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The blog today is one of my biggest sources of agony, a sore spot. Here is a list of some cancelled shows that I am still trying to get over. This list was even hard to compile because, for mental health, I decided to erase the shows from my brain. I’m sure that you have some too.
After research, I found around many shows that I have had to part with. If I mention spoilers, it’s okay – the show is cancelled anyway! That’s the problem! Here are my top 15 heartbreaks.
15. ‘#blackAF’ (2020)
Don’t be mad at me! I know some people don’t like the show’s creator, Kenya Barris (he did ‘Blackish’ too) but I don’t know what to tell you. They renewed the show for season 2 then un-renewed it. And it actually hurt me! I didn’t like all of the topics but it was entertaining, and it had a lot of cameos which I am always for.
14. ‘Pitch’ (2016)
This is about the first woman the join Major League Baseball. I barely remember it but for it to make this list, it made an impact and I was so sad that it ended after just one season. My only consolation is that the creator, Dan Fogelman, made the show ‘This is Us’ after this, so I believe that ‘Pitch’ made the sacrifice for something greater and I am grateful.
13. ’iCarly’ revival (2021-2023)
I didn’t really watch this, but I was a fan of the original. I kept track of the reboot so when I found out that it ended on a cliffhanger, I was in shock. How can a revival end on a cliffhanger – aren’t you supposed to be filling in the gaps? There’s no justice anymore.
12. ’Chad’ (2021-2024)
When I watch comedies, I find them funny but I don’t typically laugh out loud. This show made me laugh out loud. It stars Nasim Pedrad who plays a high school boy named Chad. It is thought provoking, funny and even educational. It got cancelled after one season, picked up by another network for another season, then cancelled again. Treating my heart like a plaything.
11. ‘Life & Beth’ (2022-2024)
This show was just so honest and sweet. It felt like Amy Schumer was being so vulnerable in her writing and acting and I appreciated it a lot. I believe it is semi-biographical and it shows. Loved it and quite sad that it has ended after just 2 seasons because I feel like they were just getting started.
10. ‘Sanditon’ (2019-2023)
I was unsure whether to put this one in because it was cancelled after season 1 but was picked up by a different network much later for 2 more seasons. However, I still mourned! And the following seasons weren’t as good as the first. But I do love a Jane Austen period drama, so they got me there a little bit.
9. ’Code Black’ (2015-2018)
You guys need to know that I like gritty medical dramas. The fast pace, the no nonsense, the suspense. ‘Code Black’ gave me that. 3 seasons weren’t enough.
8. ‘How to Rock’ (2012)
I think this was my first brush with real-time cancellation. I was even too young to fully understand what was going on. “How can I be watching something and they produce so little episodes?” I wondered why they kept replaying the same episodes and there were no adverts for more. It was also a really good show with some great music and really great talent, including Max Schneider, who was in Rags. I have said this in a previous blog and I will say it again: #PutRagsOnSpotify. You cancel his show and now I can’t even listen to his Nickelodeon-era on my phone. It’s Nickelodeon Erasure and someone needs to speak up about it. I am that person.
7. ‘The Muppets’ (2015-2016)
Who did I offend that ‘The Muppets’ would be cancelled? Aren’t they ‘uncancellable’ or something? Guys, Miss Piggy, Animal, Kermit and Fozzie were in a mockumentary and no one wanted to watch several seasons? LOL.
6. ‘Still Star Crossed’ (2017)
Period drama? Romance? Shonda Rhimes? Oh yes oh yes. But apparently not to ABC, who cancelled it after 7 episodes only? Low viewership is killing my shows I can’t take it.
5. ‘The Catch’ (2016-2017)
This is when I realised that even Shonda Rhimes could be silenced by the powers that be. This was television. A cat and mouse game about an investigation firm looking for someone. I ate it up and haven’t had a meal like it since 2017.
4. ‘How I Met Your Father’ (2022-2023)
Now, this one hurt because it actually wasn’t supposed to bang like that. I was tricked. I watched it reluctantly because I was against the spinoff from the original ‘How I Met Your Mother’ (2005-2014). I didn’t even want to watch this but curiosity got the better of me and I genuinely latched on – for them to drop me at season 2.
3. ‘Single Parents’ (2019-2020)
The same people that made ‘New Girl’ made this unique sitcom with a really good cast. I was glued the screen. Imagine me waiting for the next episode and nothing comes up???? Why don’t we like sitcoms anymore? You know it’s okay to laugh, right? I do a quick little shoutout to this show on the Screenscope Instagram here!
2. ‘Marlon’ (2017-2018)
I love black sitcoms guys. This show was fresh, funny and surprisingly vulnerable. It’s available on Netflix if you want to watch. Also, with Marlon Wayans as the protagonist, it was return for the Wayans family in the sitcoms, which is oh so necessary. This leads me onto the number one pick…
1. ‘My Wife and Kids’ (2001-2005)
Why can’t the Wayans family have nice things? I can’t even believe it TO THIS DAY. ‘My Wife and Kids’ was near perfect, and still has a very strong audience even 20 years after it ended. How can it end on a cliffhanger? Am I a fool or something? They cancelled another Wayans sitcom with Damon and his real son – the REAL Junior, and the industry said no thanks, but they will bounce back, it’s in their blood. Jay’s baby would have been graduating university soon. It is well.
