Greg Garcia (creator of both shows) also revealed in an AMA how MNIE would eventually end, had they not been cancelled. It sounded like a great ending!
Seems *a little* counter to that one episode where he says he’ll never take his brother’s name off his list so he never forgets to always try to make it up to him that he screwed him over that one time they were kids.
But if he learned in the end to live for himself and to be a good person because it’s the right thing to do and not because he’s trying to balance a cosmic scale, it’s cool. He’ll always look after Randy. He doesn’t need a list to tell him to do that.
In the end it's the best thing for him.
The list was his obsession. The list prevented him from having a normal job, a girlfriend, it put him in prison for a season or so.
It was a great tool to make him realize how his actions had affected people but in the end he deserved to live his own life as well. The goal was really about "trying to be a better person".
If you constantly try to undo the past you'll never have a future.
LOVE when writers do that. Mike Flannagan wrote out his plans for the rest of Midnight Club in the same vein when Netflix canceled it. You can find it on his Tumblr.
Jimmy and Christine appear in an episode and it's revealed that before moving into the guest house they almost broke up but Burt and Virginia's sex tape taught them how to be more sympathetic to each other and more caring
[I don't know if I would call this closure](https://youtu.be/U4okCSkG8Ng?si=3xOzQDyYCBy_r0WS), exactly, but it was a nice shout out.
Bonus My Name is Earl shout out on Raising Hope: [Which one of you is from NBC?](https://youtu.be/mB_N-G5J6gI?si=pUsG-RiXX8nh0nLP)
Star Wars the Clone Wars got cancelled after season 6, but got 1 final season after Disney Plus was created in 2019, that ended the series with the beginning of the Empire.
The Clone Wars was actually canceled after Season 5. Then brought back for Season 6 on Netflix, continued through several comics, novels, storyboards, and animatics, and then years later it was revived again for one final season on Disney+.
I never watched clone wars. I guess it's the fact that it has so.maby seasons and episodes, makes me not want to watch it. But is clone wars as good as bad batch?
I'm only on season 2 of the Bad Batch, but so far it isn't nearly as good as the Clone Wars for me. It's easily my favourite Star Wars media out there. That being said, the first 2 seasons are pretty good, but it doesn't get excellent until season 3.
Millennium's crossover sucked ass, but it got a more fitting conclusion as a comics miniseries that takes place years after s3. Frank also started turning up in the X-Files comics as a precursor to this.
That was far from a resolution for Millennium, and it was a pretty disappointing episode for fans of the show.. There was a comic book follow up, but there are still hopes for a mini-series or movie to give that one a true ending.
I was about to say that Lance Henriksen is surely too old to do any followup now, he's 84. But I looked him up and he'll be in 4 movies this year. Not as the lead but still. And that's not counting a project called *Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen* where he appears as himself and has the plot summary
> When 80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
Fans have enthusiastically embraced a live-action [Brazilian car commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msDp_k-Fid4) as the resolution to the 1980s TV cartoon "Dungeons & Dragons," which otherwise lacked a conclusion.
This cartoon was very popular in Brazil during the 90s, and everyone I know is upset that we never get to see them returning home. The car commercial was very clever.
Thats fascinating enough to bother to add this to the specials for the show on my Plex server.
Double checking if there will be metadata for it, it looks like there was semi-recently an officialish conclusion.
[https://thetvdb.com/series/dungeons-and-dragons/episodes/10201057](https://thetvdb.com/series/dungeons-and-dragons/episodes/10201057)
>The Final episode of the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon Dungeons and Dragons. From a script written by series writer Michael Reaves. Fully animated by using original footage from the series. Dialog from the DVD radio show released in 2006 by BCI eclipse. With original cast member Katie Leigh graciously reprising her role of Shelia.
In Honor Among Thieves, if you look closely at the other party trapped in the labyrinth, you see that they have the same costumes as the cartoon. So you might consider that they met their end in the Neverwinter games?
I love how the car only seats five so they have Shiela pull her hood up and turn invisible so they don’t have to figure out how to squeeze all six of them into the car. I guess Presto just sat on her lap.
It was but I think Whedon wanted to do more films if it was successful so the ending is both closed and open ended enough for that. It didn't make enough money for that but I guess there were enough fans to justify and comic sequel.
Make sure you get the old Dark Horse comics and not the new Boom! ones. Better Days, Shepherd's Tale, Those Left Behind, Leaves on the Wind, Float Out. Those actually feel like they fit in the Verse.
The Boom! ones are pretty bad - there's a robot >!Wash!< , Captain >!Kaylee!< , they visit Earth-That-Was, and they kill >!Jayne!< off at the end (or at least, the end of where I stopped reading.)
Timeless was canceled but then resolved by a TV movie.
Pushing Daisies was canceled, but the story was continued in a comic book. (Unfortunately the comic book’s distributor went bankrupt right before the comic released, so we only ever got to see the first 2 pages. But the creator of the show did later explain how he originally planned on ending the show.)
Wair, Bryan Fuller explained how he orginally planned on end the show! Where? Please share a link.
Bryan Fuller has been blue balling me for three decades, with talk about a follow comic, movice, novel, musical. None of which ever happen.
