# First TV show to be cancelled after 9/25/2014 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517 "2014-09-25T13:09:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/21 "2014-09-26T02:04:38Z")
I definitely think/hope _Red Band Society_. Seriously? Children in the hospital with, I assume terminal (in some cases) diseases? Really? I’ve known people whose children never came out of the hospital after they went in, I can’t be the only one. I just cannot even see how this was a good idea to anyone. And all the sassy assertive black nurses (Octavia Spencer you deserve so much better!) really can’t save this for me. This sounds like such pure glurge, I can imagine tuning in. And if Octavia is actually playing a doctor, I’m sorry. I saw scrubs/female and thought nurse. (I have lots of nurses in my family) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/22 "2014-09-26T02:07:43Z")
Red Band Society and A To Z were both godawful crap, and The Mysteries of Laura wasn’t too far behind. ETA: Which probably means they’ll last a full season (see last season’s “Dads”). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/23 "2014-09-26T02:08:41Z")
[quote=“nevadaexile, post:20, topic:699517”] Let’s see: [LIST=1] [li]_ **Selfie** _ - Too topical[/li][/QUOTE] It would seem from the first few minutes but then it puts it aside and becomes a “Pygmalion” rip-off with John Cho as Henry Higgins. Cho: “If you think you’re going to dislike the show, watch the show — there’s somebody who would dislike the show on the show.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/24 "2014-09-26T02:14:14Z")
Too late for edit: [John Cho: Give 'Selfie' a Chance | Time](http://time.com/3425716/selfie-john-cho-interview/) ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/25 "2014-09-26T03:23:18Z")
**Selfie** has to be the first to go. I think \*\*The Red Band Society \*\*will hang on until the Very Special Christmas episode, though. I thought the _trailer_ for \*\*State of Affairs \*\*was boring so I can’t imagine sitting through the pilot. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/26 "2014-09-26T03:40:46Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > \*Forever \*isn’t doing well in the ratings. I’m trying hard to like it, but it gets annoying because of the similarities to _Sherlock_. He’s always making these grand observations of deductions. But more importantly – how does “Owen Griffith” look? I can just turn the sound off. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/27 "2014-09-26T10:18:36Z")
Forever i[s 8.5 on IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3487382/). So hold of judgement just yet. They might make it to a full season. Not seen it, how is it really? ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/28 "2014-09-26T15:55:21Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Let’s see: > > [li]_ **How To Get Away With Murder** _ - Terrible commercials usually mean a terrible show.[/li][/LIST] HTGAWM is a Shonda Rhimes show - it’s going to last 5 seasons at least, regardless of how terrible it is. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/29 "2014-09-26T16:00:00Z")
Also, Forever isn’t too bad, and it fits into what seems to be [the most cancel-resistant genre on television right now](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707288). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/30 "2014-09-26T16:03:10Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > HTGAWM is a Shonda Rhimes show - it’s going to last 5 seasons at least, regardless of how terrible it is. Sad but Oh so True! I bet Shonda knows where more bodies are buried than Oprah. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/31 "2014-09-26T16:07:33Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Also, Forever isn’t too bad, and it fits into what seems to be [the most cancel-resistant genre on television right now](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=707288). Well, in theory, he’s a Medical Examiner. In some areas, they carry badges. He’s certainly not a outsider. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/32 "2014-09-26T16:21:03Z")
I have not seen **Red Band Society** yet, but am I wrong in assuming that every episode ends with clips of the characters while a song that may or may not be by The Fray plays over everything? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/33 "2014-09-26T16:31:33Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > HTGAWM is a Shonda Rhimes show - it’s going to last 5 seasons at least, regardless of how terrible it is. We watched the first episode of this last night - what crap it was! I won’t waste any more time with it. My husband said he might. I felt like it was going for a bunch of “gotcha” twists but for the most part, I found it totally inane. I can only suspend so much disbelief. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/34 "2014-09-26T16:42:29Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Let’s see: > > _ **Selfie** _ - Too topical To be fair, I don’t really think the idea of someone being addicted to social media is any more topical than people using smartphones - hell, my mom’s almost in her 70s, and she’s got a Facebook account. Twitter’s been around for 8 years, Facebook’s been around for 10 - even Instagram is 4 years old. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/35 "2014-09-26T17:53:53Z")
> [@nevadaexile](#): > > Let’s see: > > [ol] > [li]_ **How To Get Away With Murder** _ - Terrible commercials usually mean a terrible show.[/li][/ol] It was bad. Dumb plot idea, trying too hard, poorly written and acted. No likeable character in it at all. Even the premise seemed way too far fetched for me. And I really wanted a new cop/law show to watch. At least Selfie has River Song’s mom. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/36 "2014-09-26T18:09:13Z")
[quote=“nevadaexile, post:20, topic:699517”] [li]_ **The Red Band Society** _ - Yeah…sick kids… That’s what people are looking to watch.[/li][/QUOTE] You would think. I watched the pilot and the longer I thought about it the less I liked it. However, my daughter loved it. So yeah, people (kids) are looking to watch it. It’s a popular genre in young adult fiction. They call it Sick Lit like _The Fault of our Stars_. Also it is produced by Spielberg which might give it at least a couple of extra episodes. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/37 "2014-09-29T00:07:23Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > No, _Forever_ is very good, at least so far. I have hopes. _Highlander_ without swords. I saw the premier (well, I was in the room when my wife decided to watch it - does that count?). It wasn’t bad, but it also wasn’t “I want to keep watching this” good either. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/38 "2014-09-29T00:14:44Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > But more importantly – how does “Owen Griffith” look? I can just turn the sound off. He’s aging well. He’s playing younger than he is, and it shows, but he’s been doing that since his midshipman days. A bit of a young John de Lancie about him. I doubt you’ll complain. I’m bothered by how he loses all his bespoke clothes when he returns from the dead. I don’t think MEs can afford a visit to the tailor a couple times per episode. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/39 "2014-09-29T00:28:52Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > To be fair, I don’t really think the idea of someone being addicted to social media is any more topical than people using smartphones - hell, my mom’s almost in her 70s, and she’s got a Facebook account. Twitter’s been around for 8 years, Facebook’s been around for 10 - even Instagram is 4 years old. Could you imagine a series created around smartphones/ What would they call it? The Galaxies? iPhonies? HTC What’s Up? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517/40 "2014-09-29T00:40:10Z")
The thing is, it’s not about social media, but a person who has built her personal reality around social media and realizes she needs help finding the real world, real friends, and her real self. It ain’t deep, but it is well done. The network is just marketing it poorly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tv-show-to-be-cancelled-after-9-25-2014/699517.md?page=3)