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.
Dirty Sexy Money
Ran for: 2 seasons (2007 “ 2009)
The amount of promotion ABC did for this show was unbelievable. Stick acclaimed actors like Peter Kraus and Donald Sutherland into a telling drama based on power and fortunes, slap in some selfish socialites within a city like New York and you’d think nothing would excite people more. The show was centred around the Darling family, its class expectations and how much hatred (and attention) the mess of a family could attract. Despite mediocre ratings in its first season, ABC did take a chance on the show and renewed for season two, but unfortunately that was as far as it got, which is an utter shame. Who doesn’t like watching rich people self-destruct? Re-watching this brings it all back.
