Which TV series cancellation perturbed you most?

Silver Lining: The Virgin Queen, the planned spinoff to The Serpent Queen

Isn't it a strange coincidence that the the only other TV series' cancellation that really bothered me was The Riches, which starred Eddie Izzard and *Minnie Driver*? It was also cancelled abruptly after its second season.

The Great.

Devious Maids.

I started watching it a few years after it was cancelled, not knowing it was cancelled unexpectedly after a season that ended on a cliffhanger.

1899. I really wanted to know what happened next!

The Serpent Queen and Becoming Elizabeth. Both on Starz. And, it looks like Marie Antoinette will not be getting a third season. Shame since season three would have covered all of the really exciting shit.

Firefly

R7 I've read so many comments over the years by fans of Firefly who loved the show and mourn its cancellation. I keep meaning to watch it just because of that.

Hannibal

The Wheel of Time

Pushing Daisies

Rome - Season 3 abruptly canceled.

Babylon Berlin - cancelled by Netflix after Season 3, even though a Season 4 was filmed, and their last season, 5, is in production.

1899 - Netflix only shows Season 1. Season 2 exists, but not on Netflix.

Hannibal

Good Christian Bitches

Deadwood

I really liked Magic City on Starz! Was so mad when it was cancelled after two seasons.

Magic City was set in early 1960s Miami at a hotel meant to resemble the Fontainebleau. So, it was like Mad Men set in the hotel business.

Public Morals about ten years ago, it was one of those Ed Burns series. Set in NYC during the late 60s, I didn't love the show per se but the time period and some of the actors caught my attention. They never aired the last episode. They were developing a gay story line and then it died

Rome

Deadwood

Carnivale

The Nine

The Edge of Night

The Mick

GLOW, The Santa Clarita Diet, Don't Trust the B in Apt 23. Last Man on Earth. All deserved and needed more episodes

"Boss" (2011-2012), with Kelsey Grammer and Connie Nielsen.

"Hightown" (2020-2022)

Rome

I thought it was great

Motherland: Fort Salem

Mindhunter

I'm with you OP. I really wanted to see what was going to happen with Anjou as King.

Yes! Don't Trust the B in Apartment 23!

The Powers that Be

Another vote for 1899!

Guiding Light, Edge of Night, Another World

The versions that existed in the 70s and 80s though

One Life to Live

R15. I was going to post the same thing. Magic City was great. I was anticipating the 3rd season to reveal that Meg Bannock, the aunt/sister-in-law played by Kelly Lynch, was a ruthless, scorned bitch out for revenge against Ike. Alas, we'll never know.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan was much better in Magic City than the hammy Negan in Walking Dead.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan was still very handsome in Magic City . I still cant believe he's 6 years younger than me ! Boy he aged hard . Danny Huston had a LOT to do with that show being as good as it was . He was brilliant in Magic City . Im so glad some of you mentioned Good Christian Bitches ! It really was hilarious with lots of eye candy to boot !

I’m still really peeved about The Wheel of Time being cancelled.

Pushing Daisies.

Voyagers!

American Gothic

Deadwood

I’m still pissed about Shining Vale with Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear.

CARNIVALE

Hannibal

The Popcorn Kid

Did “The Serpent Queen” at least get around to depicting the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre?

A show I really liked was the comedy Jake in Progress starring John Stamos as an NYC publicist who still had some growing up to do, even though he was in his 40s. Show has some clever insights about life

It aired 13 episodes in its first season in 2005. In second season, it was paired with the new Emily's Reason's Why Not starring Heather Graham. The first episode of Emily tanked in the ratings. The second season premier of Jake coming immediately after Emily also had a bad showing in the ratings. ABC immediately pulled both shows, ultimately cancelling them without airing them ever again. .

I loved, loved, loved It's Like You Know. II aired in 1999-2000. It was sort of like Seinfeld set in LA, thanks in no small part to having several writers on staff from the just ended Seinfeld series. Multi-layered plots with some devilish insights on Los Angeles. Even had Dirty Dancing's Jennifer Grey playing a version of herself.

First season aired to decent, but not stellar ratings. Second season began with decent ratings, but then ABC abruptly cancelled it so to air episodes of the hit new game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire three times a week.

Swingtown.

I was not surprised by the cancellation, but it was a great attempt to do a layered, HBO-style family/cultural drama on a broadcast network.

