There's almost nothing worse (except maybe living in a world where Florida has national championships in the two major collegiate sports) that becoming addicted to a new TV show and having it canceled right in front of your eyes.
"Choosing" new shows to follow each year has long been a pasttime in the Clarke household. When I was a kid, we'd eagerly wait to get the TV Guide Fall Preview and then individually highlight the shows each of us wanted to watch. Since this was in the days before Tivo (Dark Ages! Healing with leeches!), we then negotiated who had "rights" to the big TV and who would be relegated to the bedroom or upstairs tube in the case of scheduling conflicts on the "big 3" networks. With Tivo and 1,623 channels and pretty much year round programming, it's much easier to "sample" new shows and discard them if they fail to live up to their potential. Plus, having so many quality shows scattered across the multiple networks makes the loss of one easier to live with than back in day.
That said, in the last few years there have been a number of shows that have been killed long before their time. For the purposes of this exercise, I'll consider shows debuting since 2000 that didn't make it past one year (Arrested Development was obviously exterminated way too soon, but at least we got 3 seasons out of it).
The Top 8 Aborted Shows
- Firefly
- Wonderfalls
- Karen Sisco
- The Tick
- Eyes
- The Inside
- Lucky
- Touching Evil
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