I remember
when I grossly overestimated what shows from the 2013-2014 season would be
cancelled. A lot of shows on that list were probably not going to be cancelled,
but I decided to list a bunch anyways. Now I could mention all the shows that I
predicted and whether or not they were cancelled, but I decided that, instead,
I would just list all the cancelled shows and I would say whether or not I was
right about them getting cancelled this season or not. If I said they would be
cancelled, I’ll let you know. If they were cancelled and I said nothing about
it being cancelled, then I’ll let you know. And, for the record, you can look
back at my old blog post to know for sure that I’m telling you the truth on
whether or not the show would be cancelled. I might skip some shows that don’t
really apply to the predictions that I made.
American Dad (I knew nothing about this
so even though it will live on another network, I was clueless that it was
going to be cancelled), How I Met Your
Mother (we all knew that it was ending this season so my prediction that it
would end was correct), Nikita (the
network announced that it was ending so I knew that it would be one of them), Lucky 7 (I had thought that this would
be cancelled and I was right, although I wish I had known that it would get
cancelled so soon), Murder Police (the
bad title had nothing to do with people not watching the show as FOX cancelled
it before it ever aired and possibly before they finished making it, although
it was still a prediction of mine to be cancelled), We Are Men (this was the most obvious going to be cancelled show
for me from the very beginning of the season, so I was right when I picked it),
Surviving Jack (with so many people
hating it before it started, its eventual cancellation didn’t surprise me), Ironside (the idea sounded like it
wouldn’t work, but I wished that I had remembered this when it came time to do
the dead pool at www.tv.com), Welcome to the Family (when you think
about the main plot it had, I was right in thinking that it would be cancelled),
Us and Them (I had no idea that this
would die, but if it actually aired, then I might have known), Back in the Game (I’m not sure how I
knew it was bad, but I was right and it was cancelled), Sean Saves the World (this struck me as not very interesting and
seems like it would be cancelled), The
Michael J Fox Show (since the network forwent a pilot, I thought that it
wasn’t a good sign, although I do hope that the rest of the episodes wind up
airing at some point), The X-Factor (this
show’s cancellation makes sense, but I had no idea it was going to happen), Raising Hope (since it moved to
Fridays, getting cancelled seemed more likely, but I did not think that it
would be), Mind Games (I thought
that the science fiction of the show would end up killing it, but it didn’t
even have that in the first place), Once
Upon a Time in Wonderland (for random reasons, I thought that it would be
cancelled), Almost Human (since it
was sci-fi, I thought that it wouldn’t last long), Dads (while I knew that it probably wouldn’t be among the very
first cancellations, I knew that it wouldn’t last long and I was right), Rake (the bad title is what made me
think it would get cancelled, although promos for it didn’t help change my
opinion), Enlisted (I thought that
it sounded lame, although I’m not entirely sure that’s what the end result was,
it was still cancelled in the end), The
Carrie Diaries (this might have been a random choice I had as a
cancellation, but it was right nonetheless), Killer Women (because of its bad title, I thought that it would be
cancelled and I was right), Star-Crossed
(I thought that this didn’t sound long term although the writers should have
known that before their cliffhanger finale), The Tomorrow People (even on the CW, a lot of great shows get
cancelled and I can never figure out which ones for sure and definitely wasn’t
right about this one), Mixology (high
concept show with a premise that probably wouldn’t work is why this show’s
cancellation was obvious for me), Trophy
Wife (bad title rule turned out right), The Neighbors (with bad reception and rating, I figured that it
wouldn’t last much longer and the writers stopped caring as well since they
knew they were getting cancelled), Super
Fun Night (maybe if I had seen more promos for this before it aired, then I
would have been able to say it would be cancelled, but I didn’t think that with
my mass predictions), Suburgatory (I
was never impressed by this show, but since other people were, I had not
thought it would end), Community
(with the network liking to mess with it a lot, I thought that this would end),
Growing up Fisher (maybe this was
too obscure and among a group of unannounced shows, but I didn’t think that
this would be cancelled), Revolution
(I figured that whatever was going on with this show wasn’t going to help it), Believe (no clue that this would end), Crisis (it didn’t sound like a long
term idea in my mind and it seemed similar to Hostages which also didn’t sound
like it could make it long either),
Friends with Better Lives (it fell victim to the CBS curse since a
midseason show on their network doesn’t get renewed, basically, if it was a new
CBS show, then I had it listed as cancelled), Hostages (people didn’t like it and that typically kills a show and
I predicted that a short term thing like this probably wouldn’t work), Intelligence (unless you only want to
last one season, who wants to be a midseason replacement on CBS?), The Crazy Ones (the show might have
been too crazy for people to work on TV long term and I knew that it would be
cancelled, plus CBS doesn’t typically do single camera sitcoms so how both this
and Bad Teacher wound up in the same season is beyond my understanding,
although their cancellations don’t surprise me in the least), Bad Teacher (I don’t think that this
show was on my list since CBS picked it up for midseason at the last minute,
although this doesn’t matter since I would have called it dead anyways), Dracula (I thought that people would be
over vampires and this one was right), Betrayal
(typically, the more obscure a show, the more likely it is to be cancelled,
although this one had slipped my mind because I didn’t list it with others).
Okay, now I
will mention other notable cancelled shows and since my predictions are
typically limited to prime time, then you’ll know why they weren’t on the list
of stuff I predicted right. Summer shows are also in the category of shows I
don’t normally predict cancellations about, making me similar to the
cancellation bear of www.tvbythenumbers.com.
Other notable cancelled shows that weren’t on primetime and not on my list of
predictions were The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,
America Now, Bethenny, Judge Alex, The Test, and Trisha. There might be more
that haven’t been announced yet.
