Television Series that were cut short due to bad marketing...

[Stuxnet]

I would have to disagree with Heist. The acting was subpar and the actors just never really seemed to click with one another. The dialog seemed contrived and forced; very little flow to the show.

Too bad, too, because it was an interesting (if not original) premise.

 

[Mucho]

Norm MacDonald Show

 

[Strk]

Batman Beyond

 

[UNCjigga]

"Arrested Development" was on NBC??? I thought it was on FOX.

 

[habib89]

umm.. i believe arrested development was on fox, and ed was on cbs...

anyway.. i liked AD..but i didn't watch it much.. not sure why, maybe bad marketing.. maybe bad timeslot? maybe i'm just lazy..

 

[hg321]

The Lone Gunman - they even predicted 9/11

 

[yukichigai]

Invasion
Clerks
Futurama
John Doe

Don't get me started on a rant. I'm at work and I actually need to work.

 

[anonymouschris]

Freaks and Geeks.

 

[yukichigai]

Oh, and Threshold. Close to Home and it were tied in ratings, so what's CBS do? Switch the two shows' timeslots. Close to Home received absolutely no ratings boost whatsoever, but Threshold crashed and burned beceause it wasn't a show you could jump into the middle of.

To be fair, that's not bad marketing, that's just bad scheduling, but the point stands.

 

[GoingUp]

Keen Eddie

 

[memories2002]

Ed! And Love Monkey! Both starring Tom Cavanagh.
But love monkey is re-airing here and im recording it so its all good

 

[electrosoccertux]

Originally posted by: Jikininki
Firefly

 

[SophalotJack]

don't know if it was mentioned...

series that I was sad to see canned were:

"Space, Above and Beyond"

"Firefly"

"Futurama"

"UCB"

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: Jikininki
Firefly

Sorry, but I thought that Firefly sucked. The whole "Wild West in Space" thing didn't work for me at all. The movie was pretty cool, though.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Star Trek the Original Series.

 

[Anonemous]

Sledge hammer

 

[quikah]

A couple not mentioned yet:

The Others
Andy Richter Controls the Universe

I really liked Arrested Development, but it was a tough show for people to get into, the humor was pretty dry, not your usual sitcom jokes. I think they advertised it pretty well. There is one commercial which really stands out, Jason Bateman actually offered up their Emmy award to Carmen Electra (who was there to beg in a skimpy outfit) if X million people watched the season 2 premier. Very funny ad.

 

[Mr N8]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Keen Eddie

Yep. I have that series on DVD, but I really wish FOX wouldn't have canned it so soon.

 

[promposive]

Surface

 

[torpid]

WTF, half the shows people are naming were not poorly marketted, they just weren't popular. Carnivale was marketted out the wazoo by HBO and was marketted appropriately. It just did not keep people's interest. Perhaps because it was slow as a snail in molasses the first season. Dark Angel? I saw an ad for that every 5 seconds when it was on.

 

[miri]

I didnt know what arrested development was until the show was cancelled and the show was in the same city I reside in, Newport Beach, I still havent seen a episode yet.

 

[eakers]

carnivale. I heard it was cancelled because it was too expensive to make.

 

[ChaoZ]

Electro should be banned. Took me a min just to load the page.

 

[Falloutboy]

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
- Enterprise (can't beleive they really dropped that one, I mean come on! I'm not even a serious Star Trek fan, I mean I don't wear strange uniforms and don't build futuristic weapons at home but still, it was cool!)
- Space Above & Beyond
- Treshold
- Dark Angel
- Sliders

They wanted to cancel Sliders for a long time before the end and they should have, too bad things turned out as they did. One of the best series *EVER*.

Enterprise got cut not because of lack of advertising but lack of a quality storyline that alienated both trek fans and potential fans

if they would of done 1&2 as general character and plot development like in ds9 (good foundation) then started in on the leadups to the romulan war and then finally the war itsself which this show was supposed to be about it would of done good enough numbers to stay going for 7 seasons

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
X-Files

Dude, it lasted 9 years. Didn't it fizzle out because David Duchovney left?
My vote goes to Sports Night. It was critically acclaimed, and everyone I know who has seen it has loved it. I don't know if it just had a bad time slot or what... but it only lasted two seasons. West Wing, another Aaron Sorkin show, started the same year Sports Night ended and was pretty much identical in style and it lasted like 7 years. It could have lasted longer if Sorkin didn't leave after the 4th season.

Possibly my all time favorite show, even more so that I only got a light taste and it went away.
Got the DVD's, and also started on Six Feet Under to take care of my Peter Krouse fix.
But that show had too many good actors to die so quickly.
Was it really the bad marketing that killed it?