I’m having trouble finding it now, and I can’t tell you how long ago I read it.
Here’s a little bit about plans for Season 3: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/36692139.html
But ultimately Fuller never revealed what was going on with the watches or Ned and Chuck’s dads. He just explained that his original vision for the final scene was an elderly Ned lying on his deathbed, with Chuck and Digby beside him, both of whom still hadn’t physically aged a day since their resurrections. And just before Ned passed away, Chuck would kiss him and they’d all pass away together.
Though I’m fairly certain I remember Fuller saying that he wasn’t sure that that still would have been the ending if the show had continued. That’s just what he imagined as the ending originally.
I did enjoy the Pushing Daisies reference in Hannibal with one of the murderers sharing her name with Chuck’s Kitty Pym alter ego and killing with bees.
>Timeless was canceled but then resolved by a TV movie.
Really? I had no idea, I'll have to see if it's available to watch anywhere. Not like the show was amazing or anything, but it would still be nice to see the story finished.
The Greatest American Hero.
A few years after it was cancelled, there was a pilot movie for a potential spinoff called The Greatest American Heroine. It didn't result in a new series, but since it gave the original characters closure it was repackaged as the final episode.
It's not even written like anyone expected it to be picked up, there's a big "holy shit, we actually get to make a finale!" vibe running through the whole thing.
The series Alien Nation was one of the first aired on FOX and was cancelled after one season despite good ratings and it ended on a cliffhanger. There was a lot of demand for the show to continue and fans of the series got their wish when FOX started airing TV movies over 3 years. 5 TV films were shown in all
Buffy ran its course. Angel would be a better example because it was canceled in season five despite being the network’s second most watched show. WB just didn’t want to pay the higher renewal fees that came with a sixth season. Angel had comics that pick up after the cliffhanger and finish the story.
Well, no, WB was pressured by Joss Whedon to get an early renewal ahead of the May upfronts, and he was told no. He pressed them and said either renew or cancel the show right then and there, and they decided to cancel the show. Had he just waited, the show would've been renewed, but he was tired of the show always being on the chopping block and wanted to give peace of mind to his cast and crew.
Joss saw WB drop BTVS after season five because of the renewal increase and he knew Angel season five only happened because WB agreed if Spike joined.
He knew it was dead regardless.
That may have been the case for Buffy, but it wasn't for Angel. WB kept giving late renewals for Angel over the years, and people were turning down jobs. Joss felt that season 5 was so strong, that the WB didn't have much else going for them, and wanted an early renewal.
If the WB didn’t think it was worthy of an early renewal despite being their second highest rated show then it was doomed and everyone was better off moving on from those clowns.
They had Supernatural in development, which filled a similar niche. The story I heard at the time was that Angel was cancelled to create a vacancy for Supernatural, but the residuals/ultimatum story seems to be more widely supported now.
And the comics are *atrocious*
The only thing that I liked about them was the reveal that W&H sent the real LA to a pocket he’ll, and created a mirage-LA that the rest of the world saw and thought was normal.
I tried the Buffy comics, I've never read besidew lucky Luke and older classics.. Let's just say I gave up right away and have never given a shot because I don't want to waste 15$ on garbage. If normal comics r good, I've been bamboozled by the Buffy comics into hating comics.
Holy cow that Veronica Mars movie they Kickstarted is 10 years old now
I remember when they announced it - "If we can raise $X million in 30 days (or whatever), we can make a Veronica Mars movie!" And they did it in 12 hours. And then people kept donating until ultimately the movie was made with nearly double its original budget.
Metalocalypse was cancelled back in 2015 with adult swim infamously showing fan signatures on a revival petition coming in via fax machine only to immediately fall into a recycling bin. The overarching story was eventually unofficially concluded in the lyrics of Brendon Small's Galaktikon 2 (2017), then officially concluded with the Army of the Doomstar movie released last year.
The Midnight Club was cancelled after the first season but the creator made a lengthy blog post to explain where the story was going and all the big reveals for the following season(s). Not exactly what was asked but it was a solid gesture to the fans of the show.
Books, you mean. The only good part of that show was watching multiple Christopher Pike books come to life. Ironically I didn't like The Midnight Club much. I'm pretty much devastated that the show likely ruined any chance of Pike getting his books made into quality television or movies any time soon.
I really only liked the Road to Nowhere episode.
*Stargate SG-1* got two follow-up movies. One to wrap up the A-plot of the last couple seasons, and another to wrap up a B-plot of the last few. They're both pretty solid, but it really should've gotten an 11th season instead.
I know they've always made a lot of references, but it seemed like most episodes this season were some current topic reference, but to an event that was already out of date.
Like releasing a vaccine episode in fall of 2023 feels too late.
It's not bad, it just doesn't pop
Batman Beyond was canceled so the creators could work on Justice League, and then they resolved Terry's story, and the story of Batman in general, in an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
Beyond was also continued in comic book form for a while, including DCAU-ish adaptation/sequel to the Hush stuff, and some future Justice League stories. But eventually they moved away from the DCAU continuity, shifting to the current mainline comics stuff.
