TV Shows not getting their fair chance

When I find a television show that I enjoy, I typically watch it religiously week after week, season after season, to the very end of that series’ run. Now, in the past few years, I somehow always seem to be falling on shows that don’t make it through an entire first season or that get the axe prematurely.

First was Dark Angel on Fox a few years back. After getting really hooked on the show, I was completely surprise when it got cancelled after two seasons. The worse is that the creator of the show only learned of its cancellation after the last episode was shot. So there was no conclusion to the show on TV.

Another recent fatality was Journeyman in the 2007-2008 season. It ran for a half-season and was quite an enjoyable show. While the first few episodes were kind of the same thing over and over again, it got really interesting as they started to make story arcs that spanned multiple shows.

The most recent fatality was My Own Worst Enemy, which just got cancelled. Starring Christian Slater, MOWE was a nice action / sci-fi series with great pacing and a great distribution. While they had an order for 13 episodes, NBC decided to stop airing the show after 9 episodes!

In a time where my wife and I don’t have tons of time to watch TV shows, it is becoming increasing difficult to start watching new shows when you don’t know if that show will still be around a few months or even a few weeks down the road.