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Shows that disappointed you by cancelling

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Soubriquet · 17/05/2021 14:03

After been desperate to watch the gifted and not finding it anywhere cheap, hurrah, Disney plus has it. Loved it...till I found it was cancelled after season 2 Sad

More that gutted me:-
Firefly
Dollhouse
Dark Angel
Hex

There’s probably more that I will add but these are off the go of my head

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MutteringDarkly · 17/05/2021 18:29

@Returnoftheowl

Life, with Damien Lewis.
YES.
Palavah · 17/05/2021 18:31

@MsIreneWinters

Head over Heels from about 1993. It was a terrible show about a groups of girls at finishing school but I loved it!
I remember that one!

Silk (maxine peake, rupert penry-jones)
The Crimson Field (ww1 field hospital)

I hadn't twigged that No Offence was cancelled - that was excellent

Amandasummers · 17/05/2021 18:32

@JustNotCoping123 I forgot about pushing daisies! I liked that.

I quite liked suburgatory.

I’ve recently rewatched ugly Betty, I’m not sure it was cancelled or rather just a diabolical ending. I was gutted all over again.

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BurningBenches · 17/05/2021 18:33

Outcasts
Ascension
The passage

And I'll add Glow but I hadn't realised til this thread 😭😭😭

ScrambledSmegs · 17/05/2021 18:34

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. It was BBC America that cancelled it - wish Netflix had picked it up for a new series.

JustMeAndWheatley · 17/05/2021 18:34

Flash Forward

squashyhat · 17/05/2021 18:35

Treme set in post-Katrina New Orleans. And a recent one - Away starring Hilary Swank and Josh Charles about a mission to Mars. Only lasted one season and I was really getting into it Sad

Staffy1 · 17/05/2021 18:36

My name is Earl ended on quite a cliff hanger.

MissConductUS · 17/05/2021 18:36

The Durrells. I just finished watching it on Amazon Prime and am gutted that there were only four seasons.

Firefly too of course.

weegiepower · 17/05/2021 18:38

I second Life with Damien Lewis and Flash forward that a couple people have mentioned.

Staffy1 · 17/05/2021 18:39

The no. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. I really enjoyed it and it also ended on a cliff hanger after only two series.

AngeloMysterioso · 17/05/2021 18:39

The Newsroom. I loved it.

squashyhat · 17/05/2021 18:39

@Puddycatfan

Remembered another - White Collar. Very funny and he is soooooo lovely...
I think White Collar came to a natural end with him disappearing to Paris. I only wish he'd hooked up with his old girlfriend.
TurdCrapley · 17/05/2021 18:40

[quote LadyHalesBroach]@TurdCrapley they’re making s2 now xx[/quote]
Oh my god, what?! This is the best news🙌

InvincibleInvisibility · 17/05/2021 18:41

Colony

Cancelled after 3 seasons but writers had planned a 5 season story ark...

wellerhugs5 · 17/05/2021 18:45

@DareDevil223

So many

Travelers
New Street Law - ended on a cliffhanger
Munroe with James Nesbitt - loved that
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
But the one that I am still upset about after 8 years is Whitechapel. I loved that programme and it had so much to wrap up when they cancelled it. I will be bitter about that until the day I die Grin

Whitechapel! Oh yes, we LOVED that.
Pinkywoo · 17/05/2021 18:45

Lots of us giving our age away with My So Called Life!

I'm gutted about Code Black, it had the feel of early ER now Grey's has gone a bit pants.

hattymattie · 17/05/2021 18:46

The Colony for me too. Ending in the middle of the battle for Earth.

Faultymain5 · 17/05/2021 18:48

@Soubriquet

After been desperate to watch the gifted and not finding it anywhere cheap, hurrah, Disney plus has it. Loved it...till I found it was cancelled after season 2 Sad

More that gutted me:-
Firefly
Dollhouse
Dark Angel
Hex

There’s probably more that I will add but these are off the go of my head

Yes, to the first 3. I never knew how dark angel finished.
Faultymain5 · 17/05/2021 18:54

@InglouriousBasterd. Flashforward agree.

@stealingbeauty my so called life agree

@FatCatThinCat V I’m with on this one for both original and the reboot

@Soubriquet Shannara Chronicles yes I was just getting into it when I realised they were not making anymore.

ByeClare · 17/05/2021 18:56

Several that have already been mentioned:

Flash forward (brilliant cast, such a waste they didn’t continue it)

North Square (Rupert Penry Jones looking even hotter than in Suits, such a good cast and premise, why they cancelled...)

Party Animals

Glow

Ones that haven’t been mentioned:

Tripping Over - a U.K. & Australian co-production I loved. Did anyone else watch it?!

Dare Me - a Netflix show from a few years ago

Faultymain5 · 17/05/2021 18:59

@BabyMoonPie Alcatraz was good. Couldn’t believe when it was cancelled

@bruffin Now and again was great and unfinished

@Pumpkinstace 4400. So loved that sow, so much more stories to tell and left on a cliffhanger.

Which leads me to Alphas, which leads me to Heroes. A show ruined by the writers strike

exLtEveDallas · 17/05/2021 19:01

Def Firefly and Dollhouse
Also Invasion (I think it was) cancelled after first season.
Forever, again one season only - and ended on a cliffhanger Angry
Lucifer when it was cancelled, then recommissioned and now cancelled again Sad (but at least they knew this time, so hopefully the ending will make sense)

Faultymain5 · 17/05/2021 19:01

@hattymattie

The Colony for me too. Ending in the middle of the battle for Earth.
What my DH and I are currently watching Colony. Please tell me The Colony is a different show. It’s too good. Say it ain’t so JoeAngry😢