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I read in another thread that Carnivale was cancelled on a cliffhanger or without a satisfactory conclusion.
I was annoyed when the same happened to Space:Above & Beyond...Can you think of any more shows where this has happened?

Jake 2.0
Farscape
Firefly
Threshold
Jericho
The 4400
Space: Above and Beyond
Red Dwarf
Space Island One
Star Trek Enterprise
SeaQuest DSV

Surface

Mutant X
Tru Calling

John Doe another fox brilliant idea

you could talk about babylon 5 they really never said what happened to londo G'Kar they did show a possible future for them but Gkar did leave b5 leaha on a hunt for the truth type mission

Blood Ties!!!
Las Vegas
Drive
Traveler

Jeremiah

Dead Like Me
Earth 2

Joan of Arcadia

Twin Peaks

@philn I had forgotten about Earth 2, I would like to know what idiot gave the decision to cancel that show!

Babylon 5
the books cover alot of the gaps

@ ged the network did it wanted more creative control I believe it was NBC at that time they did the same with seaquest they wouldnt give in to spielbergs wishes or vice versa cant really remember

@gedmen IMHO it was the network bean counters of course. It didn't build an wide audience immediately. In the 90's, that was a sin that couldn't be tolerated for any show.

@captsheridan Surface was a great show! Too bad this wasn't allowed to develop as the story line was unique and really getting interesting when it was chopped.

Anyone else notice that most of the shows listed are SciFi? I wonder if this is because they are more expensive to produce than a comedy? If so then the question becomes why are they allowed a season or two? Surely the networks have seen a budget before approvals are given.

Cape Wrath (UK)

@capt i am still upset at that one . my d/l ended just before the end and i heard second hand about the " surrounding scenery" is it to come back or not.?

Invasion - sort of a cliffhanger
Day Break - a lot left to explain
journeyman - a lot left to explain

All three tried to tie up somethings but left a lot to be answered to me.

i think sci-fi shows have more going on plotwise than comedys. Comedy's don't necessarily have a lot of serial plot elements and thus often aren't in a state to have a cliffhanger.

odyssey 5

Millennium

@merlin I believe it was canceled

Rome
Deadwood

Daybreak finished as net only and left a ton of questions

Well It just goes to prove the TV executives are as dumb in the UK as they are in the USA.
They have canceled Primeval and left it with some very big questions unanswered.

here here (or is it hear hear lol)

The Invaders.....Alien beings from a distant planet come to make this planet their new home...featuring David Jenkins a newspaper reporter who knows they are here.
The Australian comedy SuperNova.

@ iceman, Query, What was the cliffhanger on Farscape.

@everyone, I was thinking when you post the show name, please it would help me nyway, as just a member, if you could post a synopsis of what the cliffhanger was.

Thanks!

Dark Angel ended on a cliffhanger for me, when they just left Max and her gang standing there, ready to confront the biggest battle of the show, the fight for the rights of all the Mutants that sprang out of Manticore...and then we never got to see any more.

@thetrekhippy

They did have a cliffhanger at the end of season four, the two lead characters had been turned in to crystals.
But they finally ended the show properly when they went back and made The Peacekeeper Wars.

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Firefly had a huge one, but they settled it with a movie, though still left some un-answered questions. Dead Like Me was sortta a cliffhanger. I mean, you never Learn Rube's secret and the movie didn't answer any of that.

And whoever said Babylon 5, it wasn't canceled.

Primeval was a great show that was left with a lot of answers.

well the cliffhanger for the maverick series was when james garner[main central character, bret maverick] quit the show..no mention of him ever occurred. instead jack kelly bret's brother took over interspered with temporary brothers beau and brent and later they too were dropped without notice. it served as a break they interspersed reruns of bret maverick's main shows. fans were baffled and a unrecorded number saw through the paint and
dropped the show from their viewing schedule. i stopped watching it because the scripts were lousy by comparison.

Fastlane. Tiffani Thiessen's character Bille Chambers was kidnapped and tied to a chair. The villian was planning to inject heroin in to her system as she was a former addict.

The Dresden Files

@iceman140uk

Primeval is coming back in 2011.

@vyp3r

When I put that post up Primeval had been canned, but I am very pleased that it has been brought back.

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Lost - oh, that wasn't canceled, and supposedly it did not end on a cliffhanger - just things weren't explained that well :).

Living with Fran :D I'm really happy about that.

Twin Peaks

Terminator the Sarah Connor Chronicles (Biggest cliffhanger i know of)
Heroes
The 4400
Stargate Atlantis

Why is it they dont cancel the bad shows but cancel the good ones :(

Because they think the good ones are the bad ones (by viewing figures) and vice versa.

