best canceled new show of the 2010/2011 TV season

I was looking for Terriers, then I realized you said broadcast-only.

haha i was about to say, is it broadcast only so Terriers wouldnt run away w/it?

it wasn't amazing, but Chicago Code at least wasn't tremendously shitty like 99% of these were.

i kinda wanna vote for the cape because i kinda don't want "the cape" jokes to become out-of-date

The Cape was batshit stupid, how could I NOT vote for it

i saw one episode of traffic light and it was really funny. I think that's the only show of this list I saw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzi1vqubdBI

I want my children to know what this is about

yeah poll would be boring w/ Terriers in the running, the lack of an obvious "brilliant but canceled" cult favorite is the reason i thought this would be an unpredictable and maybe fun poll, but i wasn't heartbroken about even my favorites

top 10:
Better With You, Chaos, Mr. Sunshine, The Good Guys, Traffic Light, Outlaw, Breaking In, The Whole Truth, The Chicago Code, The Paul Reiser Show

bottom 10 (that i got through at least half an episode of):
The Event, V, The Cape, Mad Love, Chase, Outsourced, Detroit 1-8-7, Off The Map, Running Wilde, Undercovers

i never watched outsourced but i remember being astonished by the ads for it

damn, can't even get a cop show to work these days

watched exactly 0 of shows listed

actually i might not have gotten even half an episode through Chase, that was just dire

doctor shows are the ones that really bring in the young ppl these days

tho I meant to check out Detroit 1-8-7

Outsourced did get far less offensive and more funny in the latter-season eps I saw (including the final one), but when you have a pilot that was that bad you deserve the cancellation you get.

Saw one episode of Detroit 187, Chase, LOLA and Running Wild each, and the snippets of Perfect Couples and Paul Reiser via DVR. Of the bunch, Perfect Couples at least appeared to have a dumbed down How I Met Your Mother "relationships, AMIRITE?" thing going on, and I could have seen Detroit 187 becoming the dumbed down Homicide: Life On The Street it wanted to be after it lost the weak-ass faux-doc angle. Still voting for The Cape. I miss ads for that so much.

Have seen some reports that Fox might have second thoughts about Breaking In, btw. Since shows typically don't get UNcanceled, it's probably safe to include it here.

xx-post - Did it? It looked so unbelievably racist in the previews and stuff. I'm surprised it ever aired let alone did so and got axed.

xpost Aw, I kinda loved that Christian Slater was gonna pull off three failed one season shows in a row.

"Dammit, every other '80s teenybopper is scoring on TV, WHY CAN'T WE GET SLATER TO HIT???"

you could've cut down a couple of really solid episodes of Outsourced from the best of the whole season, but it definitely wasn't worth waiting around for those occasional funny moments

i heard Breaking In might not be dead yet (and it already came back from the dead once before getting on the air) but it's an OK show and probably won't get talked about on ILX anywhere else so figured eh might as well leave it in

i feel so much "fuck you ABC for believing in this enough to give it a 2nd season" bile for V

I voted Mr. Sunshine, but chiefly because I thought Roman was great. I hope that kid eventually lands on something successful.

(although, looking at imdb, I see he's only three years younger than I am.)

really? maybe it's because i mainly know that guy from commercials but he seems like such a generic 'upbeat fat guy comic relief' type that i can't really imagine looking forward to seeing him in something else, even if he did work well in Mr. Sunshine.

What can I say...he just strikes me as joyfully funny.

yeah he's definitely likable, just struck me as an odd person to single out

showkillers tally:
Better With You is Josh Cooke's 4th canceled series
Breaking In is Christian Slater and Bret Harrison's 3rd canceled series
Mr. Sunshine is Andrea Anders' 3rd canceled series
Mad Love is Tyler Labine's 3rd canceled series and Judy Greer's 3rd canceled series
Perfect Couples is Kyle Bornheimer's 3rd canceled series and David Walton's 2nd canceled series

oops no Andrea's 4th

Judy Greer's 3rd canceled series

Still have room in my heart for Miss Guided, R.I.P. :(

i wonder if Paula Marshall retired from the doomed sitcom game, like if Gary Unmarried making it 2 whole seasons spoiled her losing streak like Susan Lucci finally winning an Emmy

A couple of Andrea Anders' shows have had more than one season (I'm right in thinking Better Off Ted had a second season, yes?).

