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.
Veronica Mars
Ran for: 3 seasons (2004 “ 2007)
Chances are if you’re a big Kristen Bell fan, that admiration started in the mid ˜00s and was probably due to this show. A modern day Nancy Drew, Bell was a softer version of Marvel’s Jessica Jones in many ways. When it was cancelled there was such Veronica Mars blues that a Kickstarter campaign was created to try and bring it back. Its goal was to raise $2 million to help create a feature film, which was accomplished in just 10 hours. Although it wasn’t a full return, the feature film filled the void in 2014, receiving industry praise and scoring 79 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes.
