10 TV Shows Already Cancelled In 2020 (And Why)

2020 has been a bloodbath for television and web series alike, with no streaming platform or traditional network avoiding the annual cull which turns its less successful offerings into one or two season wonders.

The cancelled series is a strange beast, underappreciated in its time but one which is often fondly remembered in years to come. Who hasn’t wondered what season ten of 2009’s Sit Down Shut Up would have looked like?

Very few people admittedly, so maybe not a great illustration, but the show is actually worth revisiting.

Not everything on this list is likely to become a cult favourite, however, with many of these series cut short due to critical hate and underwhelmed audience reactions. Some were vanity projects, some were always doomed to obscurity by virtue of their impenetrable premises, and some were simply sub-par series which had needed the chop for some time now.

With that in mind, let’s run down the television shows which have already had their winding up orders in the early half of 2020—and take a look at why.

Starring RuPaul, the outspoken host of the phenomenally popular reality competition series Drag Race, AJ and the Queen was schmaltzy misfire from Sex and the City creator Michael Patrick King with a laughably bad premise which anyone could have guessed wouldn’t connect with audiences.

Following RuPaul’s down-on-her-luck drag queen across America with her—not even joking here—orphan urchin sidekick, the series leaned heavily on the sentimental sweetness and failed to provide the laughs necessary to cut through this saccharine premise, resulting in an extremely early death for this one.

Debuting in January, AJ and the Queen was off our screens by the end of March.