The original post: /r/television by /u/OkPainter6232 on 2025-08-02 02:53:19+00:00.
What are some TV shows that you are glad got cancelled early because the plans for future seasons sounded awful? I can think of at least two examples. Everwood being the first as the plans for season 5 sounded just dreadful frankly, there was an alternate ending filmed for the season 4 finale where Madison returns to Everwood and Amy is left waiting at the Ferris wheel as Ephram meets up with his ex-girlfriend?(who wants him to help her get her child back) and there were several plans for Season 5, including Nina being pregnant with Jake’s child, more of a focus on Delia, Nina and Andy’s wedding, the return of Andy’s father, and Ephram and Hannah getting together.
I really do not like the idea of Ephram standing up Amy for Madison(especially after the show already made a big deal about him letting go of his kid)and a pairing between him and Hannah sounds really unnatural so honestly the CW might’ve done the world a favor by not giving the show another season.
Also i’m glad FOX cancelled “A Minute With Stan Hooper” early after hearing about Norm McDonald’s plans for the show-season 1 was supposed to end with his wife getting killed by a drifter as he claimed the prior episodes were to lure the audience into a false sense of security before dropping the bombshell and apparently FOX were shockingly onboard with the idea(though they wanted to murder Stan’s wife in the first episode)and the only thing that derailed that frankly terrible idea was the show getting bad ratings forcing to get cancelled early before season 1 could get a full order. Thank fuck for that because I truly do not see how anyone could possibly be able to find that show funny after something like that happened. I had a hard enough time laughing at Seinfeld after they killed off Susan in a needlessly mean-spirited manner but this is a whole nother level of dark. I could see it working if it was say a drama/thriller like The WB’s “Glory Days” where it darkly deconstructs the idea of a small town(and apparently Glory Days started out as more of a straight-forward drama before it got changed into more of a thriller, presumably because WB already had quite a few “drama-set-in-a-small-town” TV shows like “Safe Harbor” and “Hyperior Bay” and Kevin Williamson wanted to do something to stand out from them)but I really don’t see how there’s any possible way you could make that work in an otherwise regular sitcom. I’ve never been so happy to have FOX screw over a show honestly.