TV series that lasted One Season or less that had potential...

It was a retelling of Noah's Ark?

I put this in the sitcoms thread even though it really wasn't a sitcom just a comedy. GCB! good Christian Bitches

"Time Of Your Life", the Party Of Five spin-off/ Jennifer Love Hewitt vehicle that was a lot of fun, but was canceled 7 episodes before the season finale. We never even got to see the rest of the season (which was filmed).

It aired overseas though I heard.

My So-Called Life

I remember Second Noah. It aired from 1996-1997. It was a good show about a man and his wife that adopted 8 kids and adopt animals. Its not literally about Noahs Ark r1 lol.

The show ended up focusing more on the teens and kids than the parents as the show went on, which is how it should have been from the start.

It was the first time I saw Marsden.

Ringer

The Secret Circle

Miss Match

What About Brian

Pitch

Firefly

Swingtown in 2008 was fun, looking back lovingly and mockingly at the 70s swing culture, Miriam Shor played the sweet naive wife discovering a whole new world of adult fun.

PUSH, a 1997 ABC drama focused on young athletes trying to make it into Professional sports etc.

It starred Jason Behr, Jaime Pressly and Scott Gurney

Grosse Pointe.

That show with the guy from the office playing an alcoholic detective in Portland.

I remember liking Grosse Pointe.

I LOVED GCB's ! I was furious when they canceled it. I think the network caved to pressure,IIRC.

"Opposite Sex", a 2000 FOX Teen Dramedy starring a very young Milo Ventimiglia and Chris Evans

r9 I own the Grosse Pointe DVD. Its very funny. I loved that show. It was written by a bunch of people that were fired from 90210 or left on their own, and they are basically doing a parody of that set.

The Book of Daniel starring Aidan Quinn, Garret Dillahunt and Ellen Burstyn. It was Six Feet Under - lite. Controversial because the priest played by Quinn was a pill popper who had visions of an extremely chill Jesus (Dillahunt). I think that sped up its cancellation.

Relativity

Freaks and Geeks

HBO's Here and Now

HBO's Tell Me You Love Me

The Crossing

Invasion

Technically, Second Noah, had two seasons. The first season was a mid-season replacement. Then the second season started the next fall and was pulled from the schedule in mid-October.

Yeah, this still made me laugh....

The Dresden files. it needed a MAJOR reboot/tweaks but other shows have done that in season 2. i love the books and was heartbroken at the direction the show took- likely due to low budget. the lead was hot hot hot

"Get Real" starring Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg and Eric Christian Olsen. It ran from 1999-2000

Anne was actually quite pretty there R20. I was surprised. Speaking og HBO,Rome was a fantastic show that ended way too soon.

Strange how Grosse Pointe's "Brenda" left Hollywood after one more series. MeToo?

Limitless starring DL fave Jake McDorman.

The Grinder. I found it hysterical! Rob Lowe was really good on this.

I loved Grosse Pointe. From the same time (1999-ish), I liked Young Americans and Wasteland, which had an adorable gay storyline and Brad Rowe at the peak of his hotness

r21 she was like 17 there. Young, fresh and pretty. I loved that series! Me and my friend Ania would rush to speak about the episode the next day at school after it aired. Lol.

I was able to watch the whole season of 'Time of your life', R3. Errr... you didn't miss much.

Grosse Pointe was very dishy about the 90210 shenaningans. I loved Molloy too, and was expecting her to have a better career. She all but disappeared. Al Santos and Kohl Sudduth didn't do much after GP ended either. I think the only ones who still get work are Bonnie Sommerville and Lindsay Sloane.

PAN AM

Outsourced

Molloy has a 14 year old child, which explains why she was gone by the mid '90s. She still looks good. He husband is an orchestrator. She's apparently moved into directing.

*gone by the mid '00s.

I loved Swingtown.

Grand Hotel was a great show this past summer with super hot Bryan Craig. ABC just cancelled the show. I am now boycotting ABC.

The Swan

The Playboy Club only lasted a few episodes, which sucks, because it was good.

Maybe my 25 year crush on Eddie Cibrian is why I love it lol

PS I forgot Jennifer Garner was in "Time of Your Life" at r3

The McCarthys with Laurie Metcalf, Joey McIntire and Tyler Ritter (son of John) as the lead character who comes out to his family in the first episode.

kind of a cheat to the question but, man, I LOVED rockstar inxs and rockstar supernova. they should have kept THAT series and canceled any of the other 500 singing shows.

Kidnapped starring Jeremy Sisto.

