The Best Canceled Television Shows.
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- CreatorJoss WhedonStarsNathan FillionGina TorresAlan TudykFive hundred years in the future, a renegade crew aboard a small spacecraft tries to survive as they travel the unknown parts of the galaxy and evade warring factions as well as authority agents out to get them.
- CreatorRand RavichStarsDamian LewisSarah ShahiAdam ArkinDetective Charlie Crews was framed, convicted and cleared for a crime he didn't commit. Twelve years of hard time have given him a unique philosophy on life and criminal investigation. Now he's readjusting to a world that's moved on.
- CreatorAbi MorganStarsRomola GaraiBen WhishawDominic WestA behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
- CreatorBill GallagherSarah BartonSarah BrownStarsJoanna VanderhamEmun ElliottStephen WightThe story of a young woman who works in a department store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world.A worthy drama about the rise of a shopgirl in a department store.
- CreatorCormac WibberleyMarianne WibberleyStarsMichael EalyWarren KoleSonya WalgerCenters on cops Wes Mitchell and Travis Marks, who have a problem -- each other -- so their captain sends them to couples therapy.Another excellent production axed too early. Features bickering police officers. Humor and great chemistry.
- StarsRachael StirlingJulie GrahamSophie RundleIn 1952, four women who worked at the wartime code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, reunite to track down a serial killer.A history drama series about the women at Bletchley.
- CreatorAvrum JacobsonStarsShawn DoylePatrick GallagherKatharine IsabelleThe death of his fiancee has left chess master Arkady Balagan agoraphobic and unwilling to step outside of his hotel. This debilitation, however, doesn't stop him from solving difficult crimes.
- CreatorTheresa RebeckStarsDebra MessingJack DavenportKatharine McPheeMore drama occurs behind the scenes than on stage, as the team prepares an ambitious Broadway musical on the life of Marilyn Monroe.The music from the first season alone is worth watching for.
- CreatorJoss WhedonStarsEliza DushkuHarry LennixFran KranzA top secret organization erases the identities of attractive young people, turning them into blank "dolls" ready for imprints of temporary identities they need to fulfill assignments for clients.
- CreatorBryan FullerTodd HollandStarsCaroline DhavernasKatie FinneranTyron Leitso24-year-old loner B.A. Jaye lives in a trailer park and sells souvenirs in Niagara Falls. Animal figurines and dolls speak to her and force her to interact with people and try to help them.Starrs Traci Thoms and Lee Pace. Set in Niagara Falls.
- CreatorBryan FullerStarsLee PaceAnna FrielChi McBrideA pastry chef with the power to bring dead people back to life solves murder mysteries with his resurrected childhood sweetheart, a cynical private investigator, and a lovesick waitress.Lee Pace, Kristin Chenoweth, and music...need I say more?
- CreatorLynn Marie LathamBernard LechowickStarsKyle ChandlerSammi DavisKen JenkinsWorld War II is over and the boys from the town of River Run, Ohio, are coming home. It seems that life is slowly going back to normal, but war has changed everything and they will never be the same again.Great series set after World War II. Starrs Kyle Chandler, Jessica Steen, John Slattery (Mad Men), and Hattie Winston.
- CreatorJason KatimsStarsPeter KrauseLauren GrahamDax ShepardThe lives and tragedies of the Braverman family tree.This show! The best thing about it is how they manage to portray how a family should be - imperfect, but there for each other.
- CreatorMarshall HerskovitzEdward ZwickStarsSela WardBilly CampbellJeffrey NordlingA divorced father and a soon-to-be divorced mother meet and begin a romantic courtship which is always complicated by their respective children and their own life problems.A great family drama starring Sela Ward and Billy Campbell as two very sweet and deserving characters who find love a second time around. The angst comes from their extended families.
- CreatorIan WeirMichele McMahonStarsAdam BeachPascale HuttonKevin McNultySeries set in Yellowknife portrays renegade bush pilots at work and play in northern Canada.Excellent series starring Adam Beach in the lead role. Set in Yellowknife, portrays renegade bush pilots at work and play in Canada's north.
- CreatorLaurie Finstad-KnizhnikStarsCara GeeTattiawna JonesMelissa FarmanIn 1869 Janestown on the Alberta-Montana border, three women band together for survival after the men in their town are murdered.In 1869 Janestown, on the Alberta-Montana border, women band together for survival after the men in their party are murdered.
- CreatorIain HollandsStarsMathew BayntonJenna FischerJoel FryWhen a group of ordinary people learn that an eight-mile-wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town of Slough to watch the end of the world on television.Excellent new (and short-lived) comedy starring Megan Mulally (you won't recognize her), Rob Lowe, and several other well-known actors.
- CreatorKevin WilliamsonStarsDylan McDermottMaggie QVictor RasukA team of detectives investigates stalkers in Los Angeles.A little dark, but very well done, with a great cast headed by Maggie Q and Dyland McDermott.
- CreatorLisa Quijano WolfingerDavid ZabelStarsMcKinley Belcher IIISuzanne BertishNorbert Leo ButzFollows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma Green.This series was hardly given a chance to begin when it was canceled by PBS. A great period and historical series set in Virginia, during the civil war.
- CreatorRand RavichStarsRobert KazinskyDilshad VadsariaAdhir KalyanA billionaire bio-engineer brings a dead police officer back to life.This show had nice premise - a grumpy old cop dies and is regenerated by genious tech twins - a second chance to be a better (physical) version of his old self. His new form is impossibly strong. A different take on the superhuman angle. Nice cast, too.