TV Trade-Off

I’m sure at somepoint or another throughout your life you’ve wondered what it would be like to bring something back in exchange to get rid of something else. In this case, I’m referring to television shows - if you could travel back in time(no matter the year)and bring back 4 tv shows you loved that were cancelled.. then which 4 tv shows would take their place on the cancellation block?

Example

Bring Back:

Moonlight
Married with Children
John Doe
The Black Donnellys

Cancel:

American Idol
America’s Top Model
I Love New York
Judge Judy

I’m only picking shows that had a hasty demise.

Angel
Arrested Devlopment
Back To You
Fastlane

Rome, Moonlight, Journeyman, Surface, New Amsterdam, Threshold are on the alternates list

in exchange for

According to Jim
Grey’s Anatomy
Ugly Betty
and that charlie sheen show that I never watch.

While I miss John Doe, I miss the first several episodes, once they started being brutal to women and killing them off left and right I wained on the show

Renewed:

Wiseguy
Mr. Show
Deadwood
Twin Peaks

Cancelled:

1 CSI
2 Law & Orders
Any reality show

30 seasons of MARRIED… WITH CHILDREN didn’t give you enough iterations of the same six jokes?

I do miss the nudy bar songs & N O’ M A A M Meetings. As a matter of fact, my first (official) time to a nudy bar I pulled a nudy bar quote out of my ass (the show was topical then).

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Originally Posted by Phil View Post Renewed: Wiseguy Mr. Show Deadwood Twin Peaks Cancelled: 1 CSI 2 Law & Orders Any reality show

Leave the original Law & Order be. The new cast is excellent.

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Originally Posted by devincf View Post 30 seasons of MARRIED… WITH CHILDREN didn’t give you enough iterations of the same six jokes?

Uhhh…no devin (rednecks scream)

Bring back:
Sports Night
Misfits of Science
Chicago Hope
The Sopranos (not an extension though, I’d love to see a prequel series with Johnny boy and a young Jr.)

86:
Any Bachelor/Bachelorette
So you think you can dance
Desperate Housewives
Greys Anatomy

Not to derail, but fuck Black Donnellys.

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Originally Posted by devincf View Post 30 seasons of MARRIED… WITH CHILDREN didn’t give you enough iterations of the same six jokes?

Its my all-time favorite sitcom, the show deserves a series finale episode.

I liked the one where aliens were stealing Al’s socks and using them as fuel for their spaceship. I trade that one episode for every program currently on television. Goddamn that was funny.

“Moon men stole my socks!”

Re-watching the first season on DVD recently makes me want to see an updated Picket Fences. At least…as long as Fyvush Finkel is still kickin.

And I second keeping Law & Order around; Sisto and Roache (and Anderson to be fair) have been fantastic additions to the show.

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Originally Posted by Moltisanti View Post I liked the one where aliens were stealing Al’s socks and using them as fuel for their spaceship. I trade that one episode for every program currently on television. Goddamn that was funny. “Moon men stole my socks!”

I also support Al’s turn on COPS “FLOOR IT DANO!” and the Film Noir episode “How many locked bathrooms are in this city?”

What about the one where he’s kicked off the softball team? How many network shows had the stones to do a pitch-perfect parody of EIGHT MEN OUT?

That was another good episode. Damn shame they didn’t get the rights to “Love and Marriage” for the dvds though. Plus the one where he fights the beer tax and takes on local street toughs were also good ones.

Who can forget the joy we all felt when Joe Flaherty played Al’s dentist?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Oyf29p8_3c

How is it that no one has mentioned Freaks and Geeks yet?

Freaks and Geeks. I’d trade a lot for Freaks and Geeks.

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Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post I’m only picking shows that had a hasty demise. Angel

Five seasons worth of a show is hasty?

Bring Back:
Deadwood (Two seasons and a fire that destroys everything, that’s all)
The Invisible Man
Sleeper Cell (They were about to get Jack Bauer)
Wonderfalls

Cancel:
I’d give back the two seasons of Rome we got for the two extra seasons of Deadwood, but somehow incorporate McKidd and Stevenson.
I’d trade every SCIFI ‘orginal’ ever created for three more seasons of The Invisible Man.
I’d trade The Tudors for more Sleeper Cell, bring on Rhys Davies as a CIA agent.
I’d trade Wonderfalls for Ghost Whisperer, and it can take Medium down with it.

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Originally Posted by Jack Dnim View Post Sleeper Cell (They were about to get Jack Bauer) Wonderfalls

Definitely. Really wish they could have done one more mini-series. Knowing Farik is still out there haunts me.

OK, I’m going to be that guy.

I’d gladly trade almost anything on FOX (including the recent seasons of The Simpsons & Family Guy) for more Firefly.

I just rewatched Slither last night and I want more Nathan Fillion without having to suffer through Desperate Housewives.

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Originally Posted by Jack Dnim View Post Five seasons worth of a show is hasty? Bring Back: The Invisible Man Cancel: I’d trade every SCIFI ‘orginal’ ever created for three more seasons of The Invisible Man.

The show just hit a great stride in season 5 and it had momentum to keep going for a few more seasons, thus the hasty demise.

Invisible Man was one of my favorite shows and I was bummed to see it go, I agree with that one but have you checked out Eureka? That’s an original show that I’d put on par with Invisible Man so far as greatness.