Malibu Shores (1996). A teen drama starring Keri Russel, Charisma Carpenter, Randy Spelling and Tony Lucca.

I used to love this show.

Awake starring Jason Isaacs and Dylan Minnette.

Breaker High (1997) starring Ryan Gosling

The Break with Michelle Wolf.

I am beginning to feel triggered by the lack of people of color on these shows....

The WB Superstar USA. An American Idol spoof which was actually looking for the worst singer. A total hoot.

r23

He looks a little like Nico's ex.

"Fay"

Are you hot hosted by Lorenzo Lamas who should be a DL icon

"Camp Wilder" starring Jay Mohr, Hillary Swank, Jerry O'Connell and Jared Leto pre-My So Called Life

Dog and Cat in 1977

Bakersfield P.D. (1993-1994)

Jack & Bobby was so cute. It had one perfect season, and that’s it.

Remember Bay City Blues, with Michael Nouri, Dennis Franz, and Sharon Stone?

Do Over starring a teenage Penn Badgley.

Upthread definitely Swingtown and Pan Am

“Modern Men” (2006) starring Max Greenfield and Jane Seymour

Persons Unknown - a group of strangers wake up in a ghost town and are unable to leave.

I really liked The Kids Are Alright on ABC last year but I think the large cast and period setting helped speed along cancellation.

Braindead.

R58: One of the problems I had with the Kids Are Alright is I guess they couldn't get any music rights so there was no music. It took place in 1972 but you would never know it.

Eerie Indiana

Taina

Life As We Know It

Models Inc

American Gothic

Adding my vote to Braindead, as well as to Swingtown, Pan Am, and Outsourced.

R9 YES. I have on DVD and it is BRILLIANT.

Did Savannah last one season or two?

The Judy Garland Show

R32 I also enjoyed Swingtown...but I understood why it was cancelled. The premise is kind of limited. Once the "good" couple starts to swing, then what? We just follow the complicated love lives of two families where the parents have multiple sex partners? What makes that different or interesting compared to all the other TV shows where characters cheat? I think it was a bit too much of a gimmick to survive for too long. But a second season would have been nice.

Controversial, I know, but I would have liked to have seen a second season of the field superhero WB series Birds of Prey. At least they had Dina Meyer as a proper red-headed Barbara Gordon/Oracle and they would occasionally put her in the Batgirl costume which looked awesome. Mia Sara was really interesting and fun as Harley Quinn, even though the writing tried to make her into more of a mob boss than a playful psychopath. More of those two would have been good. Ashley Scott ice Huntress was annoying as hell. So of course she's the one who's coming back for the Crisis on Infinite Earths storyline on Arrow later this year.

Failed WB superhero series, I meant

Crimson Field.

Jay Mohr's show ACTION, where he played a conniving, amoral Hollywood producer (I know, redundant). It was the greatest send up of Hollywood I've ever seen, written with a poison pen by people who knew the industry inside and out. It was simply a great show. If it had been on HBO or SHOWTIME it would have lasted years and done for comedy what the Sopranos did for drama. Unfortunately, it was on FOX and only got one season. It was a fantastic season, though.

R65 I thought just one??

R67 they might ask the other actresses back too. I mean, one of them is playing Alice in the Batwoman series.

I was reading through to post Action. I almost got to be the original person to say it but it is not so. Almost.

Only 6 episodes but they are gems.

The spoof of the Bush White House "That's My Bush" had potential. Watching it now, it's amazing to see how much tv has changed since the 80s and 90s.

The Bitch in Apartment 23. Got one half season, and almost a full second. I recently rewatched - it is so fucking funny and show a very rare female sociopath who never pays for her actions.

"HOT L BALTIMORE" (1975)

Get Christie Love! (1974-1975)

"You're under arrest, Sugah!"

;

Point Pleasant.

We were deprived of more shirtless and nude scenes of hunky DILF Richard Burgi!!

Utter travesty I say!!!

The Unusual Miss Mulberry.

Maybe It's Me

Andrew W. Walker played the dumb jock older brother

I forgot all about Savannah. I always found it boring

Crashing , created by and starring Phoebe Waller Bridge. It had maybe my favorite gay character of all time played by Jonathan Bailey.

I liked WHOOPI from 2003. Don't know how it holds up now but I remember liking it then.

Moonlight, a vampire detective show starring Alex O Loughlin, had potential... to continue being a guilty pleasure!