Samatha Morton is a great actress, but I can’t imagine her pulling off the role of Catherine de’ Medici.

Raised by Wolves

Another vote for Swingtown and The Powers That Be

The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. It deserved better than a Saturday night timeslot.

Hobo Kelly on KTTV-11.

It was a dark day when that news was announced.

Yet another vote for Pushing Daisies. Am currently watching Blurays of it. Started off well enough in the ratings. Unfortunately a writers' strike began after iits debut. There were no new scripts, therefore no new episodes and it started to sink in the ratings. Technicolor fans might enjoy it vibrant colors.

I was upset when the BBC cancelled its new drama "Cuffs" (2015). It was pulling in decent numbers for a freshman serial drama, but it got cut when the BBC was told to slash their budget.

I really like the gay couple, Jake, the rookie cop (who was also the son of the chief superintendent of police force), and Simon, who was a defense lawyer and the duty solicitor. Of course, their jobs would intersect, and they might be on the opposite side of a case.

But I really enjoyed the entire ensemble cast and was looking forward to seeing everyone's story play out.

"Our Miss Brooks."

Life With Lucy

Mine have been mention:

Becoming Elizabeth - the only Elizabethan drama I have been interested in, ever.

Carnivale

The Exorcist - the Fox series is the very best thing sequel since the original movie

GCB - Good Christian Bitches

Hannibal - can you believe the final two were Mads Mikkelsen and David Tennant? Man, they dodged a bullet. Imagine the gurning 😬

I think Hannibal was able to squeeze a good amount of content out of the "lecterverse" and the Hannibal/Will relationship. I was fine with only getting three seasons. What really annoyed me was how the third season closely followed the plot of the Red Dragon. I think between Manhunter and Red Dragon, the story of Francis Dolarhyde had been adequately covered and we didn't need a whole season devoted to it in Hannibal. I liked how the show was set within the universe of the Harris books without being a carbon copy of the stories told in the books. I didn't like how when they did lift a story from the book series, they chose the most well-covered story. I think they should have gone out with a bang and done something with Clarice, Buffalo Bill. Maybe the last scene is fugitive Hannibal calling Will from a payphone at a tropical location.

Another vote for The Nine

And The Edge of Night (though they had a great, nutty finale)

Some more:

Invasion

My So-Called Life

Freaks and Geeks

K Street

Relativity

Here and Now

The OA. Brit Marling is insufferable and her character was the worst Mary Sue, but I was really curious to see how the story evolved.

Farscape - and not just for Ben Browder

Morton was incredible as Catherine de Medici, especially in the first season

[Quote] Babylon Berlin - cancelled by Netflix after Season 3, even though a Season 4 was filmed, and their last season, 5, is in production.

Does that mean the other seasons are just being shown in Germany? I assume if that’s true they are watchable in English language countries somewhere?

Another vote for Raised by Wolves.

This is one of the new network HBO Max’s flagship show. It was what incentivized many people (including me) to even get Max in thr first place.

A completely batshit insane show — science fiction at its best.

The fact that they walked away from the fanbase that helped build their network by abandoning the new networks flagship show — at a cliffhanger no less — infuriates me to this day.

R58, it's on other streaming services in the U.S., including Amazon Prime and Plex.

Dead Boy Detectives, supposedly only killed by a flukey application of the Netflix algorithm. The Gaiman connection might have done for it later anyway, I suppose, though it was pretty remote from his original creation.

[quote]Babylon Berlin - cancelled by Netflix after Season 3, even though a Season 4 was filmed, and their last season, 5, is in production.

Four seasons are available on MHz Choice. It is one of their most popular series, so I assume the fifth and final season will be available as well.

Serpent Queen & The Great had become magnificently staged repetative bores.

R2 - I'm with you. I immediately thought The Riches. It was so different and suspenseful. Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver were excellent.

I highly recommend the first season. It never got its due for some reason - maybe because it was F/X?

Don’t forget how hot the sons were in Magic City, particularly the slutty one played by the Steven Strait.

Raised by Wolves

Carnival

Perry Mason 2.0

I have to agree with r63 about The Great. I love Elle and Nic, but it was too much quirk and wink-wink, and the same old shit ep after ep.

And it bore no resemblance to the actual reign of CTG at all. At least Serpent Queen gave a nod to the history more or less.

Ben Affleck’s Push, Nevada. It was pulled off the air mid-season, and it had contest that required finding a clue in each episode. It was one of my favorite shows ever.