Question of the Day - What do you think was the best show that was cancelled prematurely?

Today's Question of the Day comes from Pigeon666 who asks

"What do you think was the best show that was cancelled prematurely, and do you think that it would have gotten better if given more seasons?"

Wow, great question!

Well there are so many great shows in my humble opinion that got cancelled prematurely. Shows like Twin Peaks, Firefly, Threshold, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Surface, Earth 2, Nowhere Man, Journeyman, Deadwood, Invasion, and even Lost to name but a few. But I think the one that I miss the most I can't really explain why is Dark Skies.

This shows came on at a time when Alien stories were all the rage and tried to piggy back off from the success of the X-Files.

From Wikipedia

Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi drama television series that aired from 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a two-hour pilot episode.

The series debuted September 21, 1996 on NBC, and was later rerun by the Sci-Fi Channel. Its tagline was "History as we know it is a lie."


The thing that got me really interested was that the writers had a five season plan and it was sad that they never got to tell their story.

From Wikipedia

Although the last episode produced provides some form of closure for the series, the show's creators had originally hoped to create five seasons, as indicated by the show's "Bible" or major planning document.[1] According to Zabel and Friedman's original plan, the pilot and first season (given the overall title "Official Denial") would cover the period from 1962 to 1969, the second season ("Progenitor") 1970 to 1976, the third season ("Cloak of Fear") 1977 to 1986, the fourth season ("New World Order") would cover 1987 to 1999, and the fifth and final season ("Stroke of Midnight") would break from the decade-spanning format to encompass the apocalyptic final conflict against the invaders, taking place from 2000 to 2001.

So what about you? What shows were cancelled too soon that you think would have gotten even better? What do you think would have happened in subsequent seasons had it not been cancelled?

Sound off in the comments.

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