it needs another season or 2
BSG: Caprica I remember liking a lot,
Does 'Dark Skies' count? Or even 'Les Revenants'??
This video brings tears to my eyes. So many of my favorite shows were cancelled early.
1899
Scavengers Reign.
We need to save it!!! There are petitions to sign, maybe we have time to fix this huge mistake!
Controversially, I would put _Babylon 5_ on the list.
It _was_ canceled, so they had to cram all of season 5 into the last few episodes of season 4. Then right at the last minute renewed so they had to miracle up a season finale and create a new season 5 after the story had ended.
True! It did destroy the spacing!
I would put Apples recent show that was cancelled- Constellation, that was great, I’m disappointed season 2 isn’t happening
Cowboy Bebop. The first season was a brilliant adaptation of the anime. Such a stellar casting. I would have absolutely loved it if the show would have expanded from there. Such an eternal missed opportunety.
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Expanse was huge successful! 6 seasons… but book 7, 8 and 9 take place 25 years after end of book (and tv series) book 6.
So, if in 10 years they bring back expanse, it would follow older characters and some epic battles to come. The very very end of book 9 was very cleaver … makes you smile and say “yep… that makes sense”! Read the books or buy the audio versions.
On my list would be Paul Feig's space-based sci-fi sitcom 'Other Space' from 2015, which could possibly sport an alternate title 'Zoomers in Space'. 😀 Its second season was already in the works when the show's original home, the streaming platform 'Yahoo! Screen', unfortunately went bankrupt in the early 2016. 😞
Thanks! 🙏
9 out of 10 were my favs."I'm not bitter".
I would add Earth 2 from 1994.
Space Above & Beyond as a good show for its time whilst Raised by Wolves was a really good show so I was gutted when they cancelled it
I'd like to add Counterpart to the list, and yes, Firefly still hurts.
Counterpart?
Never heard of it.