yeah i'm being liberal with my defnition of "showkiller" here, two of her shows lasted 2 seasons, as did Reaper (with Bret Harrison and Tyler Labine)

I kind of liked Mad Love. Even though the main couple (dork from American Pie and one of Roseann's kids) were getting pretty tedious.

they totally could've done something good with that ragtag crew of also-rans and showkillers, but the writing was just dire

actually i might not have gotten even half an episode through Chase, that was just dire

Chase managed to be just as stupid as The Cape, only it wasn't about a psycho traumatizing his son by dressing up as a comic book hero

i feel so much "fuck you ABC for believing in this enough to give it a 2nd season" bile for V

I must OTM you forever for this sentiment

Chicago Code, Traffic Light, and Human Target (first season) are the ones I'll miss.

I'll also miss the theme song to Perfect Couples but not the show.

yeah Human Target i was barely even aware of when it existed but then after it was canceled i was like hmm that looks like it could've been good, i should've watched it.

i just heard the Mad Love theme song for probably the last time. i will not miss it.

awesome idea for a thread some dude. I voted for Running Wilde. i also enjoyed Better With You. didn't love either of them.

outsourced, perfect couple, and the last five minutes of better with you and the first five minutes of mr. sunshine were the only ones of these i ever caught any of - would have to vote perfect couples i guess there. the chicago code was the only one i was curious about.

I watched one episode of Perfect Couples and hated it. Heard it got better, but the ratings foretold doom so I never picked it back up.

I thought Better With You was perfectly charming but ultimately fluff and even though I saw most of the episodes I really don't care that it's been canceled.

Outsourced's pilot was so terrible that I didn't watch it again until the second half of the season, and only then because I just left it on NBC after 30 Rock was over. The Indian castmembers were really great and the tone of the show became less "lol Indian customs" and more typical sitcom humor, but the white actors were either as bland as possible (the main guy, his Aussie girlfriend) or completely unfunny and moronic (Diedrich Bader).

I voted for Mr. Sunshine because I saw where it had room to improve and wanted to see that happen, but it was too farcical for network tv in 2011 probably. (At least ABC tv.)

so is the event gonna be the last blatant attempt at creating another lost we're gonna get? i swear each of those things was worse than the one that failed before it.

abrams has another sure-to-fail Lost type show premiering for Fox soon

Yeah, Terra Nova looks like a cross between Lost and Jurassic Park.

yeah Human Target i was barely even aware of when it existed but then after it was canceled i was like hmm that looks like it could've been good, i should've watched it.

Just read this:
http://gazbox.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/chance-meetings.jpg

ten bucks on Amazon

Saw half the first ep of Shat, My Dad, Says on TV, laptop-watched the second Paul Reiser for Rollins, and No Ordinary Family premiered here last week - don't think any of the others have aired. Out of those three, it's Super-Chiklis, but the only good thing was the daughter's whinging on the plane at the beginning. Chiklis, Benz and Romany Malco in one show should be half-decent though.

Aw, they cancelled the Good Guys? I was just getting into that from t0rr3ntz :(

i didn't watch the good guys, but i hope now colin hanks can revisit his role as the guitar-strummy priest on mad men.

Vinnie Jones as Dominic Raoul / Scales – a frightening criminal menace with a freakish skin condition that gives him the appearance of being covered with green and gold scales. His "scales" make him more resistant to damage. He is an enemy of the Cape. It was revealed in the episode “Scales” that he was at one time part of a circus sideshow due to his skin condition.

I cannot see how this would not be a hit.

Very important stapler scene at 2:59

The Chicago Code and No Ordinary Family are the only two I've watched. The former was good, and gets my vote. I'm sad to see it go. The latter was DISMAL and I would have been pretty shocked if it made it to a second season.

"Detroit 187" was almost good.

"Undercovers" was unforgivably bad but I am totally in love with the lead actress so there you go

i will watch almost any comic book adaptation, but i will not read almost any comic book

it feels like a really clever TV thriller!

and i would rather watch a clever TV thriller than read a comic book that feels like one! because fuck a comic book!

This thread is doing nothing to confirm my suspicion that my husband and I are the only people on earth who watch The Defenders.