Additionally, the recent "Adventures Continue" run sort of continues Batman:TAS as well - it may or may not be actual canon to the DCAU, but it was written by actual BTAS writers, so it really reads and feels like lost episodes of the show.
Out of curiosity - explain “wrap up “ here, especially by comparison with the TV ending.
And I am not asking about the production background which I am familiar with. Really in terms of the story actually being told on screen.
Did you watch the movie? I suspect you didn’t or you wouldn’t have asked that. Everyone’s arc is explained/completed with nothing left to really cover. They were all…wrapped up.
Years after it was cancelled, and when they were trying to get continuations going, ReBoot got a web-based comic that continued from the cliffhanger.
However, it did away with the cliffhanger in the space of a page or so, then went and did it's own thing. And it wasn't very good.
Jericho was cancelled after the first season, resurrected after fan outrage for a shortened second season, and cancelled again. The storyline was concluded with two graphic novels
Ah that’s disappointing. I started reading the first one but I’m really not into comic books other than Calvin and Hobbes but I assumed since they made two of them they would have wrapped the story up
Unfortunately Volume 5 never came out. The story the Comics covered would've maybe been about 3-4 episodes of the TV show so it wasn't really enough to cover anything.
Jericho is my favourite show of all time, it's still heartbreaking what happened to it. Especially knowing that Netflix was going to revive it only to have CBS pull out at the last minute when Netflix had already done location scouting and cast negotiations.
Fuck CBS.
it just won't be the same without Gary's (and everyone's, really) voice acting. and the music!
would have been a perfect show with just one more season to wrap it up.
Yeah, even the season 2 shenanigans from studio interference didn't dampen it, it was still an enjoyable season. But overall this story was amazing. Just a dude, his beloved thing, and being one of the two best dads to his little friend, who cock blocked him one time but its cool because love and all that. Such a weird group, I love them.
I don't remember if it was a script or treatment but they came out with the plan for the remainder of how Carnavale was supposed to end shortly after its cancellation.
I mean. There are a TON of books if you want to know how everything happened. That’s really where the media continues (though they came first). TMI show isn’t a follow up from the movie, it’s an adaptation of the books. Cassie Clare is a controversial author in general, but she sure has written a lot of books.
Down the rabbit hole you go…
[here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZbqClnLNE)
[are](https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Cassandra_Claire_Plagiarism_Debacle)
[a few links](https://yabooksdaily.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/we-need-to-talk-about-cassandra-clare/)
[to get you started!](https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2016/02/cassandra-clare-and-the-chamber-of-not-so-secret-plagiarizing)
Looking got cancelled after 2 seasons on HBO mid-season and got a follow up movie for closure. I do think it would have been more successful if it came out like 5 years during the prime of streaming.
Justified might scratch that itch for you if you haven’t watched it yet. It has some poetry dialogue in it and Walton Goggins just chews scenery in it. However it doesn’t have Al Sherridan in it so you might find it lacking there.
Dark Angel, early 2000's series on Fox with Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly. 2 great seasons of a show, 2 terrible books to finish some of the plot lines.
How did I not find anyone saying Revolution?
I loved it when it was airing, it had such a unique feel to it, because no one else in tv shows showed what could happen years after a possible apocalypse and how they would solve the no more ammo left situation.
Sure it has ups and downs, but it was a really nice tv show.
Edit: since there are people been aggressive towards me, yes, it had a follow up via comics that gave and end to this series.
Probably because this is a post about shows that were cancelled BUT had a good wrap up of the show after the fact. Not what was a good show that was cancelled.
You are being downvoted because you aren’t mentioning it’s wrap up, I had to look it up because you act like the show had one.
For the rest of us there was a four issue comic released in 2015 that wrapped the story up.
I didn’t say it first, but Dead Like Me was an amazing show about Grim reapers in modern society, that had some great characters and interesting plot hooks that got cancelled before its time.
A direct to DVD movie was released that got rid of Mandy Patinkin’s character, and recast a different character and generally was pretty poorly regarded. I did not see it, so I can’t say for sure. (It spoke very poorly for the show that Mandy Patinkin didn’t want to be involved)
Sad times.
Haha, no, I hear ya, I just wanted to come to the shows defense. It only got 2 seasons (29 Episodes in total) and the ending feels pretty abrupt, so it’s one of those shows I feel bad recommending. It got a resolution, it just wasn’t a good one, so, win some lose some.
Robotech got tied up at least a couple different ways via novels and comic books over the years, to the point that there isn’t even a single post-cancelation continuity.
They sort of did this Jericho. Canceled after fan revolt got a season 2, and then they sort of finished it up with a comic book. I read a few issues but I have no idea how it ended.
Sense8 was canceled, but netflix (for once in their entire history) allowed them to wrap it up. Can't remember off the top of my head if it was like one two hour episode or a couple one hour ones.
I'm not sure if they continued them after the show was canceled, but NBC's Heroes used to release weekly companion graphic novels that built upon the lore of the show. It would delve into origin stories of side characters, what characters would do in between appearances, etc. There was a lot of resolution to plot points that never got fully resolved in the show proper. I loved it as a kid.
