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.
Game of Silence
Ran for: 1 Season (2016)
There’s still a sliver of hope for this show, there just has to be. The subject matter was heavy: childhood friends who’d been assaulted at the hands of a filthy warden at a detention facility. The kids have since reunited decades later and are seeking revenge after one of their squad is killed. The show was loosely based on the movie Sleepers. According to Deadline, the show wasn’t pulling in the numbers, particularly in the 18-49 live/same-day ratings. At least Shades of Blue got a second season, and let’s just hope NBC’s newest drama This Is Us makes an imprint after losing such a gem.
