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The TV IV:IVy Awards/2006/Worst Cancellation

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Candidates to be considered the Worst Cancellation—series which ended too soon, may have had more story to tell or will simply be missed the most—for which the finale episode first aired in the United States between June 1, 2005 and May 31, 2006. Please read carefully the Definitions and Guidelines before putting a candidate up for nomination.

Definitions

cancellation
Any non-limited series with a US finale date falling in the eligibility year for which the respective network or creators have definitively announced there will be no further episodes.

Guidelines

Please feel free to propose as many or as few candidates as you like in each category. If you change your mind or wish to retract a candidate, don't worry about editing the page, as it could cause some confusion down the road. (If you propose one unworthy enough, it will most likely not make it past the nominating process, anyway.) Feel free to discuss yours or others' proposals as much or as little as you choose. Tell us why you feel a candidate should be considered, or why someone else's candidate is a horrible choice and should not be considered. (Just remember to follow standard TV IV discussion rules regarding civility.)

Please mark all proposed candidates in bold, and link the show titles, even if the linked articles are empty or stubs. Try to avoid using bold elsewhere in the discussion. (To mark a candidate in bold, surround the name with two sets of three apostrophes, and use double brackets for linking, '''[[like this]]'''.)

Candidates Discussion

I agree. Arrested Development is the best show to be cancelled last year. Even if you didn't care for Rita, Bob Loblaw was hilarious, easily the best new character. And the final four episodes were brilliant. Plus it had a nice resolution to it. Damn you, FOX! --Ryvius 02:37, 4 June 2006 (EDT)


What about

All great shows, thrown out the window to quick -- Samaster1991

Seconding Threshold. For all its faults, it was fast-paced and had a great cast of quirky characters, carried especially by the hilarious chemistry between Brent Spiner and Peter Dinklage. The government procedural format was something unique, as sort of an "anti-X-Files" as it was sometimes called, where we see the inner workings of the government and why the issue HAD to be covered up. It received poor ratings mainly because CBS put it on a Friday night timeslot (a killer for most shows), and then canned it the week after it failed to bring in good ratings in its new oddball timeslot of 10PM Tuesdays, which it switched to on Thanksgiving week. CBS barely gave it a chance. --Bonk
Invasion started out tediously slow, so slow that I'd pretty much given up on it, but the second half of the season stopped dancing around the "ooh is something spooky happening or is it there a normal explanation" stuff, and once that happened, it picked up speed and led to an epic final episode which left a lot of possibilities open for the second season it never got. --Stabbey 16:57, 15 June 2006 (EDT)
All great candidates, but as per the discussion, I had to take Commander in Chief off the proposal list because it won't be eligible until next year. But, Samaster1991 or someone else, definitely, definitely, definitely remember that show and put it up for nomination next year. (If you should forget, these pages will be archived, so hopefully someone will glance through them to refresh their memories and pick them up.) Also, please try to remember to make your candidates bold. Some of these categories are going to get a lot of nominations, and that will make things so much easier on me when I go back through them to try to pick out the candidates and start the nominations process voting. Don't want to miss a worthy candidate because I scrolled too fast. :) Thanks. JCaesar 16:21, 2 June 2006 (EDT)
I liked this show too. Too bad they only aired three episodes. I blame baseball. Disappearing for weeks at a time rarely helps a show find an audience.--Ryvius 02:37, 4 June 2006 (EDT)


  • Alias and The West Wing: Maybe they both had gone on a little too long, but I did say the ones which will be most missed, and those of us who still have fond memories of these two shows when they were at their best really will miss the shows we loved. Worst of all, The West Wing had to twist the knife by producing its best season since Aaron Sorkin left and suggesting there might still have been some life left in it. Unfortunately, we'll never know, because the series is now gone. JCaesar 08:37, 3 June 2006 (EDT)


  • Surface: The show started out so bland and unremarkable that it was largely ignored, but mid-way into the season the characters were really coming into their own, and the teen actors on the show were very good at being normal teenagers just trying to grasp what was happening in their world. As the show progressed it became an exciting X-Files style mystery about a secret society planning to end the world. Sure it was outlandish Sci-Fi, but it was powerfully engaging, and had some of the coolest effects on TV this season. --ChiperSoft 13:13, 4 June 2006 (EDT)
  • Stella: One of the most unique and hilarious comedies to come to Comedy Central since the days of Upright Citizens Brigade and Strangers with Candy, but cancelled after its first season, only to be replaced with the much less interesting, lowest-common-denominator racist humor of Mind of Mencia. Not only is this a terrible cancellation due to the fact that it was a very funny show, but because the state of Comedy Central was actually made worse following its cancellation. Not to mention, the page for Stella was one of the first articles added to this wiki.

--IndieRockLance 15:51, 5 June 2006 (EDT)

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