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.
Temptation Island (USA)
Ran for: 2 seasons (2001 “ 2003)
Before The Bachelor made its mark, there were a number of reality-dating shows and Temptation Island was one you should not forget. It was scandalous. Couples going to a remote island to test their love with (and often without) the other during the overnight? You witnessed enough craziness on each 60-minute episode to fulfill your weekly what am I doing with my life? intake. Was it too hot for TV? Maybe, but with what we’ve seen in recent years (cough¦ Dating Naked) perhaps it’s time for a revival. Watching couples cry, cheat and lie is just so guiltily entertaining. Then again there can only be one Chris Harrison and Temptation Island host, Mark L. Walberg, is a carbon copy of Harrison so… maybe that played a factor in the battle of the primetime host bros.
Also, don’t forget about Paradise Hotel, another classic gone too soon.
