10 Epic TV Shows That Never Made It To Our Screens

Television is an unpredictable and merciless beast that requires two things in order to exist.

Investment and a strong narrative.

If a show is lacking in either of these departments, the chances are it isn't going to be around for too long.

Yet, sometimes we find ourselves with incredible concepts that fans are chomping at the bit to see, only to have these ideas squashed before they ever land on our screens.

Sometimes these shows are even filmed (multiple episodes in a few cases) yet these examples lie dormant in the lost world of Epic TV Shows.

Over the years, multiple shows have had pilots shot or had completed scripts in pre-production, only for the idea to lose steam due to a poor response from test audiences or the people pumping in the dollar.

It's a crying shame that some of these shows never got the chance to make it to us and - with a few tweaks - in another life, they definitely could have.

Just remember, we won't be getting a Game of Thrones prequel called Bloodmoon, but Keeping Up with the Kardashians will still be a thing.

There's no better way to kick off this list than with NBC's failed sci-fi television series, Day One.

The show was going to be set around a group of apartment residents that managed to avoid being wiped out by a worldwide catastrophe. An incident that would tear down the infrastructure that was keeping modern civilisation from crumbling, this definitely had the makings for something epic.

Alex Graves - of Fringe and Journeyman fame - directed the pilot and the series was set to fill in the Heroes time slot on NBC, post-2010 Olympics.

Originally planned as a 13-episode order, a shocking 9 episodes were wiped off the slate in October 2009. Then - adding further doubt about the actual quality of the project - it was announced that the pilot episode would air as a television movie, instead.

It was clear that this move was an attempt to see if there would be any demand for a follow-up to what the audience would see in the pilot/movie and as it turned out...we didn't even get a chance to decide if we liked it or not.

In May 2010, Entertainment Weekly would report that the show would likely never be aired on TV.

NBC had the potential to create a Lost/Heroes level hit here, but it looked as though they never truly had any faith in what was being produced.