Law and Order: Trial by Jury

A Year in the Life St Elsewhere Fox’s Exorcist

Chicago Justice starring the beautiful Phillip Winchester

THE CAPE

James was such a gorgeous young man.

THRESHOLD (2005) had a solid premise (the alien invasion has already begun!) and strong performances from Carla Gugino, Peter Dinklage and Brent Spiner. Unfortunately the rest of the cast was just okay and the show was too loose and episodic. It could have been very good with tighter plotting and pacing. Still it had an enjoyable mood of mystery and urgency. It's the first thing I remember seeing Gugino in and she made a strong impression on me. I've liked her ever since. It was also a pleasant reminder that Spiner can be very good when he's not phoning in Data. Of course Dinklage is always good.

It didn't help that there were two(!) other invasion shows that came out around the same time.

James Marsden is still gorgeous

Marsden is actually much sexier and attractive now.

I’m mentioning this show solely based on the man candy. It’s Champions created by Mindy Kaling, where she drops her gay kid off in NYC with his father who didn’t know about him. He and his brother are jocks who run a gym and are out of their league dealing with new fatherhood.

The brother is Andy Farvreau, who is fucking hot and adorable in equal measures, and seems to lose his shirt or clothes as an actor more often than not. He has played gay many times including on Animal Kingdom. Anders Holm is sexy, in an asshole bro way, that always makes me want to hate fuck him.

Bette!

The Kids Are Alright. THIS was my family in the 1970s and 1980s. ABC killed it for some piece of shit show that they'll cancel before November.

St. Elsewhere ran six seasons, r87. The Exorcist had two seasons. Please pay attention.

One Big Happy. Not a great show by any means but it introduced me to the hotness of Nick Zano. Produced by Ellen DeGeneres.

Nick Zano annoys me

Normal, Ohio starring John Goodman as dad who came out and moves back to his conservative family. It featured Ab Fab's Mo Gaffney as his ex wife and Joely Fisher as his sister.

Some of my Best Friends. (TV version of Kiss Me Guido) starring Jason Batemen, Danny Nucci and Alec Mapa.

Absolut Relativ. American Irish Family meets new daughter-in-law's two gay dads. Starring Harriet Sansom Harris, John Benjamin Hickey and Christopher Sieber.

The recent cancellation of the Pretty Little Liars spin-off.

The Dark Shadows reboot was amazing. It had everything going for it except good writing. Some of the dialogue was lifted directly from the first D S movie that was made in the 60’s with the original cast.

Amazon's The Collection. I thought it was wonderful.

Wonderfalls was amazing. Only lasted about 14 episodes, sadly.

Kohl Sudduth was in Take Me Out, r27.

Starz's Camelot starring Eva Green in the probably best character study of Lady Morgana of the King Arthur saga.

"Sara"

I loved Camelot! And also, Moonlight, mentioned above. I also really enjoyed Terminator: The Sarah Connor chronicles, which got two seasons and was cancelled. Also, Spike TV's Blade, with the handsome Neil Jackson as Marcus Van Sciver

The Nine, starring Tim Daly & Scott Wolf

the oblongs! they should actually bring it back, i downloaded it and it totally held up.

The sitcom Phenom about a teen tennis star. With Judith Light as her mother, and a superior opening song by Carly Simon.

Also known for: William Devane (playing the tennis coach) sulking when not being allocated joint billing with Light because he thought he was just as famous at the time because of Knots Landing, and therefore asking not to be credited at all. And for a minor role by the now retired Jennifer Lien, who is apparently completely batshit crazy and has been arrested multiple times for increasingly bizarre things.

The Black Donnellys.

Lone Star, with DL fave James Wolk. It only lasted two episodes.

I liked Surface and Invasion. They both came out in 2005 and didn’t last long

Terriers

Undeclared

Lonestar had the potential to be a great show. There were some talented people in that one,but they never got a chance .

Lindsay (on Oprah Network), Being Bobby Brown, The Sandra Bernhard Experience

Most James Wolk series don’t last

The Riches starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver as a family of con artists who stole the home and identities of a wealthy dead couple. Technically it had 2 seasons but the 2nd was cut short due to the 2007 writers strike and canceled shortly thereafter. FX claimed poor ratings but Driver claimed it was canceled in the wake of punitive measures taken against writers who were vocal in the writers strike.

I loved the show and I was pissed when it was gone. Today it would have been a great Netflix show along the lines of Ozark.

Gidget was Miss Field’s very first programme. ABC cancelled it at the end of the first season due to poor ratings. Then it became a top 10 hit during the summer but the network couldn’t put together a package to bring it back.

