Each year TV premiere weeks promise slogans like the hottest and biggest thing to hit primetime and you don't want to miss it, baiting us into thinking we're about to play witness to a revolution of some kind.
So, we begin tuning in each week to see the soap opera unfold, whether that is through laughs or blood”we start to get hooked. Then without warning, the show gets cancelled and so too goes our favourite reason to stay home. Some networks give more opportunity to program growth than others. FOX is notorious for putting the emphasis on the first couple of episodes to see if viewership warrants a third, but it's still the most watched network. Lately there has been more options for shows to distribute through online outlets like Netflix. Then there are shows like Nashville, which was cancelled last spring only to find new legs within the CMT Network, a typically non-scripted network with no ties to drama shows.
But, then there are shows that just seemingly aren't ever coming back, and why they were cancelled in the first place is still baffling.
Here are nine TV shows that really way too short lived.
Ringer
Ran for: 1 season (2011 “ 2012)
When news broke that Sarah Michelle Gellar would be back on a primetime drama, one that was seeing two of her, Buffy fans were in bliss. Produced by Nicole Snyder (one of the folks behind the CW hit Supernatural), Ringer had convoluted plot lines with continuous twists and mind tricks and for some people that was just too much to follow. There were also comparisons to Revenge, which could have dampened the appeal. SMG was so good in her role(s) that’s it’s a real shame we didn’t get to see more of the good vs. evil, a.k.a. Bridget versus Siobhan drama. It could also be argued that Gellar has been typecast as Buffy Summers forever.