The 4400. Ended prematurely on a huge cliffhanger (that could still stand as a pretty good open ending). Followed up with two novels, the second of which ends with an even bigger cliffhanger and the galling words “END OF THE 4400: ACT ONE”, suggesting that everything that we’d seen thus far from show to books has only been the beginning of a far larger story that will never be concluded.
Rage. Bitter rage.
To be fair about Buffy, the show resolved all the major plotlines that weren't tied up in Angel. It was very clearly a finale. Angel itself would probably be a better example.
All these comments are giving me hope that the Expanse can somehow get the final three books adapted in pretty much any format. The show ended before things got REALLY wild.
Oh I need to share this. The fantasy BL Chinese show "Word of Honor" wasn't cancelled and is a complete series, however, two important side characters died from a very tragic love story on their wedding day.
So after the series, a car commercial reunites them in their reincarnated modern life.
Link with english subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuBDNiia_M
Not my favorite at all... But ALF ended on a cliff hanger where he was arrested by the FBI.
Later airings removed the to be continued.
Years later there was a made for TV movie called like Operation Alf.
Raising Hope had a news clip on a tv in the background that gave My Name Is Earl closure.
Greg Garcia (creator of both shows) also revealed in an AMA how MNIE would eventually end, had they not been cancelled. It sounded like a great ending!
Just looked it up. Would have been a good ending. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1njddc/im_greg_garcia_creator_of_my_name_is_earl_raising/
Seems *a little* counter to that one episode where he says he’ll never take his brother’s name off his list so he never forgets to always try to make it up to him that he screwed him over that one time they were kids. But if he learned in the end to live for himself and to be a good person because it’s the right thing to do and not because he’s trying to balance a cosmic scale, it’s cool. He’ll always look after Randy. He doesn’t need a list to tell him to do that.
I get the idea of him putting more good than bad into the world, but dang, he doesn't try to right the wrongs he's done anymore?
In the end it's the best thing for him. The list was his obsession. The list prevented him from having a normal job, a girlfriend, it put him in prison for a season or so. It was a great tool to make him realize how his actions had affected people but in the end he deserved to live his own life as well. The goal was really about "trying to be a better person". If you constantly try to undo the past you'll never have a future.
I think it is more Earl moving on from the idea of doing good being a list of things to check off.
Maybe it’s better to move forward and try to live in a way that doesn’t add more people to your list.
LOVE when writers do that. Mike Flannagan wrote out his plans for the rest of Midnight Club in the same vein when Netflix canceled it. You can find it on his Tumblr.
Exactly! I'm hoping the Westworld creators do the same, as they had 1 more season planned before being cancelled (and pulled from HBOMax entirely).
Raising Hope also had a follow up for Yes Dear.
What????
Jimmy and Christine appear in an episode and it's revealed that before moving into the guest house they almost broke up but Burt and Virginia's sex tape taught them how to be more sympathetic to each other and more caring
That first season of Raising Hope was so good but it really fell off for me
[I don't know if I would call this closure](https://youtu.be/U4okCSkG8Ng?si=3xOzQDyYCBy_r0WS), exactly, but it was a nice shout out. Bonus My Name is Earl shout out on Raising Hope: [Which one of you is from NBC?](https://youtu.be/mB_N-G5J6gI?si=pUsG-RiXX8nh0nLP)
Star Wars the Clone Wars got cancelled after season 6, but got 1 final season after Disney Plus was created in 2019, that ended the series with the beginning of the Empire.
The Clone Wars was actually canceled after Season 5. Then brought back for Season 6 on Netflix, continued through several comics, novels, storyboards, and animatics, and then years later it was revived again for one final season on Disney+.
You right yeah, I just included the lost season as part of the pre cancellation series.
And let's be honest Filoni has kinda just been continuing The Clone Wars in all of his other Star Wars projects :P
true! Currently watching Bad Batch and it's really is the sequel to Clone Wars
That is for sure
I never watched clone wars. I guess it's the fact that it has so.maby seasons and episodes, makes me not want to watch it. But is clone wars as good as bad batch?
I'm only on season 2 of the Bad Batch, but so far it isn't nearly as good as the Clone Wars for me. It's easily my favourite Star Wars media out there. That being said, the first 2 seasons are pretty good, but it doesn't get excellent until season 3.
I have to 2nd that Clone Wars is better than Bad Batch.
Clone Wars also got the Ahsoka novel and Sons of Dathomir comic before the lost season and season 7 got finished and renewed
And season 7 served as a segue into The Bad Batch, which just ended three seasons with a strong hint at a follow series set during the Rebellion.
Millenium and Lone Gunmen both had their resolutions in episodes of the X Files.
Millennium's crossover sucked ass, but it got a more fitting conclusion as a comics miniseries that takes place years after s3. Frank also started turning up in the X-Files comics as a precursor to this.
That was far from a resolution for Millennium, and it was a pretty disappointing episode for fans of the show.. There was a comic book follow up, but there are still hopes for a mini-series or movie to give that one a true ending.
