Okay, okay, New Shows You Would Have Watched But Knew They'd Be Cancelled? And Were!

Were there any new shows from the fall 2005-2006 season you would have
watched, shows you know you would have liked or possibly even loved but
passed on them because you had a feeling they wouldn't make the full
season, and now you have been proved right because they're already
gone?

Rob Jensen...

I tend to at least sample the majority of stuff unless word-of-mouth
is unusually bad (War at Home), so I can't say that I've *never* tuned
in to any of these shows, but for the purposes of this thread I'll
read "passed on them" as "passed on most of them, but sometimes
sampled, but didn't become a regular viewer of any of them."

Over There (but I'm finally watching the eps on FX's late-night
Saturday blocks)
Reunion
Surface (arguably on its way out)

And these are shows shows that I wouldn't have watched anyway, and
won't be surprised when they're all cancelled over the three months
left in the season:

The umpty-jillion police-procedural knock-offs (Killer Minds, Criminal
Instincts)
Sitcoms on UPN on Thursday nights from 8:30-onward

karl...

What an odd way to put an odd question. It deserves an oddly phrased
response.

I watch shows because I think I might like them. I do not not watch
something I think I will like because I believe it might be cancelled.

rgorman...

I don't think like that. I make sure to watch shows I know will be
cancelled so I don't miss out.

shawn...

that's what I tend to do, as well. So I watched Threshold from the
beginning even though I knew it wasn't likely to last that long. I did
the same with Firefly a few years ago even though I knew that Fox
would never stick with a Sci-fi type of show (and hasn't since the
"X-Files" and "Millenium."

Steven L....

That's why I watched "Surface." I wanted to see it before it was
cancelled, which I expected would happen by December.

jayembee...

No. I don't buy into that philosophy. If a show looks interesting to me,
I'll try it. If I like it, I'll continue to watch it. I'll worry about
cancellation if/when it comes. If it's a good show, it's worth watching
no matter how many (or how few) episodes it runs.

Like the saying goes: "Better to have loved and lost than never to
have loved at all."

You may also look at this from the other point, shows you assumed would
be gone but are still on the air possibly even hits and you're kicking
yourself and your pets for not tuning in.

Rob Jensen...

I'm not kicking myself for missing any new series that I don't already
watch.

For instance:

Commander-In-Chief (yawn!)
Everybody Hates Chris
Close To Home
Ghost Whispering Breasts (saw the pilot. Single worst series, new or
returning, on broadcast television, which is saying something,
considering how much contempt I have for Boston Legal)

Jack Bauer's Spunky Sidekick, Ian J. Ball...

Somewon doesn't like Love Hewitt!

Pam or C. Wayne Owens...

Is it just me or does every episode of this show look like a pilot? I've
seen two and both looked like the pilot for a show I wouldn't watch. I like
"Close To Home" or I'd never have caught any of this thing. J.L.H. has the
acting range of a field of melons.

David B...

But they're nice melons.

Laddy...

Wouldn't mind snuggling with her melons though. :)

James Gassaway...

I think that's an insult to her melons. Even she's commented on how much
better their career is going compared to hers.

David B...

But they're nice melons.

David B...

But they're nice melons.

Four Kings (turned it off ten minutes into it)
War At Home

-- Rob

jayembee...

Nope. Never.

James Gassaway...

I don't think of it like that. I don't pay any attention to the "this is a
guaranteed hit!" or "this will crash-n-burn" pre-season rantings.
(Especially the crash-n-burn ones. If the network _knew_ it was going to
fail, why did they bother putting it on the air in the first place?) When
the new season comes around I watch the shows that I think will interest me.
Its just the reality of current TV network management that almost all of the
shows that interest me will be cancelled.

(And I think part of why some shows are dieing these days is because enough
people are thinking "its just going to get cancelled anyways, so why bother
watching?". The networks are locking themselves into self-fulfilling
prophecies with their hair-trigger axes.)

..
Garondo Marondo!

Glassman...

How do you answer a question like this? How do you regret not watching a
show that's been cancelled, because you knew it was going to be cancelled?
If I never saw it, how do I know I'd regret not watching it?

rgorman...

He didn't ask that question. He just asked people to name shows they
didn't watch because they "knew" they'd be cancelled.

Taylor...

That subject line wording is awkward. :-o