R65 Technically, Savannah had two seasons. One of the weird things about it, is that The WB put on a show called Savannah and set in the city, yet they didn't have an affiliate in the city. When the show aired the only way for people in Savannah to watch it was if their cable provider carried the Atlanta affiliate or WGN.

R101 The Dark Shadows reboot was a casualty of the Gulf War.

R67 I agree with you on Birds of Prey.

Good Girls Revolt on Amazon Prime

Go On- The NBC sitcom that starred Matthew Perry as a widower attending a support group led by Laura Benanti.

Terra Nova

I liked the WB's Birds of Prey too. Great opening theme song too.

The New Normal

Had no idea Gidget was a one-seasoner. Thanks for the trivia.

Anyone remember Whoopi Goldberg's talk show? It was a Dick Cavett-type show with just the host and a guest.

SECOND NOAH had not one, not two, but three of the hottest guys ever seen on TV: Daniel Hugh Kelly, James Marsden, and another guy whose name I didn't even remember so I had to look it up -- I guess it was Michael McLafferty.

Anybody remember a tv show from the early 90s called Arresting Behavior? It was Wednesdays, ABC. It was a takeoff on Cops and it was hilarious! It featured a very young and very hot Ron Eldard. I think it only lasted 5 episodes.

It was sort of the original Reno 911.

I can't even find anything on YouTube.

“Phil and Mickey”

“Fresno” parodied prime time soap operas like “Dynasty” and starred Carol Burnett, with co-stars including Teri Garr, Bill Paxton, and Gregory Harrison as a permanently shirtless drifter. 5 episode mini-series.

"Eyes" with Tim Daly, Laura Leighton and Eric Mabius. I think it lasted half a season.

R117 just reminded me of The Crazy Ones with Robin Williams and SMG.

Square Pegs

(1982-1983)

The comedy series follows Patty Greene (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Lauren Hutchinson (Amy Linker), two awkward teenage girls desperate to fit in at Weemawee High School.

“It Takes Two” starring the Golden Girls’ kitchen!

The Nine was so ridiculously complicated and convoluted it was almost a parody. A bunch of shows like that were conjured up in the wake of Lost. And most of them bad.

Enlisted (2014)

Nothing Sacred didn’t even air a full season—ABC canceled it because of pressure from Catholic groups that thought it was sacrilegious. Starred the handsome Kevin Anderson and Ann Dowd.

The Family was an intense family drama starring Joan Allen, Rupert Graves, Allison Pill, and Liam James. It also features Andrew McCarthy as pedophile neighbor accused of kidnapping a kid and molesting him.

First season ended with a cliffhanger that was never resolved.

Since my favorites -- Nothing Sacred and Book of Daniel -- were taken, I'll add The Paula Poundstone Show.

Pushing up Daisies.

Quirky, funny with a musical number thrown in every now and then.

It might have got half a second series, if memory serves?

Yes, two series for Daisies.

Some of these, now, would probably work well with the Netflix model of 10-13 episodes a season.

It lasted a couple seasons, but I can't understand why Fox dumped The Mick. It was one of the funniest shows I've seen in awhile, and seemed to have decent ratings.

WIOU about the inter workings of a llow rated Chicago tv station. John Shea, Helen Shaver, Mariette Hartley and Dick Van Patten as the loopy weatherman. It had potential.

And A Year in the Life with the beautiful David Oliver (RIP) having to play the husband of Sarah Jessica Parker. Richard Kiley, Diana Muldaur were also in it.

The Middleman got a whole season but I wanted more. It was a silly blend of comedy and sci-fi with an oddly arch tone. Didn't hurt that the two leads were eye candy.

I forgot My So-Called Life only run one season. It felt at least two.

[quote]“Fresno” parodied prime time soap operas like “Dynasty” and starred Carol Burnett, with co-stars including Teri Garr, Bill Paxton, and Gregory Harrison as a permanently shirtless drifter. 5 episode mini-series.

FRESNO was a great show but it doesn't fit this category because, as you noted, it was always planned as a very limited run miniseries.

[Quote] Also, Spike TV's Blade, with the handsome Neil Jackson as Marcus Van Sciver

I was hoping they'd do a Blade series on Netflix. Fingers crossed the movie turns out decent.

“Bull” -2000 show about the stock market. Had some pretty decent eye candy, including Christopher Wiehl.

Teachers. Actually it was pretty bad but it had cute Justin Bartha as the lead.