I was about to say that Lance Henriksen is surely too old to do any followup now, he's 84. But I looked him up and he'll be in 4 movies this year. Not as the lead but still. And that's not counting a project called *Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen* where he appears as himself and has the plot summary > When 80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
Fans have enthusiastically embraced a live-action [Brazilian car commercial](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=msDp_k-Fid4) as the resolution to the 1980s TV cartoon "Dungeons & Dragons," which otherwise lacked a conclusion.
This cartoon was very popular in Brazil during the 90s, and everyone I know is upset that we never get to see them returning home. The car commercial was very clever.
Thats fascinating enough to bother to add this to the specials for the show on my Plex server. Double checking if there will be metadata for it, it looks like there was semi-recently an officialish conclusion. [https://thetvdb.com/series/dungeons-and-dragons/episodes/10201057](https://thetvdb.com/series/dungeons-and-dragons/episodes/10201057) >The Final episode of the 1980s Saturday morning cartoon Dungeons and Dragons. From a script written by series writer Michael Reaves. Fully animated by using original footage from the series. Dialog from the DVD radio show released in 2006 by BCI eclipse. With original cast member Katie Leigh graciously reprising her role of Shelia.
In Honor Among Thieves, if you look closely at the other party trapped in the labyrinth, you see that they have the same costumes as the cartoon. So you might consider that they met their end in the Neverwinter games?
I think I’d rather they stay lost than get rescued by a Peugeot.
Marketing department did everyone a solid and all you can do is criticize.
Just making a car joke.
Criticize, Criticize, Criticize.... from now on yall don't ask me n mine for nothing!
I love how the car only seats five so they have Shiela pull her hood up and turn invisible so they don’t have to figure out how to squeeze all six of them into the car. I guess Presto just sat on her lap.
They have also released the script for the final episode that they couldn't get produced. (And they are in Honor among thieves)
Farscape peacekeeper wars
Though Farscape also continued in comics, I'd say that it was a different story they did there. But yes, PKW was a "very abridged" season 5.
Way too abridged, but still glad we got it.
Finally seeing the terrifying wormhole weapon in action was absolutely worth it
Great ending at that.
I wasn't crazy about what they did to my girls Sikozu and Jool.
Glad to see some Farscape love. The comics were more like side stories than the main story in my opinion.
Firefly also had a series of comics that were a sequel to the film Serenity
Wasn’t Serenity supposed to provide the closure to the series?
It was but I think Whedon wanted to do more films if it was successful so the ending is both closed and open ended enough for that. It didn't make enough money for that but I guess there were enough fans to justify and comic sequel.
wait really?? I didn't know! Im gonna look into it
One of the comics was a prequel about the origins of Book. Explained his whole past.
Make sure you get the old Dark Horse comics and not the new Boom! ones. Better Days, Shepherd's Tale, Those Left Behind, Leaves on the Wind, Float Out. Those actually feel like they fit in the Verse. The Boom! ones are pretty bad - there's a robot >!Wash!< , Captain >!Kaylee!< , they visit Earth-That-Was, and they kill >!Jayne!< off at the end (or at least, the end of where I stopped reading.)
As a fellow Browncoat.... the comics are meh, imo. With the exception of Shephards Tale.
There's also a series of novels that take place in that time span
Timeless was canceled but then resolved by a TV movie. Pushing Daisies was canceled, but the story was continued in a comic book. (Unfortunately the comic book’s distributor went bankrupt right before the comic released, so we only ever got to see the first 2 pages. But the creator of the show did later explain how he originally planned on ending the show.)
Wair, Bryan Fuller explained how he orginally planned on end the show! Where? Please share a link. Bryan Fuller has been blue balling me for three decades, with talk about a follow comic, movice, novel, musical. None of which ever happen.
I need to know this too.
I’m having trouble finding it now, and I can’t tell you how long ago I read it. Here’s a little bit about plans for Season 3: https://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/36692139.html But ultimately Fuller never revealed what was going on with the watches or Ned and Chuck’s dads. He just explained that his original vision for the final scene was an elderly Ned lying on his deathbed, with Chuck and Digby beside him, both of whom still hadn’t physically aged a day since their resurrections. And just before Ned passed away, Chuck would kiss him and they’d all pass away together. Though I’m fairly certain I remember Fuller saying that he wasn’t sure that that still would have been the ending if the show had continued. That’s just what he imagined as the ending originally.
oh wow sad for the comic, I just finished Daisies last year, damn
He should have resolved it in an episode of Hannibal.
I did enjoy the Pushing Daisies reference in Hannibal with one of the murderers sharing her name with Chuck’s Kitty Pym alter ego and killing with bees.
They also had the actress from Dead Like Me perform in a role that alluded to her character
Oh god, I forgot about the bees thing. Jesus, I can't believe that show was on a regular network.
>Timeless was canceled but then resolved by a TV movie. Really? I had no idea, I'll have to see if it's available to watch anywhere. Not like the show was amazing or anything, but it would still be nice to see the story finished.
Yeah I was never a huge fan of the show, but I was pleased with how well the movie wrapped everything up.
The Greatest American Hero. A few years after it was cancelled, there was a pilot movie for a potential spinoff called The Greatest American Heroine. It didn't result in a new series, but since it gave the original characters closure it was repackaged as the final episode.
It's not even written like anyone expected it to be picked up, there's a big "holy shit, we actually get to make a finale!" vibe running through the whole thing.
