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I fondly remember Earth 2 and Space Precinct. Before I go on, I'm basing this on my experience from a UK/Europe perspective, but I still had access to satellite TV. I also fondly remember watching Eerie, Indiana in my youth and enjoying it. It was a family-friendly horror\sci-fi series set in a small town where these kinds of things were the norm. This was a pretty standard early 90's show with some weirdness mixed in and I still have no idea why it was never picked up for a second series. Weird Science the TV series I wouldn't classify as failed as there were five series of it, but in this day it does seem to be forgotten. I remember this show being having prominent time slots amongst some heavy hitters at the time but these days it's been completely buried. If you ever want to see an over the top reaction to a cancellation then check out the finale to the series, when the people behind the show found out the show was ending they just threw everything out the window and just went wild with the final episode. The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Another early 90's casualty. Bruce Campbell in a steampunk wild-western was well received and highly praised but didn't achieve desirable viewing numbers. This series was developed because Fox wanted a show that was in a similar style to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and was one of the last television shows to be filmed on Warner Bros. Western backlot.
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The Black Stones posted:Anyone remember a Sci-Fi show from the 90s called Space Above and Beyond? I remember enjoying this when it was first shown and highly disappointed that they didn't make another series as they ended things on a cliffhanger!
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Aug 26, 2021 12:12
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Rome is one of my all-time favourite shows, it certainly wasn't a failure in terms of viewing figures or ratings but it didn't last for a third series. Five series were originally written and commissioned in a joint venture between HBO and the BBC, but HBO was only jointly funding the first two series and the BBC decided that they didn't want to bear the brunt of production costs for the rest of the shows run so promptly cancelled it. Somewhat thankfully, the people behind the show knew that the second series was going to be the last when they were halfway through producing it and rewrote three series of storylines in an effort to bring the series to a natural ending. I'm still a little annoyed that this series was cut short because HBO and the BBC didn't want to fund it anymore because despite its success. Shortly after this series was wrapped up, Game Of Thrones began development. If you haven't watched Rome, watch Rome.
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Aug 27, 2021 00:17
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Whybird posted:Seconding this, Rome is amazingly good. Carnivāle was another series produced by HBO that was commissioned in 2003 and only lasted two seasons. This was another series that had long term storylines written and planned but was cut short. In this instance, I can't really blame HBO for cancelling it as they asked the creator to reduce the price of each episode to $2,000,000 and was refused to negotiate and he decided to die on his hill. quote:The cancellation resulted in several story plot lines being unfinished, and outraged loyal viewers organized petitions and mailing drives to get the show renewed. This generated more than 50,000 emails to the network in a single weekend. Show creator Daniel Knauf was unconvinced of the success of such measures, but explained that proposed alternatives like selling Carnivāle to a competing network or spinning off the story were not possible because of HBO owning Carnivāle's plot and characters. At the same time, Knauf was hopeful that, given a strong enough fan base, HBO might reconsider the show's future and allow the continuation of the show in another medium; but because of the amount of unused story material he still had, Knauf did not favor finishing the Carnivāle story with a three-hour movie. The first series of Carnivāle is worth a watch and if it was to end early then it should have ended then. The second series would have suffered a better fate if the series had continued.
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