Nothing to deny my suspicion, that is. It's doing everything to confirm it.

that seemed like it could be OK but Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell are such an unpromising pair of stars that i decided to wait for that other "funny lawyer show" with the slightly less distasteful Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

lol @ tv

haha I forgot I saw the first episode of the Defenders. It wasn't good, and my desire to see Jerry O'Connell gainfully employed was undercut by my desire to not see Jim Belushi.

Belushi is quite bad, but O'Connell's watchable enough. It passes a wee bit of time once a week and I won't miss it when it's gone.

The Event is utterly terrible, btw. We've just recently started working our way through the second half of the season, but it's hard going to care about stupid blondey half-alien who didn't even realise she was half-alien even when her dad said "I'm an alien, btw"

in fairness, that character was an MIT student; let's be happy that she is occasionally remembering to comb her hair

"dumbed down Homicide: Life on the Streets" is almost a perfect description of Detroit 187 which is how I voted (I saw maybe 2 eps)

i actually thought belushi was entertaining. he fits the part.

i kind of wonder if they were doing a slow-rollout on 'chicago code'. they obviously had ambitions to make it more wire-y and shield-y, but were probably tetchy about the 'complexity' for fear of losing imagined viewers.

wait "Mike and Molly" isn't on the block yet??????

Would vote Rubicon, but wasn't it on cable?

Mike & Molly was the highest rated new sitcom of the season iirc

I don't understand the country I live in ;_;

i think it's a decent show, but besides that it's a Chuck Lorre production on CBS Monday nights, those 2 things alone make it a hit out of the box.

detroit 1-8-7 was decent...imperioli has no luck though.

sorry, i missed 'broadcast networks only'. yeah, rubicon was amc
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and i would rather watch a clever TV thriller than read a comic book that feels like one! because fuck a comic book!

― some dude, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:51 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

lmao owned

that seemed like it could be OK but Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell are such an unpromising pair of stars that i decided to wait for that other "funny lawyer show" with the slightly less distasteful Breckin Meyer and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

― some dude, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:03 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

FRANKLIN & BASH!!!

Franklin and Rizzoli and Bash and Isles

Would vote Rubicon, but wasn't it on cable?

I take it it's OK then? I've been recording it, but haven't got round to watching yet (they've been showing it on BBC4 over here in Britisher land)

it was definitely flawed and didn't have much payoff at the end, but i enjoyed it well enough and as a one-season investment i'd say it's worth it.

Add Hellcats to the cancelled list.

oh man i forgot that was still a thing

how the heck has the cast of one tree hill not priced itself out of existence yet

it was definitely flawed and didn't have much payoff at the end, but i enjoyed it well enough and as a one-season investment i'd say it's worth it.

― bile al (some dude), Tuesday, May 17, 2011 3:39 PM

the finale was definitely more season finale feeling than series finale feeling. shame it didn't get to develop further.

Human Target got my vote. Reminded me in spirit of old 80s action shows like The Equalizer, A-Team, MacGuyver, etc. They mishandled the show by putting emphasis on the wrong elements and characters, but it had some great moments.

Thanks for Rubicon feedback, will get it started over the weekend.

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BONEBAG!

Really wanted to vote for Lone Star but it got missed

I really think Chicago Code was starting to hit its stride. Really kind of pissed that it was cancelled to allow FOX to greenlight some new cop show about a detective that talks to his dead wife or something. Ugh.

Traffic Light was also pretty funny, a lot better than other sitcoms still being foisted on us.

V was so so awful, can't believe it even made it to season two.

I don't begrudge "Firefly" alumni getting more work but oof

Really wanted to vote for Lone Star but it got missed

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, May 23, 2011 7:01 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

that's really my bad, it got canceled so quickly so early in the season that i forgot about it. i really wanted to see it, too!

let's just consider the "other" option the Lone Star vote, since that's the only unintentional omission i've noticed so far

write in for lone star

What little I saw of Lone Star was v. good.

I was... not a fan of Lone Star, not too sad about that one

let's just consider the "other" option the Lone Star vote, since that's the only unintentional omission i've noticed so far

Done!

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ha never saw these results. weirdly strong showing for Reiser!

Running Wilde? Damn, I couldn't vote for that one, and I actually stuck it out for almost the entire series!

but then, i forgot to vote

9 votes for one really funny Alan Alda impression in an otherwise worthless show

Lone Star was 5000000000x better than all these combined.

was running wilde another mitchell hurwitz show that made you question whether arrested development was as good as you remember?

yes.

thankfully, AD is still, indeed as good as you remember