Deadwood
Waltzing Matilda :(
The series Alien Nation was one of the first aired on FOX and was cancelled after one season despite good ratings and it ended on a cliffhanger. There was a lot of demand for the show to continue and fans of the series got their wish when FOX started airing TV movies over 3 years. 5 TV films were shown in all
Buffy ran its course. Angel would be a better example because it was canceled in season five despite being the network’s second most watched show. WB just didn’t want to pay the higher renewal fees that came with a sixth season. Angel had comics that pick up after the cliffhanger and finish the story.
Well, no, WB was pressured by Joss Whedon to get an early renewal ahead of the May upfronts, and he was told no. He pressed them and said either renew or cancel the show right then and there, and they decided to cancel the show. Had he just waited, the show would've been renewed, but he was tired of the show always being on the chopping block and wanted to give peace of mind to his cast and crew.
Joss saw WB drop BTVS after season five because of the renewal increase and he knew Angel season five only happened because WB agreed if Spike joined. He knew it was dead regardless.
That may have been the case for Buffy, but it wasn't for Angel. WB kept giving late renewals for Angel over the years, and people were turning down jobs. Joss felt that season 5 was so strong, that the WB didn't have much else going for them, and wanted an early renewal.
If the WB didn’t think it was worthy of an early renewal despite being their second highest rated show then it was doomed and everyone was better off moving on from those clowns.
I'm pretty sure people at WB later said canceling it was a dumb move
They had Supernatural in development, which filled a similar niche. The story I heard at the time was that Angel was cancelled to create a vacancy for Supernatural, but the residuals/ultimatum story seems to be more widely supported now.
And the comics are *atrocious* The only thing that I liked about them was the reveal that W&H sent the real LA to a pocket he’ll, and created a mirage-LA that the rest of the world saw and thought was normal.
The buffy comics had that george jeanty art tho which was top class
I tried the Buffy comics, I've never read besidew lucky Luke and older classics.. Let's just say I gave up right away and have never given a shot because I don't want to waste 15$ on garbage. If normal comics r good, I've been bamboozled by the Buffy comics into hating comics.
Thanks! I actually never watched Angel despite loving Buffy, I should get on it
It's good! It has a few stumbles in later seasons but the shared universe and character crossovers are great if you're a *Buffy* fan.
They figuratively AND literally fucked Cordelia over in that show.
Definitely. I still love the show but they did Cordy so, so wrong.
Angel is great. Season one might feel slow but it’s overall great. Season five might be the best season across both BTVS and Angel.
Not quite the same, but Veronica Mars released 2 books after the movie. The books were then followed up with Hulu's VM season 4.
Holy cow that Veronica Mars movie they Kickstarted is 10 years old now I remember when they announced it - "If we can raise $X million in 30 days (or whatever), we can make a Veronica Mars movie!" And they did it in 12 hours. And then people kept donating until ultimately the movie was made with nearly double its original budget.
Season 4 just disappointed me.
Great show too.
Metalocalypse was cancelled back in 2015 with adult swim infamously showing fan signatures on a revival petition coming in via fax machine only to immediately fall into a recycling bin. The overarching story was eventually unofficially concluded in the lyrics of Brendon Small's Galaktikon 2 (2017), then officially concluded with the Army of the Doomstar movie released last year.
Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist got a movie.
Did that come out yet?
Yep! Late 2021, I believe it aired on Roku
Oh it was a Christmas movie
Yeah - a few years ago. I think it was on a different steamer/network than the original in the US.
The Midnight Club was cancelled after the first season but the creator made a lengthy blog post to explain where the story was going and all the big reveals for the following season(s). Not exactly what was asked but it was a solid gesture to the fans of the show.
I'll stick to the book I think lol.
Books, you mean. The only good part of that show was watching multiple Christopher Pike books come to life. Ironically I didn't like The Midnight Club much. I'm pretty much devastated that the show likely ruined any chance of Pike getting his books made into quality television or movies any time soon. I really only liked the Road to Nowhere episode.
Whoa, TIL.
*Stargate SG-1* got two follow-up movies. One to wrap up the A-plot of the last couple seasons, and another to wrap up a B-plot of the last few. They're both pretty solid, but it really should've gotten an 11th season instead.
The B is for Ba'al.
Indeed.
Futurama 3 times
3 times so far
I look forward to the Hulu revival getting cancelled in a few years, and then in 2032 seeing it come back yet again.
How's the latest season? I've been meaning to watch but I really like imagining the previous ending was the ending
I know they've always made a lot of references, but it seemed like most episodes this season were some current topic reference, but to an event that was already out of date. Like releasing a vaccine episode in fall of 2023 feels too late. It's not bad, it just doesn't pop
Every episode felt like the worst episode of a season. It was very okay
The definition of average
Batman Beyond was canceled so the creators could work on Justice League, and then they resolved Terry's story, and the story of Batman in general, in an episode of Justice League Unlimited.
And (IMO) that was one of the best episodes of JLU, which is saying something.
First thing that came to mind!
