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.
Get Real
Ran for: 1 season (1999 “ 2000)
The FOX drama followed the lives of the Green family, consisting of perfect daughter Meghan (Anne Hathaway), bullied son Kenny (Jesse Eisenberg) and macho beefcake Cameron (Eric Christian Olsen). The show was raw and playful, introspective and weird, and although the siblings looked nothing like each other, it was still believable that they were a family. It was the show that you learned from without it being too overbearing, and one that you’ll randomly think about when you’re at your folks and everyone is arguing over the bathroom.
