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Ok people, what are some of your favourite shows, or shows you generally think are awesome, that got cancelled due to ratings or budget costs?
For me, Carnivale
Awesome awesome HBO show set in the 1930's dustbowl of America. It tells the story of a travelling carnival that comes across a young kid named Ben Hawkins (played by Nick Stahl). A runaway member of a chain gang, Ben's mother has recently passed and as he's burying her, a bulldozer rolls along and the driver says his house to be demolished by order of the bank. Just then the carnival rolls up and helps bury his mother, and Ben inevitably joins with them. Meanwhile, in some other place, a charismatic preacher by the name of Brother Justin Crowe is discovering he has unusual powers.
Thats a really crappy synopsis of the first episode but you get the jist of it. Ben and Brother Justin are the ultimate good and evil, and the show would've eventually ended at the site of the first ever atomic bomb test, Trinity Test site, in Alamogordo New Mexico 1945.
Again, my summary of it makes it look really dodgy, but the show itself is as unique as they come. Not only was the setting totally unique (1930's travelling carnival in the west, during the dustbowl times of America) but the execution, directing, story and acting was also as good as TV can get. It had a story arc that was kind of like Twin Peaks meets Lost (Weird shit happening and some mysterious things that come out nowhere) but instead of dragging things out like Lost does and never resolving them, Carnivale solved its main storyline by the middle of season 2, and by the finale of season had wrapped up almost every plothole in the show except for the obvious cliffhanger (The finale of season 2 would be like the survivors of Lost finding out who the others are and what DHARMA's purpose is by the end of season 2).
The show lasted two seasons before it was cancelled for two reasons. A) The series was becoming too expensive to produce and too long to shoot (gap between airtimes of season 1 and 2 was a total of 14 months) and B) For a show that was taking so much time and money to make, its ratings left much to be desired, and it was canned.
Despite the show only running around 24 episodes, it really does it best to entertain and succeeds tremendously. Its a real shame this show was cancelled.
Also, Carnivale has some coooooooooooool opening credits.
Ok thats enough from me, now i'm going to brace myself for the onslaught of "oooo Firefly, I love the Firefly, ooooo Firefly and Joss Whedon oooo" and so forth.
(I thought Firefly was ok at best)
For me, Carnivale
Awesome awesome HBO show set in the 1930's dustbowl of America. It tells the story of a travelling carnival that comes across a young kid named Ben Hawkins (played by Nick Stahl). A runaway member of a chain gang, Ben's mother has recently passed and as he's burying her, a bulldozer rolls along and the driver says his house to be demolished by order of the bank. Just then the carnival rolls up and helps bury his mother, and Ben inevitably joins with them. Meanwhile, in some other place, a charismatic preacher by the name of Brother Justin Crowe is discovering he has unusual powers.
Thats a really crappy synopsis of the first episode but you get the jist of it. Ben and Brother Justin are the ultimate good and evil, and the show would've eventually ended at the site of the first ever atomic bomb test, Trinity Test site, in Alamogordo New Mexico 1945.
Again, my summary of it makes it look really dodgy, but the show itself is as unique as they come. Not only was the setting totally unique (1930's travelling carnival in the west, during the dustbowl times of America) but the execution, directing, story and acting was also as good as TV can get. It had a story arc that was kind of like Twin Peaks meets Lost (Weird shit happening and some mysterious things that come out nowhere) but instead of dragging things out like Lost does and never resolving them, Carnivale solved its main storyline by the middle of season 2, and by the finale of season had wrapped up almost every plothole in the show except for the obvious cliffhanger (The finale of season 2 would be like the survivors of Lost finding out who the others are and what DHARMA's purpose is by the end of season 2).
The show lasted two seasons before it was cancelled for two reasons. A) The series was becoming too expensive to produce and too long to shoot (gap between airtimes of season 1 and 2 was a total of 14 months) and B) For a show that was taking so much time and money to make, its ratings left much to be desired, and it was canned.
Despite the show only running around 24 episodes, it really does it best to entertain and succeeds tremendously. Its a real shame this show was cancelled.
Also, Carnivale has some coooooooooooool opening credits.
Ok thats enough from me, now i'm going to brace myself for the onslaught of "oooo Firefly, I love the Firefly, ooooo Firefly and Joss Whedon oooo" and so forth.
(I thought Firefly was ok at best)
