Where do canceled TV shows go?
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Where do canceled TV shows go?
Interesting read on CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html
There are three stages of afterlife for a dead TV show, and a program's fate can be decided by its unaired episodes.
Heaven is a DVD release -- a kind of immortality for a series like Fox's "Firefly" or "The Tick," which had devoted viewerships that were too small for network advertisers but large enough to justify selling a boxed-set of discs.
Then there are the fallow summer months, a bitter purgatory where many as-yet-unseen installments of canceled shows are dumped in a last-ditch effort to fill the schedule with anything but reruns. Look for the remains of ABC's recently axed "L.A. Dragnet" to turn up here.
Hell, in this scenario, is never to be seen nor heard from again. Among the damned -- deserving or not -- are Fox's porn drama "Skin," ABC's supernatural thriller "Miracles" and the NBC version of the British sitcom "Coupling."
Heaven is a DVD release -- a kind of immortality for a series like Fox's "Firefly" or "The Tick," which had devoted viewerships that were too small for network advertisers but large enough to justify selling a boxed-set of discs.
Then there are the fallow summer months, a bitter purgatory where many as-yet-unseen installments of canceled shows are dumped in a last-ditch effort to fill the schedule with anything but reruns. Look for the remains of ABC's recently axed "L.A. Dragnet" to turn up here.
Hell, in this scenario, is never to be seen nor heard from again. Among the damned -- deserving or not -- are Fox's porn drama "Skin," ABC's supernatural thriller "Miracles" and the NBC version of the British sitcom "Coupling."
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I read that in my paper on Sunday. Interesting read. It just goes to show you that there is some hope out there to relive great shows that were cancelled.
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Oh and Boomtown! They should show all the unaired stuff for that too.
I loved the show, then they changed the format and I didn't love it but the characters had already sucked me in. Then NBC canceled it. Way to screw up the formula and then dump it!
I loved the show, then they changed the format and I didn't love it but the characters had already sucked me in. Then NBC canceled it. Way to screw up the formula and then dump it!
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Originally posted by Red Dog
I hope the unaired L.A. Dragnet episodes are aired at some point.
I hope the unaired L.A. Dragnet episodes are aired at some point.
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I'm just hoping that Andy Richter Controls the Universe makes it to DVD. There were still atleast 2-3 episodes that were not aired (including the episode featured on the Trio Making of Show. I think the episode was entitled Charity Begins in D-Block). Man I miss that show
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For some shows there's a chance that it'll air it's unaired stuff in syndication in other countries. It happened to Mission Hill, one of my favorite shows. It even eventually made it back to the states.
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I was just watching my Tick boxset, wondering who got the costumes when the show was cancelled.
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So using their analogy, the show 'Hunter' is a zombie that crawled out of its grave 15 years after death, decayed and rotten, until it was finally put down again with a bullet to the head.