I liked last year’s Off the Map series, that failed to get any real traction on ABC and was cancelled after about 10 episodes. I really wish they’d reconsider on that one.
Journeyman was another ABC show from a couple years ago that got cancelled just as it was starting to get interesting.
Gilmore Girls needed another season or two to finish telling the storylines. I’d settle for a TV-movie-reunion show to tie up some loose ends, but I doubt that’ll ever happen at this point, either. At least Lauren Graham has found steady work on Parenthood. Her character on that show is so beat-down and haggard-looking and depressive that I have a hard time even associating her with Lorelai Gilmore anymore.
There was a great Michael Madsen series during the 90s called Vegeance Unlimited, that never got to even finish telling the story of the show’s premise - it was cancelled way too early.
And, yes, I know that a post-Serenity series would be very difficult to manage.
And, yes, I know that the wonderful actors have gone on to other work.
But, still…
I want my Firefly.
<sniff>
I loved that show too, and wished it actually played out to the end. I think by the time it was gone, the schedules were so wacky that I could never find out when it was being shown, so I missed a lot of the ending, if it ended
I also want to say that Babylon 5: Crusade was a fun show even though it seemed to have missed the mark with many sci-fi fans, but I liked it a lot.
Casting it, sure. But plotwise, not at all. I was led to Firefly via Serenity, not the other way around, and I thoroughly enjoyed watching all those flashbacks.
It lost a lost a lot in Season 5 and 6, but I thought Season 7 as very strong. I would have liked to have seen the next admin. I especially would have liked it if it had been a Republican Administration, just to see what it would look like.
I don’t know why MST3K couldn’t be re-run on some channel starting from the beginning, I only ever saw a handful of episodes from the last year it was on and missed all of the early ones.
And I want a third season of Carnivale - I want to know how Ben and Justin figure in the inevitable detonation of the atomic bomb, dammit! HBO could have made that third episode with all the money they pissed away on bombs like John From Cincinatti.
But what I REALLY want to see is hosted ‘Creature Features’ come back. We loved that stuff back in the 80’s (and even earlier with local programming) - Elvira, Up All Night, Commander USA, Joe Bob Briggs’ Drive-In Theater. Good times.
Huff, a show nobody’s ever heard of from Showtime starring Hank Azaria and Oliver Platt. The second season ended with a hell of a cliffhanger and then. . . nothing.
Also, I still miss my Friends. Although How I Met Your Mother tries to fulfill my white buddies hanging out at a (coffee) bar needs, I just don’t care about them anywhere near as much.
Plot-wise I don’t think it’d be difficult at all, and the main actors could film a 12-episode season (like Dexter) in between their other shows.
I’d like a season more of that, too. There was just nothing bad about the show and lots good, and it ended with nothing wrapped up at all.
The Good Guys wrapped up quite neatly (there was no over-arching plot-arc, but the characters had developed and it felt like an actual ending) but the premise is till definitely enough for another season or two. I might be the only person who thinks that, though.
I’m thinking the original cast is going to have a little trouble passing for teens anymore. I’m pretty sure Claire Danes is close to double the age she was when the show aired.
I didn’t watch Firefly till after it was cancelled, and I kind of like it as a mini-series + movie. So many shows get driven into the ground, I’m pretty happy with Firefly being a short-lived series that stayed good throughout.