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What's an example of a TV show that came out at before its time, or just at a bad time?

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Submitted ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Skavau@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨Television@lemm.ee⁩

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  • bdot@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Better Off Ted

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    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t know if it’s just the same few people that bring up Better Off Ted around here, but I love that it comes up as often as it does in these sorts of threads

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  • bobsuruncle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Terminator: the Sarah Connor chronicles. The strike killed it. It was really getting juicy.

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    • infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Also heroes. There will forever only be one season of heroes.

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      • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That first season really was amazing.

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  • MerrySkeptic@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Space: Above and Beyond

    Set in the 2050s as mankind has learned to predict and use naturally occurring wormholes for interstellar travel, they are drawn into a war with a new alien species that destroyed a colony. The show focuses on a squadron of fighter pilots in space One of them is a cloned, enhanced human used to fight in an earth bound war against synthetics and is seen as subhuman by many.

    The show had a very good plot, a serialized story but also self contained episodes, interesting moral dilemmas. But it was horribly marketed by Fox so it died after a season or two. The final episode was a huge cliffhanger too.

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  • BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Final Space

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  • theblips@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Wire would blow up in the binge era

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  • SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did not like it because it was a drama, but apparently a lot of people did like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and it probably would have fared better if it was not “competing” with 30 Rock.

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Witchblade from 2001

    Easily more than a decade ahead of it’s time in many ways. It’s themes, style, and narrative would all be premier TV stuff today.

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  • ultranaut@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rome

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    • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Rome ran for three seasons and was successful, but extremely expensive to produce. It was a joint production from BBC and HBO. And then there was a huge fire at that burned a bunch of the sets down between seasons. They were lucky to get that last season put together.

      I do wonder if modern tech would have made it more easily producible. I mean, we did get Game of Thrones which was hugely expensive and expansive.

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  • Tronn4@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Brisco County

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not to the intention of the questions but in Australia, Duckman as well as Ren & Stimpy were aired under the guise of kids shows. I remember watching Duckman after school. 4pm or so.

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  • HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wish Lost hadn’t come out back then. I wish I could watch it brand new today, at this age I would have enjoyed it more.

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  • Skavau@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From what I know of it, it seems as if the “Kings” tv show from 2009 might qualify?

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  • TotallyNotSpezUpload@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    According to Vince Gilligan: The lone gunman

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Ben Stiller Show.

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