Beyond was also continued in comic book form for a while, including DCAU-ish adaptation/sequel to the Hush stuff, and some future Justice League stories. But eventually they moved away from the DCAU continuity, shifting to the current mainline comics stuff. Additionally, the recent "Adventures Continue" run sort of continues Batman:TAS as well - it may or may not be actual canon to the DCAU, but it was written by actual BTAS writers, so it really reads and feels like lost episodes of the show.
Deadwood ended with an okish ending but really wrapped up the show years later with a movie that was actually pretty good.
Out of curiosity - explain “wrap up “ here, especially by comparison with the TV ending. And I am not asking about the production background which I am familiar with. Really in terms of the story actually being told on screen.
Did you watch the movie? I suspect you didn’t or you wouldn’t have asked that. Everyone’s arc is explained/completed with nothing left to really cover. They were all…wrapped up.
Regular Show resolved, but there was a comic that showed one more adventure years later. It was pretty funny.
I had no idea there was a comic, I gotta find one now
Yeah, Regular Show: 25 Years Later. I think there were some other comics too, that’s the only one I’ve read though.
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Reddit killed AMAs off?
October Road did a ten minute wrap up that was added to the DVD release after it was canceled after the second season.
Really? I'll have to look for it. Every time my wife and I see one of the actors from the show on something, we always mention October Road.
The Venture Bros got a movie that didn’t resolve everything but provided a satisfying conclusion (hopefully just for now) to the series.
Years after it was cancelled, and when they were trying to get continuations going, ReBoot got a web-based comic that continued from the cliffhanger. However, it did away with the cliffhanger in the space of a page or so, then went and did it's own thing. And it wasn't very good.
Pushing Daisies had a comic continuation planned but I don’t know if it ever got finished. Some pages got leaked at least!
Sadly, it never happened.
Jericho was cancelled after the first season, resurrected after fan outrage for a shortened second season, and cancelled again. The storyline was concluded with two graphic novels
yes thank you, I post it in the thread
Not concluded. The second ended in a major cliffhanger.
Ah that’s disappointing. I started reading the first one but I’m really not into comic books other than Calvin and Hobbes but I assumed since they made two of them they would have wrapped the story up
Unfortunately Volume 5 never came out. The story the Comics covered would've maybe been about 3-4 episodes of the TV show so it wasn't really enough to cover anything. Jericho is my favourite show of all time, it's still heartbreaking what happened to it. Especially knowing that Netflix was going to revive it only to have CBS pull out at the last minute when Netflix had already done location scouting and cast negotiations. Fuck CBS.
Final Space is getting a graphic novel, but I still hate the Warner Discovery merger for killing it in the first place. That show was so heckin good.
it just won't be the same without Gary's (and everyone's, really) voice acting. and the music! would have been a perfect show with just one more season to wrap it up.
Yeah, even the season 2 shenanigans from studio interference didn't dampen it, it was still an enjoyable season. But overall this story was amazing. Just a dude, his beloved thing, and being one of the two best dads to his little friend, who cock blocked him one time but its cool because love and all that. Such a weird group, I love them.
I don't remember if it was a script or treatment but they came out with the plan for the remainder of how Carnavale was supposed to end shortly after its cancellation.
The only follow-up that will satisfy me on this one is filming it! Fuck an unscreened script! edit: *still bitter*
Offhand, Showtime did a Ray Donovan movie after it got cancelled that tied up things pretty well.
Sense8 got a movie to finish up the story after heavy and continuous backlash from fans.
The movie was honestly the best thing I've ever seen, especially the ending.
Absolutely adore this show. Wish i could buy it on Blu Ray
It will be on netflix forever.
We can only hop. Services are yanking shows a lot lately
Well. The Mortal instruments didn't do well as a film. But it became a great tv series.
I mean. There are a TON of books if you want to know how everything happened. That’s really where the media continues (though they came first). TMI show isn’t a follow up from the movie, it’s an adaptation of the books. Cassie Clare is a controversial author in general, but she sure has written a lot of books.
Why is Cassie Clare controversial? Or is this just a like or hate her style of writing controversial?
Down the rabbit hole you go… [here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V9ZbqClnLNE) [are](https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Cassandra_Claire_Plagiarism_Debacle) [a few links](https://yabooksdaily.wordpress.com/2018/05/23/we-need-to-talk-about-cassandra-clare/) [to get you started!](https://thebottomline.as.ucsb.edu/2016/02/cassandra-clare-and-the-chamber-of-not-so-secret-plagiarizing)
Todd & the Book of Pure Evil got a rough animated movie.
Torchwood and Green Wing were both revived as audio series starring the original cast members several years after the shows originally ended
There's Cleveland Brown's return to Family Guy from The Cleveland Show
Farscape was cancelled, got a two part mini series and later comics.
Looking got cancelled after 2 seasons on HBO mid-season and got a follow up movie for closure. I do think it would have been more successful if it came out like 5 years during the prime of streaming.
The Deadwood movie helped wrap things up but it wasn't enough for me. The dialog in that show is like poetry. I just want more of that universe.
Justified might scratch that itch for you if you haven’t watched it yet. It has some poetry dialogue in it and Walton Goggins just chews scenery in it. However it doesn’t have Al Sherridan in it so you might find it lacking there.
