10 New TV Shows That Are Already Doomed
Citadel is a $300 million money pit for Amazon.
Even the most modest TV show is a frankly massive undertaking, with hundreds of cast and crew members coming together for many months to produce a season of content you'll no doubt burn through in a weekend.
The sheer number of moving parts involved with any series is absolutely mind-boggling - a daring plate-spinning exercise on the part of those in charge.
And while it's always great to cheerlead a hot new show that takes the world by storm, we have to face facts - those shows are few-and-far-between for a reason: they're a massive pain in the ass to make.
It's far more common for shows to fall flat, sadly, and while these 10 TV series have only recently premiered - if at all - the writing already seems to be on the wall. Basically, they're probably already toast.
From series that blew their ambitious concepts to those that failed to justify their already-dubious existence, and those that have been suffering through extensive production issues, these new series seem primed to suffer an unfortunate fate, from cancellation to scathing reviews to simply being forgotten...
10. Extrapolations
A rare miss for Apple TV+ on the sci-fi front - given their mesmerising results with For All Mankind, Severance, and most recently Silo - Extrapolations' buzzy cast invited lofty expectations that it just couldn't live up to.
The recently concluded first - and perhaps only - season wasn't wanting for star wattage, yet ultimately failed to offer any fresh or involving perspectives on the climate crisis.
This is a show that makes the mistake of placing so much emphasis on its admittedly important subject that it forgets to be actually interesting or have much in the way of basically compelling human drama. When that happens, even those who agree with the message will start understandably tuning out.
Even the wildly over-qualified cast couldn't do much to save this ambitious yet fundamentally hugely disappointing effort from the great Scott Z. Burns (Contagion).
Apple hasn't yet commented on the status of a potential second season, though it'd shock nobody if this thing was quietly axed given that the completion rate is almost certainly dire.