So your bad ones must be watched by a lot of viewers who would therefore disagree with you.

Well you did ask? LOL

Stargate Atlantis
Life
Dollhouse
Pushing Daisies
La Femme Nikita (even after the added eps)

When Hart to Hart was cancelled it was still at least in the top 15 shows, but I believe the top 10. They couldn't possibly have thought that was a bad show based on the numbers but cancelled it anyway.

I agree, they cancel the good shows & leave us to be dumbed downed with the bad ones. They can't even come up with a new concept in shows, they keep reprising the old ones in one carnation or another...badly usually!!

@yankeefan

re Hart to Hart

They had probably run out of ideas. LOL

But probably more important was their ratings position.
For the last 4 years they were 23; 15: 17: 41 which says it all.

I cannot find anywhere where they are in the top 15 let alone 10.

Re: Hart to Hart they were at #15 in Season 3

When I was in high school I took a media course where we were to monitor the top 20 TV shows based on the Nielsen ratings listed in our local paper every week. I am not certain where you got your information, but Hart to Hart was in the top 20 90% of the time. It was also reported when it was canceled, it was a top rated program that ABC no longer had confidence in. Wasn't explained why but given the class I had, I was very much aware of the TV shows that were on at that time & that were top rated shows. I would love to see the stats for where Hart to Hart ended if the local Nielsen ratings were wrong.

Perhaps they did run out of ideas. After all, it is harder to find a good story line for a loving husband & wife (where do find them even on TV these days) as opposed to a wondering aimlously space ship, that is constantly invaded by weird looking aliens. Don't even need an new ideas for that one, all you need is weirder looking aliens each episode. ;0)

@yankeefan

Thanks for that.

Could you please inform Wikipedia that their article on the show carries the wrong infromation.

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_to_Hart

Thanks

Soap
Benson

Night Stalker
Eastwick

My So-Called Life

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The Pretender

Bionic Woman - didnt even get a good start before it got canned
Dark Angel .. why...

Heroes... I thought that was really popular so was a bit surprised when it got canceled.

Dark Angel... used to love it when I was a kid.

@lianne260987
quote"Dark Angel... used to love it when I was a kid."

Oh man oh man I'm getting OLD

Sorry for the double post

Deadwood was canned after building it up to a climax

Honestly? I'm the first one to put the Sopranos?

@rumaki

Why not there have been thousands of shows cancelled and many will have been of the cliffhanger sort.

@quark

I just can't believe nobody put it up before I did.

So all these shows are canceled due to poor ratings. let me get this strait and please correct me if I'm wrong. Some writer comes up with a new idea. Pitches it at the production company. They say yay or nay, and the show is finally put to air. We the punters start watching and a rating is achieved. Two questions how are the ratings gathered, and are they only gathered in the primary country of production and airing? The reason I ask is that in this day and age so many shows are downloaded and watched internationally, there is no way they can know just how popular a show really is. I'm going to start a new thread on this because I'm keen to get other peoples thoughts.

The thread referred to is http://sharetv.org/forum/discuss/Q_107251

Please add your comments on this specific subject there. Thanks.

Just thought of another one

Angel (did they win??)

Kyle XY

FlashForward

Grrrr!!!

my name is earl

Defying Gravity... I can't believe they canceled it so soon, and it was such a good show... I'm still in mourning for it!

Flash Forward was cancelled on the BIGGEST cliff hanger. Very upsetting. I loved Joseph Fiennes in this series and you have no clue in the final seconds what Mark's status is.

Make's a great season finalle (how many star trek series have season finalles like that?!), but not SERIES finalle!

I had no clue the series was cancelled until I watched the commercials for this autumn and saw no flash forward!


Black Sash also ended very unsatisfyingly. We have no clue how these kids are ending up or where Russell's Wong's character is going to end up in his custody battle for his daughter! There was this huge drama about the father-daughter and the divorce and her mother and the step-dad thing going on! No chance to work that out to minimal closure!


And of course the great no closure: Babylon 5 Crusade!

Strazinski had his 5 year arc planned and even Walter Koenig all set to reprise his role as Bester! We were about to find out about post telepath war conditions more than that TINY glimpse from John Mattheson (Daniel Dae Kim)'s scene where he helps that one rogue telepath during the war.

I wanted to know about mattheson! As much as i love Delenn, I think John Mattheson was the most interesting character in the B5 universe! And of course, Daniel Dae Kim is very easy on the eyes. ;)

Stargate Universe

I wish they would do a TV Movie to finish the show off properly.

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