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.
Happy Endings
Ran for: 3 seasons (2011 “ 2013)
OK so this just wasn’t fair at all. The show had dynamic characters played by a quintessential cast, with Canada’s sweetheart, Elisha Cuthbert, making her TV return since she exited 24. So Alex (played by Cuthbert) left Dave at the altar, they still had their mutual friends Jane, Penny, Max and Brad there to pull it together with such deadpan humour and comedic timing”dare I compare it to Friends? Seriously, rewatch this and tell me you don’t miss the gang.
