ABC kills Life on Mars

[C-Dawg]

Bummer....I was really getting hooked on this show....great cast, great writing. Hopefully another network grabs it.

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog/2009/0 ... _on_a.html

[Conolulu]

Damb.

I really liked that show! And great music!

I hope someone else picks it up....

[Dezdmona]

I liked it too (great music), but it's not surprising...they had tooo long of a haitus & lost viewership because of it.

[Coconuts]

I didn't watch it, but I heard it was a great show, which means ABC will cancel it.

If you have BBC America, you may want to check out Ashes to Ashes- same concept, but a female cop in the 80s. I don't know if it just premiered here or if they're ramping up for it, but they're promoting it like crazy now.

[Desdamona]

They didn't lose me! I was re-watching an episode last night and
commented that it was worth watching just for the music and cars
if nothing else. Does this mean Sam will never get home???

[johnson2113]

I just got into, and thought it was great.

[citcat]

They didn't lose me! I was re-watching an episode last night and
commented that it was worth watching just for the music and cars
if nothing else. Does this mean Sam will never get home???

DAMNATION, I loved this show. And they'd BETTER get him home.
By the way, he can come live with me . I mean US.

[OceanCityGirl]

I love this show too. It's one of the few that mroc and I agree on. They got the 70's cop show feel down almost perfectly.

[jayparrot46]

darn

[MDown]

I have several episodes on my TIVO. I haven't watched one yet.

[karat]

MANNNNNN I loved this show!

[mikemck]

That really sucks. I liked it.

The music was the best part. Where else are you going to hear Nilsson and the Majestic Arrows on TV?

What a lot of people don't realize is that shows like MASH, Barney Miller, and Touched by an Angel did really badly in their first two seasons, but ended up being huge hits.

ABC has a history of putting on really good shows and then not sticking by them.

A few seasons ago, they brought back Dragnet with Al Bundy (sorry, his real name escapes me at the moment) as Joe Friday. It was by far the best police drama on that season and the producers based it on the gritty radio version, not the sanitized 60's TV version. It was great and I was really disapointed when they cancelled it after only a few episodes.

A couple of seasons before that, they had "Vengeance Unlimited", with Michael Madsen as a mysterious drifter known only as "Mr. Chapel". He would leave calling cards for victims of some injustice to find and ask him for help. He never asked them to pay for his help, only to promise that they would help him in future cases. It only lasted a season and, toward the end, we found out that he was actually an FBI agent who's family was killed (it was loosely based on The Punisher comic book series, only instead of explosions and violence, he would use his wits to exploit the bad guys' own greed and dishonesty for their downfall).

That was cancelled, too, but eleven years after it went off the air after only one season, it still has a cult following and fans routinely trade videos of the show.

Maybe one day, ABC will learn.

I guess as long as we still have "Burn Notice"...

[johnson2113]

A couple of seasons before that, they had "Vengeance Unlimited", with Michael Madsen as a mysterious drifter known only as "Mr. Chapel". He would leave calling cards for victims of some injustice to find and ask him for help. He never asked them to pay for his help, only to promise that they would help him in future cases. It only lasted a season and, toward the end, we found out that he was actually an FBI agent who's family was killed (it was loosely based on The Punisher comic book series, only instead of explosions and violence, he would capitalize on the bad guys' own greed and dishonesty).

That was a really good show, too.