I don't know if it had potential, but I enjoyed Fired Up. Mostly because they did a Mission Impossible parody and Miss Sharon Lawrence absolutely knocked it out of the park as Miss Barbara Bain. Oh, and they let her do this.....

Another vote for A Year in the Life.

Former NBC head Brandon Tartikoff said in his memoir that canceling it was the biggest mistake of his career.

And then he died.

This scene gives you a sense of the quality of the writing and acting.

"The Family" with Joan Allen and Rupert Graves.

I saw Andrew Mccarthy in a lot of things but was really blown away by his acting in The Family. Wonder why his career stalled. Bad luck I guess.

Second Noah was a well written and very well acted show. I still think back to various episodes I've seen to this day. Not embarrassed to admit I've seen a lot of these shows during their original run.

R154 I also felt bad when The Family got cancelled. It was the first time I've seen Joan Allen in anything in years. Guess those actors couldn't catch a break.

Was the Justin Bartha TEACHERS a remake of the UK Andrew Lincoln TEACHERS?

A decent UPN show that only ran one season and ended on a cliffhanger. Starred the lovely to look at Bruce Greenwood as a man with his identity suddenly erased. A couple of episodes were directed by Tobe Hooper.

Starman owns this thread. Better than the movie. Robert Hayes deserved a bigger career.

My so-called life Relativity Freaks and Geeks Wonderfalls Dead Like Me (before Fuller quit because showtime didn't want George's dad to be gay and cheat on his wife with a male student) Jericho Get Real Marry Me Huge

I don't know why my post was funky. I typed from my phone, sorry.

My so-called life Relativity Freaks and Geeks Wonderfalls Dead like Me (before Bryan Fuller quit for being censored) Get Real (with Anne Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg in their teens). Huge ( about a fat camp for teens very heartwarming and written by My so-called life creator Winnie Holzman) Marry Me (happy endings clone)

Action! starring Jay Mohr is still the best satire on Hollywood I've ever watched.

Life on Mars, American version.

[quote] saw Andrew Mccarthy in a lot of things but was really blown away by his acting in The Family. Wonder why his career stalled. Bad luck I guess.

He was a smart one to instead of just relegate himself to scrapes, created a second and third career. He became a travelogue writer and a director. He directed multiple episodes of "Orange is the New Black" and "The Blacklist" starring James Spader.

Count me as someone who felt THE FAMILY deserved a second season. It was twisty and twisted.

R111 The Black Donnellys was really good and deserved another season.

Freaks & Geaks however owns this thread. NBC moved the date and time three times, they didn't give the audience an opportunity to grow.

It was a mess but i still love "Fat Actress". Showtime was so damn ghetto in its productions, though. Watch the episode where Kirstie's brother comes to her house and you'll see her microphone is fucked up the entire show -- and they just used it rather than reshoot (or catch it early). She sounds like she is screaming into a microphone and every breath is amplified.

All these great shows gone after a year and we still get another season of "Blackie and White Neighborhood" (groan), insufferable "God Friended Me" and, worst of all, another season of insufferable Cancer Salad, now kissing his fellow cancer love's bald head in the shower in that godawful ABC show.

“The Mist” was not great by any means but I thought it was entertaining, plus it had the sexy Morgan Spector as the lead.

The Dresden Files with the lovely Paul Blackthorne

“Selfie” with John Cho and Karen Gillian.

Hellcats - a guilty pleasure because of Matt Barr

Hart of Dixie - guilty pleasure because of Wilson Bethel

Didn’t Hart of Dixie have like 3 seasons?

Oops sorry- I must have given up after one season 😬!

“Class” - the Doctor Who spin-off. Had some pretty decent eye candy, plus a gay relationship for one of the male leads.

The days and nights of molly dodd and I second don't trust the bitch in apt 23

3 Girls 3!!!

Battle Creek with Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters. It was dark, and funny, and had a lot of talent behind it.

Was Rags to Riches more than one season?

[italic]Almost Perfect[/italic] with Nancy Travis as a TV producer with David Clennon in a supporting role as a writer. She was adorable. It could have been a pretty good sitcom.

I liked [italic]Alcatraz[/italic], which had lots of mysteries to untie plus Sam Neill and Parminder Nagra. But it suffered from some fatal miscasting. [italic]Kings[/italic] had a great premise, but also suffered some fatal miscasting.

Let me add my votes for [italic]American Gothic[/italic] and [italic]Firefly[/italic].

Another vote for The Family. Seeing 'Scudder' as the dad, American accent was kind of a shock. The acting throughout was great and loved the twist at the end. Wanted more.

