10 TV Shows NOBODY Expected To Get Cancelled

10. Angel

Let's kick things off with one of the most insane and unfortunate cancellation stories in TV history - the premature and wildly unnecessary demise of Angel.

Despite the Buffy spin-off maintaining impressively consistent ratings across its five seasons, the show was abruptly canned by The WB mid-way through the airing of its fifth and ultimately final season.

The reason for this? Creator Joss Whedon, fed up with his cast members turning down jobs while waiting for Angel to be renewed each season, asked Jordan Levin, WB's Head of Entertainment, to make an early decision on Angel's fate, feeling confident that it would be renewed due to the show's critical and ratings success.

But Levin, feeling pressured to answer, decided to cancel Angel, much to the shock of Whedon and the entire ensemble cast. 

As if the ambiguous conclusion of the show's fifth season didn't sting enough, Angel's head writer David Fury later "guaranteed" that if Whedon hadn't requested an early answer, it would've been renewed for season six.