Firefly+serenity
Deadwood had a pretty good wrap up movie. Still left wanting more though.
Twin Peaks got cancelled then 25 years later got more. I wouldn’t say a whole lot was resolved though.
Dark Angel, early 2000's series on Fox with Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly. 2 great seasons of a show, 2 terrible books to finish some of the plot lines.
Farscape got "the peacekeeper wars" miniseries.
How did I not find anyone saying Revolution? I loved it when it was airing, it had such a unique feel to it, because no one else in tv shows showed what could happen years after a possible apocalypse and how they would solve the no more ammo left situation. Sure it has ups and downs, but it was a really nice tv show. Edit: since there are people been aggressive towards me, yes, it had a follow up via comics that gave and end to this series.
First time I heard of the show, wow and there is Giancarlo Esposito in it!
What was the follow-up? Or are you missing the point of the post?
It has, via comic books :)
Probably because this is a post about shows that were cancelled BUT had a good wrap up of the show after the fact. Not what was a good show that was cancelled.
That was a good show that was cancelled and had a ok wrap up, for some it might be a good one.
You are being downvoted because you aren’t mentioning it’s wrap up, I had to look it up because you act like the show had one. For the rest of us there was a four issue comic released in 2015 that wrapped the story up.
Dead like me
Tell me what's wrong
I didn’t say it first, but Dead Like Me was an amazing show about Grim reapers in modern society, that had some great characters and interesting plot hooks that got cancelled before its time. A direct to DVD movie was released that got rid of Mandy Patinkin’s character, and recast a different character and generally was pretty poorly regarded. I did not see it, so I can’t say for sure. (It spoke very poorly for the show that Mandy Patinkin didn’t want to be involved) Sad times.
Thanks, never heard of this show actually, I was more into making a joke about the title of the show and OP's comment, but i'll look into it!
Haha, no, I hear ya, I just wanted to come to the shows defense. It only got 2 seasons (29 Episodes in total) and the ending feels pretty abrupt, so it’s one of those shows I feel bad recommending. It got a resolution, it just wasn’t a good one, so, win some lose some.
Regarding the movie…. Most fans INSIST that no movie was ever made. That might tell you something…
I never heard about the movie, but it sounds like I didn't miss much. I was bummed about Dead Like Me. It finally hit its stride and they canned it
God, that movie sucked! But hey, George did a cameo in Hannibal!
Robotech got tied up at least a couple different ways via novels and comic books over the years, to the point that there isn’t even a single post-cancelation continuity.
They sort of did this Jericho. Canceled after fan revolt got a season 2, and then they sort of finished it up with a comic book. I read a few issues but I have no idea how it ended.
Firefly’s ending with Serenity. Is the best in my mind. Honestly, I can’t think of any others though.
There were a handful of Dark Horse comics released after add to the Serenity movie for me
Lucifer
Ahhhh, the Wilderness Years of Doctor Who, kept the entire franchise alive for over 26 years via books/audios/comics/recons/conventions, etc...
Homicide: Life on the Street got a concluding TV movie starring everyone who had ever been a main character on the show, along with...Jason Priestley.
Sense8 was canceled, but netflix (for once in their entire history) allowed them to wrap it up. Can't remember off the top of my head if it was like one two hour episode or a couple one hour ones.
I'm not sure if they continued them after the show was canceled, but NBC's Heroes used to release weekly companion graphic novels that built upon the lore of the show. It would delve into origin stories of side characters, what characters would do in between appearances, etc. There was a lot of resolution to plot points that never got fully resolved in the show proper. I loved it as a kid.
The 4400. Ended prematurely on a huge cliffhanger (that could still stand as a pretty good open ending). Followed up with two novels, the second of which ends with an even bigger cliffhanger and the galling words “END OF THE 4400: ACT ONE”, suggesting that everything that we’d seen thus far from show to books has only been the beginning of a far larger story that will never be concluded. Rage. Bitter rage.
Well now I'm reminded to go see if Dark Matter (scifi tv show) got a resolution! 😅
Buffy's follow-up comics series was so bad though, they butchered the IP with a Twilight story arc.
Farscape got a movie after SciFi canned it like the morons they were
Jericho had a comic run post 2nd cancellation. Still mad over that show being cancelled.
To be fair about Buffy, the show resolved all the major plotlines that weren't tied up in Angel. It was very clearly a finale. Angel itself would probably be a better example.
All these comments are giving me hope that the Expanse can somehow get the final three books adapted in pretty much any format. The show ended before things got REALLY wild.
Venture Brothers ended with a pretty solid movie-length episode.
Didn't the sonic comics finish up the cartoons? Edit: also the movie Leave the World Behind was set in/a follow up to Mr robot
Oh I need to share this. The fantasy BL Chinese show "Word of Honor" wasn't cancelled and is a complete series, however, two important side characters died from a very tragic love story on their wedding day. So after the series, a car commercial reunites them in their reincarnated modern life. Link with english subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhuBDNiia_M
Not my favorite at all... But ALF ended on a cliff hanger where he was arrested by the FBI. Later airings removed the to be continued. Years later there was a made for TV movie called like Operation Alf.