Bridget Loves Bernie was a terrific sitcom that had a prime Saturday time slot. Another great supporting cast and attractive leads. Poor David Birney - he was a soap heartthrob on Love Is A Many Splendored Thing with Donna Mills who got shafted by CBS . Same thing happened with this series Serpico on NBC.

Chaotic- Britney and Kevin

Rags to Riches had two seasons. So did Almost Perfect.

"Flashforward" deserved another season.

I honestly believed that "Freaks & Geeks" would not have sustained the quality of the first season into a full 22-episode, second season. It was lightning in a bottle.

3 Girls 3 was fabulous.

It was produced by Gail Parent (of the Carol Burnett Show and later Golden Girls) and introduced the world to Debbie Allen, Mimi Kennedy and Ellen Foley.

Got great reviews, but variety shows were over, and nothing on NBC had a prayer in 1977. They only ordered four episodes but I think they yanked it after three.

Ellen Foley is such a great singer and never got her due.

Ellen got her due in the Netherlands.

Another good clip from 3 Girls 3:

“The River” had two likable actors- Bruce Greenwood and Joe Anderson.

R175, "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" had two short seasons on NBC -- as a summer replacement and then as a mid-season replacement -- before being canceled. It then moved to Lifetime, where it aired for three more seasons.

I enjoyed Selfie on ABC. I kind of think had it been a basic cable network, it would have lasted more than a season.

There is only ONE show named Family that mattered, with or without an article in the title.

Someone mentioned Square Pegs already.

My other selection is Best of the West with Joel Higgins and Leonard Frey from 1981.

ALMOST HUMAN, starring Karl Urban, Michael Ealy, and Lili Taylor.

As was the case with FIREFLY and TERRA NOVA, Fox had a great sci-fi show on hand but had no idea what to do with it. Result: Gone after 13 episodes.

"Work It"

Lynda + Loni

The Popcorn Kid, costarring Penelope Ann Miller and Faith Ford. Ran 6 episodes in 1987.

And *another* great show FOX canceled after just one season: "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr."

One of my favorite scenes in any show ever comes in the episode "Showdown" when John Hawkes, playing the assistant to a hired gun (and speaking with a lisp), introduces his boss as "...Utah Johnny Montana." When the man doing the hiring says, "That's some name" Hawkes character responds, "It used to be Utah John Cougar Montana, but he dropped the Cougar because he thought it was pretentious." I have loved that line for 25 years.

The attached link is just plain silly.

^ Sorry, Hawkes' character.

Bordertown

I liked "Health Class". Peter North plays Dick, or "Mr. Tosser", H.S. Health teacher who is progressive and disliked by his conservative rich suburban public school colleagues. He helps out all the misfits who are hated by the Stepford jocks. Rick Donovan plays Tommy, a poor kid and misfit.

There's only the 1 episode.

Byrd’s of Paradise

Peter North claims he never did gay porn lmao

I loved, loved loved The Kids Are Alright. Was very sad that ABC cancelled it, especially when there were lower rated shows that ABC renewed.

The Kids put a lot of effort into getting the 70s right, something I appreciated. Stories seemed very appropriate for the 1970s and a big Catholic family.

The Five Mrs. Buchanans. Ran on CBS 1994-95.Starred Judith Ivey, Harriet Samson Harries, Beth Broderick, Charlotte Ross and Eileen Heckart. Had the potential to be the next Designing Women or Golden Girls. It even aired on Saturday nights, but by the mid 1990s, the Saturday night TV audience was quickly disappearing.

Created by Marc Cherry and Jamie Wooten, which they did after their stint as writers on Golden Girls and then Golden Palace.

So many good shows canceled within one season. Sad.

I really enjoyed GCB and Selfie with John Cho.

I really enjoyed GCB and Selfie with John Cho.

Well, the king of them all, r204, must be [italic]the Honeymooners[/italic]. Felled by Perry Como.

The Honeymooners was one season?!

Honeymooners was one season but like 40 episodes.

R208 It was one season, as a standalone show, of 39 episodes, known as "The Classic 39." However, it ran many years before and after that season as a regular running skit on the various Jackie Gleason Shows, those are the shows marketed as "The Lost Episodes." It was like how "The Family" was a running skit on The Carol Burnett Show, but then became the standalone Mama's Family.

