10 TV Cancellations We're Still Not Over
The shows most deserving of a revival...
There's nothing better than sitting down to a new TV show, ready to invest your time into a sprawling, multi-season epic. Be it a sitcom, drama, or a slice of science-fiction, the feeling of getting into a show and watching the characters grow and the plot unfold is second to none. So, when a show is cancelled, out of the blue and with no satisfactory conclusion to the story you've been watching, it can be close to heartbreak.
Now there are of course some fair reasons for a show's cancellation, be it because of low ratings, expense or the inability to settle on where the series is going, but none of these do much for the people at home who have invested so much in a given story.
The more annoying reasons - behind-the-scenes feuds, scheduling conflicts and cancellation to make way for a new show - also don't do much to ease fans' minds.
The following list will have a look at some of these TV shows - those cancelled before their time, and all having caused something of an uproar in their respective fandoms.
10. Vinyl
From the minds of Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter, Rich Cohen and Mick Jagger, it seems as though Vinyl was almost guaranteed to succeed. Though the first season ran for ten episodes, and HBO were so happy with the pilot that they confidently green-lit a second season, the show was unfairly cancelled, leaving fans (and Scorsese) heartbroken.
The show followed Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale), a record executive on the seventies New York music scene. With a slew of staggering performances, primarily from Cannavale, Ray Romano, Olivia Wilde and Juno Temple, and an engaging premise rife with sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and music history, Vinyl was only just getting into the swing of things when HBO gave it the axe, stating that it was too cost-heavy and not generating enough viewers.
Scorsese seemed more upset by this news than anyone, claiming the decision was "tragic" and that he wished he had had the opportunity to be more involved with the show as it evolved. Us, too, Mr Scorsese. Us too.