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TV Shows You Wish Would Come Back

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To add to my earlier picks (Firefly, Wonderfalls & Carnivale)

The 4400 - Crap, just when things were coming together! grr

Dead Like Me - Not too many shows where I love all of the main characters (Mandy Patinkin is a god).

Dresden Files - This one had a lot of potential

The Lone Gunmen - The three conspiracy theorist hackers from the X-Files (Yves Adele Harlow was smokin')

Harsh Realm - Chris Carter's (X-Files, Millenium) other show that got canned before it got started. A soldier gets sent into a VR training world to assassinate John Locke from Lost ...err I mean "General" Santiago.

Undeclared - Freaks & Geeks head off to college.

Veronica Mars - Graduating HS and moving on to College was an adjustment but the show was brilliant.

Space Above & Beyond - Yes they were more 90210 than Marines but damnit

Surface - Geez thanks for screwing us with the cliffhanger ending NBC!

Honorable mentions: John Doe, Miracles, Daria, My So Called Life, Greg The Bunny

(The previously mentioned Millenium and Freaks & Geeks qualify as well)

BTW I am the king of loving shows and having them cancelled almost immediately. That's why I'll usually wait until after the first season before sitting down and watching something. Unfortunately I screwed up and watched Jericho from day one, and got it killed as well. :(


---FWIW some of the shows nominated in this thread had a long & productive run and weren't cancelled "too soon" IMO. I loved Drew Carrey but his show definitely outlived itself, same with Seinfeld and a few others.


MililaniBuckeye;849731; said:
Hogan's Heroes
Rat Patrol
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lost in Space
Wild, Wild West

Nearly all of these could be "moderned-up" and be something fresh for the younger audiences of today...
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While I loved those shows, do you trust the networks to "modern them up" into something that doesn't suck?
 
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Muck;1180446; said:
While I loved those shows, do you trust the networks to "modern them up" into something that doesn't suck?
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It worked for the best show on TV right now: Battlestar Galactica.

I guess I can only say Arrested Development once more to hammer home the fact that f'in everyone loves it. I am pumped about the movie... if it gets made I'm going to buy 4 tickets every time I go just to inflate sales and get it back on the air. I feel so awful I didn't watch it while it was on.

Oz, Deadwood, Rome, Carnivale, Futurama, The Tick, Sealab 2021, let the Sopranos come back for a few more episodes so they can end it right, Spaceghost Coast to Coast.
 
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Muck;1180446; said:
MililaniBuckeye;849731; said:
Hogan's Heroes
Rat Patrol
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Lost in Space
Wild, Wild West

Nearly all of these could be "moderned-up" and be something fresh for the younger audiences of today...
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While I loved those shows, do you trust the networks to "modern them up" into something that doesn't suck?
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VTTBOTS and LIS could easily be "moderned up" since they are already set in the somewhat modern era. If you think about it, Star Trek Voyager was essentially a "moderned up" LIS in a way.

Rat Patrol could easily be set in the Middle East now, tracking down insurgents vice blowing up Nazi supply convoys.

Hogan's Heroes and Wild, Wild West would take a little work, but I think some creative thinking could pull it off. Hell, Hogan's Heroes was little more than situational slapstick comedy.
 
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Taosman;1180172; said:
Seinfield! Consistently funniest show ever.
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2nd only to 'Arested Development', but it ran it's course. One of my favorite things about AD was in the 3rd season; you could pick out the exact show where they were told they were getting the axe, and some of the references the rest of the way were some of the funniest moments from the entire show's run.

Tobias: You know, Michael, if I may take off my acting pants for a moment and pull my analrapist stocking over my head, George Michael has been acting strange lately. I think he may have developed what we in the soft sciences refer to as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, or "the O.C. disorder."
Michael: Don't call it that.

Michael: Hey, so what's going on with the fund raiser?
George Sr.: Well, I don't think the Home Builders Organization is going to be supporting us.
Michael: Yeah, the HBO's not gonna want us. What do we do now?
George Sr.: Well, I think it's Showtime. I think we have to put on a show during dinner.
Lucille: They said we owed them too much money. [...] I've got fifty people coming in three hours and nothing to feed them, no one to serve it. We've got to make a good impression or we're finished!
Narrator: Now that's a clearcut situation with a promise of comedy. Tell your friends.

Narrator: Please, tell your friends about this show.

For me...
1. 'Arrested Development'
2. 'Chappelle's Show'
3. 'Insomniac with Dave Attell'
4. 'The State'
5. 'Strangers with Candy'
6. 'Freaks and Geeks'
 
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