I liked Reba's Malibu Country, it wasn't as good as Reba, but was getting better towards the end of the season, and had three good comedians in Lily Tomlin, Reba, and Sara Rue. If they had retooled to focus the show more on the three of them, it would have been great. They should have given it a second chance.

Pasadena on Fox

"The Yellow Rose" starring Cybill Shepherd and Sam Elliot

R213 Don’t forget it also had Jane Russell, as its obligatory former movie star doing a prime time soap.

Where are the people of color?

What are your suggestions, R215?

[quote]Where are the people of color?

I don't think white gay people ever watched UPN.

Buffy, Star Trek Voyager and Enterprise were on UPN, so some of us were watching at least some of it.

I know white people that loved Living Single, Everybody Hates Chris, Martin etc.

Most certainly The Fresh Prince

I swear that there was some gossip about the way Timothy Busfield treated Jennifer Hewitt during Byrds of Paradise and that’s one reason the show was canceled. Can’t remember the details, though.

Found it. It’s from CDAN, though. So probably not true.

Roadies on Showtime starring Carla Gugino and Luke Wilson, but the supporting cast stole the show. Executive produced by Cameron Crowe.

R160 is THAT what happened on Dead Like Me? I just thought Fuller was let go somehow because his vision for the show was "too dark" or whatever. Cool that he took a stand. Also that plot makes alot of sense and would have enriched the season. I noticed a shift had happened as soon as Rebecca Gayheart left the series. That was Fuller's last episode too, right?

Gypsy - the 2017 Netflix psychological thriller centred on Naomi Watts as a psychologist who secretly infiltrates the private lives of her patients. Naomi was also Executive Producer and seemed to be pushing lesbian content. With Billy Crudup, Brenda Vaccaro and Blythe Danner.

Journeyman with Kevin McKidd, lots of way worse shows with a similar premise have lasted longer.

Who is the “hot men are waiting for you here” troll? I am not clicking on that link.

You're out of luck anyway. Apparently all the hot guys are in my town.

R226 I really enjoyed that show.

Jordan Renzo and Greg Austin, the actors who played the gay couple in “Class”, had a mini-reunion this week.

The guy on the left has my favorite kind of nose.

In the 90s, there were two short lived shows I think are among the greatest shows of all-time: Profit and EZ Streets.

R203 The Five Mrs. Buchannan's had great potential with truly hysterical lines. Eileen Heckart got laughs with single word lines like "Hello" and "Maybe", and Harriett Sansom Harris was delightfully uppity. I also liked Judith Ivey who had a better developed character than she had two seasons before on "Designing Women", the only one who could really put Mother Buchannan in her place and get away with it. One of the episodes featured Nan Martin (Freida Claxton, "Golden Girls") who loved Ivey as her potential grand-daughter-in-law simply because she knew that it irked Heckart that Ivey was marrying into the family, very similar to Elaine Stritch showing up in "Monster-in-Law" just to spar with Jane Fonda.

Gretchen Wyler as a socialite who got a great tongue lashing by Heckart ("Isn't it nice that they can make computer screens from all your empty vodka bottles?"), and Broadway queen Edward Hibbert (later reunited with Harriett Harris in "It Should Have Been You") playing the Christopher Plummer role in a stock version of "The Sound of Music" whom Heckart paints a Hitler mustache on. Charles Nelson Reilly as a temperamental ceramic Christmas store clerk and George Grizzard as a bakery store owner who hides the fact that he's married were other stage actors who got great guest appearances. The issue with the show is that it was very clear that in spite of everything, they obviously all adored each other, even Mother Buchannan, so the conflict really didn't have anywhere to go. When they go to the funeral of an unseen Buchannan relative (who was over 500 pounds) and the four daughters-in-law make fat jokes, they expect Mother Buchannan to be seriously angry with them. Instead, she cracks up and adds in, "I don't think a little more whip cream will kill me", which makes them all crack up a bit more. It could have pulled off three seasons had the network had more faith in it and kept it in one time slot where it could be found.

Men Behaving Badly

So many great shows.

Which one of you bitches writes for TV Guide?

'Forever' with Ioan Gruffudd is another one. I really enjoyed it. It had an interesting premise, good acting, and a great unfolding story, and then it was gone.

A show like Selfie would have been better off on cable.

R235 Pitch showed a lot of promise, I was disappointed it was cancelled. The same with Champions.

"Champions" might have had to deal with J.J. Totah's transition to Josie Totah, changing the theme of the show from gay to trans. It might have lost any gay male audience because of that.

R236 I loved that show, and I always thought that ABC should've stuck with it bc it would've been the perfect show to replace Castle with when that show ended.

