Shows Cancelled Before They Are Finished

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I might be feeling a bit ranty but is anyone else sick of starting to watch a show, that has been written as a milti-season story with a long range arc - only to then be cancelled after 1 or 2 seasons and so left open ended? No proper conclusion or closure.

I'm starting to resist starting any new series unless I KNOW there is a proper ending or unless several seasons have already been filmed/it is an old series.

Dangerous Liasons, Becoming Elizabeth, 1899, The Midnight Club, Sense8. It's starting to drive me mad.

Really disappointed about 1899, was looking forward to the next series. Also Home Fires and The Coroner.

Long time ago now but The House of Eliott ended on a cliff hanger and not another word about it. I loved that show.

Me too!

it was head and shoulders above Casualty, in terms of characters, storylines and actors.

@EarringsandLipstick thanks for that. Obviously it's available on Apple TV - the one streaming service I don't have 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

Is this Under the Dome, looks like it is on My5, I haven't seen it so went searching on Apple TV

Also: WHO is watching Emily in Paris? I couldn't make it through 1 episode and it's now in its 3rd series

I don't get Emily In Paris either. But then I never got Sex In The City back in the day. I appreciate that it's got its following, horses for courses. But it does stick in the craw when stuff I like gets cancelled all the time. Admittedly I like telly on the experimental science fiction end, but it's not a niche section?
Where's the horse for my course?

Agree with lots of these: Dirty Sexy Money (so trashy; I loved it), The Hour (amazing cast, great threads and interiors), Empire (I miss the music and the clothes), The Same Sky (couldn't believe it was meant to end like that).

Also Psychoville; was just getting meaty, characters developing etc, and it ended. Reece Shearsmith said on social media it was because no one watched it; felt like tweeting him, 'I did!'

And North Square. Legal drama set in Leeds, with Phil Daniels as a scheming clerk.

No Offence. Utterly original. All-round brilliant acting. Genuinely laugh-out-loud hilarious, but tough and disturbing too.

Not dramas but reality: Big Dreams Small Spaces, where Monty Don works miracles on people's tiny outside spaces. And the Allotment Challenge where they had to grow fruit and veg, and also make jams etc from it, and grow flowers to then arrange for judging. Really bizarre, but I loved it.

I've just started S2 of Gentleman Jack. Is this the last one then?

I think HBO pulled out...

Revolution from 2012. Two seasons of post-apocalyptic drama. I LOVED it!

YY to lots of these. I'm making a list of those I haven't yet watched. You all clearly have good taste in tv 😉.

Gentleman Jack had 2 seasons, I loved the first but found the second really hard going so it wasn't a surprise to me it was cancelled.

I never got Killing Eve. I think I went to episode 3 and gave up. More recently I didn't get halfway through 'I Hate Suzie' either.

I did find S2 Ep1 a bit hard, but I think that's because it's ages since I watched the first one and I've slightly forgotten who everyone is and what's happened. I love Suranne Jones in it though.

I think Killing Eve seasons 1 and 2 are absolute dynamite. So original and idiosyncratic. It got steadily less good as it went on, but I watched to the end, largely for the acting and the soundtrack.

Special Unit 2. Strange. Apparitions.

I kinda wish I'd never started this thread. Some of you are making me even angrier by mentioning shows I'd forgotten 😂

Psychoville!
Big Dreams, Little Spaces!

BBC show called Lilies set in 1920’s Liverpool - 8 episodes and then poof. I often wonder if I imagined it.

Oh, and Mr Selfridge. At least I think it was canned rather than coming to its intended end. It was frothy and soapy and had lovely clothes and locations/sets.

On similar lines, anyone remember The Halycon? Set in pre- and mid-WW2 London in a big luxury hotel of that name. Had the upstairs/downstairs thing of Downton Abbey, and lots of good musical interludes when the house band were performing. Only got one series
I still feel like there's nothing on those lines currently on TV and I'm missing it. Much as I love a Scandi drama and a gritty-Bafta crime show, I want something a bit frivolous and soapy sometimes too. If there IS anything like this on at the moment, do tell me!

My friend binge watches them and made a huge song and dance about how I just HAD to watch it. I think I made it 10 minutes in.

@MissBuncle You didn't imagine it - I really enjoyed that and was suprised when they didn't make a second series.

I don't think The Dark Crystal - the Age of Resistance (Netflix) has been mentioned yet? I can't believe that got cancelled, when it ended on such a sinister and intriguing cliff-hanger. I'm guessing it was too expensive to recommission but I still feel quite rageful towards whoever made that decision.

Also on Netflix, Tuca and Bertie. I think it moved to some American cable channel when Netflix cancelled it after the first season, but I have no way of watching whatever came next. It was a really original, surreal adult cartoon which mostly focused on female characters negotiating work and friendship, so I found it really annoying that it didn't get the chance to go any further.

And several that have already been mentioned - The Hour, The Living and the Dead, Mindhunters, GLOW.

Yes, I enjoyed The Halcyon (sometimes for the wrong reasons) but I know what you mean about something like that missing from TV at the moment.

World on Fire is returning for a second series after being delayed by Covid - it had its historical faults too, but it was entertaining enough. Not sure when it will be on, but they started filming last summer.

I loved Mr Selfridge, but If you read a biography you can see why they stopped there. In fact, I was surprised they went that far. I don't think it was cancelled?

Emily in Paris is brilliant!

I am going to start 1899 but I guess I'm so used to stuff being cancelled...

@SecretVictoria just looked it up - 2002! Started my crush on Vincent Regan. Which has just reminded me of another of his shows that didn't get renewed - Before we die with Lesley Sharp.

Oh and Whitechapel was cancelled...I think they went too far with Season 4.

Has this been cancelled ? I started watching but won't go back to it if it has.

Just out of interest how would you have liked it to end? I did the think the individual ending of that episode was brilliant.

and have you seen Rupert in the 39 steps? Just because Lydia Leonard is in it too and I heard echoes of Whitechapel...

I don't think The Dark Crystal - the Age of Resistance (Netflix) has been mentioned yet?

Are you bloody kidding me???

THAT's been cancelled as well?!?! Oh, FFS.

Netflix: you are all bastards!