There was this show on NBC that was supposed to be the next Friends but canceled quickly. It had potential

Damien had potential to become a better show, had they punched up the writing and added a subplot with the 2 priests getting it on.

Marsden was almost too pretty back then.

R243, I agree; it hurt to look at him, almost, if that makes sense.

to go through life looking like that? wow

Voyagers!

the late great Jon-Erik Hexum plays big brother/father figure to an orphan and they share adventures.

I 'm stuck so it's the perfect series for me.

[quote]It hurt to look at him, almost, if that makes sense.

I completely understand what you mean, I felt the same way. He was other-worldly beautiful then.

R244 Yup, and of course to face aging away from that.

R246 The other thing that stuck in my mind there was a scene where the father is discussing Marsden's character with someone else and talks about how people only see how beautiful he is. It was unusual to me in that so many shows just had these stunning actors and everyone acted like it was entirely normal. Like an 8 is only a 4 or 5 on a TV show.

Well, many times gorgeous men don’t get hit on a lot (especially in HS) because most people are intimidated by how good looking they are and scared of rejection.

Especially in the past. Now people are more bold because of social media. Or they can slide in your DMs etc. back then it was all face to face r248

Marsden has aged LIKE EVERYONE but he is still gorgeous.

R249 Fair point, but I'm thinking more of characters that are treated like the 'plain, unpopular guy' on a show when they are still at least TV-pretty. Hollywood doesn't seem to do 'average' very well. It's like 4-6 on the scale is just not there at all.

Pretty much half of foxs Sunday night line up from 1999-2005. They cancelled too many good shows.

I prefer Hollywood casting gorgeous men as “average” vs them casting average or below average as gorgeous.

R253 I don't think that happens very much - a character that is explicitly supposed to be gorgeous being otherwise cast. Given how many LA waiters are 7 or better, it's not like they are running out.

HBO's Magic City. Madmen meets Scarface. Stunning ,retro,stylish. Jeffery Dean Morgan was a one cool cat. Guess it coast a fortune to produce.

There were many. I remember I used to like a show called Homefront when I was a good with Kyle Chandler. Then there was a FOX one called Reunion. Finally Swingtown from like 10 years ago was really good. I no longer really watch network and quick cancelations is one of the reasons why.

I remember Reunion on FOX. I kind of think if it had premiered more recently it might have been successful as people like serialized mystery type shows more these days than they did back in 2005.

Another vote for The Book of Daniel. It was a beautiful show but the religious right’s pressure on advertisers caused NBC to cut it short. All because it dared to show “Jesus” while the lead Reverend character was high on pills.

The 90s show Brooklyn Bridge lasted two seasons, but it had potential for several more seasons.

My Generation didn’t even last half a season.

2000 Malibu Road from 1992 starring Drew Barrymore, Lisa Hartman, Jennifer Beals and Brian Bloom. It only lasted 6 episodes.

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I can’t get over how beautiful and shiny Marsden looks in OP’s thumbnail, wow

I really enjoyed the TV sitcom version of KISS ME GUIDO, which was titled SOME OF MY BEST FRIENDS. It lasted far less than one full season, but I thought it was very funny but unfortunately did not catch on for whatever reasons.

R264 All the episodes are on YouTube. I still think it's funny.

Pasadena. Fantastic twisted soap created by Mike White and starring Dana Delany and Martin Donovan. It had the misfortune of being an incredibly dark and twisted show that hit the airwaves immediately after 9/11, at a time no one wanted dark or twisted.

THE STARLET... which was the hit of all of Europe and Cannes, but not well sold in this country!

Cop rock.

The Lazarus Man - This was a post-Civil-War drama starring Robert Urich. The plot from IMDb reads

[quote]Shortly after the Civil War, a man pulls himself out of a grave in the South wearing Southern clothing but carrying Northern gold and carrying a US Army revolver. He has no memory save for some gorgeous brunette and being beaten over the head by a man in a derby just before John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He calls himself "Lazarus" after the man Jesus resurrected until he can figure out who he is and why he was buried alive and left for dead.

It had a nice, spooky quality. He's stumbling around Reconstruction-Era New Orleans and other parts of the South trying to put together his past while surviving the present. I think this stopped because Urich had to stop for treatment when he learned he was sick.

I was think of him because of the trailers for the Marky-Mark reboot of Spenser. I liked the books way back when, and I'm annoyed they changed Susan's character completely, among other things.

People of Earth

Guest Book

I think both were TBS.